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KENDALL AND WHITNEY 1 S 
A DESCRIPTIVE LIST 
OF 
FLOWER SEEDS.^ 
Flower Seeds Sent Free by Mail on Receipt of Price. 
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ABRONIA UMBELLATA. 
ABRONIA UMBELLATA. 
Per Pkt. 
Handsome, trailing annuals, with clusters of 
sweet-scented flowers resembling the Verbena. 
Pine for baskets or for the garden. Blooms from 
August until October... 5 
ACROLINIUM. 
An elegant, half-hardy annual, producing beau¬ 
tiful everlasting flowers. Grows about one foot 
high. Roseum. Bright rose color. 5 
Album. Pure White. 5 
Both colors mixed .. 5 
ADONIS. 
A hardy annual with very pretty foliage pro¬ 
ducing bright red flowers. Grows about one foot 
high and blooms for a long time. 5 
AGERATUM. 
Hardy annuals for beds or borders or nice for 
cutting. Grows about one foot high and continues 
in bloom all summer. Mixed. 5 
ALYSSUM. 
A hardy annual about eight inches high, with 
clusters of small, fragrant white flowers. Pine 
for bedding and bouquets. 
Sweet, White; 1 ft. 
Wiersbeckii, Yellow and White ; 1 ft., Hardy 
'perennial .. 
Saxatile Compacta. Yellow; | foot, Hardy 
perennial . 
Tom Thumb. Very Dwarf, White. 
5 
5 
5 
6 
ANTIRRHINIUM. (Snap Dragon.) 
Per Pkt. 
A very showy and hardy perennial, about two 
feet high, flowering well the first season. Sow 
the seeds early, in pots or under glass. 10 
AMARANTHUS. 
Half hardy annuals about two feet high with 
finely variegated foliage. They are most brilliant 
on poor soil and in dry seasons. Tricolor. 5 
AMMOBIUM ALATUM. 
A useful everlasting for making dried winter 
bouquets and a showy border plant growing 
freely in any garden soil. Hardy annual. 
White, 2 ft. 5 
ANAGALLIS. 
Beautiful, trailing, hardy annuals about six 
inches high, and very desirable for small beds, 
edging, baskets, &c. Mixed. 5 
ASPERULA. 
A most profuse blooming hardy annual attain¬ 
ing an average growth of one foot. The flowers 
of which are a beautiful, light blue, are very 
sweet scented, and last a long while in perfection. 
Blue, 1 ft.. 5 
ASTER. 
Very beautiful and popular half-hardy annuals, 
growing from ten to eighteen inches high. For 
profusion of flowers and richness of display, the 
Asters are unrivalled. Sow the seed early in the 
spring under glass or in pots in the house and 
transplant into rich soil, about one foot apart. 
Cocardeau OR Crown. The flowers of this 
variety have large white centers bordered with 
scarlet, carmine, violet or blue, attractive and 
beautiful, 1 % ft... 5 
Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet. The plants when 
well grown, form a complete bouquet of flowers 
of splendid mixed colors; 1 ft. 10 
Dwarf Chrysanthemum Flowered. A free 
bloomer with large flowers; mixed; 1 ft. 10 
Tall Chrysanthemum Flowered. Taller than 
the preceding, mixed. 10 
Giant Emperor. Brilliant and beautiful colors, 
flowers very double and of immense size, mixed 
2 ft. 10 
Rose Flowered. A fine variety; flowers very 
double; mixed; 2 ft.: 10 
Truffaut’s Peony-flowered Perfection. 
The earliest flowering variety; flowers very 
double; fine mixed colors; 2 ft. 10 
