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-FLOWER SEED SPEClALTitS 
DOLICHOS 
AND 
FLOWERING BEANS 
These showy annual climbers grow luxuriantly about 10 ft. 
high, branching out well from tlie bottom, ami are clot lied with 
<lense foliage, insect proof, and form excellent screens a.s well 
as being exceedingly ornamental. The Sweet-pea-like blos¬ 
soms are borne in long. Wistaria-like clusters, often a foot 
in length. 
Giant Crimson Japanese Dolichos. Flo\vers at first 
blush deejiening with age to dark red, followed by bronzy- 
purple seed j)ods; foliage, tlark green with red veins' 
flower and leaf stems, maroon. 2^kt. 10c! 
Giant White Japanese Dolichos. Long spikes of clear 
white flowers, profuse bloomer and showy. iqc. 
Butterfly Runner. A climbing bean attaining a height 
of 10 to 12 feet and producing in continuous profusion 
during the summer clusters of coppery-scarlet flowers 
with large expanded white wings, giving an efTect not 
unlike a flock of butterflies. Pkt, 15c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA 
Tliese Giant-l-dowering “California Poppies” are 
among our most beautiful and jwpular annual.s. From 
spring-sown seeds they flower profusely until late in the 
autumn, making them invaluable for bedding. The 
flowers of these new giants are of immense size, from k 
to 6 inchcfi in diameter. The colors are intense and 
shining yellows. In some an orange blotch almost 
suffmses the whole flower, in others it runs into the yellow 
in fine penciled lines, others again have an orange centre 
with a margin of clear yellow. (.SVe cut^ 
Eschscholtzia “GoldenWest," MixedColors.PA-f.iOc. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA “CRIMSON KING” 
I'he best of the red flowing varieties. Flowers about 3 inches 
across ; exterior bright crimson, interior rich satiny carmine; 
plant bushy and compact, about 1 foot high by 15 inches across. 
It flowers freely and continiiously during the summer. .Pkt. 10c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA 
ERECTA COMPACTA 
MANDARIN 
In this charming new variety we have an entirely new habit 
in Kschscholtzias. The plants are of upright, compact, bushy 
form, producing freeb' large flowers of rich, deep orange color, 
shaded crimson. Pki. 10c. 
BUSH ESCHSCHOLTZIA fumarisefolla) 
Grows into a bush 2 feet high, with the beautiful foliage of 
the Kschscholtzia enlarged. Large cup-shaped flowers, 3 inches 
across, on stems 12 inches long; the color is of clear bright 
yellow, contrasting vividly with the bunch of golden stamens 
m the centre; the petals are broad, overlapping and crinkled 
like crushed yellow satin. Plants, from seed sown early, com¬ 
mence to bloom in July and continue to flower for months. 
. Pkt. 10c. 
GIANT HARDY HYBRID 
GAILLARDIAS 
The flowers arc extraordinarily large, often 4 to 5 inches 
across, and very highly colored in greatdiversity of varia¬ 
tions and blendings, including such combinations as dazzling 
scarlet with gold 0 (lge, blood-crimson with yellow eflge, yel¬ 
low with orange disk, golden with scarlet border, i>ure yel¬ 
low. fiery crimson and many others. These magnificent 
Gaillardias are hardy j)erennials, less coarse and more com¬ 
pact in growth than the okler kinds and they ])roduce a 
constant succession of flowers all summer aiu) fall; when 
grown in large groups they are gorgeously effective. As 
cut flowers they are almost unrivaletl; the immense and 
brilliant flowers, on long, self-supporting stems, “vase” 
handsomely, and they hist in water for days. 
Giant Hardy Hybrid Gaillardia, Mixed Colors. Pkt. 10c. 
Gaillardia ^randiflora semi-plena. This novelty pro¬ 
duces .semi-double flowers nearly 4 inches across; colors 
light yellow, deep golden, and sometimes tinged with red. 
The velvety-maroon disk forms a brilliant contrast. 
Hardy perennial.loc. 
GAILLARDIA compacta 
:: :: :: LORENZIANA 
A showy garden annual of easiest culture; the plants 
grow in compact bushy form, about 1 foot high, and bear 
freely during the summer large globular heads of florets 3 to 
4 inches across. Colors: red, orange, lemon, etc., in mix¬ 
ture. Pkt. 10c. 
GYPSOPHILA “PARIS MARKET*' 
An improved large-flowering variety of G. paniculata; 
this forms branching plants about 2 feet high, fairly smoth¬ 
ered all summer long with graceful clusters of snow-white 
flowers half an inch across. A pretty garden annual, and 
of great value for bouquets, vases, etc. Pkt. 10c. 
We Deliver Free in the U. S. oiH«%7F«fgM sut'iM. All Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Bulbs and Books, other'wise^SSw. 
