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Rockford Seed Farms—H. W. BUCKBEE, ROCKFORD, ILL.—Forest City Greenhouses 
Annual and Perennial FLOWER SEEDS 
Coleus 
Cyclamen 
The Beautiful Persian Violet 
Buckbee’s Mixture of Cyclamen Con¬ 
tains Many Wonderful Colors 
Charming _ plants, with beautiful 
foliage and richly colored fragrant flow¬ 
ers. Universal favorites for Winter 
and Spring blooming. Seed may be 
sown at any time during the Spring 
or Autumn. Cyclamen seed is very 
slow to germinate. 
BUCKBEE’S LARGE FLOWERED 
MIXED GIGANTEUM. Pkt. 15c. 
PERSICUM—Splendid mixed. Pkt. 15c. 
Cynoglossum 
The Wonderful New Chinese Forget- 
Me-Not 
AZURE BLUE—A rare gem for your 
garden. Forms perfect bushes 18 
inches high and is just one mass of 
lovely brilliant blue forget-me-not¬ 
like flowers from May until frost. 
You can cut with 18-inch stems. No 
other annual will bloom as quickly 
from seed. Your garden will not be 
complete without this wonderful 
flower. Pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 25c. 
BUCKBEE’S NEW PINK—A counter¬ 
part of the Blue except in color. This 
is a real novelty. Pkt. 10c; t/s oz. 
25c. 
Cypress Vine 
A most beautiful climber with deli¬ 
cate dark green feathery foliage, and 
an abundance of bright, star-shaped 
rose, scarlet, and white blossoms. Ten¬ 
der annual. All colors, mixed. Pkt. 
5c; V4 oz. 15c. 
Dahlias from Seed 
Butterfly Cyclamen 
Beautifully Fringed Flowers in Many 
Colors. Dainty and Attractive 
Pot Plant 
Here is a plant which always sur¬ 
prises by its rare grace and beauty. In 
this type the edges of the flowers are 
beautifully fringed and waved, and the 
flowers themselves show softer shades 
and tints than is usual in a Cyclamen. 
In common with other Cyclamens, the 
Butterfly make charming house plants 
with beautiful foliage, and are espe¬ 
cially.in favor during the colder months 
of winter. In saving the seed, our 
grower has been especially careful to 
select the finest plants and best colors 
only and we believe and recommend our 
New Butterfly Cyclamen seed to be the 
finest that can be had anywhere. Pkt. 
20 c. 
Coleus Hybridus 
One of the best known and most uni¬ 
versally admired ornamental foliage 
plants, in an endless variety of colors 
and shadings, indispensable for ribbon 
and carpet bedding, or as single speci¬ 
mens. Coleus seed germinate easily. 
The leaves are handsomely crimped, 
toothed and frilled and color combina¬ 
tions remarkably rich, comprising all 
the reds, metallic greens and yellow, 
in shades from the most delicate to 
nearly black. 
EXTRA FINE MIXED HYBRIDS— 
Finest and showiest varieties. Pkt. 
12 c. 
FINE MIXED—Pkt. 10c. 
Datura 
CORNUCOPIA (Horn of Plenty)—Very 
hardy and beautiful. Flowers are 
trumpet-shaped, measuring 8 to 10 
inches in length and 5 to 7 inches 
across the mouth and form three 
distinct flowers, growing each within 
the other. Very fragrant. Pkt. 8c; 
Vi oz. 20c. 
Columbian Climber 
Remarkably Beautiful. Quick Growing. 
Free Blooming Annual Climber 
The most superb of all Annual 
Climbers. It is a splendid, rapid grower, 
of easy culture, always a dense mass 
of a rich exquisite green, showing no 
open spaces. Accompanying the lux¬ 
urious foliage are large purple flowers 
of marvelous beauty. There are .so 
few climbers that can be grown easily 
from seed and so few blue flowers of 
any kind that our Columbian Climber 
is especially desirable for use in all 
gardens. It is rarely troubled by in¬ 
sects and heat and drought do not seem 
to affect it in the least. Pkt. 12c; Vs 
oz. 30c. 
Dahlias 
Buckbee’s Double Largest Flowering 
Mixed 
Enormous Flowers of Dazzling Colors. 
An Incomparable Blending of the 
World’s Finest Dahlias 
The world’s people are fast learning 
that Dahlias may be grown from seed 
and bloom the first year. The finest 
flowers are grown in this manner, and 
new colors and styles continually being 
found. Our seed is secured from the 
world’s finest collections, as we have 
made arrangements to gather seed from 
many privately owned gardens, as well 
as from our own unequalled varieties. 
