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MATCHLESS LETTUCE
MATCHLESS LETTUCE
_ When we first saw this Lettuce, three years ago, we were more impressed with it than any new vegetable ever brought to our attention. We immediately secured stock for a good crop, and now olfer and recommend it as one of the most valuable vegetable novel- ties for the family garden ever introduced. lt is a cross between a head variety and the Cos, or Romaine Lettuce, with numerous leaves which form a long, loose head which for tenderness and brittleness is truly marvelous. It is so crisp and brittle that it will break like glass, hence, not desirable for shipping, but the best possible sort for home use. It has a combination of head and Cos flavor that is unique, and far superior to any other sort. Fine for early frames, but for an open-ground, summer variety nothing can approach it.
Mr. E. S, Miller, a noted seed grower and vegetable expert, of Wading River, N. Y., says: “The Matchless Lettuce is unique in manner of growth and flavor. The peculiar growth of the leaves, always opposite each other and forming a cross until headed, when it loses that character and makes a solid, long, slim head. It is exceedingly crisp, even the basal leaves are so crisp after the head is formed that they break in handling. It has a fine flavor, distinct from other Lettuces,”’
We can recommend this Lettuce with full confidence. It will more than please. Pkt., 15c; 2 pkts., 25c; oz., 50c.
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, INC.,
Our Fall Catalogue
UR Illustrated Catalogue of HYA- CINTHS, TULIPS, NARCISSUS, CROCUSES, SCILLAS, FREESIAS, SNOWDROPS, and all HARDY BULBS and PLANTS, for fall planting and win- ter blooming, will be sent to our CuUs-
tomers the first of September, It will also be sent free to all who apply. We make a specialty of all Fall Bulbs, and annually import from Hol- land and France the finest stock pro-
duced by the best growers. Regard- less of cost we furnish our customers with the choicest selected stock. That is why the bulbs we supply always give such wonderful .results,
FLORAL PARK, N. fF.
FTER the American flag, the first requisite to the American rural home is a fine lawn. Another most necessary thing is a hedge of best Privet for fencing or screening off, bor- dering walks, marking property lines, etc. Beautiful and easily grown Hardy Perennial
Plants are also necessary, among the very best of which (and cheapest) are the Irises. Lawn Grass seed is of the highest possible quality, and assures a fine lawn.
Our: Our Privet will
make the best hedges. We grow about ten acres of Irises whichare famous for quality.
Floral Park Lawn Grass oi,
We wish to call attention to the fact that our Floral Park Lawn Grass seed is kept up to tormer high stand= ard quality. The difficulty in importing some of the finer grasses now is being felt in the poorer quality of many mixtures, but not in ours.
Not even fine trees and beautiful flowers add as much beauty to the home surroundings as does a fine, velvety lawn. To secure a fine, close, even sward, it is absolute- ly necessary to use proper grasses. Good, deep, rich color, and turfy, compact habit, stooling out well from the bottom, and they must be able to stand the sun as well, and a considerable amount of drouth, without in- jury. We have a mixture of grasses that meet all these requirements. We use it at Floral Park, where it has been much admired. We have sold it in every State and Territory in the United States, and it has given entire satisfaction in every location. It grows quickly, making a fine green sward in a few weeks. A whole season’s drouth will not kill out this grass. .It may dry and burn as brown as possible, yet the first good rain will imme- diately bring it up green and velvety.
Pint, 20c; quart, 35c; peck, $1.85; per bushel, $6.50, prepaid.
the most ornamental
for gardens and lawns. OUR. QUALITY ASTERS
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German Iris
A striking flower of crepe-like texture and most ex- quisite coloring, the gauzy veining reminding one of the
bDuitterfly’s wing. We grow acres of Irises and know you can find no finer varieties than those here offered. They bloom in May and June, when there is a dearth of Teally fine flowers, and once planted are good for a lifetime.
Ad. Togo — Very light lavender. Brooklyn — Lavender with yellow base. Candicans — Light blue.
Extra fine; tall. Falls sky-blue.
Darias — Very distinct canary-yellow. Falls lilac mar- gined white.
Flavescens — Canary-yellow. _ Tall.
Grachus — Yellow falls, veined red and white. Very
compact; great bloomer. Innocence Pure white. L’Africain — Light rosy purple, veined white, dark falls. Mme. Chereau (the Lace-fringed tris) — Tall and stately,
pure white edged or fringed azure-blue; fails with blue penciling. Tall.
Pauline — Great bloomer. Lovely lavender-blue.
Perle — Very light blue.
Pres. Thiers — Standard olive. Falls reddish maroon, veined white.
Queen of May — Rosy lilac, almost a pure pink. Tall.
Velveteen — Yellowish buff. Falls rich plum-purple. Virgin — Fine lavender and rich purple. Price, 15c each; 3 for 40c; the 15 for $1.50; $1.25 per doz.; $7.00 per 100. Fine Mixed German Iris — A lovely collection of more than fifty named sorts. 12 for 85c; 100 for $5.50.
