J. J. BUTZER, PORTLAND, OREGON 39 
BUTZER’S FLOWER SEEDS 
STANDARD VARIETIES, NOVELTIES and SPECIALTIES 
Plant flowers for your table, flowers for your home, and flowers for your friends. You can never have toe 
many flowers. An abundance of pretty bouquets can be had with so little work and so little expense that every 
home should have the cheering influence of flowers. The culture of many is so very simple that anyone can 
succeed. Flowers are divided into three classes: Annuals, which produce flowers, mature and die in one season. 
Biennials, which grow from seed one year and bloom and die the second year. Many of these will produce flowers 
the first year if sown early enough. Perennials, which live for several years, producing flowers annually after 
the first season. These are grown from seed and also by setting out cuttings, slips, or divisions of roots. Peren¬ 
nials are very satisfactory, as they live for many years and produce large quantities of very beautiful flowers. 
ABRONIA AGERATUM 
Umbel lata Grandiflora (Sand Verbena)—6 in. A 
charming trailing succulent plant, with Verbena-like 
heads of fragrant flowers, of bright rose with white 
center; it delights in a dry, poor soil and sunny sit¬ 
uations on rock-work. Per pkt. 10c. 
ABRUS 
Precatorius (Crab’s Eye Vine or Weather Plant) — 
This beautiful plant has created a great sensation. If 
the leaves stand upward the sky will be cloudless; if 
they stand out straight, changeable weather is indi¬ 
cated ; when the leaves hang straight downward, water 
may be expected to fall in torrents. A local storm is 
indicated by the curling together of the leaves. Bears 
clusters of bright yellow flowers, followed by pods with 
brilliant red seeds used for making beads, etc. Seeds 
should be soaked in luke-warm water before planting. 
Per pkt. 10c i 
ABUTILON 
Royal Prize (Flowering Maple or Chinese Bell 
Flower)—3 to 4 ft. Per pkt. 15c. 
*ACHILLEA (Milfoil. Yarrow) 
Achilleas are of easy culture and grow in any good 
garden soil. They are useful for the border, wild gar¬ 
den or shrubbery; also for cutting. 
Kelwayi—Dark blood-red. Pkt. 25c. 
The Pearl—2 ft. June to August. Pure white, fine 
for cutting; blooms all summer. Per pkt. 15c. 
*ACONITUM (Monkshood) 
Do not plant near vegetable gardens. Roots are 
poisonous. Bold spikes of hood-shaped flowers, val¬ 
uable for cutting; very effective in flower borders and 
shrubberies, thriving anywhere. 
Napellus—2% ft. August. Fine rich blue flowers. 
Per pkt. 10c 
ACROCLINIUM (Everlasting) 
Roseum—2 ft. A pretty everlasting, bearing grace¬ 
ful, daisy-like flowers, pretty bright rose with yellow 
center which, when cut in the bud state can be dried 
and used for winter bouquets. Per pkt. 5c. 
Roseum Flore Alba—Graceful, white, daisy-like 
flowers with yellow center. Per pkt. 5c. 
Roseum Flore Pleno—Double pink. Per pkt. 10c. 
Roseum Flore Alba Pleno—Double white. Per pkt. 10c 
Roseum Single Mixed—Per pkt. 5c; % oz. 25c. 
Roseum Double Mixed—Per pkt. 10c; % oz. 30c. 
Double Hybrids—See Page 1. 
*ADLUMIA (Allegheny Vine) 
Cirrhosa—15 ft. The feathery foliage is like the 
Maidenhair Fern. Delicate rose pink and white flowers 
cover the plant. Per pkt. 10c. 
*ADONIS 
Vemalis—18 in. May. Large star-shaped yellow 
flowers. Per pkt. 10c. 
AFRICAN ORANGE DAISY 
See Dimorphoteca 
AFRICAN BLUE-EYED DAISY 
See Arctotis Grandis 
AGAPANTHUS 
Umbellatus (Blue Lily of the Nile)—1 ft. Bright 
blue flowers produced in clusters on long stems. Does 
well out of doors in all Southern States. Greenhouse 
plant in the North. Pkt. 15c. 
