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CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES AND NOVELTIES FOR 1900. 
SPECIALTIES HUNT 
CHOICE SELECT FLOWER SEEDS. 
Our Special Improved Strains of Leading Annuals, Perennials and Climbers. 
ONLY SELECT SEED OF IMPROVED STRAINS OFFERED. 
The ordinary commercial grades of dower seeds, such as are usually sold, can he and are sold at a very 
low 1 trice. They are grown and harvested in large crops, much like grain. They are produced cheaply, 
sold cheaply, and arc, in fact, cheap in every sense of the word ; and he who sows them has no right to 
complain at their poor quality. They cannot possibly he anything else. Seed of high quality can he produced 
only hy thorough, careful, painstaking and expensive methods. We do not offer our customers the ordinary 
commercial grades of seed. Our stocks arc special strains of special varieties bred up to the highest mark 
of perfection and selected with great care, and for this reason we grow and offer hut a limited number of 
varieties, only those which are of the greatest merit and sure to give satisfaction everywhere. The very 
best varieties, bred up to an unequalled mark of perfection, has made our seeds famous the world over. 
We will give THREE packets of any ONE kind for the sum that 
TWO packets would cost. For instance, any one variety listed for 
5c., three packets of it may be had for 10c. Any one 10c. pkt., three 
pkts. may be had for 20c.; three pkts. of a 15c. sort for 30c., etc. 
ArttipphiiHiiq, Giant Sooted, 
OR SNAPDRAGON. 
A new giant.flowered strain of tho grand old Snap¬ 
dragon. which in size and beauty of bloom, either in pots 
or garden, almost equals Gladiolus. Per pkt. 
Ciant White This remarkable new plant has .lumped 
into foremost place among choice winter-bloomers 
No novelty in our greenhouses lias attracted the atten¬ 
tion or received praise muni to ibis. It is a perpetual 
bloomer, compact and brandling in liabit, sending up 
(lower spikes by the dozen, one to two feet in length, 
almost as large as and more beautiful than Gladiolus, 
dolor, pure white, with lemon-tinted throat and of a. 
lovely fragrance, k lowers keep two weeks after being 
cut. It has created a sensation in the New York 
flower market...10 
Cliint Yellow—Exactly like the above except in color, 
which is a beautiful canary yellow.10 
Ciant Crimson—Largest of all. Exceedingly line. ...10 
Ciant Mixed—Many colors, including the above, all large 
and exceedingly fragrant. Try them, both in garden 
ana pots.... 
Alysstint. 
A favorite little annual, because of its fragrance and 
abundance of bloom. As easy to grow as any weed, and 
blooms from early summer until severe freezing weather in 
fall. Sow seed rern early in open ground. Dainty little 
plants lor hanging baskets or small pots. Good for cutting 
or button-hole bouquets. Per pkt. 
Sweet Racemes of small cruciform white flowers, lionev- 
sceijted and never out of bloom..... 5 
Little Cem -An improved variety; much larger flowers, 
of a pure white, and. if possible, more floriferorts than 
the old sweet. Plant is also more robust, and spread¬ 
ing, a single plant forming a thick mat of flowers and 
fol iage 12 to 15 inches across. Three and four hundred 
spikes of flowers in full bloom can be counted on a 
good plant at one time.10 
Beilis, of Double Daisy. 
Double, Mixed Colors—White, crimson, rose ami varie¬ 
gated ; very double. 5 
Double White—Pure color; handsome flower. 5 
Maxima, or Giant Daisy—No amount of praise can be too 
lavish for this new form of the charming double Daisy, 
which, next to the Pansy, is our most cherished early 
spring flower. The flowers are from one to three times 
larger than the ordinary double Daisy, very perfect 
and double, and of lovely colors, ranging from pure 
white through blush pink, rose, etc., to deep crimson. 
^ * 1 ?.*plants produce on one stem a cluster of 13 
to 20 blossoms, instead of the usual solitary one. The 
blossoms are very large, unique and beautiful. Not 
only do they bloom early in the spring, but continue 
al l through the summer and fall, and aiso make splen¬ 
did pot plants for winter blooming, flourishing in cool 
windows and rooms where few other plants will sur¬ 
vive ..10 