SOMESTARTLINGNOVELTIES
CHILDS’ GIANT XMAS KOCHIA (see Plate 5) is one of and decorative plants for Lawns, Gardens, Verandas, Balconies, Porches, etc. Not even fine Ferns or Palms can surpass it.
MASTODON PANSIES (see Plate 7) will give you one of the most beautiful Lawn beds possible.
CHILDS’ CHINESE WOOLFLOWER has made a place for itself the world over as a brilliant bedding plant
and EARLY SPENCER SWEET PEAS are wonderfully fine (see Plates 3
CHILDS’ SUPREME MUSKMELON is a marvel. greatest vegetable novelty in several years.
MATCHLESS LETTUCE is a distinct variety in every way, and for family use superior to any other. Its tenderness, brittleness and quality are unrivaled.
Privet for Hedges
Our Privet is all vigorous, young, well-rooted stock. No old, stunted piants.
California — Nothing makes so fine a hedge as the Cali- fornia Privet, which is perfectiy hardy and almost evergreen, as its beautiful bright shining dark green leaves do not drop until nearly spring. Set plants nine to twelve inches apart and trim to any height desired. Hedge will be so dense that a chicken can hardly get through it. Beautiful and neat at ail times. Wil grow to any neight desired from one foot to fifteen. Fine stock, twelve to eighteen inches. 60c per doz.; $4.00 per 100; $30.00 per 1000.
Large Stock — Two to three feet. $1.00 per doz., pre- paid; $5.00 per 100, by express collect.
Amoor River — (North) — An extra hardy Privet recom- mended especially for very cold latitudes like Maine and Minnesota, where the common or Cailfornia Privet sometimes winter-kills. It has very beautiful ever- green foliage. Fine stock, twelve to eighteen inches. $1.00 per doz.; $7.00 per 100.
The
New or Rare German [Iris
These are all extra-fine sorts
Bridesmaid —S. white, shaded silvery lilac; F. reticu- lated at the base, and slightly frilled, soft lilac.
Gertrude — S. and F. same shade rare violet-blue.
Harlequin Melanais — White and violet-blue; blotched,
Herant —— Standards bright blue; falls much darker. A beautiful broad-leaved sort; early flowering.
Loreley — Thirty inches. Standards pale yellow mottled purple, falls deeply veined, yellow margin. Extra fine.
Mrs. H. Darwin — Pure white, falls slightly reticulated violet at the base: very beautiful and free-flowering. Penelope — Nearly white, falls veined lively purple. Rheine Nixe — Very tall and grand. Late. Standards snowy white: falls deep violet-blue, white margin. . Sappho — Standards white, frilled lilac: falls pure white reticulated lilac at the base: large, fine flower. Wyomissing — Standards creamy white, suffused deli- cate Soft rose; falls deep rose shading to flesh.
20c each; any 3 for 50c: the 10 for $1.50; or, $1.75 doz.
Sweet Orris (Iris Florentina)
One of the most delicate perfumes is that of the Orris. The plant is of the Iris family with great. hand- some white blossoms, which emit delicate perfume and are objects of great beauty to any garden. Perfectly hardy and blooms abundantly each year. Strong roots. 15c each; 3 for 40c; 12 for $1.25; 100 for $9.00. New Blue Sweet Orris— Deep navy-blue; very large
and very sweet. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.50.
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In addition to above discounts we are going to give a ecial premium of some of our best new seeds to each one who sends us an order amounting to one dollar r more. In short, a free packet of the following seeds for each dollar’s worth ordered up to five dollars. So ame your choice of the following, one for each dollar’s - worth of goods bought up to and including five dollars. bith Mammoth Branching Comet Aster.
“Premiums this spring in exchange for J. L. C. Coupons.
_ “order to us make a selection from this list, returning to us the proper number of Coupons for the articles se- ees ence will be sent free of all charge.
ee ee pkt. “Aster American Beauty, for......... 20 count _ pkt. Aster Novelty Hybrids, for 0 He kt. Cosmos, Giant Summer, for
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WHAT WE Do
ke the Risk — We guarantee that all money sent hall reach us, if sent by Post Office or Express Com- ny’s mimey Order, Bank Drafts, Bills or Coin by Reg- 1 Letters. We will not be responsible for coin sent nary letters, or for postage stamps.
by Mail or Express — We send Seeds, Bulbs and
ed in this Catalogue, except where otherwise stated.
iS brings — them to the very doors of our customers
hout trouble or expense. Of course, we must have
- the privilege of sending either by mail or express, as Z ve ¢ eem best and cheapest.
: n n buyer asks 1 that goods be sent only by express
ot prepay the charges, but larger and better
, Shrubs, etc., can be sent that way—-and we add 0 help out in costs.
rantee that every package we send out shall estination in good condition, and that every-
notified at once. If a package is lost, or any iS injured on the way, we will send again.
oh customs officials of foreign countries.
(all.
ate transit through the mails to the re- f the country or abroad.
or ‘ders aS soon as received, if the stock is ers who wish their order, or any part of hipping at a later date, Should so state.
