SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1896. 
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Godctia. — (6Wz« Flower .) 
A handsome flower, and particularly useful because it 
will grow in shady places where so few really fine flowers 
can he grown. They bloom a long time, and so profusely 
that the foliage is almost hidden by the many large, wide- 
open flowers, of shining, satin texture, and of the most deli¬ 
cate and lovely colors. This flower grows more popular each 
year, and it well deserves the partiality shown It. Per pkt. 
Mixed Colors. All shades. "> 
Lady Albemarle. Flowers of an intense carmine, 
shaded lighter at edge. Bach bloom 4 inches across 5 
Duchess of Albany. A pearly, transparent white. 5 
Bijou. Plants are perfect mats of foliage, never above (J 
inches In height, each plant showing from 200 to 300 
flowers in full bloom at one time. Flowers beautiful 
snowy-white with a rosy-red blotch in the center_ 5 
Satin Rose. A rich, bright crimson, beautiful to con¬ 
trast with the snowy-white. f> 
The Bride. Exquisite flowers, of 9oft crimson and white 5 
Princess Henry. A satin-like flower of delieate rose, 
each petal marked with a large, bright carmine spot. 
Grand for pot culture, or for cutting. 10 
Fairy Queen. Large, pure white flowers, shading to 
blush and spotted with carmine in center. A beauti¬ 
ful flower, admired by everyone who sees it. 10 
Larkspur. 
An old-fushionta, but none the less valuable annual 
with large, compact spikes of showy flowers, in all shades c.f 
white, pink, red, bine. etc. Sow seed very early in open 
ground, or even in late autumn. Per pkt. 
Double Dwarf Mixed . 5 
Hyacinth' Flowered. Great hyacinth-like spikes of 
large double flowers. Mixed colors. 10 
Lobelia. 
Charming little plants for small beds, edgings, baskets, 
etc. Graceful and pretty, and colors exceedingly clear. A 
most cliarming pot plant for winter culture, blooming in 
fom' weeks, and making the prettiest, little pots of flowers. 
Cryetal Palace. Dark blue, best for bedding. 
Erecta Alba. Fine white. 
Emp. William. Light blue, very compact. 
New Double Dwarf, Mixed Colors. A lovely dwarf, 
compact sort, bearing hundreds of beautiful double 
blossoms of various colors.. 10 
Royal Purple. Extra fine, with dark stalks and large, 
deep blue flowers, having a distinct w hite eye. 
Coideise. A compact, low-growing variety, the foliage 
of which is golden-yellow and is most charmingly set 
off by the hundreds of blossoms which the plant car¬ 
ries of the brightest, deepest blue, with a pure white 
eye. We have never seen in one plant a more charm¬ 
ing contrast between flowers and foliage than is 
shown in this most superb novelty. 10 
.iiuHikis. 
Beautiful little plants, with the daintiest and prettiest 
flowers imaginable. Will not succeed, in hot sun. but is just 
the plant for cool, shady beds, or for baskets or pot-s in poorly 
lighted windows. Seeds fine, and need care in sowing. 
Great favorites with those who have once grown them. In 
exquisite coloring these flow ers rival the Gloxinia 
Mixed Sorts. All colors (Monkey Flower).. 5 
Moschatus. (Musk Pi.ant.) Well know n for its fine 
musky fragrance. 5 
Double Mixed. Double flowers : splendidly spotted_ 10 
Tigrinus Crandiflorus. Flowers size of a Petunia, and 
of very bright and striking colors, all spotted, tigered 
and variegated in a most charming manner. Fine as 
pot plants, rivaling the Gloxinia. 
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Mirabilis. 
Much used in the now popular "evening" beds, and also 
for summer hedges, low screens, etc., for which their uni¬ 
form, bushy growth well adapt them. Plants are crowded 
for months with innumerable silk-like flowers of the most 
ravishing colors, and exhaling a delicious perfume. Indeed, 
the celebrated "Jockey Club ” perfume is made from Longi- 
flora. These flowers owe their common name of "Four- 
o'clock ” to the regularity with which their beautiful flowers 
open at that hour each afternoon. 
Improved Mixed Colors. White, scarlet, yellow, etc.. 5 
Tom Thumb. Mixed colors. A new dwarf strain of 
great beauty. Grows only 13 inches high, and each 
plant is a compact mass of lovely yellowish leaves, 
which in evening are hidden by hundreds of gay 
blossoms of all colors and variegations... 5 
Longlflora. Mixed colors. Lovely fragrant blossoms.. 5 
