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ALLEN’S NURSERIES, GENEVA, OHIO 
Allen’s Famous Sweet Peas 
Sweet Peas to succeed best should be planted very early. Some 
plant about Thanksgiving for the earliest. Plant in a trench about 
1 foot deep with welbrotted manure. Our mixtures are from the 
best named kinds and we are selling the best that are in the market. 
Defiance. Dazzling rich fiery red. 
Hebe. Very large. Rose-pink. 
Kina’ White. Gigantic. Pure white. 
Mrs. C. P. Tomlin. New. Fine scar¬ 
let. 
Mrs. Tom Jones. First class. Rich 
blue. 
Picture. Combination of the cream 
iand pink. 
President Handing 1 . Unique color 
for sweet pea. Peach-red or salmon- 
cerise, suffused orange. 
Renown. Best rose-carmine. 
R. P. Felton. New. Rich lavender. 
Royal Purple. Rich royal purple. 
Sunset. Shade of rose with yellow 
suffusion. Fine and new. 
Warrior. Deep reddish maroon. 
MIXED SPENCER 
Allen’s best mixture—consists of a 
mixture of the best sweet peas in 
America. 
Hardy Peas 
Mixed or select Pink, Red, and 
White. Pkt., 10c; *4 oz., 15c. 
FLOWER SEEDS—Continued 
Spencer Sweet Peas—New Varieties 
These are enormous flowered Sweet Peas, producing flowers 
from to 2 inches across. Pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; 1 lb., $2.00. 
Thunbergia 
Beautiful, rapid growing, rather 
shrubby climbers, with a plentiful sup¬ 
ply of trumpet-shaped flowers in vari¬ 
ous colors and markings; fine for 
vases, rustic work or greenhouse cul¬ 
ture. Half-hardy annuals; 5 ft. 
Pine Mixed. Pkt., 5c; Vi oz., 18c. 
Spencer Szveet Peas. 
Tritoma 
Hybridum mirabilis. An annual Red Hot 
Poker plant. Seed should be soVvn in temperate 
heat from January to March, pricked off and 
treated like half-hardy annuals. The seedlings 
may be planted in open ground from end of 
April to May and they will bloom freely from August 
to late in the autumn. Pkt., 5c; Vi oz., 45c. 
Verbena 
Auriculaeflora g’ig'antica. Extra fine, mixed. Per pkt., 
10c; 14 oz., 40c. 
Frinoides. 12 inches. Forming elegant little spreading 
bushes with finely cut foliage and pretty heads of bloom, 
purplish rose changing to oxford-blue. Pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 
40c. 
Wallflower 
Deliciously fragrant flowers in long, full spikes which 
are very free and pretty during the spring. They combine 
many shades of colors ; the orange, purple and chocolate 
predominating. Tender perennials, requiring winter pro¬ 
tection in the north. 114 ft. 
Annual Mixed. Blooms first year. Pkt., 10c; *4 oz., 20c.; 
Perennial Mixed. Pkt., 15c; Vi oz., 30c. 
Giant Verbena. 
Zinnias 
Dahlia-Flowered Zinnia. 
Desert Gold. A new mixture of Giant Flowered Zinnias 
in various shades of gold. A very useful and distinctive 
mixture. Pkt., 10c. 
Dahlia Flowered. New double Zinnia of mammoth size, 
peerless mixture. Per pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 30c. 
Picotee Flowered. This type is an exquisite strain, each 
petal is tipped with a darker shade. Comes in a variety 
of colors. Pkt., 20c; Vi oz., 30c. 
California Giant Double. All colors of giant Zinnia, 
mixed. Pkt., 10c; V4 oz., 30c. 
Itilliput or Pompon. Bearing small, button-like, double 
flowers. Very good for bedding. One outstanding new 
flower, has good long stems. Mixed. Pkt., 10c; Vi oz.. 
30c. ! Jni *• " 
Sweet Peas Make Splendid Bouquets 
