VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS , ETC . 
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Pkt. Cts. 
ANTIRRHINUM. 
BARTONIA, 
A very showy half-hardy annual, with 
gray branches and thistle-like leaves. 
The seed should be sown where the 
plants are designed to bloom, as it will 
not bear transplanting; thin to six 
inches apart. [. Illustration .] 
Bartonia Aurea, flowers bright 
yellow; large and attractive. 5 
BARTONIA AUREA. 
Paeony-flowered Globe, flowers very large, early ; plant robust and branch¬ 
ing ; does not require tying ; mixed colors..10 
Boltze’s Dwarf Bouquet, extremely dwarf. Mixed colors.10 
Washington, one of the finest 
extant; flowers very large and 
fine; mixed colors. 10 
antirrhinum. 
(SNAP DRAGON.) 
Very showy and hardy peren¬ 
nials, of easy culture, flowering 
freely the first season from seed, 
and continuing in bloom until 
after hard 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.) 
Torn Thumb varieties. 
dwarf, finest mixed.5 
Extra Fine Majus, tall, 
finest mixed colors. 5 
SWEET ALYSSUM. 
ALYSSUM. 
Very free flowering, useful, pretty little 
plant, for beds, edgings, et;.; blooming the 
whole summer; also succeeds well in the 
greenhouse during winter; fine for bouquets. 
Seed may be sown 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 
