FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES. 
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COSMOS.- Commut'd 
—Giants, Red, Pink, White. The flowers are of perfect form and immense size. Separate colors or mixed. 
Pkt., 5 cts. . . . 4 . 
—Camelliaflora, Red, Pink, White. Separate or mixed, splendid varieties with very large overlapping ] etals 
somewhat like single Camellias, but larger. Pkt., 5 cts. , 
—Tints of Dawn. New and distinct varieties. The flowers have a white ground, finely flaked or flushed with 
delicate pink ; they are variously formed and very beautiful. Pkt., 5 cts. 
_ Fringed. White and Pink. Separate or mixed. Most exquisite and perfect flowers, with petals overlapping or 
pleated. Pkt., 5 cts. 
_ New Marguerite. Distinct and beautiful; the petals are deeply and irregularly laciniated and fringed, rkt., 5 cts 
_ New Early Blooming. Much earlier than the old sorts. These embrace a great variety of forms and shades of 
color. Mixed. Pkt., 5 cts. .. u .. 
_ Golden Yellow. Perfectly distinct in habit ; the plants being of branching growth and furnished from the bottom 
up with finely cut, glossy, green foliage. Pkt., 5 cts. 
CENTAUREA. Chameleon. Similar in habit and attractiveness to the Margaret Centaurea , introduced three 
years ago. The flowers are pale sulphur-yellow- with a purple shading. Pkt., 10 cts. 
DIANTHUS. Laciniatus Nanus. New Hybrids. This novelty differs from the well-known D. Lactntatus 
by its lower growth and is somewhat smaller, less fringed but much finer colored flowers. V arying in all shades 
from white to deep rose and even to purplish-red, all are fringed more 
or less with bright salmon red or salmony scarlet and are distin¬ 
guished by a dark ring around the centre. Pkt., 10 cts. 
DATURA. Golden Queen. This variety has all the fine qualities of 
the popular D. Cornucopia , but, on account of its brilliant yellow 
flowers, it is a more showy and effective plant. Pkt., 10 cts. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA. New Giant Hunnemania. A lovely new plant 
with the beautiful foliage of the Eschscholtzia enlarged, that de¬ 
velops into an herbaceous shrub, 2'/ z feet high, adorned with large 
jonquil-yellow flowers on stems twelve inches long. These blossoms 
are cup-shaped, with broad overlapping crinkled petals. Pkt., 10 cts. 
THREE DESIRABLE CLIMBERS. All easily grown and attrac¬ 
tive, two of them useful. 
_ Wild Cucumber. A very ornamental climber. Soak the seed in 
warm water over night and plant eye down, or if planted in the fall 
they are sure to germinate in spring. Pkt., 5 cts. 
—Dish Cloth Gourd. When ripe the inside resembles fibrous cloth 
and is useful for bathing, scouring, etc. Pkt., 5 cts. 
—Egg Formed Gourd. The true nest egg gourd. Pkt., 5 cts. 
GLOXINIA. 
Nest Egg Gourd 
Gloxinia Hybrids Grandiflora, Goliath 
... Hybrida Grandiflora. Cyclops. An 
erect flowering variety, corolla brilliant velvety car¬ 
mine, changing to a lighter shade towards the broad, 
white edge, the throat finely spotted with dark red. 
Pkt., 40 cts. 
—Goliath. An erect flowering variety, corolla velvety 
purple-violet, passing into azure-blue towards the 
margin, throat beautifully spotted. Pkt., 40 cts. 
— Aigburth Crimson. This is the finest high-colored 
sort ever sent out. As its name indicates, it is a 
vivid crimson self. The flow-ers are erect, of the 
finest form, substance, great size, and abundantly 
produced. Pkt., 25 cts. 
—Grandiflora Princess Maud. A grand addition. Its 
throat is a light shining crimson red, shading to the 
top a rich dark carmine, followed by a beautiful 
edging of pure violet, while a broad band of white 
spotted violet surrounds the whole of this fine 
waved bloom. Pkt., 25 cts. 
—Giant Hybrids. The seed we offer is the product of 
one of the finest assortments, and may be depended 
upon to reproduce itself quite true. It is saved only 
from strikingly beautiful flowers which measure \ x / z 
to 5 inches across, the colors of which are rich and 
varied in the extreme. Pkt., 40 cts. 
GODETIA. Gloriosa. Very showy new variety of the 
same habit and dwarf compact growth as the Lady 
Albemarle Comp act a, large, satiny, brilliant, deep 
blood-red flowers. Pkt., 10 cts. 
—Yellow Queen. A new variety of the large-flower¬ 
ing class of Godetias, with pale yellow flowers. 
Pkt., 10 cts. 
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HELIANTHUS. (Sunflower). Annuus Foliis Aureis Variegatis. Golden variegated annual Sunflower, height 
about six feet, effective as single specimens, the leaves being striped and blotched in a remarkable way. Pkt., I sets. 
—(Sunflower). Golden Bouquet. Varieties hitherto introduced are late blooming 1 his sort if sown in May 
where intended to flower, will begin blooming in July and continue to produce new flowers until well into> the» fall. 
Of bushy pyramidal form, three feet high. Flowers about three inches in diameter and bright golden 
yellow. Pkt., 15 cts. , , . * 
} See Special Offers on third page of cover. 
