SEED CATALOGUE, THORN HILL, N. Y. 
blue color, making a suitable background for the 
brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers which stand cut in 
hold relief. Its profusion of bloom and dazzling 
richness of color are remarkable. Pkt., 5 cts. 
PANSY. 
The Pansy is too well known and too much loved 
to need any description. It is, I think, not ex¬ 
cepting the Verbena even, the most popular garden 
flower. Blooms continuously from the time snow 
disappears in spring till buried by it in autumn. 
I am growing these seeds on a large scale and 
my mixed varieties embrace over one hundred of 
the finest large flowering sorts. Good flowering 
plants can be supplied almost any time at 30 cts. a 
dozen. 
See my special collection of 12 choicest kinds by 
mail, on back cover of catalogue. 
Imperial German Pansies (see Novelties). 
Mills’ Defiance (see Novelties). 
King of the Blacks or Faust — Flowers 
intensely dark, almost coal black. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Snow Queen or Snowflake —Flowers of a 
delicate, pure satiny-white. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Emperor William—Flowers of a splendid 
ultramarine blue, with a well-defined purple-violet 
eye. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Azure .Blue —Very fine. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Yellow —Large golden flowers. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Rose Marbled —Very beautiful. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Delicata —Pkt., 10 cts. 
Mahogany Colored—Pkt., 10 cts. 
Striped and Mottled Varieties — Very fine 
and exceedingly beautiful. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Rex—Pkt., 10 cts. 
White Treasure— Pkt., 10 cts. 
Gold Margined—Strikingly handsome. Pkt., 
10 cts. 
Good Quality Mixed —Pkt., 5 cts. 
SPECIAL OFFER.—I will send one packet each 
of all the above 12 kinds for GO cts., or any C 
kinds for 35 cts., postpaid, except Imperial Ger- 
PETUNIA. 
Most v a 1 u a b 1 e 
plants — succeeding 
well anywhere; they 
are particularly 
showy in beds or 
masses, and arc uni¬ 
versal favorites on 
account of their 
richness of color, 
fragrance and long 
continuous bloom¬ 
ing. 
Finest Mixed 
Petunia —Pkt., 10 
cts. 
Finest Striped 
and Blotched — 
Pkt., 10 cts. 
PHLOX 
DRUMMONDI. 
Remarkable for bril" 
liancy and abundance 
of bloom. A bed of 
scarlet Phlox presents 
a sight too dazzling to 
behold. 
New Finest Mixed 
—-All colors. Pkt., 5 cts. 
man and Mills’ Defiance. 
PETUNIA. 
POPPY. 
-this grand old flower is fast gaining the univer¬ 
sal popularity which it justly merits. Having for 
years been crowded out of our gardens by the 
swarm of new comers and forgotten, it has never¬ 
theless kept pace with the march of improvement, 
and now comes around and surprises us with its 
new forms, new sizes, new colors, and the dear old 
flower, which our grandmothers loved so much, 
again occupies one of the first places in our gardens, 
and we are proud of it, and well we may be, for 
through June and July it stands without an equal, 
the showiest of all annuals. Seed should be sown 
in the open ground as early as possible. My collec¬ 
tion of Poppies is the purest and finest in the 
country. 
Vesuvius Poppy— This is one of the most 
brilliant of Poppies; it is not only more striking, 
but also much more graceful and beautiful than 
the Crimson 
King Poppy. 
The four large 
lower petals 
show distinctly 
a Victoria Cross; 
while looking 
at the grand 
double flowers 
on the top or 
side, they each 
appear a glow¬ 
ing ball of the 
most vivid scar¬ 
let; upon hand¬ 
ling and exam¬ 
ining, it will be 
seen, however, 
that each one of 
the hundreds of 
petals has a dis¬ 
tinct strijDe o f 
pure white. The 
flowers arc cpiite 
three and a half 
to four inches 
in diameter; the 
petals are finely 
cut or fimbri¬ 
ated, which 
adds greatly to 
their beauty. 
Theplants grow 
two and a half 
feet high, and gracefully bear, in abundance, the 
magnificent double flowers on huge stems. On 
each plant is seen the glowing scarlet double 
flowers; other flowers, bending, show the Victoria 
Cross, while the unopened buds appear as if the 
flowers would be pure white with only an edge of 
scarlet. Per pkt. 5 cents. 
Double Red —Largely grown by everyone. 
Per pkt. 5 cts. 
Angel of Morn (see Novelties.) 
Angel of Noonday (see Novelties.) 
Angel of Evening (see Novelties.) 
Angel of Midnight (see Novelties.) 
Snow Drift — This was introduced two years 
ago, and is now acknowledged the finest sort in 
existence. It. has a dwarf, stout habit peculiar to 
itself, flowers very large, perfectly double and as 
round as a ball, and of the purest snow-white color. 
It always comes perfectly double, no single or semi¬ 
double flowers appearing at all. It is really the 
most beautiful white flower one can grow in the 
garden. As the introducers, we have the pure 
genuine stock. Much inferior stock of this grand 
Poppy has been sold by unscrupulous parties. Pkt. 
10 cts. 
TEN WEEKS STOCKS. 
The stock is without doubt the most popular 
German flower. With its great variety of fine 
colors and large spikes of beautiful double sweet- 
I.IIX'ED PHLOX. 
