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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
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An indispensable garden flower and one fitted equally 
to adorn the poor man’s garden or the spacious grounds of 
the millionaire. Never out of place in any situation. Suc¬ 
ceeds in any soil. Stands neglect, heat and cold and is as 
iron-clad as a plant can well be. Like their near relative, 
the Carnation, the Dianthus is superlatively beautiful, 
many varieties possessing a radiant-like fire that is im¬ 
possible to describe, but is the very acme of richness and 
beauty. A grand flower for cutting or flower work, and 
succeeds well in pots for winter bloom if treated like Car¬ 
nations. Sow early either in house or open ground, and 
plants will not only bloom all summer and. fall, but will 
survive the winter and bloom the next season. Never sow 
any’ but the best seed of Dianthus, if you would have the 
choicest flowers. Grows about one foot in height, branching 
freely’, and is alway’s strong and erect. Per pkt. 
Dladematus, flora plena —Splendid double flowers of 
the richest, darkest shades, fringed, mottled, striped, 
spotted, flaked, margined, etc., in a most odd and 
beautiful manner .10 & 20 
Double White-Finest for contrast . 5 & 10 
Laciniatus —Finely fringed and lacinated flowers of 
large size ; very double and perfect. 5 & 10 
Eastern Queen — Grand flowers 3 or 4 inches across, 
beautifully’ striped and shaded, and having colors 
which are like the richest silks .5 & 10 
Mourning Cloak— A rich variety 7 of most unique color¬ 
ing. Large double flowers of a velvety purplish black, 
each petal tipped and fringed with snow white.5 & 10 
Crimson Bell —Immense flowers of a rich crimson red. 
A grand flower of the single Heddewiggii type, and a 
beautiful companion to Eastern Queen and the Bride5 &10 
Imperialis — Double Imperial Pinks. Robust, bushy 
growers bearing great quantities of large, double 
flowers of rich glowing colors. 5 & 10 
Brilliant— A dwarf grower with numerous double flowers 
of dark, rich red, as large and fine as Carnations. 
A beautiful variety 7 and comes true from seed . 5 & 10 
The Bride— Clear, pure white, yvith a ladiant, glowing, 
crimson center, shading into a pink band .5 & 10 
Mixed — Our own mixture, of the most beautiful double 
and single sorts, and of every desirable shade or 
peculiar marking. This will give a bed of beautiful 
floyvers, and scarcely two plants will be alike.. . ..10 & 20 
Diarporjd Ionopsidium) 
A dainty little annual with tufts of tiny foliage and 
beautiful little white and violet-blue flowers that bloom 
within a month from the time seed is sown. It will grow in 
the open ground, over rock-work, or in pots, never exceeding 
three inches in height and rarely two. The tiny 7 flowers 
have a glistnning sheen that has given them their name of 
Diamond Flower, and being surrounded by’ a wreath of 
bright green foliage, they show to a wonderful advantage. 
For pot culture in winter it is just superb. Sprinkle a few 
seeds in a small pot or saucer, or in pots where other plants 
are growing, and within a month you will have the most 
charming mat of foliage and flowers—covering the surface 
of the soil like moss— that you ever saw. In the garden it 
will grow and seed all summer, covering the ground with a 
perfect carpet of beauty. In the fall the self-sown seed will 
come up and bloom profusely from October until spring, re¬ 
gardless of ice and snow . 10 & 20 
Datura Cornucopia. 
Much like the double 
Brugmansia.except it is more 
dwarf in habit, and a fine 
lilac and white color. Blooms 
in 2 or 3 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 flne_ fra¬ 
grance.7.5 & 10 
Sweet Nightingale— One of 
the finest garden flowers. 
Plants rapid arid bushy 7 
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 rock¬ 
ery. One plant in bloom 
will scent up a yvhole gar¬ 
den or lawn. 5 & 10 
