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PlillOTHf MWEKUIG SWEET SULTANS. 
CUHITE, YELiLiOCU and f?ED. 
The old Sweet Sultan has long been a favorite garden annual of the easiest culture. These 
mammoth-flowering varieties are grand improvements, producing blossoms from 2^ to 4 inchZ 
across, of graceful airy effect, and are most deliciously fragrant—they are simply invaluable fll 
cutting for vases, and for wearing as corsage flowers they are marvelously effective. A number nf 
people stepped into our store the past summer with bunches of either the yellow or white varieties 
that they had purchased from a near-by Italian flower peddler, wanting to get the seed or learn th P 
name of “ these beautiful flowers.” Height, 2 feet. (See cut.) 
Mammoth White Sultan. (Centaurea Margarita).. ... . 
Mammoth Red Sultan. (G. odorata) .... 20 Mammoth Yellow Sultan. (C. Chameleon). $ 
The collection of 3 packets for 60c. 
JAPANESE SE1S1I, OH JVTOUSTACHH PLtAUT. 
(Caryopteris Mastacanthus.) 
Very showy herbaceous plants, forming nice compact bushes about 2 feet high, bearing along the 
stems opposite clusters of feathery flowers ; both foliage and flowers are very fragrant. From 
spring-sown seed they commence blooming early in the summer and continue until frost. Of the 
easiest possible culture, thriving in any garden soil, particularly if given an abundance of water 
during dry weather. We offer two colors. 
Violet Blue Beni. Pkt. *5 Snow-white Beni. 
HEW ("SWo) CEHTHOSEJVIM. 
■atej 
•Pkt. 25 
(The Butterfly Pea.) A hardy 
perennial vine of exquisite 
beauty, growing 7 to 8 feet in 
a season, and the first season 
from seed will produce grace¬ 
ful clusters of 6 to 8 inverted 
pea-shaped flowers, 1)~ to 2>£ 
inches across, of pure satiny 
white. They are beautiful 
objects when grown in pots 
trained to a fancy trellis, 
though the garden is their 
congenial homo. Pkt. 25 
EARLY-FLOWERING COSMOS. 
Eatfly Summer 
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COSMOS. 
The Cosmos has developed into one of our 
most beautiful garden annuals, and has 
been appropriately called “The Glory of 
Autumn/’ Unfortunately, they do not 
bloom until quite late, and sometimes in 
colder northern States early frost catches 
them before they are fully in flower. 
This new strain of early-flowering Cosmos, 
which we have been working up for sev¬ 
eral years, begins to bloom scatteringlyin 
June, the quantity increasing gradually 
until August, and from that time until 
frost the plants are a mass of flowers. The 
plants are dwarfer than the late-flowering 
Cosmos, forming compact bushes only 4 
feet high. The colors are white, crimson 
and pink, which we offer only in mixture. 
(See cut.) Price, 25c. per pkt. 
Doable, Iiarge-FlomePing 
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are among the most beautiful winter and 
•ing plants for the window and greenhouse. 
Not only are ttio flowers of striking beauty, but the foliage is 
also highly ornamental. This new double-flowering strain is 
even more beautiful, each flower having usually 8 to 10 petals, 
often 12 to 15, which are moro spreading than in single varieties. 
There is the same range of colors, crimson, pink, white, spotted, etc., and like all double 
flowers they remain much longer in perfection than singles, the season of blooming lasting 
fully 3 months. The strain is not yet quite fixed, but produces a sufficient proportion of 
doubles to justify us in offering it this season. Double, Mixed Colors. Pkt. 60 
M08AIC-LEAVED COTTON. 
COPYRIGHT1997er Peter Henderson & Ca 
CHOTOLtAHlA HETUSA. 
(Golden Bush Pea or Florida Ratllebox .) 
Sujeet-Seented Cyelamen. 
house, the perfume exhaled by the flowers is delightfully noticeable. The flowers and plants 
are equal in every way to those of other Cyclamens. Several colors in mixture. Per pkt., 50c. 
— - Oahlia. Single Giant Perfection.-= 
This splendid strain surpasses all other varieties in enormous size of flowers, which measure 
from 4 to 5}£ inches across ; the petals are very broad and overlapping, forming a perfect¬ 
shaped flower of splendid substance. The colors vary through various shades of red, yellow 
and rose, some plants producing striped flowers of handsome effect. The plants are bushy, 
compact, and grow only about 18 inches high, and from seed sown in early spring will begin 
blooming in July and continue in increasing profusion until frost. 
Mixed Colors. Pkt. 25 
A beautiful annual, with rich golden yellow Sweet Pea- 
Bike flowers, often 40 blossoms on one spike. It blooms 
profusely throughout the summer and until killed by 
frost. It is a low, branching plant. The flowers are 
followed by pods, in which, when shaken, the seeds 
tfiound like a child’s rattle. It is best to start the 
«eeds in the window or hot-bed, first soaking 
thorn in warm wator. Price, 10c. per pkt. 
JNleuu • • • 
■lyiosaie-lieaVed 
Gotton. 
The Cotton Plant is always interesting, 
particularly to the young people of the 
North. This mosaic-leaved variety is 
identical with our Southern Cotton, ox- 
oopting the foliago on most of the plants 
is beautifully variegated, green, white, 
rod and yellow. Homo leaves will bo 
marked with all of the colors mentioned ; 
other leaves may bo half yellow, the other 
half rod ; others all red or all yellow, 
etc., etc. The largo yellow Hlbiscus-liko 
■flowers aro followed by pointed pods, which 
on coming to maturity burst and display 
a profusion of white down which forms 
tho cotton of commerce. In tho North, if 
the seeds aro started early in a hot-bed or in 
the house, tho plants will produce mature pods 
boforo frost. Price, per pkt., 15c. 
GOLDEN JUBILEE PREMIUMS of your own selection. Do not miss them in ordering. See particulars, page 7. 
