PANSY, Brown’s Improved Mammoth. 
T HERE are many good strains of Pansies, but decidedly the best of the lot is truly the 
Improved Mammoth Pansies developed by Mr. Peter Brown, the progressive florist of Lan¬ 
caster County, who makes a specialty of growing Pansies. He spares no pains or expense to 
get the most satisfactory results, and the seeds he produces can be absolutely depended upon for 
the most healthy and vigorous plants, and the largest and most beautiful flowers. The seeds of 
this grand strain were all grown by Mr. Brown, saved from selected plants. The price is 10 cents 
per packet, or three packets for 25 cents, but they are well worth the money, for these Pansies 
must not be compared with the common strains of cheap Pansies so often recommended. Give 
these Pansies a trial and you will buy no other. We supply them in Yellow, and Mixed Colors. 
Fine French Pansies: 
Adonis, light blue, with white 
margin, dark spots, beautiful. 
Bronze-colored, dark brown. 
Blotched and Striped, very large 
flowers richly marked, fine. 
Brilliant, fiery red, with darker 
spots on the three lower petals. 
Frilled and veined, colors mixed. 
Indigo Blue, very rich shade, 
strikingly attractive. Splendid. 
Lord Beaconsfield, deep violet, 
banner petals almost white. 
A popular variety. 
Masterpiece, handsome variety. 
Orchidseflora, the Cattley-flow- 
ered Pansy. Rare light shades, 
large, frilled flowers, very fine. 
Parisian Blotched, a fine French 
variety, strikingly variegated. 
Peacock, Peacock blue with 
white edge. Very handsome. 
Purple, large-flowering, large, 
rich, dark flowers. Fine Pansy. 
Sky Blue, a much admired Pansy, 
large, lovely sky blue, splendid. 
Snowflake, giant-flowered, new. 
Yellow, without eye, very large 
golden flowers, very effective. 
Fine Special Mixture of all sorts. 
Please note that the above 
French Pansies are imported, 
and of the finest quality, but not 
of the Mammoth strain devel¬ 
oped by Mr. Brown which can 
hardly be approached. flower of brown’s improved mammoth pansy. 
The Pansy is probably the most popular of seedling flowers. They are easily, raised, the 
young plants endure the winters at the north under favorable conditions, and begin to bloom 
freely early in spring, almost as soon as the snow is gone. In the south plants started in early 
autumn will bloom throughout the winter. At the north the 
plants started so as to come into bloom in autumn will bloom in 
spring and early summer, making a glorious display. Such plants, 
if placed in shallow trays a foot square, early in spring can be sold 
with profit, as there is always a great demand for them when they 
come into bloom. To have fine beds of spring-blooming Pansies 
sow the seeds early in August and transplant early in September 
to rows eight inches apart, setting the plants six inches apart in 
the rows. They begin to bloom before winter, and if snows come 
while budding and blooming you can dig the flowers out from be¬ 
neath the snow during mid-winter. Such plants will become a mass of lovely big “faces”, bright 
and beautiful as soon as the warm sunshine and gentle showers awaken them in spring. 
