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CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES AND NOVELTIES FOR 1900. 
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Childs' Prize Verbenas 
9X iLSMLAS 
LII.I.IPITT ZINNIAS. 
Famous as the finest strain of Verbenas 
known. We grow four acres of these superb 
(lowers, anil we know what, we are talking 
about when we say they are the finest of all 
Verbenas. The plants are vigorous and 
short-jointed, anu perfect sheets of bloom. 
The trusses are Very large, the flowers of 
mammoth size, perfect form, and embrace the richest and 
most velvety colors. They are also delicately sweet-scented. 
The range of color is great, and shades are mostly very 
delicate and daint y. In coloring they are, in fact, perfectly 
exquisite, there being very little of the common old blue 
arid purple colors among them. In their place we have 
delicate blushes, lavenders, pinks, velvet}; Indigoes. Intense 
scarlets, whites, striped, variegated, etc.; m fact,a thousand 
different colors and combinations. 1 cr pkt. 
Childs' ' Prize, Mixed Colors Hundreds of delicate 
shades. Enormous sized flowers; dwarf, compact 
habit, and prodigious bloomers. . 
Childs' Prize, Pure White— Comes true from seed. Great 
trusses of snowy blossoms of exquisite fragrance . IS 
Childs’ Prize, Scarlet— A very intense scarlet .IS 
Extra Choice Mixed— Many fine colors, . 5 
Mayflower— Mixed colors . 20 
ZiiWias. 
From 
\ early childhood the Zinnia lias been a special 
favorite with us, and tlie strain which we cultivated in our 
first iittle garden we still grow and sell as our improved. 
We have selected the stock seed every year for twenty-five 
years. This careful selection has brought it to wonderful 
perfection. This Zinnia is a robust, free grower, furnishing 
an abundance of large, double blossoms, which are of varied 
and brilliant colors, during the entire summer and fall. 
Each flower keeps perfect for six weeks before fading, and 
each plant is a great mass of bloom all the time, making a 
show which is peculiar. Nothing else can fill their place. 
Seed should be started insidjs or sown in the garden about 
corn planting time. Per pkt. 
Childs' Improved, Mixed Colors -Saved only from select 
flowers, perfect in shape and color. The finest strain 
of Zinnias in cultivation. Every plant will produce 
immense double blossoms of various colors, from white 
to deep crimson, maroon, pink, orange, scarlet, violet, 
S rimrose, buff, striped, etc. Every plant will give fine, 
ouble flowers. Single and poor flowers long ago dis- 
appeared from this strain ... 10 
Improved, Striped— A good strain, representing all the 
lending colors, but all striped. This is really the finest 
strain of Striped or Zebra Zinnias in cultivation . 10 
Fire Ball— Dwarf habit, large double blossoms of intense 
scarlet, as round and perfect us a ball. It makes a fine 
border or mass, its bright color and perfect habit show¬ 
ing to great advantage....,. 10 
Snow Ball— Exactly like Fire Ball, except color, which is 
snow-white, and makes a charming contrast. 10 
Double Yellow— Blossoms large, and bright golden yellow 5 
Lilliput, Mixed Colors This strain is the acme of beauty 
and perfection in Zinnias. Plants small and of bushy 
growth, each one bearing scores of beautiful little 
blossoms of the most perfect, shape and brilliant colors 
These charming little Zinnias are gems indeed, and 
should lie in every garden . 10 
