FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES. 
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ANEMONE. Japonica Alba (Ilonorine Jobert). One of the most beautiful autumn-flowering, hardy 
perennials, with pure white flowers, excellent for grouping, and very fine as single specimens in the 
border. Seed should be started in March in light, rich soil, and transplanted as soon as the ground is 
open. Pkt., io cents. 
ANEMONE, Japonica Rosea. Very fine pink flowers. Pkt., to cents. Plants of either variety, 20 cents each ; 
$2.00 per dozen. 
BEGONIA ODORATA PIONIER. The 
'T »\y 
Begonia Odorata Pionier. 
habit of the plant shows it to be a 
combination of the good qualities of 
Begonia Baumannii and Begonia Gi- 
gantea. Grown in the open ground, 
the plants form nice round bushes 
about four inches in height, sur¬ 
mounted about eight inches by the 
straight, upright standing flower- 
stems. The thick, waxy leaves are 
dark green and round shanadT Pot- 
grown plants under gL^s become 
a little higher. Th<^^olor of the 
flowers is a very r^n rose-carmine, 
the blooms measure three to four 
inches in dian^ffer, and exhale the 
finest perfun^T closely resembling 
that of tea^oses. The flowers of 
open-air pyrits excel those of green¬ 
house plaits by more brilliancy of 
coloi^^rkt., 50 cents. 
BEGONIA ODORATA SALADIN/fhe 
growth, foliage, flowerstalks amd the 
delicious perfume of the fibers are 
equal to that of Begonia^dorata Pi¬ 
onier. The flowers of/e same size 
are rich crimson. Tk£ upper part of 
the leaves is darkagreen with a red¬ 
dish reflex, rH<Jrack being reddish- 
bronze color. Pkt., 50 cents. 
BEGONIA SEMPERFLORENS RO¬ 
SEA. The true cver-bloomingspecies. 
Blooms to perfection every day in the 
year. If you like Begonias, and de¬ 
sire the best one for fine cut flowers, 
or the best bedding, basket, pot, 01^ 
market variety, you will secure plant/ 
of Bego?iia semper/loreus rosea . Ij/is 
the quickest growing and most aJrun- 
dant blooming,of them all. «/i., 15 
cents. Plants, true to name. Each, 
35 cents. 
BEGONIA VERNON. This variety seems to have been accepted as 
the most useful of Begonias that have been introduced for some 
time. In habit and freedom of bloom it resembles the well-known 
B. semperjlorens rosea , but the flowers are a rich orange carmine, 
and the foliage a glossy red. The stamens are yellow, which gives 
an especially brilliant effect to the staminate flowers. Spring- 
sown seed will produce blooming plants early in the summer; the 
flowers will continue to be borne in profusion until killed by frost. 
Valuable alike for bedding and pot culture. Pkt., 20 cents. 
BEGONIA. Tuberous-Rooted, New Striped. The raiser of this new 
class of Begonia describes them as containing nearly all the colors 
of the older varieties, the flowers being distinctly striped or marked 
like a carnation, with a great variety of pleasing shades of white, yellow and red. An interesting and 
valuable novelty. Pkt , 15 cents. 
BEGONIA. Single^ Tuberous-Rooted “ International Prize.” This strain is of unsurpassed quality, being 
the result of cross-fertilization of only those hybrids of recent introduction which for sturdiness, brilliancy 
of color, together with form and size, have proved far superior to those of older date. Pkt., 25 cents and 
50 cents. 
BEGONIA. Rex, ornamental-leaved varieties, a splendid mixture saved from an extensive German collection. 
Pkt., 25 cents. 
See Special Offers on third page of cover. 
The Dahlia seed and 
Tubers which I bought of 
you have been a great success. 
C. E. P., 
Melrose. 