Brarlense Dulp house near the ith big spreading oaks. Oh! tT before seen such a riot of color.
were Poe 000 America,
600,000 ‘Lemoinei, - Sulphur King, 16,000 Scribe,
a: nearly- one thousand acres ”
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free by mail, parcel post or express at the prices
be received exactly as ordered, and if not
ywever, be responsible for losses caused by
Plants carefully in strong boxes, which—
erfection of glorious bloom, and this Rela Was only one of many to_be
, Extras c or EDiaGounts
a 25¢ Worth of Seed Extra on Each ‘Dollar’s Worth of Seed by Packet or Ounce : e 30c: worth of Seed by packet or ounce for 25c. 60c worth for 50c. $1.25 worth for $1.00.
7 “herefore, on each DOLLAR’S WORTH of seed by packet or ounce select 25¢ worth of This allows our customers to select their own Remember this offer applies only to seed by Packet or Ounce, and not 0: seed by pound, quart or bushel, nor to bulbs, plants, fruits or anything else.
_ “VARIETY iS THE SPICE OF LIFE” — This is particularly true in gardening. even if in very limited quantity, 5S add feal spice to gardening, real interest and joy.
SPECIAL PREMIUMS FREE WITH ORDERS
“extras,”
1 pkt. 1 pkt. 1 pkt. 1 pkt. 1 pkt. 1 1
Giant Summer Cosmos. Mastodon Pansy.
Everblooming Sweet William. Chinese Woolflower.,
Tomato, Top Notch. Everlasting Spinach.
Lettuce Half-Century Crisphead,
pkt. DKt.
J.L. C. Coupon Premiums, Spring 1918
The following list of Bulbs’ and Plants are given as
1 pkt. Giant Kochia, for ........ 6 ae ae oes 20 coupons 4 pkt. Plumed Sabyide. ho he A es 15 fee MaStOdon. Pansy Ors os exe ae. 15 i 1 pkt. Everblooming Sweet William, for -..45 * 4 pki. Chinese’ Woolflower, for ........... 15 >» Sartore Shane NT 1 OP 6 otace,. ho a's 3 ate ee 15 ef i phee-Hulless -Pop--Corns 0M: : 24) a3) oe as 10 i 1 pkt. Klondyke Watermelon, for.......... 10 ie pre Mateniess “Lettuce, =for =... oes 20 xe pki niyo weel -Gorn.—for-.. oS e4n ee 10 ee 1-pkt. Everlasting Cucumber, for ......... 20 f fepki. Half=Century. Lettuce, for .. 0°... 2 5 cs Peete tO) NOC Tomato, -TOP. 5... 6. 36 nie ele 20 “iy jeep. Becrsteaks Tomato pohOPe ics. 1084s S. vwl se 20 er
General Instructions About Ordering |
WHAT BUYERS SHOULD DO
Forward Money with the order, and at our risk, when sent by Post Office Money Order on Floral Park; bills or coin, by Registered Letter; Bank Draft or Express Com- pany’s Money Order. Post Office Money Orders are the safest method for remitting. We earnestly request our patrons to remit by Money Order if possible.
Stamps and Coin-— Do not send postage stamps in payment for goods if it can be avoided. The loss is great.
Coin, when sent in Jetters should be sewed or pasted up :
in strong paper or cloth, to prevent its breaking through the envelope. We will not be responsible for coin sent us except in Registered Letter, nor for Stamps.
Write Your Order plainly and distinctly by itself and not mixed up with anything else you may wish to say. Be sure to write your NAME and ADDRESS plainly.
Order Early — We strive to fill all orders within a day or two after they reach us, but this is frequently made impossible by a great rush of business about planting time. Do not wait until you need your seeds and bulbs before ordering. Anticipate planting time and order early.
_ IMPORTANT — It occasionally happens that an order is lost in coming to us, or the goods in going to the cus- tomer; therefore, if any who order do not hear from us within a reasonable length of time, they should send a duplicate order, naming the date on which the former one was sent and the amount of money enclosed, -and in what form. This will enable us to investigate and fill the duplicate at once.
railroad Station we walked sii a quarter or a mile id a knoll what a view lay spread before us at this point.
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For at our feet stretched a level field of more than one 3, divided through the center by a pretty lane bordored with small red cedars and dogwood, on which the earth was glowing with Gladioli in solid blocks of white, pink,
500,000 Attraction, 23, 000 Columbia, 22, 000 Glory of Brightwood, i 100,000 Mad. Monneret, . F, King, 30, 000 Oakley, 50,000 Princeps, and millions of mixtures arrayed - Before our eyes were approximately 6,000,000 spikes, each showing an average of five big
scarlet, rose, yellow, Alaska, 13,000 Aline, 4,000 I. Buchanan, -12,000 Mayor, 9,000 Melrose, 40,000 41,000 Rosy Spray, 12,000 in every conceivable color
164,000 Augusta, 4,000
25,000 Primulinus,
seen at Mr. Childs’
pre-
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wee. T FLORAL PARK, L. IL, N. Y., is situated our retail department with large fireproof buildings, immense blocks of greenhouses, a large modern printing establishment where our catalogue and all job work is printed. Here, also, we have extensive trial grounds, show gardens and parks of many acres.
