120 JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 
(Corporation) 
NAME. 
Hard. 
and 
Dur. 
H’g’t 
Feet. 
Color 
of 
Flower 
Price 
per 
Oz. Pkt. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Arundo conspicua. 
hP 
it 
8 
tt 
5 
10 
New Zealand Pampas Grass. 
Finely striped foliage. 
Donax fol. variegatas. 
Avena sterilis (Animated Oats). 
hA 
zy, 
l 
10 
Br/za gracilis. 
tt 
5 
5 
5 
c 
| The well-known Quaking Grass. 
Good for edging. 
Excellent for winter bouquets. 
) Very effective in borders, slender and 
j elegant, good for bouquets. 
Flowers of a bright rose color. 
Golden spikes, desirable. 
( The dry seeds make fine strings of 
maxima . 
It 
2 
Bryzopyrum siculum.. 
Br omus brizaeformis. 
u 
hP 
% 
1 Vo 
Chlorls barbata. 
tP 
J 
5 
5 
10 
elegans. 
tt 
% 
•2 
Chloropsis Blanchardiana. 
tt 
Chrysurus aureus. 
hA 
0 
1 
5 
5 
10 
Colx lachryma (Job’s Tears). 
u 
Eleusine oligostachya. 
u 
I 
l beads for children. 
Three horns, very pretty. 
For borders and bouquets. 
Resembles Pampas Grass. 
Magnificent. 
> Useful for edging and bouquets. 
Eragmst/s elegans (Ixive Grass) . 
u 
it 
5 
10 
Erlanthus ravennae . 
hP 
8 
u 
6 
10 
Feather Qrass, see Stipa pennata 
Festuca pectinella. 
u 
5 
5 
10 
10 
viridis. 
tt 
a 
Oynerium argenteum (Pampas Grass).. .. 
jubatum. 
tP 
u 
7 
6 
1 Most stately of all grasses. G. jubatum 
j has fine silvery red flowers. 
Squirrel Tail Grass. 
Pretty rush-like grass. 
hare's Tall t see Lagurus 
hordeum jnhatnm.. 
hA 
2 
5 
10 
/so laps is gracilis . 
hhP 
V 
Joh f s Tears , see Coix 
Lagurus ovatus (Hare’s Tail) . 
hA 
2 
1 y, 
2 
5 
10 
5 
10 
Pampas Grass , see Gynerium 
Paspalum elegans . 
Penn/setum longistylum . 
<< 
tt 
Pretty for borders or shrubberies. 
Distinct and beautiful. 
Pna amahilis (Abyssinian Grass) . 
tt 
St/pa elegantissima . 
hP 
tt 
10 
> Excellent for bouquets. 
tt 
u 
5 
10 
Trlcholsena rosea . 
tt 
1 
hA 
■2 
10 
Useful for bouquets. 
/ The leaves are beautiful, striped with 
Zea Japonica variegata (Maize) . 
n 
0 
tt 
c 
gigantea quadrirolor . 
u 
A 
10 
Mixed Grasses. 
n 
varied 
5 
( white, rose and yellow. 
The flower seeds purchased of you last year gave me most excellent results. My garden was the admiration of 
the entire neighborhood , and I believe you will see quite an increase of flower seed orders from this district for next 
season . Yours truly , MRS . D. IV. KRINBILL , Rochester , N. Y. 
Breek’s Collections of Flower Seeds- 
Collection “A,” price 25 cts., contains one packet each of Mignonette; Alyssum, white; Sweet Peas, fine 
mixed; Phlox Drummondii, fine mixed; Portulaca, fine mixed ; Chinese Pink, fine mixed. 
Collection “B,” price 50 cts., contains the varieties in Collection “A,” with the following in addition: Nastur¬ 
tium, Tom Thumb, fine mixed; Candytuft, finest mixed; Aster, German, fine mixed; Pansy, finest mixed; 
Eschscholtzia, fine mixed; Morning Glory, fine mixed. 
Collection “C,” price 75 cts., contains the varieties in Collections “A” and “B,” with the following in addi¬ 
tion: Coreopsis, fine mixed; Balsam, fine mixed; Zinnia, fine mixed; Mourning Bride, fine mixed; Petunia, finest 
mixed; Calendula, “ Meteor,” yellow. 
Collection “D,” price $1.00, contains the varieties in Collections “A,” “ B ” and “C,” with the following in 
addition: Tall Nasturtium, fine mixed; Marigold, French, striped; Larkspur, dwarf Rocket; Poppy, double mixed; 
Convolvulus, dwarf mixed; Chrysanthemum, fine mixed; Antirrhinum, finest mixed. 
COLLECTION “ E.” This assortment produces a fine effect in the garden and all the sorts are suitable for bouquets. 
Price 50 cts. Abronia, Ageratum, Amaranthus Bicolor, Aquilegia, Aster Chrysanthemum-flowered, Calliopsis, Col- 
linsia, Dianthus Chinensis, Godetia, Mignonette, Phlox Drummondii, Zinnia. 
Collection “F.” The following kinds are specially suitable for growing in vases or hanging baskets. Price 25 
cts. Alyssum Maritimum, Convolvulus Mauritanicus, Dwarf Nasturtiums, Lobb’s Nasturtiums, Lobelia Gracilis, 
Mimulus Moschatus. 
Wild Carden Seeds• 
Any one who has cultivated flowers in neatly laid out beds or carefully planted ribbon borders is aware of the 
amount of labor and constant attention necessary to produce the desired effect. To those who cannot give this care, 
we offer “ Wild Garden Seeds,” a mixture of over one hundred varieties of hardy flower seeds. No one who has not 
seen such a bed can form an idea of its possibilities, the different seasons of bloom insuring something new almost 
every day, Half-oz. packets, 20 cts. 
Special Offsrs on third page of oover. 
