SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
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Guilds’ prize Ve r t> eT } as * 
THE FINEST STRAIN KNOWN. 
Verbenas. 
Like the Pansy, the Aster and the Petu¬ 
nia, the Verbena is a favorite with every¬ 
body, and one of the most universally pop¬ 
ular of all flowers both for the garden and 
for pot culture For constant and profuse 
flowering, and for brilliancy and beauty of 
colors it has few equals. Start seed early 
under glass, if possible, that good strong plants may be had 
for transplanting to the garden. They will commence bloom¬ 
ing in June and continue until after severe frosts, and during 
this entire time nothing in the garden Will attract more atten¬ 
tion than the bed or clump of verbenas. In August cuttings 
may be taken from some of the best ones and potted up tor 
winter blooming. Our prize strain are the linest Verbenas in 
cultivation. Per pkt. 
Extra Choice Mixed —From a named collection.5 & 10 
Colden Bedder— A striking variety with bright scarlet blossoms 
and golden yellow foliage.10 & JO 
Primrose— A great advance toward the coveted yellow Verbena. 
A soft, pale yellow, or primrose.o & 10 
Odorata—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 blossoms all summer. The blossoms, instead of being 
in clusters like other sorts, run up into spikes , usuall y 3 or 4 inches 
long. It is very sweet scented and pure white in color.5 & 10 
Famous as the finest strain of Verbenas 
known. We grow four acres of these superb flow¬ 
ers, and we know what we are talking about when 
we say they are the finest of all Verbenas. The 
plants are vigorous and short jointed, and per¬ 
fect sheets of bloom. The trusses are very large, 
the flowers of mammoth size, perfect form, and 
embrace the richest and most velvety colors. 
They are also delicately sweet scented. The 
range of color is great and shades are mostly very 
delicate and dainty. In coloring they are, in 
fact, perfectly exquisite, there being very little 
of the common old blue and purple colors among 
them. In their place we have delicate blushes, 
lavenders, pinks, velvety indigoes, intense scar¬ 
lets, whites, mottled, striped, variegated, etc., in 
facta thousand different colors and combinations. 
Per pkt. 
Childs’ Prize, Mixed Colors— Hundreds of 
delicate shades. Enormous sized flowers, 
dwarf, compact habit, and prodigious 
bloomers .10 & 20 
Childs’ Prize, Pure White— Comes true from 
seed. Great trusses of snowy blossoms of 
exquisite fragrance.10 & 20 
Childs’ Prize, Scarlet— A very intense scar¬ 
let...10 & 20 
SPECIAL OFFER: 
One packet each of the eight sorts offered on this 
page for 6oc. 
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 boirne the delicate 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 & 20 