At Flowerfield, L. I., thirty-five miles east of Floral Park, is situated our wholesale and growing department. Here we have about one thousand acres, devoted to seeds and bulbs— a beautiful estate approximately one mile wide and two miles long, through which we have ten miles of auto roads. This is the largest acreage in the world under one ownership, de- voted to floriculture. We have on the premises a railroad station, telegraph, telephone, express, freight and postoffice, and the largest bulb-house ever constructed; ten city lots under one roof. Here the world’s greatest display of Gladioli, Cannas, Lilies, Dahlias, Irises, etc., may be seen.
TV AR is netics its effects ea the seed iride and seed supply. Customers will find ./ priees higher, with some items short. This is bad, but we hope none of our patrons ie will suffer any worse experiences from the effects of the war than this. We es- te pecially hope and pray that those near and dear to them, who have gone out in 4 ervice of our preat. and glorious ae may in ceo time return ots age minor an-
uits a the bodys Bake, and flowers ‘for the sake of the soul. Back of the trenches, we are 3 the soldiers cultivate little patches of flowers. and vegetables which go far to promote ec of mind and. ae of Son &
BC paris: es Sorseor Hats our crops insure in ribet cases a fairly good Rees at easonable cost. Above all the high. qualities of our. es have been maintained, and in no
We. are producers of. SEEDS, BULBS and PLANTs. Not poate merchant&, buying and sell- at a profit. We grow more Buss than any other firm in America, and more GLADIOLI
rp Fruits, as well” as vast . eae pt FLOWER and VEGETABLE seeds. When you buy from
e actbre= Pde aeanisiie in th improv omen aE Mifferent flowie ers and veeetables in " the few years has been marvelous. We have kept pace with the times, and the best of all these offered in this catalogue. It costs no more to grow the best and latest improved flowers vegetables than we poor - Or: indifferent sorts. Plant the best such as we are DI CHORD
ount of the unprecedented demand. Many city stores were so busy with counter trade that i ime was left to attend to mail orders. We were more fortunate than others and ex- T ienced only a few days* delay, as we are strongly organized for mail-order business with nple good help, and can work day and night. Orders may be heavier still this spring with help
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ndi a: much worse. We urge all to order early. Give the seedsman all the time you can.
Quarter of a million Sie children are SAG by us in this way. i Lo Island, is only two or three miles from Floral Park. To this camp soldiers come from all
ae remain a few months -waiting transportation to France. The sons, relatives or friends of any ers who reach Camp Mills will always find a welcome at our home, and rate anv be ill or in trouble, oe them such assistance as we can.
v Roniycfive years ago a customer in New Miesahe oon us seed of the Cosmos, white, mand tinted colors, the first ever seen in cultivation, which we introduced and e greatly improved. A few years later a lady customer in southern Illinois sent _which she found growing wild and which she called “Wild Dahlia.” This we named luced and it spread to all parts of the world quicker than any other flower on rec- 3 MATCHLEsS RUDBECKIA GOLDEN GLOW, now seen in every garden,
years ago customers in China sent us seed of the CHINESE WooLFLOwER, which
in Mexico sent us seed of a strange Native plant, found in the mountains, calling it i ee. This is no other than the wonderful plant we are featuring this year as “the HRISTMAS Kocuia. The most decorative annual now in cultivation.
four unrivaled flowers which have sprung suddenly from obscurity to pork. their paramount merits will make them favorites for all time. This is a record s introductions which cannot be matched the world over, and it is also remarkable plants were all discovered in out-of-the-way places in their native glory, and their cOgI ized oF customers of ours, to whom all eredit is due.
all the rest of the world. We eTow our OWn greenhouse PLANTS, SHRUBS, PERENNIALS.
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~ John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
Vegetable and Bio wer Seed Novelties and Specialties of Unusual Merit
The next twenty pages contain our Special Varietics and Novelties. Our Asters, Cosmos, Pansies, Sweet Peas, Nasturtiums, etc., are the very finest to be had. things do not overlook our Kochia, Woolfiower, Giant Portulaca,
vegetables are also wonderfully fine.
TENDER WHITE Bermuda Onion, Tender White
We all know the Bermuda Onion that comes to us in spring, so mild and sweet, tender and toothsome, and so handsome, This variety is the best of them all, of quick growth, early ripening, beauty of form and un- surpassed in tenderness and sweetness. Best of all it will succeed finely in our gardens and will prove a real delight. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 50c.
- °o Celery, White Perfection A splendid white Celery that we consider is an ad- vance on existing varieties. It is very suitable for mar- ket growers or for the private garden. Producing firm, fine ‘heads,’ clean at the base, and very crisp end solid in the stalk. It is compact in habit and of a strong and vigorous constitution. We can recommend it as a fine,
very select stock of White Ceiery that will give satis- faction. Pkt., 10c; oz., $1.00. Honey Dew Muskmelon This is of tha Cassaba type, but is not so large and ripens earlier. It is a most delicious Melon and is
grown mostly in the irrigated districts of California and Arizona. We doubt if it will succeed well in most places. That our customers may try It we olfer a small packet for 10¢
We unreservedly recommend them all. Among other new Everblooming Sweet William, etc. The new
There is nothing like our Matchless Lettuce and Supreme Muskmelon.
