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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 
Percqpial pea. 
No praise can bo too high for this lovely iron-clad vine, 
that blooms constantly from early summer until late 
autumn, minding neither heat nor cold, rain or drouth. 
Plants small and feeble the first season, but ever after a 
picture of vigor and healthfulness, bearing a profusion of 
long-stalked clustered flowers, white, pink and deep rose in 
color, each flower an inch or more across. It is strange that 
they arc- so rarely seen, for they are easily grown, perfectly 
hardy, and so beautiful that we have never yet seen a person 
who did not admire their cheerful flowers and clear green 
foliage. Four to six feet in height. Per pkt. 
Mixed, All Colors . 5 ft 10 
Pure White -Superb.5 & 10 
Picotcepipks. 
These are reall v hardy Car¬ 
nations, with flowers more 
delicate than other pinks and 
pleasantly fragrant. Though 
hardy they are stronger for a 
little protection over winter_ 
Mixed Colors - Barge 
flowering.5 & 10 
Wallflower. 
A favorite English flower 
somewhat like Ten-weeks 
Stocks. A half-hardy peren¬ 
nial; very fragrant and fine i 
for cutting or ror pots. Where 
cofY?flCHTTB winters are not very severe 
the Wallflower will live with 
protection and will bloom 
very early in spring. 
Double Mixed Colors. .5&10 
Filarpeptosa. 
SWeet Willimh* 
. f }lvo rit.e flower of our grandmothers. One of the 
i plants for the border, bearing in early summer 
large heads of the richest and most varied colors. Very fra¬ 
grant andafavorite with everyone for vases and bouquets. 
Improved Mixed Colors— Perfect in form, large in size, 
orilliant and varied in colors. 5 * 10 
Double White - Very fine.!!.!!!!!ft 0 
Double Mixed Colors— Fine double blossoms.10 ft 2 > 
nli 
bfl 
The stately clumps of stiff, bayonet-like leaves, bristling 
out from the center in every direction, are extremely or¬ 
namental, but in midsummer they take on an added glory. 
Thick, woody flower-stalks are thrown up, growing as high 
as a man’s head, and bear at their summit immense com¬ 
pound panicles of creamy, bell-shaped flowers, each floret 
two inches across. A single panicle will contain 000 or mon- 
florets, and will be two feet in length.5 & 10 
Violet. 
Seeds slow to germinate, but rot at rill hard to grow. 
Every garden should have a good bed of these fragrant 
favorites. 
Carden Sorts Mixed .f> & 10 
Miscellaneous Seeds. 
B The following list of seeds in¬ 
cludes many that are of general 
interest, and we trust will afford 
a good deal of pleasure to scores 
of our customers. The list in¬ 
cludes seed of some well-known 
b ulbous pi .ants trees, shrubs, 
Ampelopsls Velchtl— The 
or Japanese Woodbine. 
Finest of all hardy wall 
Berbori6, Mixed Varieties 
Sp lendid ornamental 
Cooperla Drummondl —Fine 
and well-known bulb_.5 ft 10 
Freesia— It^is not^ generally 
fkeksia. tiful, fragrant flowering 
plants may be grown to great perfection in four 
months from seed. Seed may be sown at anv time 
in pots, and boxes, or frames of light, rich soil. 
They will soon germinate, and under favorable 
circumstances they will bloom finely within four 
months from the time of sowing. 10 & 20 
Hyacinth —Finest Dutch varieties, mixed; both double 
and single.JO ft 20 
Hyaci nth Cana leans— Fine summer flowering bulb.. .5ft 10 
LI Mum Tenulfol I um —The charming coral lily of Siberia 
An exquisite little gem. Blooms second year.. 10 ft 20 
Mulberry, Russian —A splendid fruit-bearing tree...ft 10 
Mulberry, Tea’s Weeping —Highly ornamental weep¬ 
ing tree. 5 ft 10 
Pseony, Officinalis Mixed;well-known garden plantl/i ft 10 
” Tree —Seed imported from Japan; the beautiful 
and famous Tree Paeonv; all colors, mixed.10 ft 20 
Paulownla Imperlalls —Magnificent ornamental tree 
from Japan, producing great foliage and elegant 
flowers. 10 ft 20 
Rhododendron Mixed. A well known shrub. The 
finest of all hardy flowering ornamentals.10 ft 20 
Trltoma— Mixed varieties, very fine hardy plant. f> ft 10 
Wisteria Sinensis— Hovely and well-known hardy 
flowering vine.oft 10 
Zephyranthes— Six finest sorts, mixed. Exquisite flow¬ 
ering bulbs.5ft 10 