You will find our Double Largest Flow¬ 
ering Mixed Dahlias to be unequalled 
in size, quality and colors. 
DOUBLE LARGEST FLOWERING 
MIXED—Pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 50c. 
DOUBLE CACTUS FLOWERING 
MIXED—Very beautiful and easily 
grown. They are unequalled for rich 
and varied colors and perfection of 
form. Pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 50c. 
DOUBLE FINE MIXED—A satisfactory 
mixture, and a goodly proportion of 
the flowers will be double. Pkt. 10c; 
Vs oz. 35c. 
SINGLE NOVELTY MIXED—Brilliant 
flowers running through a wide range 
of striking colors. Pkt. 8c; Vs oz. 
20c. 
STAR FISH—A true Orchid Flowered 
Dahlia with petals twisted into such 
a shape as to resemble a Star Fish. 
There are usually two colors on each 
flower. Pkt. 10c. 
Beautiful 
Cosmos 
Magnificent, Free 
Blooming, Easily 
Grown Annual. 
Very Desirable 
for Late Summer 
and Fall Effects 
Cosmos Orange Flare 
Klondyke Orange Flare Gold Medal Winner in 1935 
A striking new color in Cosmos. Bright vivid orange, very 
free flowering, with a sparse growth of light -green foliage. 
The plants are in constant bloom and are a mass of gay color. 
You’ll enjoy this remarkable sensation in your garden. Price 
15c per packet; two pkt. 25c. 
NEW DOUBLE ANEMONE FLOWERED—The flowers vary 
considerably in their degree of doubleness, some are abso¬ 
lutely double, others have a frill or collar surrounding the 
double disc, and others again are single, but all are very 
large and beautiful and are produced in great profusion in 
Fall. Mixed Colors. Pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 35c. 
GIANT OF CALIFORNIA—This strain is noted both for 
beauty and the gigantic size of its flowers, which measure 
4 to 5 inches across. The colors are very varied and beau¬ 
tiful. Choicest Mixed. Pkt. 8c; V4 oz. 20c. 
NEW EARLY FLOWERING—Grace, daintiness and brilliancy 
are the characteristics of this pretty flower, with its yellow 
heart, encircled with broad, daisy-like petals, carried on 
long slender stems, rising from a cloud of feathery foliage. 
Blooms from July to November. Superb Mixed. Pkt. 10c; 
Vi oz. 25c. 
GOLDEN YELLOW—Gorgeous golden yellow flowers on long 
stems, and measure from 2 V 2 to 3 V 2 inches across. Later 
than the above varieties, so seed should be planted early in 
a warm sunny place. Foliage graceful and attractive, mak¬ 
ing this one of the most desirable of the Cosmos. Pkt. 8c; 
Vi oz. 20c. 
^Columbine or Aquilegia 
PRIZE MIXTURE—One of the best of the early Summer 
perennials. Curious flowers, extremely graceful, and borne 
in great quantities high above tbe foliage, which itself is 
very beautiful and attractive. The plants are of strong, 
thrifty growth and perfectly hardy. The large flowers vary 
in color through charming tones of cream, pink, lavender, 
blue, white, red, etc., hardly any two being exactly alike. 
Extra fine for cutting. Double and single; all colors. Pkt. 
10 c; Vs oz. 20 c. 
BUCKBEE’S LONG SPURRED HYBRIDS—Columbines or 
Aquilegias are always beautiful, but in our Long Spurred 
Hybrids, you have a glittering display of highly colored, 
large, long spurred flowers that are absolutely unequalled. 
Plants grow two feet high and are perfectly hardy. Pkt. 
12 c; Vs oz. 50c. 
CHRYSANTHA—SILVER QUEEN—Another desirable, long 
spurred Columbine, with pure white flowers. Dainty and 
perfectly hardy, growing finer every year. Pkt. 10c; Vs 
oz. 40c. 
^Coreopsis 
LANCEOLATA GRANDIFLORA—One of the finest hardy 
perennials about 2 Y 2 feet high, blooms the first year from 
seed and produces on long stems rich bright yellow flowers, 
2 to 3 inches across. Pkt. 10c; Vi oz. 25c. 
NEW DOUBLE—Beautiful golden yellow color with an at¬ 
tractive double row of petals. Will bloom the first year 
from spring sown seed. Perennial 2 Y 2 feet high. Pkt. 
8 c; Ye oz. 25c. 
CALIFORNIA SUNBEAMS—The newest and best. All the 
shades of yellow and orange and many with distinct eye. 
Pkt. 7c; Vs oz. 25c. 
Our many years * experience assures you of the finest stocks obtainable and the best service. 