Nasturtium, Salad Leaved
This produces a great lot of heavy, succulent leaves, branches and leaf stems which are of a most delicious spicy flavor. Extra fine for cutting up and mixing with Lettuce or any sort of salad. The flowers are not very showy as they are somewhat concealed by the dense foliage, and we recommend it more as a vegetable than as a flowering plant. Give it a trial by all means. You are sure to like it very much. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkKts. for 25¢; oz., 40c.
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New Watermelon, Golden Heart
This delicious new Melon averages about twenty pounds, and the flesh is the color of rich golden cream, The flesh is without stringiness, fine-grained, melting and very sweet. Everyone who enjoys a sweet, luscious Watermelon will be well pleased with this. PkKt., 10; 3 pkts., 25.
New Sweet Watermelon, Klondyke
We found this wonderful Melon in the San Bernardino mountain region. Here it has proved to be the best Melon we ever tasted. Early, large and sweet. Weight 30 to 50 pounds. Color, rich, deep bottle-green. Flesh deep crimson-pink, Tender and brittle, melting in one’s mouth like ice cream and, strange to say, it is as sweet as ice cream. Tt is not good for shipping, hecause when fully ripe a little jar will crack it to plieces—perfectly mar- velous-—but for the home garden it is the one Melon to grow above all others. Take our word for
this, and you will rejoice, PKt, 10c; 3 pkts., 25¢; 04. 4007 1D. 84.00.
J. W. Broswell, Nashville, Tenn. says: Klondyke is the prettiest and best Melon I ever saw. For home use nothing equals it and I
have been growing Melons fifty years.
Wm. Duncan, Takapuna, New Zealand, says: Your Klondyke
Melon is far ahead of any I ever grew.
Spring Catalogue of Seeds, Bulbs and Plants for 1918 3
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| New Pop Corns
Did you ever see a youngster that did not enjoy pop- ping Corn, and watching the hard kernels burst suddenly out into balls of white, light as a feather, and deliciously crisp and toothsome? Give every boy and girl a row of Pop Corn for his or her own. Then with nuts ane apples, games to play and Corn to pop, our little folks will pass the long winter evenings with mirth and hap- piness.
Biack Beauty — This is a new Pop Corn of wonderful merit, popping exceedingly large, pure white, flaky and very tender. The grain is a rich, blue-black color, good size, long ear and very early. One of the finest Pop Corns we ever tried. Pkt., 10c: pint, 40c.
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i ot Improved Ru y Sweet Corn Hulless — A splendid new Pop Corn with peculiar short, . ee Beautiful and Luscious stubby ears, and or Pike, Une aparee which poe = ae s into large and beautiful snowy flakes. In popping th _ This is the largest Sweet Corn grown, in plant, ear hull disappears entirely and is not a nuisance to one _ end kernel. It is a beautiful deep red color when dry, eating the Corn, as is the case with most other sorts. _but when green in the eating state is a pearly white. It is a splendid thing. Pkt., 10c; 3 for 25c¢; pint, 50c-
— jf i : : Burbank’s Sorghum — A new Pop Corn introduced last f= ren inches. long,’ very large. Quality rich a year by Bue Burbank. A cross with Kaffir Corn.
- sugary. It is extra early and in every way extra fine. Claimed to be wonderfully good in every way. PKt., “We can recommend this superb Corn with the greatest 15c; 3 for 35c. | confidence. Pkt., 10c; pint, 40c; quart, 75c. 4 pkt. each of these 3 New Pop Corns for 25c.
6 John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
The Greatest Vegetable Novelty — CHILDS’ SUPREME MELON
Testimony of an Ex- ieee
pert Melon Grower
ONE WHO KNOWS WHEREOF HE SPEAKS Mr. J. H. Troy, New Rochelle, WN. Y., says: The Melon (Childs’ Su- preme) you gave me was delicious. Having grown Melons for “open |
years under glass and in the open ground I know whereof I speak. It was a very large, oval fruit, weighing 13144 pounds; searlet flesh of extra- | ordinary thickness with a@ sweet and | luscious flavor. When thoroughly ; ripened the flavor and aroma was! simply delicious, If this Melon was: known it would be grown exten- | sively.
