Scabiosa or Mourning Bride 
Buckbee’s 
Superb Velvet Flower 
Most Attractive, Free Blooming, Easily 
Growing Annuals 
Very showy bedding or border 
plants with richly colored, erect, 
funnel-shaped flowers. The flow¬ 
ers are very beautifully marbled 
and penciled purple, scarlet, crim¬ 
son, yellow, buff, blue and almost 
black. Bloom from August to 
October. Each one richly veined 
with gold. Our new velvet flower 
forms one long leading stem 
about 30 inches high from which 
branch out near the top many 
side shoots, each bearing a large 
flower, thus forming a veritable 
bouquet of the most beautiful 
flowers. A bed of velvet flowers 
in full bloom is strikingly beauti¬ 
ful. Mixed colors. Pkt. 10c ; Vs 
oz. 25c. 
Blue Bird Flower 
Always in Bloom—Beautiful Color- 
Easy to Grow 
Superb Velvet Flower 
Sweet Scented Scabiosa 
Buckbee’s New and Greatly Improved Varieties 
of Fascinating Attractiveness and 
Delightful Beauty 
This is one of the most attractive of old- 
fashioned flowers. No garden is complete 
without a bed of fragrant Scabiosa. Their 
ease of culture and the long flowering season 
warrants their presence in every garden. The 
flowers are produced in great abundance and 
borne on long stems, making them very at¬ 
tractive and useful for cutting purposes. 
DWARF DOUBLE LARGE FLOWERING 
MIXED—Pkt. 8c; Vs oz. 15c. 
BUCKBEE’S TALL DOUBLE LARGE 
FLOWERING MIXED—Pkt. 8c; i/s oz. 15c. 
^CAUCASIA (Blue Bonnet)—Hardy perennial, 
3 feet high. Flowers lilac-blue on long 
stem; fine for cutting. Pkt. 10c; Vs oz. 40c. 
Black-Eyed-Susan 
Very elegant, slender-growing climbers, 
rapidly covering wire trellises, also useful for 
vases in the garden or house. Attractive also 
if grown, simply trailing on the ground. All 
colors mixed. Pkt. 8c; Ya oz. 16c. 
Canna 
Easily grown from seeds and bloom the first 
summer if sown before April. 
CROZY’S NEW DWARF—Mixed. Immense 
flowers in brilliant colors. Pkt. 8c; Vi oz. 
15c; Vss oz - 25c. 
COMMON TALL MIXED—A splendid assort¬ 
ment. Pkt. 6c; Vi oz. 10c; Vi oz - 15c. 
Canary Bird Flower 
Beautiful climber, the charming little 
canary-colored blossom bears a fancied re¬ 
semblance to a bird with its wings half ex¬ 
tended. If seeds are planted by the side of 
arbor or trellis will run about 20 feet and will 
blossom from July until frost. Annual. 
Pkt. 7c; Vi oz. 20c; oz. 30c. 
Candytuft 
GIANT HYACINTH FLOWERED—Large 
elongated heads of quite large, pure white 
florets, frequently measuring six inches in 
length. Annual 12 inches high. Pkt. 8c; 
Y\ oz. 20c. 
ALL COLORS MIXED—Pkt. 7c; Vi oz. 20c. 
■^-PERENNIAL (Sempervirens)—Unequaled 
for cemetery work, being perfectly hardy. 
White flowers. Pkt. 10c; Vi oz. 50c. 
LAVENDER—A delicate shade of rosy laven¬ 
der. Sow seed early for best results. 
Makes a wonderful show garden alone, or as 
border for flower beds. Twelve inches high. 
Pkt. 8c; Vi oz. 15c. 
Cigar Plant 
Or.*: if the prettiest little plants ever grown, 
its c s g is its greatest charm. The bushy 
plant i.'rows about 12 inches high, and bears 
r-a-.-i ow tubular flowers of brightest 
scr > : tip -1 with white. Pkt. 10c. 
