Our Meritorious Bulb Garden and Trade Exhibit 
- At a Recent Spring Flower-Show - 
Flower Seeds—Tools and Requisites can be easily chosen from an extensive Display at our Store. 
Located in the Shopping District. 
FLOWER SEEDS 
PLAN AND PLANT A FLOWER GARDEN FOR BEAUTY, HEALTH AND RECREATION 
Brief Hints on Sowing and Cultivation 
The Soil. A mellow loam, which is a medium earth between the extremes of clay and sand, enriched with a 
compost of rotted manure and leafmold, is adapted to the general run of flowering plants. Previous to planting 
flower beds or borders, care must be taken that they are so arranged that the ground may be a little elevated in 
the middle, that the water may run off, and that the plants may show to better advantage. 
Sowing the Seed. Nine-tenths of the failures in flower culture come from improper treatment of the seeds 
and young plants. We urge every purchaser of our seeds to carefully study the cultural directions printed on each 
package, and the following general rules: 
Do not plant any of the seeds when the ground is wet. Make the surface as fine and smooth as possible. 
Cover each sort of seed to a depth proportionate to its size; the finest, like Portulaca, Campanula, Digitalis, etc., 
should be merely sprinkled on the surface of the ground, and barely covered with finely sifted, light, mellow soil. 
Press soil down firmly over the seed with a brick or short piece of board. For large seeds, depth should be regu¬ 
lated according to size of seed; those the size of a pin-head, Y inch deep, and those the size of a pea, % of an inch. 
Procure a bit of lath (it would be better if planed smooth) about 2 feet long, press the edge down into the 
soil evenly, so as to make a groove as deep as the seed is to be planted; scatter the seed along this, allowing four 
or five of the larger to fifteen or twenty of the smaller seeds to the space one plant is to occupy when grown. Cover 
the seed by pressing earth together over it, then turn your lath sideways and press soil down firmly and evenly. 
Adonis 
A pretty annual of easy culture, with showy flowers 
and handsome foliage. Hardy annuals. 
Aestivalis (Flos Adonis). Scarlet. 1 ft. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Acroclinium 
Beautiful, everlasting flower, largely used for Winter 
bouquets. 
Double Mixed. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Single Mixed. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Sweet Alyssum. Makes a very effective border plant. 
Ageratum 
This plant keeps up an almost constant bloom 
throughout the Summer and is particularly effective for 
bedding as well as decidedly valuable for cut flowers. 
It has the further merit of being of the easiest culture. 
Can be started in hotbed or window box and trans¬ 
planted after frost. Half-hardy annuals. 
Mexicanum. Lavender blue. 2 ft. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Album. White. 15 in. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Blue Perfection. This is the darkest colored of all 
large-flowering Ageratums. Color deep amethyst- 
blue, compact growth; fine bedder. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Tom Thumb. Blue; rarely exceeds 6 in. in height. 
A very desirable variety; good for edges of beds, etc. 
Pkt. 10 cents. 
Alyssum 
Whether grown for Summer blooming or for flower¬ 
ing in Fall and Winter in the parlor or greenhouse, its 
easy culture and the delicate honey-like fragrance of 
its flowers, so much prized in bouquets and baskets, 
makes this old favorite largely grown. Flowers white. 
Hardy annual. 
Sweet Alyssum. 1 ft. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 25 cts. 
Tom Thumb Sweet Alyssum. Yi ft* Pkt. 10 cts. 
Amaranthus 
Tricolor Splendens (Josephs-coat). Brilliant foliage of 
crimson yellow and bronze, excellent for borders. 
2 ft. Pkt. 10 cts. 
HARDY-PERENNIAL FLOWER SEEDS. See pages 17-18-19—Please. 
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