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ALNEER BROTHERS RELIABLE SEEDS, ROCKFORD, ILL 
Chinese Woolflower 
Chrysanthemums 
Centaurea 
Showy, hardy plants, many having beautiful 
silver foliage, good for ribbon bordering. Sow 
early in house and transplant out doors in May. 
Half hardy annuals. 
Imperial!* Mixed , A c “ nte ?“S w , 
called Sweet Sultan. The flowers are finely 
laciniated and are about the size of a carna¬ 
tion. They have long stems and keep well after 
cutting. Colors range through white, rose, 
lilac, purple and yellow. Hardy annuals; about 
eighteen inches high. Pkt. 5c. 
Cyanus (Bachelor’s Button) Mixed. 
oz. 30c. 
Silver White, deep cut 
foliage, fine for bedding. 
Pkt. 10c. 
Silver foliage variety, fine 
for beddine. Pkt. 10c. 
Candidissima 
Gymnocarpa 
Cosmos—New Mammoth 
Cosmos 
Plants four to six feet high, literally covered in autumn 
with large single flowers. Colors range through shades 
of rose, purple, flesh and white. 
Mammoth Hybridus Pkt * 5c ’ 
Early Dwarf Mixed. Pkt. 5c, y* oz. 20 c. 
These grow to a 
height of about 
three feet, forming a perfect bush, massed with bloom, 
bearing beautiful double flowers of good size, on long 
stems. They come about 65 per cent double from 
seed. Pkt. 10c, Va oz. 50c. 
Cyclamen 
One of the choicest of all the green house or window 
plants. Root bulbous in shape; foliage rich and beauti¬ 
ful; flowers bird-like and fragrant. Colors, white, pink, 
crimson, etc. Should be sown in light soil, containing 
leaf mold. 
Double Cosmos 
Cyclamen-Persicum 
Choice mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
Chinese Woolflower 
(Celosia Childsii) The flowers 
are ball-shaped and resemble a 
ball of wool. The plants will 
average 2 feet in height. They 
branch freely, and by midsum¬ 
mer are simply covered with 
blooms. It keeps blooming all 
during the fall and retains its 
full beauty and color until se¬ 
vere frost destroys it. Sow out¬ 
doors right in the border the 
latter part of April. Mixed. 
Pkt. 10c. 
Cl&rkia. An f avor * te plant, with pretty looking flowers, 
grows very freely. Sow seeds early in spring in 
open ground. Hardy annuals. Mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
A fine and profuse flowering 
plant, producing scarlet and 
yellow tassel shaped flowers, treat as asters. Hardy annuals. 
Mixed Pkt. 5c. 
Cyclamen 
Cacalia (Tassel Flower) 
CELOSIA 
Montana. 
I been getting your seeds for 35 years, and 
find them most reliable of any seed I ever put 
in. 
Mary Banska. 
(Cockscomb.) 
Celosia (Pride of Castle 
Gould) 
This new ostrich plume 
celosia is an entirely 
distinct type. The plant grows 
pyramidal and compact about 2 % 
feet high, with immense, extra fine 
feathered heads, giving the plant 
a most striking appearance. Can 
be grown in the open ground or as 
a pot plant. Its quick growing 
habit and bright and intense colors 
of plumes, with beautiful foliage 
are greatly admired by all where 
ever shown. Pkt. 10c. 
Celosia Cristata (Cocks- 
cOPlbl Magnificent free flovver- 
' ing, graceful growing 
plants, very showy and fine. Sow 
seed in house in April; transplant 
outdoors in May in a sunny place. 
Half hardy annuals. Finest mixed. 
Pkt. 5c, Yz oz. 35c. 
Chrysanthemum Mixed 
Annual Varieties Mixed 
The colors have the appearance of be¬ 
ing laid on with a brush; for this 
reason they are sometimes called 
“Painted Daisies.” Mixed annual va¬ 
rieties, easily grown. Pkt. 5c, oz. 30c. 
Golden Feather ' rhe bea " tilul 
large, daisy¬ 
like flowers are from 2 Ys to 3 inches 
across. The dark velvety disk in the 
center is surrounded by a circle of 
bright, golden-yellow, followed by an¬ 
other clear cut circle of rich crimson. 
Pkt. 5c. 
Clematis 
Jackmani ▼«', 
white, purple, etc. The popular hardy 
climber, an old favorite. Pkt. 10c. 
Paniculata Gro . ws , easily from 
seed; glossy, green 
leaves, never troubled by insects; 
bears a dense mass of blossoms, 
thrives in sunshine or shade. Small 
star-like white, fragrant flowers; 
grows to a height of 20 to 30 feet. 
Pkt. 5c. 
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