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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898.1 
porthlacu. 
The Porlulaoft will stand more abuse than almost any 
other flower. They do not like deep shade, or wet, damp soil, 
but in any other situ; tion they only ask the sowing ; they 
will take care of themselves afterwards. The dryer the 
weather and the hotter the sun. the more they flourish, car- 
S etin« the groand with their mat of succulent foliage, that 
uring the fore part of the day is almost hidden r v clouds of 
¥ ;ay blossoms in every color of the rainbow. Fine for horder- 
ng walks, rock work and bedding. Beautiful in ribbon beds, 
and as they can be transplanted even in full bloom it is easy 
enough to remove any single or off-colored ones and replace 
them with others as tney bloom. Six inches high. Per pkt. 
Grandlflora, Mixed Colors White, crimson, rose, scar¬ 
let, yellow, striped, etc. Very brilliant.S & 10 
Double Rose-Flowered, Mixed Colors -Large blos¬ 
soms, as double ns Roses, and of the greatest variety 
of colors and varieuations. Our seed is extra choice 
and will produce large double flowers.10 & 20 
Double Yellow -Fine brilliant color.. , . 5 & 10 
Double Scarlet Clear and bright.5 & 10 
Double White - Pure and beautiful. 5 & 10 
Peas, Trailing. 
These are of a trailing and 
not of a climbing habit, and 
are dwarf and bushy, differ¬ 
ing greatly from the ordina¬ 
ry Sweet Peas. Their flow¬ 
ers are the largest and most 
beautiful in form and color 
of all flowering Peas, and 
will greatly delight all who 
plant them. They also com¬ 
mence blooming about three 
weeks earlier than Sweet 
Peas and continue all sum ¬ 
mer. Pick off the flowers as 
fast as they fade. Two col¬ 
ors, sky-blue and pure white, 
both mixed.5 & 10 
Piiacelia Gampanulata. 
An easily grown annual 
that will commence to bloom 
a month from the time seed 
is sown in open ground. 
Erect, cup-shaped flowers of 
a lovely blue. Flowers pro¬ 
fusely and a long time. Its 
shade of color is one of the 
rarest and loveliest seen 
among blues. It is a superb 
pot plant..5 & 10 
platycodop, Grapdiflora. 
A companionable flower that is attractive in the border, 
pretty in balcony boxes and very line for vases and cut>- 
flower work. Blooms first year from seed, though it is a 
hardy perennial, the Diants living in the ground over winter 
and blooming profusely year after year in the same. spot. On 
this account it is very valuable. The pretty, star-like flowers 
are three inches across, and the colors arc very clear. It is a 
most beautiful and satisfactory plant which blooms freely 
all the season, one plant often having a hundred or more of 
its largo fine blossoms at one time. A gem for any garden. 
Mixed -Several colors. . . 10 x. 20 
all of which are characterized by extra large and handsome 
leaves, compact, branching growth, forming a perfect pyra¬ 
mid of elegant foliage. The seed are very large and each 
kind of a different color, white, black, scarlet, brown, etc. 
All beautifully marked and mottled. They are so beautiful 
that they are worth the price asked just, to look at. All 
kinds mixed......- r > & 10 
