40 J. J. BUTZER, PORTLAND, OREGON 
BUTZER’S FLOWER SEEDS 
STANDARD VARIETIES, NOVELTIES and SPECIALTIES 
Plant flowers for your table, flowers for your home, and flowers for your friends. You can never have too 
many flowers. An abundance of pretty bouquets can be had with so little work and so little expense that every 
home should have the cheering influence of flowers. The culture of many is so very simple that anyone can 
succeed. Flowers are divided into three classes: Annuals, which produce flowers, mature and die in one season. 
Biennials, which grow from seed one year and bloom and die the second year. Many of these will produce flowers 
the first year if sown early enough. Perennials, which live for several years, producing flowers annually after 
the first season. These are grown from seed and also by setting out cuttings, slips, or divisions of roots. Peren¬ 
nials are very satisfactory, as they live for many years and produce large quantities of very beautiful flowers. 
ABRONIA 
Umbellata Grandiflora (Sand Verbena)—6 in. A 
charming trailing succulent plant, with Verbena-like 
heads of fragrant flowers, of bright rose with white 
center; it delights in a dry, poor soil and sunny sit¬ 
uations on rock-work. Per pkt. 10c. 
ABRUS 
Precatorius (Crab’s Eye Vine or Weather Plant)— 
This beautiful plant has created a great sensation. If 
the leaves stand upward the sky will be cloudless; if 
they stand out straight, changeable weather is indi¬ 
cated ; when the leaves hang straight downward, water 
may be expected to fall in torrents. A local storm is 
indicated by the curling together of the leaves. Bears 
clusters of bright yellow flowers, followed by pods with 
brilliant red seeds used for making beads, etc. Seeds 
should be soaked in luke-warm water before planting. 
Per pkt. 10c - 
ABUTILON 
Royal Prize (Flowering Maple or Chinese Bell 
Flower)—3 to 4 ft. Per pkt. 15c. 
♦ACHILLEA (Milfoil. Yarrow) 
Achilleas are of easy culture and grow in any good 
garden soil. They are useful for the border, wild gar¬ 
den or shrubbery; also for cutting. 
Kelwayi—Dark blood-red. Pkt. 25c. 
The Pearl—2 ft. June to August. Pure white, fine 
for cutting ; blooms all summer. Per pkt. 15c. 
♦ACONITUM (Monkshood) 
Do not plant near vegetable gardens. Roots are 
poisonous. Bold spikes of hood-shaped flowers, val¬ 
uable for cutting; very effective in flower borders and 
shrubberies, thriving anywhere. 
Napellus— 2Yt ft. August. Fine rich blue flowers. 
Per pkt. 10c 
ACROCLINIUM (Everlasting) 
Roseum—2 ft. A pretty everlasting, bearing grace¬ 
ful, daisy-like flowers, pretty bright rose with yellow 
center which, when cut in the bud state can be dried 
and used for winter bouquets. Per pkt. 5c. 
Roseum Flore Alba—Graceful, white, daisy-like 
flowers with yellow center. Per pkt. 5c. 
Roseum Flore Pleno—Double pink. Per pkt. 10c. 
Roseum Flore Alba Pleno—Double white. Per pkt. 10c 
Roseum Single Mixed—Per pkt. 5c; Y* oz. 25c. 
Roseum Double Mixed—Per pkt. 10c; V* oz. 30c. 
♦ADLUMIA (Allegheny Vine) 
Cirrhosa—16 ft. The feathery foliage is like the 
Maidenhair Fern. Delicate rose pink and white flowers 
cover the plant. Per pkt. 10c. 
♦ADONIS 
Vernalis—18 in. May. Large star-shaped yellow 
flowers. Per pkt. 10c. 
AFRICAN ORANGE DAISY 
See Dimorphoteca 
AFRICAN BLUE-EYED DAISY 
See Arctotis Grandis 
AGAPANTHUS 
Umbellatus (Blue Lily of the Nile)—1 ft. Bright 
blue flowers produced in clusters on long stems. Does 
well out of doors in all Southern States. Greenhouse 
plant in the North. Pkt. 15c. 
♦AGATHEA 
Coelestis (Blue D.aisy)—Flowers sky blue with yellow 
disk; easy growth. Per pkt. 10c. 
AGERATUM 
One of the best of summer flowering plants grown 
from seed. The plants start readily, grow rapidly and 
soon come into bloom, and when they begin to bloom 
they flower uninterruptedly throughout the season. 