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Potatoes From Seed
Choicest Hybrid Seed
There is lots of fun and sometimes big profit in growing new varieties of Potato from seed. Start seed in hot-beds or Window box in April, transplant to small pots, and finally to the open ground—any zood garden soil. Here they will grow freely and every plant will show a dif- . ferent characteristic. In .autumn you will find a quantity of tubers under each plant which will vary in size and charac- ter. Planted another year these new Po- tatoes will show their real merits. Some will be early, others late, some short and round, others oblong. Most of them will be fairly good, others extra fine, and there is a as a pal you — oe one
such merit as to be wor a sma ortune. Childs’ Supreme Muskmelon ae seed is all Hybrids of the most valuable known sorts. Pkt.,.15¢c; 2 pkts., 25c,
A truly magnificent and distinct new Melon. The largest in size and the finest in quality. That it is the best Melon to date there is no doubt. It was originated by Mr. George Ashworth, Locust Valley, N. Y., an expert gardener, who called it the Giant Emerald Gem. It is the shape and color of that old favorite, but does not have its objectionable softness when ripe. Childs’ Supreme grows to weigh seventeen or eighteen pounds under ordinary conditions; with special care there is no reason why it should not reach twenty-five pounds or more. Color, deep emerald-green outside, while the flesh is @ fine salmon-scarlet, and thicker than the flesh of any other sort. Its quality is like that of Emerald Gem when at its best. The richest and most delicious flavor, tender and melt- ing with absolutely no hard substance. It is also highly aro- matic. People who find that most Melons disagree with them can eat this one as there is no solid, indigestible substance about it. Vine a strong, vigorous, healthy grower, succeeding un- der conditions that would bring failure to nearly all high-class varieties. Fruit of this melon would readily sell in good
markets at from $1.00 to $2.00 each. Pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c. HYBRID POTATO SEED BALLS
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— at once and may be used again in a few days.
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Everbearing, Summer or New
Zealand Spinach
WE HAVE A WONDERFUL STRAIN OF THIS WHICH WE GROW AND SEED OURSELVES. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GARDEN VEGETABLES, AS IT CAN BE CUT AND USED ALL SUMMER LONG.
Nothing better for the family garden. This Spinach is available for use during the hottest months of mid- summer, when ordinary Spinach is not to be had. Can be cut repeatedly, as the, tender foliage is quickly re- hewed. Good at all times. Sow in spring and it is soon fit for use. Spimach is the most healthful of vegetables, for it contains a large per cent of iron, a most necessary fonic. Physicicns tell us that if people would eat more Spinaeh they would be much better off. Everbearing is the only kind that will furnish a constant supply all through the season. It grows anywhere like a weed, and when cut its succulent leaves and stems oo
i bes 40C; 0Z., 20c; Ib., $2.00.
NEW SQUASH, WINTER NUT
_tatoes weighing 19%
& Squash, Winter Nut This is positively the finest flavored Squash we ever tasted. It is on a par with the grand old Hubbard, as if was grown in New England fifty years ago. Fruit al-
most pure white, hard-shelled, small, only five inches in diameter, very small seed cavity, and keeps perfectly Not fit to use before September and grows A good free-grower and In beauty and quality Winter Nut is Its hardness of shell, Bee keeping
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all winter. better the longer it is kept. produces well. in a Class by itself. and sweetness of meat suggests a nut.
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Choice eed Potatoe
We are able to offer the following choice seed pota- toes by freight or express at buyer’s expense, in barrel sacks of 165 Ibs. net, or in bushel lots.
Eariy Rose, irish Cobbler, Beauty of Hebron, New Queen, Green Mountain, Carman No. 3, Sir Walter Raieigh. First four are early sorts; last three late sorts. Also a number of other standard varieties. Price, $3.00 per bushel; $8.00 per barrel, so long as supply in sight holds out. After that at market prices.
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Mr. James Batters, Chester, England, says: One small two-ounce Farmer Potato from you yielded thirty po- pounds. Surely this is a record.
Mr. R. Stone, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, says: I wish to state that we got three Farmer Potatoes from you last spring, and they yielded twenty-one to one. We were very pleased with them.
Mrs. E. J. Hall, R. F. D. No. 2, Watson, Moa., says: I raised three pecks of Farmer Potatoes out of three Potatoes I received from you.
Mrs. S. Langille, Portland, Oregon, says: The one (1 tb.) Farmer Potato purchased from you last year yielded fifty pounds of good-sized Potatoes, and a few small ones.
Mrs. Dave McCall, Lombardy, Ont., Canada, says: The Farmer Potatoes are the finest I have ever _ seen _ or raised. I planted one bushel I dug fifty-five bushels.
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
The Great Farmer Potato
EASILY THE FINEST ON EARTH
After four years of careful and extensive trials, we pronounce the Farmer so far superior to any other Potato as to be in a class by itself. Both as a drouth and blight resister it is marvelous. Its tremendous strength and vigor of growth enable it to pull through and yield a good crop when all others fail. In 1909 every hill of Farmer Potato grew by the side of the best standard sorts. that missed twenty-five to sixty per cent on account of unfavorable westher conditions. Last season Farmer gave a good crop side of Green Mountain and Early Harvest that were a total failure on account of drouth. In the unprecedented drouth of 1910 Farmer gave a large crop. As a cropper it out-yields any other sort by twenty to fifty per cent, under any and all con- ditions.
The tubers are of good size, best possible shape, white and very handsome, and in cooking qualities unsurpassed. There is no Potato in the world like this, especially for standing up and yielding big crops in season of ex- cessive rains.
PRICE — By mail postpaid, 15¢e each; 8 for 30¢c: 12 for $1.00. (Only medium-sized tubers sent by mail.) By express or freight at buyer’s expense, per peck,
$1.00; per bushel, $3.50.