(Centaurea)—The finest, of any of 
the Blue Flowers which are so beautiful 
in the flower garden. This new flower is easily 
grown from seed, and comes into bloom quickly, 
and will continue to blossom all summer if the 
flowers are kept picked. This is an annual but will 
come up the following spring from self sown seed. 
Perfectly double and of a dark blue color, and I 
cannot recommend it too highly. There are so few 
flowers that are wonderfully blue, that my new Blue 
Bird Flower, will fill a place in many gardens which 
have always needed this color. Those of my cus¬ 
tomers who grew this flower last summer were de¬ 
lighted with it. Can be used as a boutonniere, and 
being a full double flower, it takes very few to 
make a nice bouquet. Grows about 3 feet high. 
Pkt. 10c; y a oz. 30c. 
Buckbee’s Aristocrats 
New Rust Proof Antirrhinum 
or Snapdragon 
DAINTINESS 
The individual blossoms are large, a pleasing 
shade of pink and are gracefully spaced on the 
spikes. The plants branch at the base. The 
stems and foliage are a bright green. Pkt. 
15c; 2 pkts. 25c. 
SCARLET (DEFIANCE) 
An excellent bright scarlet-red Antirrhinum. 
The flowers are very large and of a velvety 
texture. The yellow spot on each lip is so 
small that it is hardly noticeable. Pkt. 15c; 
2 pkts. 25c. 
BUTTERCUP 
The deep canary yellow on the lip and the 
base of the standard, blending to a pale 
creamy yellow towards the margin, gives the 
flower a delightful two-tone effect. The long 
graceful spikes and the broad green foliage of 
this variety marks a distinct advance in Rust 
Proof yellow Antirrhinums. Pkt. 15c; 2 
pkts. 25c. 
INDIAN GIRL 
This variety is a brownish-orange overlaid 
finely with bright yellow giving a beautiful old 
gold effect. It throws out a number of densely 
leaved flower spikes, forming a symmetrical 
plant. Pkt. 15c; 2 pkts. 25c. 
MIXED 
The color range, size of flowers and habit 
are most remarkable. This mixture will prove 
excellent for borders and bedding. Pkt. 15c; 
2 pkts. 25c. 
Buckbee’s Famous 
Snapdragons 
BUCKBEE’S ARISTOCRATS 
An Amazing Array of Beautiful and Distinc¬ 
tive Colors. Enormous Flowers. Delight¬ 
fully Sweet Scented. Easy to Grow and 
Sure to Bloom. 
Buckbee’s Aristocrats are the world’s finest 
Snap Dragons ; a truly enchanting mixture of 
colors ; and as to size they are in a class by 
themselves. The individual flowers are the 
largest we have ever seen. The healthy, 
robust plant is completely covered with large, 
strong flower spikes which are always com¬ 
pletely filled from top to bottom. Plants 
usually grow 2 Yz feet high. Seed sown out¬ 
doors early in the spring, will produce flower¬ 
ing plants in July, and you will then have 
flowers the balance of the summer. Pkt. 15c; 
2 pkts. 25c; Ya oz. 50c, postpaid. 
FIRE KING—Deepest cardinal red. Pkt. 10c; 
Ya oz. 35c. 
SILVER PINK—One of the best. Pkt. 10c; 
Ya oz. 35c. 
PRINCE OF ORANGE—Rich glittering bronze 
with reverse of old gold. A grand new 
beauty. Pkt. 10c; Ya oz. 35c. 
BUCKBEE’S GIANT MIXED—The flowers of 
this new type are double the size of older 
sorts, are more closely set on the stems and 
the colors most clear and brilliant. Pkt. 
10c; Ya oz. 30c. 
TOM THUMB—Eight inches high. Finest 
mixed, all colors. Pkt. 8c; Vs oz. 20c. 
ROCK GARDEN SPECIES—Early flowering 
hybrids. Small compact bushes. Many 
colored flowers. Pkt. 10c; Ya oz. 50c. 
Rockford Seed Farms — H. W. BUCKBEE, ROCKFORff TLL.—Forest City Greenhouses 
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