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Burgess’ Hardy Outdoor Carnations 
During the past few years plant breeders have developed the carnation to the point where it becomes indispensable to our 
greenhouse varieties. 
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BRILLIANC The most outstanding of all hardy 
red carnations. The color, a dazzling 
erimson, is so intense that it actually startles you when you 
first see a bed in full bloom. A good flower for cutting, and 
the more it is cut, the more flowers the plant will produce. 
Blooming size plants (50c¢ each) (3 for $1.30) (6 for $2.20). 
SILVERMINE Truly the finest of all double white 
carnations. Often as many as eight 
individual carnations in one huge cluster. Here is a wealth 
of flower, silvery-white, studded on a solid mound of healthy, 
thick green foliage, and best of all, like its beautiful counter- 
part Beatrice, it flowers intermittently all summer long. Won- 
derfully fragrant. Excellent for cutting. Perfectly hardy. A 
prized possession. Blooming size plants (45c¢ each) (3 for 
$1.20) (6 for $2.00). 
The blooms have been increased in size so that now you can grow carnations outdoors that will rival the 
Hardiness has been bred into the plants so they will now stand winter temperatures that are well below 
BEATRICE The Everblooming Cluster Carnation. It is 
impossible to fully describe the beauty of 
these flower clusters. The color is a warm salmon pink. The 
flower clusters measure 3 to 4 inches across, giving the impres- 
sion of one huge flower. They are delightfully fragrant, and 
are produced intermittently from June until frost. Very strong 
and hardy. Blooming size plants (45¢ each) (3 for $1.20) 
(6 for $2.00). 
HARD BORDER CARNATIONS. 12 to 18 inches: The 
true hardy outdoor or border Carnation. Beau- 
tiful double blooms in great abundance all summer. Excellent 
for cutting. A fine mixture of colors, including white, yellow, 
all the pink shades, light and dark red and striped. (Pkt., 20c) 
(46 oz. for 60c). Year-old plants (3 for 80c) (6 for $1.30) (12 
for $2.00). 


Prize Delphiniums 
The queen of the floral kingdom and the envy of every flower lover. No garden is complete 
They are the very foundation of the perennial 
border. By planting our selected strains and following a few simple rules anyone can grow 
without these stately towers of beauty. 
Delphiniums to be proud of. 
DOUBLE PACIFIC HYBRIDS. Did you ever go shopping and come home with that abso- 
lute feeling that your purchase was ‘‘tops’’ in every sense of the word? If you have, then 
you can have that same assurance with our beautiful, hand selected Pacific Hybrids. Indi- 
vidual double flowers 2% inches across, on spikes 5 to 6 feet high, are not at all unusual. 
Your flower loving friends will stop, look and marvel at them. 
created, 
blended, hardly two alike. 
flowers. (Pkt., 30c) (4 oz., 70c) (Ye 0z., $1.20). 
PLANTS OF SELECTED DOUBLE FLOWERS. We have plants that have been carefully 
selected for extra large double blooms at (75c each) (3 for $1.80) (6 for $3.30) (12 for $6.00). 
PACIFIC HYBRIDS ONE YEAR OLD PLANTS. All shades and colors mixed. (3 for 
85c) (6 for $1.40) (12 for $2.20). 
DOUBLE PURITY. 
glistening white double flowers. 
Many color combinations of blue, purple, rose and lavender are exquisitely 
Our hand picked seed is carefully selected from all double 
Sometimes we look back at the things that used to be. 
remember when ‘‘Iceberg’’ was introduced and the excitement over the first white Delphin- 
jum? Our new selected white strain of Pacific Hybrids is so far-superior to the older form 
of greenish white blooms that we have called it Purity. 
No plants to offer. 
Greater beauty was never 
Do you 
Every plant produces large, 
(Pkt., 30c) (49 0z., 80c). 