*AGATHEA 
Coelestis (Blue Dpisy)—Flowers sky blue with yellow 
disk; easy growth. Per pkt. 10c. 
AGERATUM 
One of the best of summer flowering plants grown 
from seed. The plants start readily, grow rapidly and 
soon come into bloom, and when they begin to bloom 
the}’ flower uninterruptedly throughout the season. 
During the hot, dry summer months there are no 
brighter or more freely produced flowers. 
Album—White. Pkt. 5c. 
Blue Perfection—This is the darkest colored of all 
large flowering Ageratums. 9 inches. Pkt. 5c 
Dwarf Blue—6 in. A charming variety of compact 
growth, covered with heads of feathery flowers of a 
deep lavender color. Pkt. 5c. 
Little Dorrit Blue—One of the best dwarf blue 
ageratums. Pkt. 5 c. 
Finest Mixed—All colors. Pkt. 5c. 
AGERATUM, 
BLUE CAP (New) 
Surpasses Little Dor¬ 
rit in dwarfness, 
compactness, and in 
the size of the indi¬ 
vidual flowers ; it also 
has a deeper and 
richer color. The 
ideal variety for low 
edging of flower 
borders. Pkt. 15c. 
Little Silver Star—Is distinguished for its compact, 
close habit. The even, round, cushion-shaped plants 
which are only 4 to 5 inches high, measure from 8 to 
10 inches across. When flowering they are so thickly 
covered with silver grey star-like flowers that the 
small light green leaves are practically hidden. The 
seedlings come as true as can be expected from 
Ageratum. Pkt. 15c. 
*AGROSTEMMA (Coronaria) 
Rose Campion—One of the most attractive of the 
hardy perennials. Blooms the first season from seed, 
producing pretty pink-like blossoms on long slender 
stems. Fine for both mass planting and for bouquets. 
Height about 18 inches. Perennial. Per pkt. 10c. 
AGROSTIS 
Nebulosa (Cloud Grass)—1*4 ft. An airy and grace¬ 
ful annual grass; looks like a line of mist when in 
bloom. Beautiful to mix with cut flowers. Pkt. 10c. 
*ALSTROEMERIA 
Aurantiaca—Belongs to the Amaryllis family, quite 
hardy, flowers orange color streaked with red. A well 
established plant will produce five to six flower stalks 
carrying ten to fifteen blooms. Pkt. 25c. 
ALONSOA 
Warscewiczi—15 in. A fine plant with bright ver¬ 
milion-scarlet flowers, suitable for bedding. For a 
red, white and blue border plant Alonsoa for red. 
Sweet Alyssum for white and Ageratum Blue Per¬ 
fection for blue. % oz. 15c. Pkt. 10c. 
ALYSSUM 
A well-known 
favorite, hardy 
annual, blooming 
profusely the entire 
season. Excellent 
for edging. No 
other white flower 
is so well adapted 
for a dense, low 
carpet, or as borders 
and ribbons in garden work. Extremely fragrant and 
frequently used for bouquets. 
Sweet (Maritimum)—This very hardy annual for 
borders, edging or massing in small beds, comes into 
bloom early in the spring, covering itself with clusters 
or trusses of small, pure white cruciform flowers. 
They have a peculiar, delicate fragrance and are useful 
in small bouquets. Usually not over eight inches high 
but spreading. Pkt. 5c; oz. 25c. 
Lilac Queen—Beautiful soft lilac flowers, changing 
to white. Per pkt. 10c; oz. 75c. 
Little Gem—Very dwarf—4 inches—and spreading. 
They quickly become one mass of white fragrant 
flowers, remaining in full bloom from spring to fall. 
Per pkt. 10c; Vz oz. 20c; oz. 30c 
Lutescens—Yellowish flowers, 6 inches. Per pkt. 10c 
Procumbens—(Carpet of Snow)—A new and very 
select strain, carefully selected. Plants very spreading 
and only about 3 inches tall. Blooms are massed, com¬ 
pletely hiding all foliage. Pkt. 10c. 