What Others Say of the Farmer Potato
P, L. Davis, Leon, W.-Va., says: ‘1 got three Farmer Potatoes and planted them the first of April alongside of Early Rose and Irish Cobbler. The Farmer yielded thirty-
six pounds, while the others yielded twenty-one and nineteen pounds, respectively.” S. R. Rott, Emerson, Man., Canada, says: ‘‘My five
ounces of seed of Farmer pounds of marketable size, planted.”’
Mrs. George Egle, Medford, Wis., says: ‘‘] raised from one of your Farmer Potatoes over one-half bushel. The yield is so extraordinary that it seems impossible.”
J. J. Weiler, Tropico, Cal., says: ‘‘The Farmer Potato I bought from you I cut in sixteen pieces, one eye to each piece, Fourteen of them grew. 1 have just dug them, forty-seven marketable Potatoes. Weight, twelve pounds,”’
Mrs. W. D. Doty, Medimont, Idaho, says: ‘‘Last year 1 got one dozen Farmer Potatoes from you, and find them the biggest yielders and finest cooking Potatoes we have ever used. 1 planted only ten and raised 500 pounds.”
N. Rolfe, Rockland, Maine, says: “l had three Farmer Potatoes last year, and raised almost three pecks.”’
M. Burkhart, 131 Elmira St., San Francisco, Cal., says: “] send a photograph of the product of one Farmer Potato bought from you, twenty-six fine tubers, weigh- ing fourteen pounds,”
R. B. Dougherty, Peoria, Ill:, says: “Three Farmer Potatoes cut in twelve pieces, making twelve hills, yield- ed fifty Potatoes from the size of a goose egg up.”
John Prowse, Langdon, Alberta, Canada, says: ‘Your Farmer Potato of which I got three tubers last year is
Potato yielded thirty-six That is 115 times the seed
a good one. They grew very strong, and although when in bloom they were cut to the ground with hail they came a second time, and from tnree tubers we got forty- seven pounds of fine Potatoes,”’
Chas, Williams, Searchment, Ont., Canada, says: “T re- ceived from you last spring three tubers of the Farmer Potato, weighing one-half pound, They stood both drought and frost far better than the other Potatoes. 1 dug thirty-one pounds of fine potatoes at the rate of over sixty bushels to one bushel planted, which 1] consider is a grand showing.”
F, L, Denton, 2750 45th Ave., S. W.. Seattle, Wash., says: ‘‘Your Farmer Potato is a winner. 1 planted one tuber and got about fifteen pounds from it, the most nearly uniform of any Potatoes I have ever seen. Saved about twelve pounds of the best for seed this year. It is) a good, smooth Potato and an exceilent cooker,”
Emma Hilp, Chippewa Falls, Wis., says: Last spring TIT bought a Farmer Potato from you, which I cut tn four pieces, and harvested a half bushel of the largest Potatoes you ever saw. They certainly were fine.”
Mrs. George E, Dwight, Vermontville, Mich., Says: “You sent me seven small Farmer Potatoes, which we planted one eye in a hill, and harvested two bushels of nice large Potatoes, and it was a very dry season.”
Dr. U, B. Hemming, Wilson, N, C., says: “The Farmer Potato is all you claim for it. It is the only Potato that will sprout in this climate so as to get a fall crop.”
E. M. Mansur, Lounsberry, N. Y., says: “l planted three Farmer Potatoes and raised over half a bushel. Large, smooth and fine eating.”
Mrs. H. E. Moorhouse, Neilburg, Sask., Canada, says: “] take pleasure in telling you that we raised eighty-one jounds from three of your Farmer Potato, We think t great,”’
Plate 11
BEST TOMATOES
One of Our Specialties, and Here Are the Very Best Sorts
Tomatoes are indispensable among vegetables. City dwellers with almost no room can train them to their own walls and raise quantities of fine, fresh fruit for their own use. Start early in the house or hot-bed, transplant just after a gentle rain, and tie plants to stake or trellis. They stand drouth remarkably well. Just before frost pick all the well-developed fruits, spread them singly in a light, frost-proof place, and they will continue ripening for two months.
New Tomato, Top Notch
The Earliest—The Best Medium Size—The Most Perfect in Shape and Color—The Least Vine—The Most Fruit—The Longest in Bearing and Keeping—
The Least Acid—The Sweetest Tomato, and in Every Respect the Best for ‘Home or Market.
With qualities as brilliant as the Comet, Top Notch has, as it were, dropped from the sky a perfect Tomato. In every quality that can be named it is superior to any other; earliest, large, round and smooth, uniform in size and shape, and rich, ruby color. It makes very little vine, but bears enormous quantities of fruit, fifty to seventy large, perfect Tomatoes to a plant which-covers very little area. In quality it far outranks any other variety, for it lacks the objectionable acid of other sorts. People who suffer bad effects from the acid of Tomatoes will enjoy Top Notch. Begins ripening very early and continues al] the season. It is most decidedly the finest Tomato for market and the best for the home garden. Per pkt., 15c; 2 pkts. for 25c; %4-0z., 60c¢; 1 0z., $1.00.
