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CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES AND NOVELTIES FOR 1900. 
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HIBISCUS, COLDEN BOWI _This is a plant which grows about 2 feet high and begins 
to bloom early from spring-sown seed, the enormous flower measuring 5 or 6 inches across, 
beautifully cupped and of the most exquisite, soft canary-yellow, with a large black center. 
HONEYSUCKLE, Mixed Everyone knows the Honeysuckle, with its delicious fra¬ 
grance. but everyone does not know that it is quite easily grown from seed, blooming the 
second season, with ordinary care. 
LYNUM PERENNE (I 'eki'.nn IA I.) We. will not attempt to convey to our readers an 
impression of its great beauty; this they can never know until they see it. but. will say that 
It Is a hardy perennial, sending up numerous stems which send out long, wiry branches, 
which are clothed with a growth ot small, almost, hair-like foliage. At the tips of the 
branches aro poised large, salver-sliaped blossoms, borne with such airy grace that they 
appear to he floating in tile air. 
LYCHNIS, BURNING STAR -A blaze of brilliancy for months, if plants are kept from 
-ceding. Star-like blossoms covering the dwarf, bushy plants as with a cloud. Perfectly 
hardv, and blooms even lad ter the second season than the first. Mixed colors. 
MIRABILIS, TOM THUMB Mixed colors. A newdwarf strain of great beauty. Grows 
only 12 inches high, and each plant is a compact mass of lovely yellowish leaves, which, in 
evening, arc hidden hv hundreds of gay Idossomsof all colors and variegations. 
MORNINC CLORIES (GLiMHKii)-Tlie old-fashioned Morning Glory, as easy to grow 
as any weed. Brilliant, beautiful flowers of every shade of white, blue, pink, scarlet, and 
variegated. Tim standard vine. Mixed, all Colors. 
MAURANOYA (Cl.iMBEK) It bus an exceedingly graceful habit, very handsome, dense 
foliage, pretty, fox-glove-like blossoms, borne in great profusion, and keeps green until 
after severe frosts. A beautiful vine for hanging baskets, with its dainty white, maroon 
and rose-colored blossoms. Mixed colors. , . 
NICELLA Often called Love-1 n-a-ralst, from the curious way m which the pretty blue 
blossoms are veiled hv the featlicrv. close-enveloped foliage. Dwarf mixed. 
NEMOPHILA, Mixed Colors- Pretty little plants, with a profusion of very dolicatcly 
colored blossoms. Blooms very early, 
OX ALIS, Mixed Colors -Some of t he annua! Oxalis arc very pretty border plants, and 
bloom verv quickly from seed. , , 
(ENOTHESA (EVENING 1‘iUMHOSE) Large, saucer-shaped blooms of the purest white, 
or softest, richest shinies of yellow, mid deliciously fragrant. 
PANSY, Fine Mixed A grand strain of many fine colors mixed. 
POLYCONIUM VARIECAT A A charming garden plant growing 8 to 10 feet high, and 
hearing long, catkin -like racemes of delicate pink flowers. The large, heart-shaped leaves 
are beautifully strined. spotted mid marked with white. 
PHACEUA COMPANULATA An easily grown annual that will commence to bloom 
a month from the t ime seed is sown in open ground. Erect, cup-shaped llowersof a lovely 
blue. Flowers borne profusely and a long time. Its shade of color is one of the rarest and 
loveliest seen among blues. ' , 
PYRETHRUM (Got. den Featheh)— W ell-known plant, with line yellowish-colored 
foliage. A line lied dor. _ 
PHLOX DRUMMONDI, Starred and Fringed, Mixed Colors Pretty star-shaped 
and fringed blossoms. Have been widely advertised. 
SUNFLOWER, New Double Dwarf- Compact grower, with double llowersof great size 
and beauty. 
SUNFLOWER, MULTIFLORUS If planted singly in good soil, this new Sunflower 
reaches the enormous height of from 12 to 15 feet, and is richly branched from the base up 
to the top. each branch hom ing n multitude of medium-sized golden-yellow flowers with 
small black center which offers an invaluable material for bouquets and garnishing purposes. 
SENSITIVE PLANT (MfMOSA) A curious plant with delicate, fern-like leaves that 
fold closely together if touched, as though they were wilted hv a hot blast. In a short time 
they again revive. ,, . , 
SPRACUEA UMBELLATA A singular plant.in both leaf and flower. The woolly pink 
and crimson flowers are borne in umbels above the foliage. The (lowers remain perfect a 
long time, and aro often dried and used for winter bouquets. The leaves are of a dark 
bronze color, odd and attractive mid very curious. 
TORENIA, LARCE-FLOWERED, Mixed Colors A neat pot plant, but of little account 
for Hie garden. . ... 
TRAILINC HOLLYHOCK This is a hardy perennial, sending out. vines which trail 
over the ground in a beautiful manner, it is really a beautiful miniature Trailing Holly¬ 
hock. tile leaves and flowers being similar to that glorious old plant, anti it has the double 
advantage of being a constant bloomer from early spring until late fall. The flowers are 
bright crimson in color and produced freely, ns aro also the vines and foliage. 
VIOLET- Seeds slow to germinate, but not at all hard to grow. Every garden should 
have a good lied of these fragrant favorites. 
VINCA Hovelv garden or pot plants, producing a profusion of bright blossoms at all 
times. Seed started early in pots make lovely blooming plants by early summer, which 
will continue in growth and bloom for a year. Their soft and delicate colors and profuse 
blooming habit, make them at all times attractive. Mixed colors. 
VERBESENA, OCCIDENTALIS Blooms profusely from .Tune to October, the blossoms 
being large, richest and brightest golden-yellow in color, closely resembling a Cosmos, and 
borne on long, graceful stems. Seed sown in pots at any time during winter will ue up and 
blooming within a few weeks. . ..... 
YUCCA FILI MENTOS A— The stately clumps of stiff, bayonet-like leaves, bristling out 
from the center in each direction, are extremely ornamental, hut in midsummer they have 
on an added glory. Thick, woody flower-stalks are thrown no, growing as high as a man's 
head, and be.-ir at their summit immense compound panicles of creamy, bell-shaped flowers, 
each floret two inches across. 
Price of all these sorts, 3 cents per Packet. 
