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EUPHORBIA MARGINATA or " Snow-on^he-Mountain 
This native annual is quite popular as a garden plant on account of its showy appearance 
and ease of culture in almost any soil—even the poorest — if in a sunny location. It is of 
rank branching growth about 2 feet high. The foliage of light green being broadly 
margined with silvery-white, giving the effect—in miniature — of “ Snow-on-the- 
Mountain/’. pkt. 10c. 
GAILlARDIA annual varieties 
Very showy garden annuals, 1 to 2 feet high. Grown in masses they are es¬ 
pecially effective; large flowers, 2 to 3 inches across, produced from early summer 
until frost; unrivaled for cutting. 
Mixed Single Varieties. . Pkt. 5c. 
Lorenziana, or Double-flowering. Large round heads, composed" of numerous 
flowers of crimson, garnet, lemon, orange, etc, in miniature. Pkt. 5c. 
GIANT HARDY HYBRID GAILLARDIA 
The flowers are often 4 to 5 inches across, colored in great diversity of variations 
and blendings, including such combinations as scarlet with gold edge, blood-red 
with yellow edge, yellow with orange disk, golden with scarlet border, pure yellow, 
fiery-crimson and many others. These are hardy perennials, compact in growth 
and produce a succession of flowers summer and fall. As cut flowers, last in 
water for days. (See cut.) 
Giant Hardy Hybrid, Mixed Colors. Pkt. 10c. 
Grandiflora Sibylla. (Novelty.) Very large bright, carmine-red flowers, the 
petals of which are narrowly tipped or pointed with light yellow. Very 
free-blooming and strikingly effective. Pkt. 25c. 
GERANIUM GIANT- FLOWERING HYBRID ~ 
The flowers are extra large, round, of the most perfect form, borne in splendid 
trusses, some of them forming balls 16 inches in circumference. The colors include 
shades of scarlet and crimson, rose, pink, salmon, cream veined pink, blush, snowy- 
white and all of the new auriole types. These all stand the hot sun, and, although 
perennials, they will produce nice bushy plants and 
flower from seeds sown the same season; 12 to 
inches high. (See cut.) 
Giant-flowering Hybrids, Mixed Colors, 
Pkt. 15c. 
Double Giant-flowering, Mixed Col¬ 
ors .. Pkt. 25c. 
Ivy-leaved, Single, Large-flower¬ 
ing, Mixed Colors.. . . Pkt. 25c. 
GLOBE AMARANTH 
Bushy plants, about 2 feet 
high. The flowers are useful 
for dried winter bouquets. If 
cut before they are fully ripe 
and allowed to dry in a 
dark, airy room, they will 
retain their color the whole 
season. 
Mixed. Purple, white, 
etc. Pkt. 5c. 
NANA Compacta, Mixed. 
Yl foot high. . . Pkt. 5c. 
GLOXINIA 
Charming summer- 
blooming pot plants for 
conservatory, green-house 
or window garden. They 
flower in great profusion, 
having gorgeous colors, 
many of which are magnifi¬ 
cently spotted and mottled; 
1 foot. (See cut.) 
Large-flowering, Mixed. Pkt. 25c. 
GNAPHALIUM 
-OK "SIBEKIAN EDELWEISS "= 
This beautiful “Everlasting” is a hardy perennial 
growing about one foot in height, being larger 
than the famous Alpine Edelweiss, the star¬ 
shaped, woolly white flowers being fully as 
large again. It also thrives better under culti¬ 
vation and in low latitudes than the Alpine 
type. Especially suited for rock gardens and 
hillsides. Pkt. 15c. 
FUCHSIA 
Single and Double, Mixed. Tender perennial 
plants, 2 to 4 feet high, with pendent flowers 
of red, white, purple, etc. Seed sown early in 
the house will produce flowering plants the first 
season; fine for pot culture or bedded out in 
partial shade during summer. Pkt. 25c. 
GERBERA QR transvaal daisy 
A beautiful race of flowering plants brought into 
prominence recently with the introduction of an improved 
large-flowering scarlet type and the new various-colored 
hybrids. They are half hardy perennials, usually grown 
as greenhouse or window plants where they flower 
continuously. The Daisy-like blossoms, 3 to 4 inches 
across, being borne on 12 to 18 inch stems, are unsur¬ 
passed as cut flowers, being of splendid lasting substance. 
For garden culture in cold climates the plants are 
wintered over in cold frames like Pansies, etc. They art 
easily grown from seed and will commence flowering the 
first year though older plants will produce the greater 
. abundance of bloom. (See cut.) 
3iant Scarlet Gerbera. Immense flowers, 5 to 6 inches 
across, on 2 to 3-foot stems. Color intense scarlet, Pkt. 25c. 
Adnet’s New Hybrids. A French strain that has 
created a furore in the European floral world. The 
colors fticlude a galaxy of incomparable delicacy and 
richness, in which an infinity of tints, from pure white 
through yellow, orange, salmon, rose, cerise and ruby- 
red to violet are represented. Sometimes the color¬ 
ing of the disk differs from that of the rays. . Pkt. 35c. 
E°d?ttn r "PICTURESQUE GARDENS” by Charles Henderson 
“ Your book ‘Picturesque Gardens’ is beautiful, ad¬ 
mirably edited, and a credit to you in every -way.” 
A. B. FARQUHAK, York, Pa. 
