NEW FLORAL GUIDE—SPRING, 1900 . 
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(Sbipese and Japanese PipKs (Di&r?tbus) 
CONARD’S FINEST SORTS MIXED. 
T HESE beautiful Chinese and Japanese Pinks are among 
our prettiest flowers for bedding; they grow easily and 
bloom profusely the whole season. Some are double 
and others single, with beautiful fringed petals. The colors 
are very bright and handsome, ranging from pure white to 
deepest crimson, in endless combinations and markings ; 
many have the delightful clove fragrance so much prized, 
and all are greatly admired for cutting and bouquets. The 
seed we offer is a special selection of the most beautiful 
varieties, and a great improvement on any heretofore offered, 
and we are sure they will give the greatest satisfaction. 
Packet 6 cts.; % oz., 25 cts.; oz., 40 cts.; oz., 75 cts. 
New Dwarf German Double Hybrid Pinks. 
A splendid new strain of Dwarf Hybrid Pinks, growing only nine or 
ten inches high, and bearing extra large double flowers of perfect form 
and rich beautiful colors. Flowers frequently measure three inches 
New Chinese Pink. 
MIGNONETTE, C. & J. Finest Large-Flower¬ 
ing Mixed -a Special Mixture of all the Choicest 
colors anti Sweetest sorts, for beds and cutting. 
Packet 6 cts.; 34 *>z. 30 cts. 
MIGNONETTE, DEFIANCE—An extra choice variety, 
does well in open ground, and especially valuable for 
growing in greenhouse for cut flowers, makes full round 
spikes, twelve to fifteen inches long, with wonderful 
flowers of largest size and delicious fragrance. Packet 
Acts.; 34 oz. 35 cts.; oz. 65 cts. 
MIGNONETTE, NEW QUAKER CITY—A new and extra 
fine variety, large, full flower spikes, rounded at the top; 
handsome, gold red color, deliciously sweet. Packet 4 cts. 
MIGNONETTE, NEW GIANT WHITE—Large full spikes, 
pure white flowers, very sweet. Packet 4 cts. 
MIGNONETTE, IMPROVED GOLDEN QUEEN—Very 
handsome and attractive, and exceedingly sweet, light, 
golden yellow, excellent free-blooming sort. Packet 4 cts. 
MIGNONETTE, THE MACHET (Pure'—Well-known as 
one of the finest sorts; vigorous pyramidical plants, with 
thick, dark green leaves; blooms constantly and bears large 
spikes of deliciously sweet flowers. Pkt. 4 cts.; % oz. 20 cts. 
MIGNONETTE, COMMON SWEET (Reseda Odorata)— 
Very fragrant, largely used. Packet 3 cts.; oz., 10 cts. 
THUNBERGIA, BLACK-EYED SUSAN—Handsome, 
slender growing climbers, suitable for low trellises, vases, 
hanging baskets, etc., pure white, yellow and deep orange 
some with black eyes and some with white. They bloom 
all .summer and are among the prettiest of old fashioned 
flowers. Packet 4 cts. 
across, and of all shades of pink, crimson, white and varie¬ 
gated. Elegantly fringed and very beautiful. Pkt. 6 cts. 
SCHIZANTHUS, BUTTERFLY FLOWER—An elegant 
free-blooming annual, large curiously shaped flowers, 
beautifully spotted with crimson, lilac, purple and 
orange ; makes pretty house plants, also fine for beds 
and cutting. Packet 4 cts. 
Mignonette Defiance. 
LARGE-FLOWERING SCARLET SAGE (Salvia Splendens)-High- 
ly valued as one of the very finest and most beautiful flowers of late 
summer and fall, when it surpasses everything else in brilliant color 
and continuous bloom, grows easily and makes grand, stately plants, 
two to three feet high, completely covered with intense bright-scarlet 
flowers—a dazzling mass of color when other flowers are gone. Pkt. 
4 cts.; extra large pkts., 6 cts. 
SALVIA FARINACEA—This is the lovely blue Salvia, forming dense, 
bushy plants with long spikes of beautiful blue flowers, making a 
charming contrast when grown with scarlet variety described 
above. Packet, 6 cts. 
IMPATIENS SULTANA—This is a lovely plant either for house cul¬ 
ture or open ground; nearly always loaded with its brilliant rosy 
crimson flowers, very showy and beautiful ; grows easily and is one 
of the prettiest plants we have. Packet 6 cts. 
LAVENDER—An aromatic medicinal herb, bearing pretty spikes of 
pale blue flowers, and yielding, when dried, a delightful perfume. 
Packet 5 cts. 
Large Flowering Scarlet Sage. 
NEW LARGE-FLOWERING TORENIA—A most charming plant, 
equally valuable for beds, baskets and pots, a profuse bloomer, cov¬ 
ered with deep blue flowers most all the time. Packet 6 cts. 
NEW TORENIA ‘‘WHITE WINGS”—Fully equal in beauty to the 
Blue Torenia, which it closely resembles; flowers, pearly-white; extra 
fine for beading and house culture; blooms all the time. Pkt 6 cts. 
