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Breck’s Selected List of High Grade Flower Seeds 
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Our Complete List of Flower Seeds begins on page 105 
This special list embraces only sorts that are of the easiest cultivation, and particularly desirable for 
producing a quick and continued effect. A dollar’s worth of seeds selected from these varieties will, under 
reasonably favorable conditions, give a greater amount of bloom in varied form and color than could be had 
by planting ten dollars’ worth of plants from the greenhouse. Sow the seed freely. Their combined strength 
will break the crust on hard soils; and in the thinning which follows, only strong and promising plants are 
allowed to remain. Better effects are also often secured, when the flowers are in masses, especially if the 
flowers are thrown into the bays of heavy shrub borders. 
Plants continue to bloom for a longer period if they are not allowed to produce seed. The flowers 
should be picked, if possible, before they begin to fade. 
Joseph Brock 8c Sons :— 
I wish to say a few words regarding your seeds. Your seeds in general have never been excelled. 1 
have used seeds from leading seedsmen from Maine to California and from Maine to Florida. Your 
seeds are of strong germinating powers and true to name. They cannot be excelled. 
A. B. REED , 
Richmond , Me. 
Ageratumsm 
In many respects this is one of the most desirable summer flowering plants we have. It may be used 
alone for beds and borders, or planted in connection with geraniums, coleus, cannas, etc. The colors include 
many shades of blue as well as white, rose and a pale yellow. The plants grow well almost anywhere. If 
the seed is started in a box in the house, or in a hot-bed, in the beginning of April and transplanted to 
where they are intended to bloom about the end of May, an abundance of flowers will be produced until 
hard frost. Seed sown in August will produce plants for winter flowering. 
Oz. Pkt. 
75 Ada Bowman. Light Blue; fine for 
beds or edgings, 9 inches.SO.75 $0.05 
76 Blue Perfection. Light blue; fine 
for beds; very choice.30 .05 
77 Conspicum. White; a grand bed- 
der, 1 ft. 1.25 .05 
78 Dwarf Blue. Deep blue, 9 inches.. . .60 .05 
79 Dwarf White. Clear white, 9 
inches...60 .05 
80 Lasseauxi. Rose; lft. 1.00 .05 
Sweet Alyssum. 
Oz. 
81 Little Dorrit. Deep blue, 6 inches. . $0.75 
82 Little Dorrit. White, 6 inches.75 
83 MexicanumAlbum. White; lft.50 
84 Mexicanum. Lavender blue, 1 ft.. .40 
85 Mexicanum. Mixed ; 1 ft.40 
86 Nanum Luteum. Pale yellow, 9 
inches. 1.00 
87 — Princess Victoria Louise. White, 
azure blue stamens, 9 inches. . . .60 
88— Roseum. Rose, 9 inches. 1.00 
Pkt. 
$0.05 
.05 
.05 
.05 
.05 
.05 
.10 
.05 
Sweet Atyssum. 
The Sweet Alyssum is so well known 
and such a general favorite that it is 
scarcely necessary to call special attention 
to it here. It is of the easiest culture both 
indoors and out, and is suitable alike for 
beds and edging in summer or for growing 
in pots and boxes for winter blooming. It 
will stand considerable cold- in the open 
ground and may be sown early; it blooms 
throughout the entire season until de¬ 
stroyed by hard frost. For winter flower¬ 
ing sow the seed in August or September. 
115 Maritimum (Sweet Alys¬ 
sum) (hA). White, 
very fragrant, 9 in. : 
Little Dorrit. Very com¬ 
pact, fine for borders, 
6 inches. 
Compactum. White, erect 
growth, 6 inches. 
Little Gem. White, grand 
for edging, 6 inches... 
Procumbens (White Car¬ 
pet) . White, trailing 
habit, 6 inches.50 
Saxatile compactum (Gold 
Dust) (hP). A single 
plant in one year will 
produce hundreds of 
bright yel. flowers. 1 ft. 
116 
117 
118 
119 
120 
Oz. 
Pkt. 
50.30 $0.05 
.50 
.05 
.40 
.05 
.40 
.05 
.50 
.05 
.60 
.10 
See Special Offers on third page of cover. 
