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Breck’s Perennial Flower Seeds 
Gaillardia • Blanket Flower 
Wheel-shaped, yellow and red flowers 
with dark brown centers. Excellent for 
cutting and garden decoration. Plants 2 to 
3 feet high. 
7830 Breck’s Exhibition Hybrids. Large, 
handsome flowers of clear yellow or 
brilliant crimson, edged and banded with 
gold. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
7832 Burgundy. Exceedingly beautiful 
strain with large, deep, dark scarlet 
flowers. Pkt. 35c. 
7838 Grandiflora, Dazzler. Vivid crim¬ 
son with broad yellow margin. Pkt. 25c. 
7840 Portola Hybrids. Clear crimson 
flowers, feather-edged yellow. Pkt. 25c. 
Grasses 
Ornamental grasses make handsome 
clumps, effective as lawn specimens and 
useful as backgrounds in a hardy border. 
The plumed flowering sprays may be dried 
for indoor decoration. 
7865 Arundo Donax. Great Reed. Grows 
12 feet high, with drooping foliage and 
enormous plumes. Prefers a deep sandy 
loam. Pkt. 10c. 
7867 Erianthus Ravennae. Plume Grass. 
Resembles the annual Pampas Grass, 
making feathery, silvery spikes 8 feet 
high. Pkt. 10c. 
7869 Eulalia japonica variegata. Good 
clumps 5 feet high, with long, narrow, 
green leaves striped white. Pkt. 15c. 
Gypsophila 
Echinacea • Coneflower 
7788 Purpurea. Bushy plant with 3- 
foot stems, topped by huge, dull 
rose-pink daisies with high, dark, 
bronzy centers from July until frost. 
Fine for cutting and landscape dec¬ 
oration. Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
Echinops • Globe Thistle 
7792 Ritro. Coarse, spiny foliage, with 
globular heads of steel-blue flowers 
in July and August on 3-foot stems. 
Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
Edelweiss 
7795 Gnaphalium Leontopodium. 
This famous rock-garden plant is 
from the Swiss Alps. Starry white 
flowers surrounded by silvery-gray 
woolly foliage. Height 6 inches. Pkt. 
25c. 
Eryngium • Sea Holly 
■ Ornamental border plants with]hand- 
some, spiny foliage and thistle-like 
flowers which may be dried for .Winter 
bouquets. Height 2 to 3 feet. 
7812 Amethystinum. Deep blue. Pkts. 
25c 60c. 
7814 Giganteum. Very handsome, pale 
blue flowers. Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
Eupatorium • Snakeroot 
7818 Fraseri. Rough-leaved border plant 
for shady places with heads of frizzly 
white flowers. 3 to 4 feet high. Pkts. 10c 
and 25c. 
Gentiana • Gentian 
7825 Acaulis. A precious plant of dwarf 
habit, with immense, starry trumpets of 
gorgeous deep blue. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
Geranium 
7827 Sanguineum. An attractive, loosely 
branching plant 18 inches high, with 
fine-cut foliage and bright, rosy purple 
flowers. Pkts. 25c and 60c. 
Gaillardia, Dazzler 
Geum 
Dwarf border plants with 18- 
inch sprays of charming flowers 
rising from a rosette of rough, 
handsomely designed foliage. 
Blooms freely from May to 
October. 
7860 Lady Stratheden. Flow¬ 
ers double, yellow. Pkts. 15c 
and 35c. 
7861 Mrs. Bradshaw. Double; 
brightest scarlet. Very popu¬ 
lar. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
7863 Orange Queen. Double; 
glowing orange-scarlet. Pkt. 
25c. 
Gypsophila • Baby’s Breath 
Tall varieties are excellent border 
plants with high value as cut-flowers. 
The dwarf varieties are excellent in the 
rock-garden. 
7882 Paniculata. Globular bushes 2 
to 3 feet high, with masses of tiny, 
misty flowers and foliage. Pkts. 10c 
and 25c. 
7884 Paniculata fl.-pl. This seed pro¬ 
duces at least 70 per cent double 
flowers which are whiter and larger 
than those of the single type. Pkts. 
25c and 60c. 
7885 Pacifica. A later-flowering va¬ 
riety than Paniculata. The smalt 
pink blossoms are carried gracefully 
on spreading panicles. Height 3 feet- 
Pkt. 25c. 
7886 Repens. A dense, creeping plant, 
producing clouds of dainty pinkish, 
white flowers. Height 6 inches; Pkts.. 
15c and 35c. 
7888 Repens rosea. Pink. Pkt. 25c. 
Geum, Mrs. Bradshaw 
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