STUMPP &. WALTER CO.’S SELECTED SEEDS 
STOCKS 
These popular flowers are easily grown, are so highly fragrant, and of such great 
beauty that they deserve a place in every garden. 
The Early Giant Imperial class are half-hardy annuals. Beauty Stocks are bien¬ 
nials, but if sown in early spring will bloom the same year. They are also valuable for 
winter forcing. 
S. & W. Co.’s Early Giant Imperial 
These Stocks are of special merit. They bloom very quickly and continue through 
the summer. We offer a wide range of color, and in the shades selected the proportion 
of double flowers is very high. Plants are of branching habit, 2 to 2^ feet high. 
Antique Copper. Rich hellebore-red, overlaid with copper, giving a pleasing 
--- old reddish antique copper effect. The flowers are fully double. 
Buttercup. An improved new yellow Stock of a rich deep tone. It has a fine 
-- habit of growth, throwing long spikes closely set with large flowers. 
The percentage of doubles is exceptionally high. 
Elk’s Pride. An intense royal purple growing over 2 feet high. This stately 
- plant is a mass of large, sweetly perfumed, double flowers. 
Shasta. A new > glistening, giant white, with longer stems and more blooms to 
- the stem. Produces a high percentage of doubles. 
Any of above varieties, pkt. 35 cts., y 8 oz. $1, Vi° z - $1-50 
TEN OUTSTANDING VARIETIES 
Chamois>Hose Dark Blue Deep Hose White 
Golden Rose Lavender Old-Rose Mixed 
Apple Blossom Blood-Red Canary-Yellow 
Any of above varieties, pkt. 25 cts., y 8 oz. 75 cts., V^oz. $1.25 
Giant-Flowering Beauty Stocks 
A fine strain of early-flowering winter or Brompton Stocks, 2 feet high, and hav¬ 
ing numerous spikes of large, double, delightfully fragrant flowers; of special value 
as pot-plants and for cutting during the winter months; for this purpose seed should 
be sown from July to September; if sown in February or March, will produce plants that 
will bloom from midsummer to frost outdoors. 
Christmas Pink. A magnificent Stock, freely producing long trusses of double blooms 
of an exquisite light pink. From seed sown in midsummer, plants may be had in 
flower during winter in the greenhouse and conservatory. Pkt. 50 cts., 3 pkts. $1.25. 
TWELVE OUTSTANDING VARIETIES 
Almond Blossom. White, shaded carmine. 
American Beauty. Deep rose-pink. 
Aurora (Chamois). Cream, tinted pink. 
Beauty of Nice. Delicate pink. 
Crimson King. Rich blood-crimson. 
Lloyd George. Blood-red. 
Mont Blanc. Purest white. 
Monte Carlo. Canary-yellow. 
Old Rose. Beautiful shade of old rose 
Queen Alexandra. Beautiful lilac. 
Salmon King. Salmon-rose. 
Summer Night. Rich deep blue. 
Mixed. 
Vgoz. 60 cts., Vi°z. $1 
Any of above varieties, pkt. 25 cts.. 
Perfection Stocks, Mixed. Th f se are of pyramidal habit and grow 
_2 feet high. The assortment contains many 
hues and tints. Pkt. 15 cts., Vsoz. 40 cts., Vi oz - 75 cts. 
STREPTOCARPUS 
S. W. Co.’s New Hybrids. 
A new race of the Cape Primrose, resembling 
the gloxinia. Plants compact; flowers about 
2 inches in diameter, with long, tube-like corollas, borne in clusters of six to eight. 
Colors varied. LTsed for greenhouse decoration. Pkt. 50 cts. 
SWEET WILLIAM (.Dianthus barbatus) 
A well-known, attractive biennial which flowers the second season from seed. Sow 
outdoors in May, and transplant in August. 
Single White Single Finest Mixed Single Red, Edged 
Single Copper-Red Single Dark Crimson White 
Single Black-Red Each, pkt. 10 cts., V 4 OZ. 50 cts. 
COLLECTION: One pkt. each of 5 colors, 40 cts. 
Double White Double Black-Red Double Finest Mixed 
Double Crimson Double Pink Each, pkt. 15 cts., Vioz. 60 cts., oz. $2 
Pink Watermelon-pink, brilliant and beautiful. The flowers are on 
-- stems 18 inches high. Pkt. 15 cts., */\OZ. 50 cts., oz. $1.50. 
Scarlet Beauty. An intensely rich, deep scarlet, very vivid, and quite an improvement 
over other listed varieties of its color. Pkt. 15 cts., %oz. 50 cts., oz. $1.50. 
Holborn Glory. This strain is a large-flowered selection of the auricula-eyed section. 
Individual flowers and trusses are of extraordinary size, while the range of color, all 
showing a clear white eye, is truly superb. Pkt. 10 cts., J^oz. 30 cts., oz. $1. 
Annual Sweet Williams. Sown indoors during March, these will bloom freely the 
first year. 9 inches high. Mixed. Pkt. 15 cts., J^oz. 60 cts., oz. $2. 
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S. & W. Co.’s Giant Imperial Stocks 
STOKESIA 
Cornflower Aster 
Cyanea. This is not new, but is a rare and beauti¬ 
ful hardy perennial. The plant grows about 2 
feet high, bearing from twenty to thirty handsome 
lavender-blue cornflower-like blossoms which 
often measure 3 to 4 inches in diameter; in bloom 
from July till frost. One of the choicest subjects 
for the perennial border and indispensable for 
cutting. Perfectly hardy in the latitude of New 
York. Pkt. IS cts., Koz. $1. 
