DAHLIA 
Cypress Vine 
249. Mixed (c). Pretty, delicate climbing annual vine, growing 
about 15 feet in a season. Foliage dark green and feathery, 
and interspersed with bright star-shaped flowers, scarlet, rose 
and white, which form an elegant contrast to the graceful fo- 
liage. Pkt., 6c. 
Dahlia 
Dahlias may be grown successfully from seed and will blos- 
som the first season. Start seed very early in the house or 
outdoors and transplant as you would tomatoes. Soil should be 
very rich as they are good feeders and do not bloom well in poor 
soil. Some plants will come single from the best double seed and 
any not wanted may be discarded. 
Eee suas Mixed. A wide variety of colors in the single Dahlias. 
t, 8c: 
251. Unwin’s Hybrids. A lovely free flowering class of dwarf 
Dahlias blooming by midsummer from seed sown in the spring. 
They form a pretty dense plant about 2 feet high and are 
loaded with double and semi-double flowers in many bright 
and attractive colors. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c. 
ae peunS An extra choice selection of finest double sorts. 
Telus 
254. Coltness Hybrids. Very dwarf bushy plant producing single 
flowers in abundance. Many striking colors. Pretty for beds 
or borders. Pkt., 8c; 2 pkts. for l5c. 
Dahlia roots—mixed, 3 for 60c; 6 for $1.00. 
Daisy 
255. Tahoka (a). This plant is very easily grown, blooms early 
and remains in bloom until fall. Foliage is fernlike and flow- 
ers are 2 to 3 inches across. Rays are a lilac-blue and centers 
are yellow. A free blooming desirable cut flower growing 
14% to 2 feet high and branching freely. Pkt., 10c. 
Daisy, Shasta 
(p). Large Marguerite-like flowers produced in June and July 
on plants 2 to 214 feet tall. Very hardy and easy to grow. 
257. Early Conqueror. A giant-flowering Shasta Daisy which 
comes into bloom very early. Pkt., 8c. 
258. Ball’s Selected Alaska. Flowers are extremely large and 
graceful, with three or more rows of petals of the purest glisten- 
ing whiteness, and borne on single, stiff, wiry stems nearly 2 
feet long. Pkt., 10c. 
Delphiniums, Chinese 
Flowers from June until September. May be grown as bien- 
nial but will bloom the first year from early sown seed. Lovely 
in beds, borders or rock gardens. 
267. Blue Butterfly. Deep brilliant blue. Pkt., 10c. 
268. Liberty Larkspur. Dark blue. Pkt., 10c. 
aco ek Blue. Luminous light blue, about 2 feet tall. 
t., 8c. 
270. Rock Garden or Baby Butterfly. 
bright flowers. Pkt., 10c. 
Four Chinese Delphiniums for 30c. 
Very dwarf strain with 
Delphinium 
(Hardy Larkspur) (p.). The Delphinium or Hardy Larkspurs are 
popular and useful perennials both for cut flowers and florists 
use. The shades of blue are unequalled by any other flowers. 
They grow readily in any soil from seed or division of plants. 
After the first blossoms are cut they send up a second crop of 
flowers. 
259. Belladonna. Single flowers of turquoise-blue loosely ar- 
ranged on tall slender spikes. Pkt., 10c. 
260. Cliveden Beauty. An improved strain of Belladonna type 
with beautiful showy flowers of a delicate light blue. Very 
desirable as a cut flower. -Pkt., 15c. 
261. Bellamosum. <A rich deep blue in color and of the same 
type and habit of growth as the Belladonna. Pkt., 10c. 
262. Hollyhock Strain. Magnificent race producing enormous 
spikes of bloom in many new and lovely shades. The flow- 
ers are very large and come in both single and double forms. 
The plants branch freely and continue to flower all summer. 
Colors range through every shade and combination of blue to 
deep indigo and purple. Known also as Wrexham Hybrids. 
Pkt, 25c: 
263. Blackmore and Langdon Hybrids. All the clear shades of 
blue with bees of contrasting colors. Pkt., 25c. 
264. De Luxe Hybrids. The blossoms are of immense size, semi- 
double and double, covering the graceful, towering spikes for 
from 2 to 5 feet of their length. The colors range from light 
lavender, through every shade of blue from azure to indigo 
and purple, several shades being blended in some of the 
varieties. These are the result of breeding and improving 
for years. Pkt., 25c. 
265. Gold Medal Hybrids. A selection of extra fine large flow- 
ering Delphiniums both in double and single. Pkt., 10c. 
266. Pacific Giants Mixed. Remarkable fiew strain developed 
on the Pacific Coast. Flowers extremely large and well 
formed, 22 to 3% inches in diameter, symmetrically placed on 
well-balanced spikes. Comparatively mildew-resistant. Near- 
ly 100 per cent double. Pkt., 25c. 
One packet of each of the above 8 Delphiniums for $1.00. 
Dianthus Pinks 
Dianthus Pinks embrace a family of the richest, most uniquely 
colored of flowers. For variety and profuseness of bloom they 
have few equals. By sowing every season you can have them 
in bloom from early summer till frosts. Seeds sown in spring 
bloom by fall and live through the winter, blooming early the 
next summer. 
271. Gaiety. Large, single, lacy flowers in a brilliant range of 
colors, Pkt., 10c. 
272. Giant Chinese or India Pink Mixed. 
in many beautiful colors. Blooms in clusters. 
273. Double Chinese. inches, 
freely produced in clusters. 
Large flowering forms 
Pkt., 5c. 
double flowers 
Plants tall, 20 
Pkt., 6c. 
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