SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
Floral Park Jewel— The most beautiful Dahlia in cultiva¬ 
tion. Flowers of many colors, from deep maroon to blush, 
white, including beautiful spotted and variegated forms, 
are borne in great profusion on the same plant at the 
same time. In fact a plant will hardly ever produce two 
flowers alike. Blush-white, crimson-maroon, white suf¬ 
fused with maroon, maroon suffused with white, crim¬ 
son-red, purple spotted, marked or marbled with white, 
spotted, marbled and striped with maroon, pink or crim¬ 
son, or several colors suffused in an odd and irregular 
way. Often one-half of the flower will be white and the 
other half maroon, or the center white, while the outer 
half will be deep crimson maroon. The exceeding 
beauty of a plant loaded with flowers and each one of 
a di fferent color can be better imagined than described. 
The blossoms are perfectly double, large and of perfect 
shape and borne by the hundred. 
Garnet— Large beautiful flower of a rich plum or garnet. 
Souvenir— Lovely variegated blossoms. Scarlet and white. 
Argentla Varlegata— The leaves of this fine Dahlia are 
beautifully variegated with white, making it a most 
conspicuous and attractive plant. 
LIVONIA. 
Mixed Dahlias— We can supply large field-grown tubers of 
25 finest Dahlias, (mixed) at SI.00 per dozen, by 
mail or express. Larger tubers can be sent by express. 
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Dahlia Seed. 
Wo still find difficulty in convincing our customers that 
good Dahlias can be grown from seed, and that plants will 
bloom i ho first season from the seed. We only wish we could 
show all our doubters some of the magnificent flowers grown 
from our seeds. Anyone who can raise a Zinnia or a Morn¬ 
ing Glory from seed, 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. Wo know this to be so by re¬ 
peated experiments of our own, and our customers wiito us 
the same thing Some of the finest, largest Dahlias, and the 
richest colors we have ever seen were among seedlings. 
Give good soil and never iet the plants suffer for water, and 
our word for it, you will be more than satisfied. Out of a 
large paperof seed no two plants will be alike in flower, 
while there will be every* color represented, from 
snow white to blackish maroon. Start seed in house, and 
transplant to open ground after frost is gone. Per pkt. 
Double Large Flowering, Mixed—Will produce some 
magnificent varieties . .10 & 20 
Double Pompon, Mixed -Extra choice strain.10 & 20 
New Single, Mixed Strain—Flowers very large and of 
rain bow colors. Exceedingly popular xiscut flowers..5 & 10 
Gracilis, Mixed Colors—Fine cut foliage ami a profu¬ 
sion of brilliantly striped and flecked blossoms. 5 & 10 
Cactus—A new class of broad p<‘taled double flowers 
esteemed by many the 
finest of nil. Very distinct 
and extra for cutting. .10 & 20 
perialio The “ Lily Dah¬ 
lia.” the most beautiful 
of all Dahlias. It, grows 
10 to 12 feet high, and 
bears panicles of elegant, 
lily-like flowers, measur¬ 
ing 8 inches from tip to 
tip of petals. The color is 
a very delicate mauve, 
almost white, veined 
with old pink, and with a 
ring of pink around the 
orange-yellow center. It 
blooms from seed t he first 
year. Flowers single and 
rather pendulous or bell- 
shaped. This is tine of 
the great good novelties 
of recent times..10 & 20 
