SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS* BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1901. 53 
Dahlia. 
Good Dahlias can be grown from seed, and plants will 
bloom the first season from the seed. Anyone who can raise 
a Zinnia or a Morning Glory can grow Dahlias from seed. 
They are remarkably easy to germinate, and from the very 
seed leaf the plants are stocky and sturdy. Seed sown in 
the house in March or April- will produce flowering plants 
as soon as plants grown from tubers. Some of the finest, 
largest Dahlias, and the richest colors we have ever seen, 
were among seedlings. Give good soil and never let the 
plants suffer for water, and our word for it, you will be more 
than satisfied. Out of a large paper of seed no two plants 
win be alike in flower, while there will be every color repre¬ 
sented, from snow white to blackish maroon. Start seed in 
house and transplant to open groud after frost is gone., 
Double Large Flowering, Mixed — Will produce some 
magnificent varieties. 15 
Double Pompon, Mixed— Extra choice strain.10 
New Single, Mixed Colors— Flowers very large and of 
rainbow color. Exceedingly popular as cut flowers.. . . 5 
Gracilis, Mixed Colors— Fine cut foliage and a profusion 
of brilliantly striped and flecked blossoms . 10 
Cactus —a new class of broad-petaled double flowers, 
esteemed by many the finest of all. Very distinct and 
extra for cutting. .20 
im ^ r '^. iis— the “Lily Dahlia,” the most beautiful of all 
uari uas. It grows 10 to 12 feet high, and bears panicles 
01 elegant Lily-like flowers measuring 8 inches from tip 
to tip of petals. _ The color is a very delicate mauve, 
almost white, veined with old pink around the orange- 
yellow center... .15 
Dmipopd ploWer. 
tifnui. c ]p,’ n ty httle annual with tufts of tiny foliage and beau- 
e wh A te and violet-blue flowers that bloom within a 
o from the time seed is sown. It will grow in the open 
- °y e F rock-work,-or in pots, never exceeding three 
fU;Jl es - ln weight, and rarely two. The tiny flowers have a 
glistening sheen that has given them their name of Diamond 
it ad being surmounted by a wreath of bright green 
- 7 show to a wonderful advantage. For pot eul- 
V7 mter xt 1S J ust superb. Sprinkle a few seeds m a 
irio- o r) ,i °r saucer, or in pots where other plants are grow- 
Jf; f within a month you will have the most charming 
ilo ™ tolia ge and flowers—covering the surface of the sou 
you ever saw. In the garden it will grow and 
of beaut U mmer, covering the ground with a perfect carpet 
DatOra. 
This is a majestic garden plant which is easily growB- 
and which furnishes an abundance of magnificent large 
blossoms. It lias a very tropical appearance. Per pkt. 
Sweet Nightingale —One of the finest garden flowers. 
Plants rapid and bushy growers, crowned with great 
Lily-like blossoms a foot in length, like an enormous 
trumpet, white as snow and deliciously scented. It is a 
fine plant for the center of a bed of evening bloomers or 
to use at the base of a rockery. One plant in bloom 
will scent up a whole garden or lawn. 1$ 
Cornucopia — Much like the double Brugmansia, except it 
is more dwarf in habit, and a fine lilac and white color. 
Blooms in two or three months from seed, and is a 
superb flower for the garden, or as a pot plant both 
summer and winter. Flowers like great trumpets ; 
quite double and of fine fragrance... 1© 
Golden Queen — A magnificent sort, with an immense 
trumpet-shaped double bloom of a creamy yellow color. 
It is of dwarf, stout growth, with fine foliage and the 
great blossoms, which are a foot or more in length, 
show to wonderful advantage. New and very fine—. .1© 
Mixed Colors— Many fine sorts, both double and single. .,.1© 
