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: FRANK FINCH’S 
GEM COLLECTION 
OF BEAUTIFUL 
FLOWERS 
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The following list of Flowers are of a choice kind, and for a constant display of beautiful colors, lasting 
through the season, they are well calculated to please those who are fortunate enough to obtain them. I offer 
them FREE on certain conditions, and to those who wish to buy them outright I will send the whole collec¬ 
tion ot nine varieties by mail, postpaid, for only forty cents. 
Anv person sending me an order for garden seeds to amount of one dollar or over, can have this collection 
by enclosing ten cents extra. 
STOCK, TEN-WEEKS. 
DOUBLE PORTULACA. 
The Stocks, with 
their great variety of 
fine colors and large, 
beautiful, double 
flowers, are really 
one of the most pop¬ 
ular, beautiful, and 
important of our 
garden favorites, and 
whether for bedding, 
massing, edging, rib¬ 
boning, or pot cul¬ 
ture, are unsurpassed 
either for brilliancy 
and diversity of 
color, or profusion 
and duration of 
bloom. The Stocks 
are greatly prized for 
cut flowers, on ac¬ 
count of their frag¬ 
rance and variety of 
colors. Packet, 10 cents, or given Free on a 30-cent 
order. 
For brilliant, beautiful, and delicate colors, this 
charming genus stands unrivalled, and whether in 
baskets, small beds, edgings, or rockwork, its large, 
splendid flowers, produced in the greatest profusion, 
are extremely effective; succeeds lx;st in light, grav¬ 
elly soils, or mixed with lime rubbish; half-hardy 
annuals. 
Double Rose-flowered. — A perfectly double 
variety, as much so as the most perfect Rose, and of 
many brilliant colors, as well as striped. First 
quality, mixed colors, Packet, 10 cents, or given 
Free on a 30-cent order. 
CARMINE 
CANDYTUFT. 
The Candytufts have long been 
among the most highly prized of 
garden flowers, and cultivation has 
done much in producing improved 
varieties. The best effect is pro¬ 
duced by raising the plants in 
masses, and the seeds should be 
sown where the plants are to bloom. 
The Carmine is one of the most 
beautiful. Packet, 10 cents, or 
given Free on a 30-cent order. 
DIANTHUS. 
These flowers are deservedly very 
popular, as few flowers cau equal 
them in beauty and profusion of 
bloom. They bloom coutinually all 
summer and fall, until severe frost. 
The seeds I offer will produce very 
large, double flowers, magnificent 
in color and variety. Packet, 10 
cents, or given (Free on u 80-cent 
order. 
CAMELLIA-FLOWERED BALSAM. 
The Balsam is one of the finest of garden 
flowers, producing gorgeous masses of beautiful, 
brilliant-colored flowers in the greatest profusion. 
The soil in which they are grown should be of 
the richest possible character. The seed which I 
offer is a mixture of the very finest colors—White, 
Crimson, Spotted, Pink, Lavender, Red, Lilac, 
Purple, Scarlet, Lemon, etc., and cannot fail to 
please every lover of fine flowers. Packet, 10 
cents, or given Free on a 30-cent order. 
QODETIA. 
Very free-flowering, hardy an¬ 
nuals, growing twelve inches in 
height. Sow seed thinly in shallow 
drills early in the spring, and when 
plants are well started thin out to 
stand twelve inches apart each 
way. The flowers are cup-shaped, 
and of very delicate, silvery tex¬ 
ture and brilliantcoloring. Packet, 
10 cents, or given Free on a 80- 
cent order. 
DOUBLE DAHLIA. 
Every one knows and admires 
the Double Dahlia, but compara¬ 
tively few are aware that it can bo 
grown so easily from seed, and 
flowers so beautifully the first sea¬ 
son that the purchase of bulbs is a 
needless expense. Plants raised 
from seed will give a wide range 
of beautiful colorings, and nearly 
all the plants will produce fine 
Double Flowers. Packet, 10 cents, 
or given Free on a 30-cent order. 
ASTER 
Paeony-flowered Perfection. 
MAMMOTH VERBENA. 
This has become one of the 
most popular, beautiful, and 
effective garden plants, grow¬ 
ing from ten to twenty-four 
inches high. For profusion of 
flowers and richness of display 
the Asters are unrivaled and 
constitute the principal adorn¬ 
ment of our gardens during 
the autumn. Sow the seed 
early in the spring, under glass 
or in pots in the house, and 
transplant into rich soil about 
one foot apart, according to 
height of plants. Splendid for 
bedding border and pot cul¬ 
ture. One of the leading cut 
flowers of the day, because 
very profitable. Packet, 10 
cents, or given Free on a 30- 
cent order. 
Unrivalled in the splendor of its dazzling brilliancy, 
the Verbena is the most effective bedding plant in 
cultivation. The beautiful strain which I offer is 
nearly twice the size of the ordinary sorts, of very 
brilliant colors and large, distinct eyes. Packet, 10 
cents, or given Free on a 30-cent order. 
Any person sending me an order for garden seeds amounting to thirty cents, may select Free a packet of 
any of above flower seeds, and if their order amounts to fifty cents they may select two packets. On an order 
of seventy-five cents, three packets Free. A dollar order entitles the sender to select Free any five packets 
of above seeds. Remember, you cannot select a premium on potatoes ; only on garden and flower see* - 
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