SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1901. 4f 
SPECIALTIES IUsT : - 
Our Special Improved Strains of Leading Annuals, Perennials and Climbers. 
ONLY SELECT SEED OF IMPROVED STRA5NS OFFERED. 
The ordinary commercial grades of flower seeds, such as are usually sold, can be and are sold at a very 
low price. They are grown and harvested in large crops, much Hire grain. They are produced cheaply , 
sold cheaply, and are, in fact, cheap in every sense of the word; and he who sows them has no right to 
complain at their poor quality. They cannot possibly be anything else. Seed of high quality can be produced 
only by thorough, careful, painstaking and expensive methods. We do not oifer our customers the ordinary 
commercial grades of seed. © nr 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 a limited number oi 
varieties,—only those which are of the greatest merit and sure to give satisfaction everywhere. The very 
best varieties, bred up to an unequalled mark of perfection, has made our seeds famous the world over. 
We sell only select stocks of special varieties, including Annuals, Climbers and Perennials. The two 
latter are indicated by the word CLIMBER or PERENNIAL, following name. Seed of CHOICE HOUSE 
PLANTS and GENERAL ELOWER SEEDS are offered under their respective headings, pee pages 75 and 80^ 
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unsatisfactory and not desirable for general euiuvauou. min <* w vu^ms •-r- j Q * 
those which cannot fail to produce good results in every of the country, we have for yearsuarefuny grown, tested and 
selected to ascertain what sorts possessed superior merits. The list here presented isthe^resultofour‘labor. It contain^ 
the very best of all sorts, and all which are really and generally desirable. We mightoff eronehundred varieties of Asters 
or fifty varieties of Balsams, Phloxes, Poppies, etc., but there would be mo advantage m so doing. On the other hand, it 
would be a decided disadvantage, for our customers might therefore fail to select the best kinas. 
CLIMBERS .—Every garden, every cottage, every fence, wall, stump or old tree, is beautified by 
flowering vines. Vines are nature’s draperies, and are essential to any and every attempt to beautify one s home surround¬ 
ings. Our Sweet Peas, Morning Glories and Nasturtiums are particularly fine. . 
PERENNIALS.—These are all hardy plants which live in the garden year aft^e^ bjpmnjug eyebV^Prmg^ sum- 
nier, with little or no care. They are exceedingly beautiful, while many of them sems,oi the o a 
kingdom. As a rule, they bloom early in the spring, when the garden is almost destitute of nowers. 
ANNUALS.— All sorts not designated as Climbers or Perennials are classed as Annuals, such as Asters, Phloxes. 
Zinnias, etc., of which our strains are the finest in the world. , . ,, 
CULTURE.—As a rule, seed may be sown in the open ground about corn^ m P’ rather Heht eMi Moderately 
house or m hot-beds earlier and transplanted to the garden when danger of frost is over A rather light ^dmoderatmy 
^efi sod thoroughly spaded, is most desirable. Do not grow the plants vSte are mrlduJII 
of the soil well stirred with a hoe or rake during the summer, especially if the.weather is dry.. Pretty ettects a e P 
by massing different colors in Asters, Phloxes, Zinnias, Verbenas, etc., yet mixed colors are always showy and pleasing. 
Prices: 
We offer regular sized packets at a stated price, and will 
give THREE packets of any ONE kind for the sum that 
TWO packets would cost. For instance, any one variety listed at 5c., three 
packets of it may be had for 10c. Any one 10c. packet, three packets may be 
had for 20c.; three packets of a 15c. sort for 30c., etc. 