During the hot, dry summer months there are no 
brighter or more freely produced flowers. 
Album—White. Pkt. 5c. 
Blue Perfection—This is the darkest colored of all 
large flowering Ageratums. 9 inches. Pkt. 5c 
Dwarf Blue—6 in. A charming variety of compact 
growth, covered with heads of feathery flowers of a 
deep lavender color. Pkt. 5c. 
Little Dorrit Blue—One of the best dwarf blue 
ageratums. Pkt. 5c. 
Finest Mixed—All colors. Pkt. 5c. 
AGERATUM, BLUE Cap (New) 
Surpasses Little Dorrit in dwarfness, compactness, 
and in the size of the individual flowers; it also has a 
deeper and richer color. The ideal variety for low 
edging of flower borders. Pkt. 15c. 
♦AGROSTEMMA (Coronaria) 
Rose Campion—One of the most attractive of the 
hardy perennials. Blooms the first season from seed, 
producing pretty pink-like blossoms on long slender 
stems. Fine for both mass planting and for bouquets. 
Height about 18 inches. Perennial. Per pkt. 10c. 
AGROSTIS 
Nebulosa (Cloud Grass)—1 y 2 ft. An airy and grace¬ 
ful annual grass; looks like a line of mist when in 
bloom. Beautiful to mix with cut flowers. Pkt. 10c. 
♦ALSTROEMERIA 
Aurantiaca—Belongs to the Amaryllis family, quite 
hardy, flowers orange color streaked with red. A well 
established plant will produce five to six flower stalks 
carrying ten to fifteen blooms. Pkt. 25c. 
ALONSOA 
Warscewiczi—15 in. A fine plant with bright ver¬ 
milion-scarlet flowers, suitable for bedding. For a 
red, white and blue border plant Alonsoa for red. 
Sweet Alyssum for white and Ageratum Blue Per¬ 
fection for blue. Ya oz. 15c. Pkt. 10c. 
ALYSSUM 
A very pretty plant for beds, vases, baskets, edgings 
or rock work. Sweet scented and blooms profusely 
all summer. 
Sweet (Maritimum)—This very hardy annual for 
borders, edging or massing in small beds, comes into 
bloom early in the spring, covering itself with clusters 
or trusses of small, pure white cruciform flowers. 
They have a peculiar, delicate fragrance and are useful 
in small bouquets. Usually not over eight inches high 
but spreading. Pkt. 5c; oz. 25c. 
Lilac Queen—Beautiful soft lilac flowers, changing 
to white. Per pkt. 10c; oz. 75c. 
Little Gem—-Very dwarf—4 inches—and spreading. 
They quickly become one mass of white fragrant 
flowers, remaining in full bloom from spring to fall. 
Per pkt. 10c; Yz oz. 20c; oz. 30c 
Lutescens—Yellowish flowers, 6 inches. Per pkt. 10c 
Procumbens—(Carpet of Snow)—-A new and very 
select strain, carefully selected. Plants very spreading 
and only about 3 inches tall. Blooms are massed, com¬ 
pletely hiding all foliage. Pkt. 10c. 
ALYSSUM (Perennial) 
♦SAXATILE COMPACTUM 
(Basket of Gold)—1 ft. May-June. Producing 
masses of golden flowers very early. May be planted 
effectively with Arabia. Per pkt. 10c; Y* oz. 40c. 
AMARANTHUS 
Tricolor—A hardy annual with leaves of red, yellow 
and green; well known as "Joseph’s Coat.” Especially 
brilliant if grown in rather poor soil. 
Per pkt. 10c; oz. 30c. 
Caudatus—(Love Lies Bleeding)—Blood-red, droop¬ 
ing. Per pkt. 10c. 
All varieties mixed. Per pkt. 5c. 
AMMOBIUM 
Alatum Grandiflorum—2 Yz ft. This pretty white 
Everlasting should be in every garden. Grows well in 
sandy soil. Pkt. 10c 
ANAGALLIS 
Grandiflora Mixed—6 in. Lovely dwarf plants, ex¬ 
ceedingly effective as edgings, also charming on rock- 
work and in pots. Pkt. 10c 
Grandiflora Coerulea—Dark blue, center deep purple. 
10 inches. Pkt. 10c 
Those Marked ♦ are Perennials 
