VEGETABLE AXD FLOWER SEEDS, ETC. 
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AMARANTHUS. 
An ornamental foliated and much admired class of 
plants, useful as the background of a flower border or 
for making an ornamental hedge, or bed on the lawn. 
The seed may be sown in the open ground, or in a hot¬ 
bed, which is recommended, and transplant two feet 
apart the first of June. They are the most brilliant in a 
poor soil and dry season. Half-hardy annuals. 
Pkt. Cts. 
Tricolor, Splen(lens, foliage green, red and yel¬ 
low; 2 feet. 5 
Caudatus, (Love Lies Bleeding), red, very graceful; 
3 feet.5 
Cruentus, (Prince’s Feather), upright; 3 feet.5 
Henderi, drooping foliage, richly colored in many 
shades. 5 
amaranthus tricolor. Saliciiolius, or Fountain Plant, 4 to 6 feet in 
height, extremely graceful habit and rich colored foliage ; valuable as a pot 
plant.5 
Mixed Varieties.. ... 5 
ANTIRRHINUM. 
SWEET ALYSSUM. 
ANTIRRHINUM. 
(SNAP DRAGON.) 
Very showy and hardy perennials, of easy culture, flowering freely the first 
season from seed, and continuing in bloom until after bard frosts. Never allow 
seed pods to form on plants you desire to keep for flowering the second season. 
Sow either in hot-bed or garden early in spring ; transplant from eight to ten inches 
apart. Grows about 18 inches high. (Illustration.) 
Tom Thumb varieties, dwarf, finest mixed — 
Kxtra Fine Majus, tall, finest mixed colors.... 
ALYSSUM, 
Very free flowering, useful, pretty little plant, for beds, edgings, etc.; blooming 
the whole summer ; also succeeds well in the greenhouse during winter ; fine 
for bouquets. Seed may be sowm in the open ground early in spring or autumn ; 
thin to six inches. 
Sweet Alyssum, white, fragrant ; 1 foot.5 
Tom Thumb Sweet Alyssum, fine for edgings and low beds, flowering 
in the greatest profusion for months ; 6 inches.5 
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