Pacific Hybrid Delphinium 

BELLADONNA. Large single light blue flowers on tall spikes. 1 
year old plants. (3 for 75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 for $1.80). 
BELLAMOSUM. Same as Belladonna except color which is deep 
blue. 1 year old plants. (3 for 75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 for $1.80). 
LAMARTINE. Gentian blue flowers on tall spikes with many 
lateral branches. Blooms all summer. 1 year old plants. (3 for 
75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 for $1.80). 
GIANT ENGLISH HYBRIDS. Our stock of English Hybrids has 
been made up from some of the finest Delphinium collections in 
Europe and America; and while they cannot compare with our Pa- 
cific Hybrids, they are far superior to ordinary Delphiniums. The 
range of color contains all of the self-colors, as well as various com- 
DELPHINIUM, Chinese Butterfly. 
to 24 inches high. Light blue. Good for cutting. 
(3 for 75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 for $1.80). 
GYPSOPHILA or Baby's Breath 
PANICULATA DOUBLE WHITE. 214 ft. A great improvement on the 
single-flowered type and more lasting. he feathery sprays of flowers add 
greatly. to the beauty of any mixed bouquet, either freshly cut in summer 
or dried for winter use. July-August. (Pkt., 25c) (%6 oz., 50c). Year 
old plants (3 for 80c) (6 for $1.30) (12 for $2.00). 
PACIFICA. 314 ft. Single rose-pink blooms on well branched plants. 
Extremely hardy and comes into bloom later than Paniculata. Year old 
plants only. (3 for 75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 for $1.80). 

Doubie Gypsophila 
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Dwarf branched plants. 
1 year old plants. 
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this mixture. 
plants. 
_ GAILLARDIA 
(Perennial Hybrids) 
Gaillardias are needed in every garden 
to add that continuous dash of color 
through the hot, dry summer. Our mixed 
hybrids contain all the new types and 
colors, from clear yellow to almost red. 
(Pkt.,. 15c) (46 02z., 45c).= Year old 
Wao) (3 for 75c)) (6 for $1.20)" (iz for 
1.80). 
FEVERFEW 
12 inches. June-October. Free-flower- 
ing hardy perennial. Fine, double white 
flowers resembling pompon Chrysanthe- 
mums. One of the best all-season cut 
flowers. (Pkt., 15c) (46 oz., 50c). Year 
old plants (3 for 75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 
for $1.80). 
DIGITALIS (Fexglove) 
One of the- most popular of our bien- 
nial garden flowers. Hnormous spikes 3 
to 4 feet tall, covered with bell-shaped 
flowers of pink, rose and white spotted 
with crimson and maroon. Blooms dur- 
ing July and August. (Pkt., 15c) (% oz., 
50c). Year old plants (3 for 75c) (6 for 
$1.20) (12 for $1.80). 
Perennial Flower Mixture 
An inexpensive way of obtaining a 
good assortment of perennial plants is to 
send for our Perennial Flower Seed 
Packet, which includes all the leading 
varieties in a grand mixture, (RELA 
{5c) (% 0oz., 50c) (14 0z., 75c). 
binations of rose, mauve, blue, purple, ete. 
Pkt., 25c; 1% oz., $1.00; %4 oz., $1.75. 
(3 for 75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 for $1.80). 
for winter decoration. 
‘as above only smaller pods. 
We highly recommend 
1 year old 
CHINESE LANTERN 
GIANT (Physalis Franchetii) is highly prized 
The balloon-like pods or 
lanterns measure 6 to 9 inches in circumference, 
are brilliant orange in color and retain their shape 
and color all winter. Easily grown in almost any 
soil. A money maker for the florist and the road- 
side stand. (Pkt., 25c) (% oz., 75c). Blooming 
size roots (45¢ each) (3 for $1.20) (6 for $2.00) 
(12 for $3.60). 
STANDARD SIZE CHINESE LANTERN. Same 
Year old plants only. 
(3 for 75c) (6 for $1.20) (12 for $1.80). 
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Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
GALESBURG, MICHIGAN 
