SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898.' 
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The ordinary commercial grades of flower seeds, such as are usually sold, can be and are sold at a very 
low price, yet at a great profit. They are grown and harvested in large crops, much like grain. They are 
produced cheaply, sold cheaply, and are, in fact, cheap in every sense of the word; and he who sows them 
bus no right to complain at their poor quality. They cannot possibly be anything else. Seed of high quality 
cun be produced only by thorough, careful, painstaking and expensive methods. We do not offer our 
customers the ordinary commercial grades of seed. Our stocks are 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 but 
m 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 unequal mark of perfection, has made our seeds known 
the world over as the finest to be had * A visit to Floral Park during the summer months will convince 
may one of their great superiority . 
For the best slimmer display the garden is dependent upon that class of liowers known as Annuals, which are grown 
from seed sown every spring. There are thousands of varieties of them, some good, some indifferent, but the great majority 
• re poor, or in some respects unsatisfactory and not desirable for general cultivation. With a view to offering our customers 
only the very best varieties, those which cannot fail to produce good results in every part of the country, we have for years 
carefully grown, tested and selected to ascertain what sorts possessed superior merits. The list here presented is the result 
of our labors. It contains the Very best of all sorts and all wnich are really and generally desirable. We might offer one 
hundred varietiesof Astersor fifty varieties of Balsams, Phloxes, Poppies, etc., but there would be noadvantage in so doing. 
On the other hand it would be a decided disadvantage, for our customers might therefor fail to select the best kinds. 
CULTURE: As a rule, annuals may be sown in the open ground about corn-pi an ting time, or they may be started in 
the house or in hot-beds earlier and transplanted to the garden when danger of frost is over. A rather light and moderately 
rich soil, thoroughly spaded, is most desirable. Do not grow the plants too thick. Keep the weeds down and the surface of 
the soil well stirred with a hoe or rake during the summer, especially if the weather is dry. Very pretty effects are pro¬ 
duced by massing different colors. Straight or circular rows of different colors side by side are effective. Yet in Asters, 
Phloxes, Poppies, Zinnias, Verbenas, etc., a mixture of all colors is always showy and pleasing. 
New System 
OIB 1 SELLING SEEDS. 
Each Variety Packed in Two Sizes, One at 5c. and One at lOc. 
(or in some cases lOc. and 20c.) Per Packet. 
To meet a popular demand we offer our Choicest Flower Seeds at a uniform 
price in packets of two sizes. Of most varieties a 5 and 10 cent packet is 
offered, the 10c. packet containing three times as much seed as the 5c. size. 
Those so choice and rare that a satisfactory quantity cannot be given for 5c. are 
sold at 10c. and 20c. The quantity of seed in these packets is liberal, while 
the quaiity is the very best, and substantially the same in both sizes. If we 
happen to have a small quantity only of some extraordinary good strain, it, of 
course, goes into the 10c. or 20c. packets, but this is exceptional. Our seeds 
lead the world in high quality and now that they can be had in 5c. and 1 Oc. 
packets no one need sow poor grades. 
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s&geratdip. 
One of the most useful and profuse-blooming plant: 
known. Its very name, “Ageratum,'” meaning ever-young 
refers to its ever being in bloom and to the long time eacl 
flower remains in beauty. A single head of Ageratum wil 
remain fresh and perfect for a month in the open air, anc 
from six weeks to three months in the window or greenhouse 
where not exposed to storm and wind. Not even the Petunii 
will give a greater quantity of bloom or last longer in flower 
This makes the Ageratum almost indispensable either in thi 
house or garden. The new dwarf varieties are very bush> 
and compact in habit, and exactly suited for edging, carpet¬ 
bedding, etc. Give light, rich soil. No trouble whatever tc 
grow. Per pkt 
Little Cem-A beautiful border variety. A sheet of 
delicate blue flowers the whole season, and very com¬ 
pact in growth. .5 & 1( 
Little Dorrlt— Much like the above, but white flowered; 
best of its color.5 & It 
Lasseauxl— Compact plant with charming rose colored 
flowers. An unusual shade .5 & It 
Swanley Blue —Flowers of a beautiful azure blue. Good 
bedder, and extra fine for the house in winter.5 & 10 
Canary— Compact in habit, light canary yellow in color. 
A very novel shade in these flowers.6 & 10 
2\qcfitisa U a P c b s i s * 
A rare and little-known annual of great beauty. It is a 
life-long favorite with everyone that grows it. It grows two 
feet high, and will thrive in a shady out-of-the-way place 
where scarcely anything else will grow. It resembles a larg 
beautiful Forget-me-not. though much finer in every respect, 
especially for bouquetsand cut flowers. Color.amost lovely 
shade of deep, clear, brilliant blue, with a pure white tenter. 
It blooms early, and continues all summer.5 & 10 
