SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1891. 
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SELECT ASSORTMENT 
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(JHOIGE JCOWER^SEEDS. 
Before Ordering Read “General Instructions” on Second Page. 
O UR Seed must not be confounded with the usual mercantile grades. A visit to our place during the summer months 
will convince anv one of the great superiority of our high grade seeds over those usually sold. All important var 
icties are grown here on our grounds, or especially for us in different parts of this country or Kurope, which best 
suits their development, and all from superior strains, which have been m our possession and constantly improving 
for more thrm ten years. They have been worked up to such high perfection and arc so carefully selected and 
saved, that many varieties which we can buy at any seed house in Europe for 10 or 15 cents per ounce, costs us oue dollar or 
more per ounce to grow. Therefore we repeat, do not confound our high ohadk seeds with the usual mercantile 
GRADES, WHICH ARE GROWN CHEAP, SOI.D CHEAP, AND ARE IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD CH JAP AND POOR. Our seeds are 
cultivated with a view to attaining the highest possible mark of perfection, and to supply a class of people who want noth- 
Jng but the very best. We have made our prices us low as possible consistent with the high quality of seeds, and the 
liberal quantity we give in each oackct. 
a^ijqhals, or^§eeds Which J^loWer the Jdrst^Jeasoq. 
On this class of flowers the garden is dependent for most of its best summer display. The list of varieties we offer has 
been selected with great care, with a view to offering only the most desirable kinds. For instance, we hnvo t horoughly test¬ 
ed all the different kinds of Asters, and find those which we have offered to be the best hi all respects; and so on through 
all the list. 
In sowing seed very pretty effects are produced by massing various colors. Tako for instance the Phlox; sow circular 
or straight rows of t he different colors side by side, and the contrast is charming and especially desirable for large beds. 
For small masses it is better to sow the mixed colors. If several kinds of seed are sown in one bed, the tallest, like Salvias or 
Zinnias, should be in the center, and the lowest, like Verbenas or Portulaca, on the outside, with intermediate between. A 
bed of Poppies alone make a most brilliant mass of color. The same can be said of Asters, Callionsis, Esehseholtzia, Dian- 
thus, Portulaca, Petunias, Zinnias, etc. A bed of large ornamental foliage plants like Cannas, and Kicinus, is a grand sight. 
As a rule any of the seeds offered in t his department can be sown in the open ground as early as corn can lx? planted, or they 
can bo started earlier in hotbeds, frames, pots or boxes, if desired, and transplanted to the garden when danger of frost Is 
over. We have been to much trouble and expense for manv years to raise or procure improved strains of the leading an¬ 
nuals, and have met with such good success that we can with safety say our seed has no superior, and we invite comparison. 
Our Asters, Balsams, Chrysanthemums, Dianthus, Marigold, Mignonette, Pansy, Poppy, Phlox, Petunia, Pdrtulaca, Stocks, 
Verbenas and Zinnias, arc particularly celebrated as the finest strains iu the country. 
-Aqtirrhiipnq. 
(Snapdragon.) 
Beai-s very beautiful spikes of 
K -colored flowers, and should 
e a place In every garden. 
They usually survive the winter 
and flower even better the sec¬ 
ond than the flrst season. They 
are quite easily propagated by 
euttings.and, if rooted in the fall 
they make elegant pot plants for 
early spring bloom. 
Per pkt. 
Tall, all colors, mixed.. 5 
Dwarf, 44 44 5 
Tom Thumb, mixed colors, 
* only 8 inches high.ofdwarf, 
compact habit, thickly 
studded with spikes of bril¬ 
liant flowers. Itisthebest 
of all Antirrhinums, aud one of the most showy garden 
flowers. 10 
s&lysslnq. 
The sweet Alyssum is one of the most fragrant and useful 
of all annuals for bouquets and floral work. Sow seed very 
early iu open ground and it will soon bloom. 
Sweet, pure white. 5 
Little Cem, In this distinct variety the plants are of 
very compact-spreading growth: they attain only 
three to four incites in height, but a single plant will 
completely cover a circle twelve to fourteen inches 
in diameter. They begin to bloom very quickly front 
seed, the plants bearing profusely while quite small. 
They soon become densely studded with beautiful 
miniature spikes of pure white flowers, in wonderful 
Per pkt. 
profusion and of delicious fragrance. More than 
three hundred perfect spikes of flowers, in full bloom at 
one time, have been counted on a single plant . 10 
ALYSSUM. LITTLE OEM. 
=&geratniq. 
A highly ornamental class of free-flowering plants which 
are useful for pot culture as well as the open ground. Tho 
dwarf varieties make splendid borders for beds, as they arc 
compact and always loaded with flowers. 
Little Cem, dwarf and compact; a perfect mass of blue 
flowers all the time. 5 
Tom Thumb, white ; dwarf and compact. 5 
Lasseauxl, flue rose color. S 
