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GAILLARDIA. 
Showy and universally admired perennials, flowering the 
first year, and among the gayest ornaments of summer 
flower bods. The Gaillardias make charming plants grown 
in pots. 
Grandiflora Superba. Splendid new variety, dark red, 
with bright yellow border.Pkt. 10 
New Perennial Hybrids. Flowers much larger than the 
older sorts and colors more brillant and varied .... 10 
Grandifloria Hybrids. Rich crimson and yellow .... 5 
Picta Lorenziana. One of the most useful annuals both 
for bedding and cutting. Saved from the finest double 
flowers of different shades varying from sulphur-yellow 
to purple.10 
GERANIUM. 
(PELARGONIUM.) 
Well known favorites; indispensable for in-door and out-door 
decoration. The seed we offer having been saved from first- 
class varieties, the amateur has a fair chance of raising 
many charming novelties. 
Large-flowered Pelargonium. Show varieties. Extra 
mixed.Pkt. 25 
Apple-Scented. A favorite variety.25 
Double. Finest mixed.25 
Zonale. Finest mixed.10 
New Golden and Bronze. A prize strain.25 
GESNERIA. 
Beautiful greenhouse plants; remarkable for the beauty of 
their foliage, which is singularly marked, and their long 
spikes of brilliant colored flowers. Sow in a light compost, 
and keep in a warm, moist atmosphere. 
Robusta Perfecta. An improved strain of Gesneria with • 
handsome foliage, remarkable for its free flowering 
habit and great diversity of colors.Pkt. 50 
Choicest Varieties Mixed. Tender perennial 1 ft . . 25 
GEUM. 
Free-blooming, handsome and showy plant for shrubbery bor¬ 
ders. The double rich scarlet flowers are splendid for- 
bouquets. 
Atrosanguineum fl. pi. Hardy perennial.Pkt. 10 
GILIA. 
Pretty dwarf annuals; may be sown at any time, and bloom in 
any situation; grow well in pots, and may be placed in a 
rockery. 
Tricolor. Choice mixed.Pkt. 5 
GLOBE AMARANTH. 
(GOMPHBENA GLOBOSA.) 
Very handsome, and showy everlastings, commonly known as 
Bachelors’ Buttons. The seed of Gomphrena does not ger¬ 
minate very well in the open ground, and it is best therefore 
to sow it in a hot-bed, if possible. If the cottony coating 
which surrounds it is removed, the seeds will be more certain 
to grow. Annuals, 2 ft. 
White. Pkt 
Purple. 
Variegated. 
Nana Compacta. A dwarf variety of very compact habit; 
flowers deep violet red.. 
Mixed. All colors. Per oz., 40 cts. 
5 
5 
5 
10 
5 
GLOXINIA. 
A superb genus of greenhouse plants, producing magnificent, 
flowers of the richest colors; thrive best in an equal mixtures 
of peat, loam and sand. Sow in March, on the surface, in a 
warm, moist atmosphere. When the second leaf appears, 
transplant into shallow pots to grow through summer. 
Allow them to rest through autumn, and keep in same pots- 
through winter, giving little water. In spring repot and 
water freely; will blossom second season. Stove perennial 
bulbs. 
Hybrida Erecta. Erect large flowering varieties in 
splendid mixture.Pkt. 25 
Punctata. Tigered and spotted hybrids from a superb 
collection ..25 
Gouville’s Strain. Flowers of immense size and beauti¬ 
fully tigered and spotted, fine mixture.75 
GLAUCIUM. 
GNAPHALIUM LEONTOPODIUM. 
(HORNED POPPY.) 
Luteum. Silver leaved hardy perennial plant with remark¬ 
ably bright yellow flowers produced in great abundance 
all summer; an excellent border plant 1 to 2 feet . . Pkt. 
(EDELWEISS.) 
The flowers are pure white, star-shaped and of a downy tex¬ 
ture. This is the true Edelweiss of the Alps, well-known, 
and so much prized by tourists in Switzerland . . . Pkt. 10 
