SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1901. 
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'Verbenas. 
Like the Pansy, the Aster and the Petunia, the Verbena 
is a favorite with everybody, and one of the most universally 
popular of all flowers, both for the garden and for pot cul¬ 
ture. For constant and profuse flowering, and for brilliancy 
ana beauty of colors it has no equals. Start seed early 
under glass, if possible, that good strong plants may be had 
lor transplanting in the garden. They will commence 
blooming m June and continue until after severe frosts, and 
during the entire time nothing in the garden will attract 
more attention than the bed or clump of Verbenas. In 
August cuttings may be taken from some of the best ones 
and potted up for winter blooming. Our prize strain are the 
finest Verbenas in cultivation. Per pkt. 
Extra Choice Mixed — Prom a named collection. 10 
Golden Bedder—A striking variety with bright scarlet 
blossoms and golden yellow foliage . .. 20 
Primrose — A great advance toward the coveted yellow 
Verbena. A soft, pale yellow, or primrose. 10 
©do rata—It is so hardy seed can be sown in the open 
ground early in the spring, where they will quickly 
germinate, grow rapidly, and in a few weeks be in 
bloom, and give a great profusion of beautiful blos¬ 
soms all summer. The blossoms, instead of being in 
clusters like other sorts, run up into spikes, usually 3 or 
4 inches long. It is very sweet scented and pure white 
in color......... io 
Moss Verbena— This new Verbena produces a mass of 
fine, moss-like foliage, and as the branches spread out 
over the ground in all directions a lovely carpet of 
mossy green is formed, above which are borne the deli¬ 
cate clusters of purple-blue blossoms in the wildest 
profusion. The effect is most charming. It is more 
hardy and robust than most Verbenas, and blooms in a 
very short time from seed. It is novel and beautiful. .10 
CHILDS' PRIZE VERBENAS. 
Famous as the finest strain of Verbenas known. We 
grow four acres of these superb flowers, and we know what 
w r e are talking about when we say they are the finest of all 
Verbenas. The plants are vigorous and short-jointed and 
perfect sheets of bloom. The trusses are very large, the 
flowers of mammoth size, perfect form and embracing the 
richest and most velvety colors. They are also delicately 
sweet-scented. The range of colors is great, and shades are 
mostly very delicate''and dainty. In coloring they are, in 
fact, perfectly exquisite, there being very little of the com¬ 
mon old blue and purple colors among them. In their place 
we have delicate blushes, lavenders, pinks, velvety indigoes, 
intense scarlets, whites, mottled, striped, variegated, etc., in 
fact, a thousand different colors and combinations. 
Childs' Prize, Mixed Colors— Hundreds of delicate 
shades. Enormous sized flowers; dwarf, compact habit 
and prodigious bloomers. .. .20 
Childs' Prize, Pure White— Comes true from seed. Great 
trusses of snowy blossoms of exquisite fragrance.. .15 
Childs’ Prize, Scarlet — Avery intense scarlet. 15 
THE MAYFLOWER VERBENA. 
Baised and named- by Luther Burbank, and was the 
greatest floral novelty of last year. The shape of us indi¬ 
vidual flowers and clusters of bloom, as well as its color, are 
identical with the flowers of the Trailing Arbutus, or May¬ 
flower, and having the same superb fragrance. The size of 
the flowers is about equal to a silver quarter, and in delicate 
coloring and rich perfume it has no rival. It is one of 
. the very finest novelties in choice flowers. 
Pink Mayflower— Delicate shades of pmk, and very fra¬ 
grant, like the Trailing Arbutus... • • - 20 
White Mayflower— Pure white and sweetly scented...20 
f^ixed Mayflower —Pink, white and other shades, mixed..20 
