SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR I HO I. 
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Garjdytuft. 
A pretty hardy annual. It blooms freely and produces line 
effects, and is particularly valuable for bouquet making and 
cut flowers. Sow early in t lie open ground and it will soon 
be in bloom. The Tom Thumb is exceedingly lino, rerpkt. 
All Colors, mixed . . . 5 
Pure White, splendid for lloral work . 5 
Rocket, white flowers, borne in pyramidal spikes. 5 
Dark Crimson. 5 
Tom Thumb, mixed colors: very dwarf, 4 to 6 inches 
high, compact and free flowering; new and splendid. 5 
Empress, a new. pure white Candytuft, forming a dense, 
bushy, pyramidal plant, which is a mass of snowy 
flowers for a long 1 Imn. Wo consider it the most desi¬ 
rable Candytuft in cultivation and are sure that all 
who grow it will be delighted with its chaste beauty. 10 
Garda Us. 
A gigantic thistle from the hills of the Atlas. The leaves 
are deep pronged, over three feet long, and of a dark green 
color, and will cover a space of several yards. When fully 
grown it attains a height of 11 feet, forming beautiful pyra¬ 
mids, with slender drooping branches which carry at their 
ends bright purple flowers, llisagraud ornamental plant. 
Clganteus, Giant Thistle. 10 
Galepdula. 
,'hoso are now among the most beautiful and popular gar- 
' ud they 
Sow seed early in theopen ground and 
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will bloom profusely from Juno until the ground freezes. 
Kail frosts do not. injure them. They ean lie pot ted in the fall 
and if placed in a sunny window will not be without flowers 
all winter. The blossoms are very large and perfectly' double. 
Mixed Colors, all line double soris. 5 
Meteor, very double; petals small and each one marked 
with two shades of yellow; very effective. 5 
Whirlpool, Since the introduction of the charming 
_Meteor, all Calendulas have become very popular, 
both as garden flowers and lor cull i vating in pots for 
Fall and Winter blooming in the house. For both of 
those purposes this new sort must now take the lead, 
us its flowers are about twice as large as any other 
(often four inches across!, ami perfectly double lo I ho 
centre. The plant is also very dwarf in habit., and 
produces its enormous blooms very freely, thus mak¬ 
ing it doubly valuable as a pot plant, and it. is really 
one of the most satisfactory and constant Winter 
bloomers. After hhmmlmi In the Harden all Summer 
they ran In- polled In SepleuitM-r I,,r Fall and early 
Winter blooming In the window. Inn to gel the best 
results in this iv-|nri seed m -lull, August nr Sep¬ 
tember, so us to lint I- fre-h. I lirlfl > plant-. 10 
Gcf)trmMlHis. 
This is ono of the must lieniillfiil of nil iituiiinU. 
arc very small and borne In lai rlii-lei., rmdl i 
is in itself a pretty bouquet. Very i ulualile ter 
Mixed Colors, white and pink 
The llowora 
me of which 
cutting. 
IV r pkl. 
Gelosia, G°-hscoinl>. 
One of the most beautiful flowers tluit ean !-• mown In tin. 
open ground. They arc not dilllcult to km.w.h- i- u-milly 
suppowsl. Him i in heal mid 
transplant lo i leli gulden mill 
last of .May. Then emu uimm 
heads of bloom with laight 
fiery colors ren table imthTiig 
else in culll\ all...In- 
deed beautiful and ul I met Ive. 
Dwarf, mixed, Including 
Glasgow Pi Ize, and nil 
t lie beaut if ul large flow¬ 
ered dwarf soris; sotno 
of which produce hcinU 
over two loot in circum¬ 
ference. 10 
New Variegated, the 
eonil is of this variety are 
variegated with bright 
crimson and yellow, 
forming a most bcautl- 
cclosia. ful contrast. ft 
Golden Pillow, dwarf habit, with a deep golden yellow 
comb of enormous size; new. 10 
OHRYSANTHCMUM CARINATUM. 
Ghrysaptheipdip. 
The great and growing demand fortho annual varieties has 
brought Chrysanthemums into general favor. The colors 
have t he appearance of being laid on with a brush, and for 
this reason they arc frequently called “Painted Daisies," and 
are indeed charming. Sow seed early in open ground and 
they will bloom profusely all summer. 
Per pkl. 
Carlnatum Hybrids, mixed colors; elegant. ft 
Carinatum Hybrids, double, mixed colors. 
Inodorum Plenisslmum, dwarf and f roe flowering, very 
double and pure white; elegant for pots. 
Colden Feather, grand new annual Chrysanthemum 
with bright yellow foliage and charming blossoms. It 
commences to bloom in eight weeks from the time of 
sowing the seed and coni inuos all summer. The beau¬ 
tiful large white daisy-like flowers areto3inches 
across; the dark velvety disk in the center is sur¬ 
rounded by a circle of bright golden yellow, followed 
by another clear cut circle of rich crimson, as clearly 
defined from theouter whiteusif painted. Add totlio 
flowers the masses of elegant yellow foliage among 
them and wc have a plant of rare beauty. 
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GopVolVulUs, 
Those r.re dwarf Morn I ng 0 lories and vcrvpretty. Tl»«\\ tit. 
not climb, but form large bushy plants which are a porfin « 
moss of flowers. 
Mixed Colors. .. & 
