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Seeds of Annual Flowers 
With a delicate beauty all their own, annuals sprout from seed, grow, flower, fruit, 
and die all within the garden year. They are easily grown from seed. 
ACROCLINIUM 
Popular Everlasting Flowers easily grown in any soil, blooming six weeks after seeding. Sow early 
_ Indoors and set out in May for bloom from June until frost; or sow direct in the garden bed m May. 
Giant Double Hybrids. Pkt. 13; Egou. 45e 
Fine, large flowers in shades of salmon, apricot, pink, rose, and cerise, and in white and cream, on 204nch plants. 
AGATHEA 
This half-hardy perennial blue daisy is beautiful in the garden border. For cut-flowers, be sure to cut 
stems at bottom to cause plants to branch more freely. Likes rich, porous soil and full sun. A very 
excellent 45-degree greenhouse pot-plant and, if started in January and benched in July, the 18-inch 
plants will bloom from December to May. Repot plants each year. 
Ceelestis. Pkt. 15c; 302. 35c 
Blue Marguerite. Exquisite single sky-blue rayed flowers, 14 inches across, with yellow discs in June. Invaluable 
for dwarf borders. Seed is of irregular germination. 
AGERATUM 
Floss Flower. One of the very finest dwarf bedding plants, as it flowers continuously all summer up 
to frost. Plants will be ready to set out m the garden in May from seed sown in January and February. 
Blue Boy sown in November or December makes fine pot-plants for Easter bloom. Also sow in the 
garden in May. Thrives in full sun or half shade. 
' Blue Ball Improved. Pkt. 20c; yy0z. 45c; y50z. 70c 
The broad green foliage of the dwarf, symmetrical 5-inch plants when im full bloom is almost covered with small 
deep aes flowers. They are very uniform and even in growth. 
Blue Boy. ape : Pkt. 20c; z0z. 45c; :0z. 70c 
This extra-dwarf strain is the result of many years of careful selection. The plants are compact and 
very uniform, growing about 4 inches high. Its rich deep blue flowers of good size are very freely 
produced, almost obscuring the neat deep green foliage. Fine for borders and rock-gardens. 
Blue Perfection. Pkt. 15c; Koz. 40c; Yyoz. 65c 
Large flower-heads of deep amethyst-blue on 9 to 10-inch plants. Excellent for large beds and for cutting. 
Midget Blue _ : j f ; : Pkt. 20c; y0z. 45c; #502. 75c 
All-America Winner. This delightful little edging plant is the dwarfest of all—3 inches high—with 
fine foliage literally covered with small, true ageratum-blue flowers. It comes uniformly dwarf. 
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