The Finest Pansies Cult. 5 
After careful comparison of the seed strains from 
all available sources, we highly recommend these 
as the best to grow. 
America. This is an extra-early flowering mixture 
of the lighter, brighter colors. The plants are 
compact and stocky, carrying the very large flowers well. 
The unusual color array is outstanding. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Forbes Big Beauties. These are gigantic blooms, the largest of 
all, on strong, stocky, compact plants of exceptional vigor. 
A wonderful array of color combinations—bronze, silver, 
gold and copper; wine-red, pink, salmon, silver-grey, 
brown—beautifully blotched, mottled, and bordered—in 
these colors so unusual in Pansies. The flowers, often 4 
inches across, are perfectly formed and held above the 
plants on very long, stout stems. Pkt. 35 cts.; i^oz. 75 cts. 
Masterpiece. (Frilled.) Elegantly frilled and curled, and rich 
in mauve, red, and velvety brown. Pkt. 20 cts.; raoz. 50 cts. 
Swiss Alpenglow. This new giant-flowered variety has rich 
garnet-red tones with handsome markings. The velvety 
texture of the petals greatly enhances the beauty of this 
marvelous variety. Pkt. 35 cts.; rsoz- 75 cts. 
Swiss Berna. Huge blooms of rich velvety purple on long 
stems above the strong foliage. Pkt. 35 cts.; rsoz. 75 cts. 
Swiss Blue Ullswater. A very outstanding deep Wedgwood 
blue with blue-black center. The huge flowers, on long 
stems, are truly magnificent. Pkt. 35 cts.; rgoz. 75 cts. 
Swiss Golden Blotched (Rheingold). A very bright variety of 
extreme size. The color is deep golden yellow, with black 
blotches on the lower petals. Pkt. 35 cts.; reOz. 75 cts. 
Pentstemon Culture 2 
Border plants which grow continuously and produce an 
abundance of brilliant flowers, somewhat like the foxglove, 
but with white throats. Sow seeds outdoors after April 15. 
Sensation. Every branch bears a spike of large, gloxinia-like 
flowers in rose, red, cherry, pink, lilac, purple, etc. Not quite 
hardy. Treat like verbenas. Ht. 2 ft. Pkt. 15 cts.; ^oz. 50c. 
Sensation Pentstemon 
Pansies may be sown in 
August or September and the 
plants set in a coldframe or 
wintered over in the open 
ground with hay protection 
or by hilling. They will 
bloom very early in the 
spring. If old plants are 
moved to the frame in au¬ 
tumn, an abundance of 
lovely flowers may be cut on 
sunny days in midwinter. 
Forbes Big 
Beauty Pansies 
A Petunia of a New Race 
Martha Washington. A new, dwarf, compact Petunia 
form, with ball-shaped plants, 9 inches high, literally 
covered with lovely frilled blooms, 3 inches across. The 
frilled portion of the flower is beautiful blush-pink and 
the center portion is strongly veined a rich wine-red, 
deepening in the large throat to dark violet. It comes 
100 per cent true to color and habit, and is ideal for low 
borders, bedding, pots, or window-boxes. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Annual Flower Seeds 
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