CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS 
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FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES 
It is our practice each season to test on our “ Floracroft ” Trial Grounds all Plural Novelties, and in tills 
way we become, by personal positive knowledge, acquainted witb all the best that, is ottered both in this 
country and abroad. Ot many of the finer sorts, we grow our full stock of seed on our own ground, thus 
being enabled to know that the type is kept pure and true. 
HERCULES WHITE ASTER 
No. Ill7- This new aster has a most imposing aspect. The 
plants throw up strongstems In to ‘20 in dies high, which branch 
about -t inches from the ground, bearing at their summit 
many central flowers, while on the side shoots appear *1 to 0 
secondary blooms. The flowers are of the purest white, with 
very long petals, and attain the enormous diameter of G to 7 
inches, and can lie compared to the large exhibition flowers 
of tlie Giant Chrysanthemum. It is excellent either for out 
flowers or for planting in borders in the open ground. 
Price, pkt . 20 c. each; 3 pkts , 50c. 
UIANT1IIIH SNOWDRIFT. 
DIANTHUS LACINIATUS PARAGON 
No. 1071. Home years ngo we Introduced and arostill sell¬ 
ing Diaiithus liUcinialtiH New Hybrids. This sort that wo are 
now introducing, Paragon, i* selected from these New 
Hybrids, and has been brought to very great perfection. 
Its color is of a delicate deep claret, which shows a wonder¬ 
fully beautiful effect, either in the individual flower or when 
massed together either iih cut flowers or when planted out¬ 
door* in groups or borders. It is highly recommended, and 
we offer it with every confidence that it will please everyone 
who tries it. Price, pkt., 15c.; 1 pkts., 50c. 
DIANTHUS SNOWDRIFT 
No. 1070. This is one of the most beautiful Double Dinn- 
thus ever introduced. The plant is very robust, branching 
freely, growing about afoot high, and throwing up a quantity 
of most exquisitely beautiful flowers !> to 1 inches across, 
perfectly double ami with the finest fringed petals of the 
purest while. The efleet in single plants is very pleasing, 
but in massing them it is very showy indeed. Price, pkt., 
‘20c. each ; 3 pkts., 50c. 
GIANT SHASTA DAISY 
No. 1025. The Simula Daisy is one of the most marvel¬ 
ous productions in the flower line that has ever been 
brought to the notice of floriculturist*, it is the first of a 
new type, which lias been obtained by first combining the 
free-flowering American species with the large but coarse 
European specie* and the Japanese species, Nipponicum, 
after which rigid selection through a series of veins has 
produced the present wonderfully beautiful mid useful 
strain. Its first qualification in hardiness; it can be grown 
out of doors by anybody, where it is not cold enough to 
kill oak trees. It is perennial, blooming better and more 
abundant)v each season. It can be multiplied ranidly l>v 
simp e division, and it is not particular as to soil, and it 
blooms for several months. The flowers are extremely 
large and graceful, averaging about \ to 5 inches in diame¬ 
ter. Pkt., 15<\; \ pkts., 50c. 
DIANTHUS LACINIATUS PAKAGON. 
