SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
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GtypysaqtL^eiiKitqs atlOc. each. 
Beautiful, profuse, easily grown, and a superb pot plant 
for room decoration. No other flower need hope to compete 
with it in the season. Some dealers offer confusing lists of 
hundreds of varieties, but we have reduced our lists to the 
cream of all sort3, any one of which might graco a queen’s 
palace. Our advice is to give them rich food and plenty of 
water, and if the largo blooms of the Exhibition are coveted, 
keep them in pots always, shifting them as they, require, 
pinching back until robust and bushy, then to disbud, leav¬ 
ing but one blossom out of each cluster to develop. 
JAPANESE. 
This is the leading and most popular class. Many differ¬ 
ent shapes and forms, of all colors. 
Culllngfordll — Still the standard of what a fine dark. 
Chrysanthemum should be. Very rich dark crimson. 
Comet -A largo, flat flower, double to the center, seven 
inches across, petals whorled, quilled and twisted in the 
most beautiful manner. Color, pure white. 
Golden Wedding— One of the very finest of all yellow 
varieties. Flowers enormous in size, incurved, solid 
and globular. Finest and'brightest yellow. 
Helen Blood good— A striking variety, unquestionably the 
most meritorious and true pink. Globular in shape. 
Glory of the Pacific— Magnificent large pink. Extraearly 
and extra fine. 
Yellow Monarch Enormous size, exceedingly early and 
rich golden yellow. 
Ivory -A grand variety. A smooth-textured ivory-white 
flower of large size and perfect globular form. 
John Shrlmpton Deep velvety crimson, gold color on 
reverse side of petals. Large and extra fine. 
Leopard Improved Most beautiful and distinct. The color 
is a peculiar but beautiful carmine-purple thickly dotted 
with white. A great improvement on the old Leopard. 
Mayflower— Flowers six inches across, perfectly double to 
the center. Petals long and wavy and beautifully and 
deeply lasc.inated; color pale whitish-lavender, slightly 
shaded with yellow toward the center. Unlike any other. 
OSTRICH PLUME. 
These are the unique hairy or *‘&sau” varieties which 
are so odd, beautiful and popular. 
Cold Dust Soft plumy flower of rich Igolden color. Best 
hairy yellow. 
Mrs. Higginbotham Elegant large blossoms of a soft 
downy pink. Petals broad and plush-like. 
Mrs. Wo J. Codfrey -Improved Alpneus Hardy. Puro snow- 
whit. 1 ', large and double, and very hairy; best wnitesort. 
POMPON CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Small flowers as double as little roses and borne in 
great masses. By all odds this is one of the most charming 
of all Chrysanthemums, and everyone should have a few. 
Black Douglas Color so deep as to be almost black, while 
the tip of each petal shows a glint of gold, making the 
whole blossom appear as if sprinkled with gold dust. 
Princess Meletla —Beautiful for cutt.irtg or wearing. A 
lovelv,long stemmed,fringed flower; delicate blush white. 
Val d’Or— The finest of all yellow flowered Pompons. 
Blooms in clusters. Beautiful shape and rich color. 
White Bedder —Pure snow white, in great masses. 
Price of all the above , 10 c. each. 
Ne\V Chrysanthemums. 
From t he large listof new'Mums we select the following 
as being the most remarkable, distinct and beautiful. They 
are really marvels in their way. Among them we have a 
beautiful large striped variety, (Uncle Sam). Good Gracious 
is really a monster, the largest variety grown. As a com¬ 
panion to tile exquisite Philadelphia we have the lovelv pink 
Wm. Simpson, and in P. Manila we have a most fascinating 
combination of canary yellow and pure white. 
Philadelphia The sensation among Chrysanthemums. 
Took 15 first prizes last year, never failing to win in any 
exhibition in America or Europe. Flower of enormous 
size, as round as a hall, pure white with a delicate shad¬ 
owy tinge of lemon, giving the flower a peculiar translu¬ 
cent effect. It is the grandest variety in cultivation, its 
peculiar beauty being utterly indescribable. 
W m. Simpson The best pink and largest flower of its 
color. Exhibited for the first time last year and created 
a sensation. As fine as Philadelphia. Flowers have been 
grown that measure 11 inches across. Early and a line 
robust grower. Color, a most exquisite shade of pink, 
of indescribable loveliness.- 
Norma Dee Childs - A beautiful Chinese; enormous flower, 
seven inches across, perfectly double to the center; petals 
wide, and color snow-white. Unquestionably the best 
pure white Chrysanthemum known, 
P. Manda A superb large flower opening flat and double 
to the very center. Petals beautifully curved. The cen¬ 
ter petals are fine canary yellow while those outside are 
pure white combining these two delicate and exquisite 
colors in one flower. In this respect it is unlike any 
other variety and a gem of the first water. No collection 
complete without it. 
Uncle Sam - A fine.large flower with long wavy petals of a 
rosy lilac color, striped and bordered with white. It is 
the finest and most distinctly striped variety in cultiva¬ 
tion, and a decided acquisition. 
Good Gracious -Probably the very largest flower of any 
Chrysanthemum. As large as a man’s hat and double to 
the very center. Petals quilled and irregular. Color a 
delicate shade of peach pink; perfectly grand. 
Yellow Cood Cracious A sport fron the above, with fine 
pure yellow flowers. 
White Good Gracious— Another spovt, bearing a pure 
white flower. 
Price , 15c. each ; the 8 for $1.00. 
SPECIAL OFFER —for only $5.50 we will send one plant 
each of the 25 sorts offered on this page, the Son page 22 and one 
Everhloomcr, (sec cover.) 
CHOICE CHRYSANTHEMUM SEED. 
Chrysanthemums are very easily grown from seed, and 
flower abundantly the first season. It is no \ rouble at all to 
grow them and tliev are sure to flower beautifully in Octo¬ 
ber and November from spring sown seed. Every plant 
raised will produce a flower of a different color and charac- 
ter, no two will ever be alike, and among them there will be 
many exceptionally beautiful and valuable new varieties. 
Extra Hybrids, Mixed— Saved only from the finest named 
sorts, carefully hand fertilized. 25 seeds, 26c. 
