FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES. 
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PYRETHRUM PARTHENIFOLIUM 
GLAUCUM. A beautiful companion to 
the Golden Pyre thrum. The foliage is 
elegantly cut and of whitish color; no flow¬ 
ers are borne the first year. The plants are 
very suitable for carpet bedding. Pkt., 25 cts. 
Pyrethrum Parthenifolium. 
PANSIES. Boston Prize Pansy. This strain stands easily at the 
head of the list for size, form, substance, color, and every other 
feature that goes to make the perfect pansy. Since the original 
stock came into our possession a few years ago we have been 
continually improving it, and now we feel sure that Boston 
Prize Pansy is superior to all in quantity and quality , of color , 
etc.; sold in sealed packages only, Pkt.. 25 cents. 
Eckford’s Prize. A superb cross-fertilized mixture of superior 
excellence, comprising some of the most lovely varieties of this 
favv>rite flower. The colors are brilliant and novel, dark violet, 
gold, blue and white in eccentric variation of shades and mark¬ 
ings, some striped, blotched, or flushed with red and bronze, 
also recommended for size and beauty of form. Pkts., 25 and 50 cents. 
Canary Bird. A giant five-spotted variety on yellow ground. The 
ground color is a bright, golden yellow, each petal marbled with a 
large, dark blotch. Pkt., 25 cents. 
Cardinal. Roemer, the raiser of this new variety, says : “The idea of 
every pansy grower is to obtain a scarlet flower, and in the Cardinal 
I offer the nearest approach to that color yet attained. Pkt., 25 cents. - 
Peacock. So named because the beautiful ultra-marine blue contained in the upper petals ot the owei 
most nearly resembles the peculiar shade of this color in the feathers of the peacock. 1 kt., 15 cents. 
Belgian Blotched. Very choice. Pkt., 15 cents. . , 
Bugnot’s French. Famous French strain of fine robust growth ; great variety of colors ; the flower - are ot 
great sub tance, and borne well above the foliage. Pkt., 50 cents. 
Victoria Red. A brilliant, blood-red variety, of fine shape and substance; very distinct. 1 kt., 25 cents. 
Breck’s “International Prize” Mixed. 
Special mixture prepared by ourselves from 
the foregoing and other really choice strains. 
We think this well deserves the title “ Inter¬ 
national,” representing, as it does, the 
highest perfection attained by the “crack” 
growlers of this favorite flower, both in 
Europe and America. Pkt., 25 cents. 
For complete list of Pansies , see page 78. 
AgiPhi comes round the time for plantiyig, 
and some of my fricjids as "well as myself 
turn to the old reliable Brock firm for 
a supply. 
G. M. V. E., 
Albion, N. Y. 
See Special Offers on third page of cover. 
