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BOOK OF VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS 
The Banana Plant Seed 
Thin ia a gorgeous and rapid growing: plant 
with giant magnificiently shaped leaves of a 
beautiful bright green color: Seeds sown early 
in hot bed and repotted will give plants eight 
feet high the first summer. It certainly is a 
great curiosity and a few planted in your gar¬ 
den or upon the lawn will make an ornamental 
and gorgeous effect. The seeds of this variety 
are scarce and hard to get, but we have secur¬ 
ed a limited supply which we offer at the fol¬ 
lowing prices: Large seeds per pkt., 0c., 
8 pkts., 15c. _ 
The Annual Gladioli 
Japanese Giant Flowering Morning Glories 
Have you heard of the New Gladioli that 
will bloom the first summer from seed? In 
the past it has been necessary to plant bulbs, 
but if you use seed of the Annual Gladioli you 
will have flowers the first summer. It is a 
great novelty and should be tested this season. 
If the seeds are sown in March in a warm place 
the plants should begin to produce flowers by 
the early part of July, and continue to bloom 
from then until frost. The flower stalks stand 
upright with widely opened throats. The 
petals are broad and round<*d and the flowers 
are of large size. The varieties of colors are 
very rich. All shades and colors known in 
other Gladioli will be found in this new 
class. This Gladioli can be grown by treating 
the same as other Annuals. The seedlings 
produce bulbs the same as any other Gladioli. 
We have secured a limited amount of seed 
direct from the originator and advise all our 
customers to give it a trial this season. Pkt., 
5c.. 4 pkts.. 15c. 
Giant Quick Flowering Geraniums 
Few people know how easily Geraniums can 
be grown from seed and if started early will 
bloom the first season. Our Giant Flowering 
Mixture produces large plants, flowe *s perfect 
in shape, trusses immense in size, including all 
the spotted and odd marked varieties. We are 
sure anyone can produce magnificent results in 
growingourGeraniumsfromseed. The* flower 
quickly and a packet of seed will produce many 
odd plants and flowers. Pkt., including Double 
and Single Mixed, 6c., 8pkts.. 15c. 
MOSS VERBENAS 
This new Verbena produces a mass 
of fine moss like foilage and as the 
branches spread out over the ground 
in all directions, a lovely carpet of 
mossy green is formed above on which 
is borne clusters of purplish blue 
flowers in great profusion. It is a 
very robust grower and blooms in a 
short time from seed. Pkt., 4c., 3 
pkts., lOc. 
This is a splendid strain which produces gigantic blossoms 
as large as Moon Flowers the first summer from seed. 
The variations and markings are very handsome and the 
vines grow rapidly and come into bloom early in the sea¬ 
son. The flowers are borne by the hundreds, are of mam¬ 
moth size from five to six inches across and of the most 
vivid and blending colors to be seen in any flower. The 
colors range through all shades of crimson, light and dark 
blue, pink, spotted, blotched, mottled and variegated, and 
marked in many odd ways, and while the flowers are 
borne in immense quantities, the leaves are richly marbled 
and variegated, making a very beautiful plant. The seed 
germinates quickly and we recommend that nothing can 
be more desirable than a trellis or hedge of these Giant 
Flowering Morning Glories and we have secured a selected 
strain direct from Japan, which we know will give great 
satisfaction. Many oi the plants will produce double flow¬ 
ers. This is by far the ricnest colored trailing plant ever 
produced. Be sure and grow it this season. Price of 
All Mixed Colors, per pkt., 5c., 3 pkts., 12c., 6 pkts., 
20c. 