Childs’ Early Baseball —1n many ways this is about as
_ fine a vegetable novelty as we ever introduced. We will not Say it is the earliest of all Tomatoes, but it is as early and very much earlier than any other large first-class sort. Unlike other early Tomatoes, Base- ball is not small, but large, smooth, heavy and solid. It has very little seed cavity, but has solid flesh pulp, tender and free from all trace of coarseness or green core. It is a rich crimson color throughout and of unsurpassed quality. The Tomato for both, the home garden and the market gardener. 10c per pkt.; 0z., 40c; Ib., $4.00.
Childs’ Ruby Queen — Tomato of enormous size, and is smooth as an apple. Its color is the deepest and dark- est crimson-red, very rich and beautiful. It is very solid, very thin skin, and its flesh throughout is most tender. It has not a particle of coarseness or tough- ness. -Much like Golden Jubilee. Pkt., 10c.
Childs’ Golden Jubilee —A fit companion to the Ruby Queen and, like it, of enormous size, specimens having been grown that weighed over two pounds each. The fruits are round and solid, with few seeds; flesh meaty and like all yellow varieties, very sweet and mild in flavor. A beautiful table sort especially when ar- ranged with the deep, rich slices of Ruby Queen on the Same dish. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c; 0z., 50c.
Preserving Fig — Fruit small, beautifully smooth, and almost incredibly productive. The flesh is solid, thick- meated, very sweet and pleasant, and is just right for preserves and sweet pickles, or for drying in sugar
like figs: In fact, it dries well and is an admirable ae ee dry, fully equal to the fig. Pkt., 5c; OZ; c
Rivers’ L. A. Market — This is the popular Tomato of Los Angeles’ markets, and we got our stock from Rivers Bros., who have grown it extensively for several years, meeting with wonderful success. We have grown it one year and are convinced that it is one of the most valuable sorts in cultivation. It seems to ee ee all good qualities, no bad ones. Pkt., 10c; 0Z., Cy
Beefsteak, or Two-Pound — The popular conception of a perfect Tomato is a large, solid, meaty fruit that will cut into thick ruby slices. This new sort is prob- ably the largest of all Tomatoes, and the richest crim- son color. It is absolutely solid with few seed and seed cavities. Most Tomatoes bear the seed in large clusters near the skin. This seed and seed-pulp is acid and unpleasant, while the acid pulp is likely to be hard and lacking in flavor. In Beefsteak this de- fect is overcome, for the large fruits contain very small seed cavities. Each cavity has but very few seed which are distributed all through the fruit; being a really ideal mixture that is exceedingly palatable without the excessive acid of large seed cavities or the unpleasantness of solid pulp. Will grow to the enor- mous weight of two pounds. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts. for 25c.
John Baer—This Tomato is the result of selection for ear- liness, quality, shape, fruit, color and shipping quality. It produces the most perfect high-crown ‘iSomatoes ever grown and enormous crop, fifty to one hundred to each plant. Ripens evenly, right up to the stem. No cripples, no scalds, no blight, no cracked, no wrinkled, no one-sided, uneven, scarred fruit. When dead ripe will not burst. Has a wonderful giisteniny bright red color, a mild, deliciously sweet flavor. Per 0G: 0Z., 50C:
Snowball — For many years we have worked to produce a Snow-White Tomato. At last we have one so white that it shows only a faint tinge of straw color. This tint will probably vary a little in different soils, cli- mates and at different times of the year. But for all practical purposes it is a white Tomato, the most beau- tiful fruit you ever saw, large, smooth, very solid and meaty, and of very finest quality. Its extraordinary size and smooth, regular shape, and almost snow-white color makes a wonderful novelty. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25 Gs
The collection of above 9 best Tomatoes for 75c. For 10c we send a booklet of over 100 recipes for using and cooking Tomatoes, of great value to the housewife.
_ From the Guelph Ontario Daily Herald: ‘‘Father Swift, in 1913, ripened a few White Tomatoes in the rectory garden of the Church of Our Lady. Seed saved from those few specimens produced the fine plants which have been noticed in these columns. The variety is known as Childs’ Snowball and_was originated by Senator John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, New York. While residing in New York City, Father Swift had the pleasure of in- erounee the Childs’ Nursery, greenhouses and trial ounds.
Mrs. F. E. Morris, Holden, Mo., says: Last year I had Tomatoes: several weeks ahead of any one else on the market. Early Baseball planted by the side of three other early kinds beat all of them by two weeks.
Mrs. Frank Davis, Jordan Valley, Oregon, says: Have grown your Top Notch Tomatoes three years and they are the best all around Tomato I have ever seen.
Mrs. A. R. Shortwalter, Landisburg, Pa., says: I have Planted the Baseball Tomatoes for the last two years. They are the best on the market; had Tomatoes to weigh from 1% to 2 pounds.
J. H. Torbett, Madison, Ga., says: Last year from seed I bought of you I raised the largest Tomatoes I ever grew. They were Beefsteaks. I grew them to weigh 29 ounces, five Tomatoes would weigh seven or eight pounds.
J. B. Waddell, Lonoke, Ark., says: 1 had great success with Beefsteak Tomatoes. Some of them weighed two pounds and were twenty inches in circumference. But the greatest surprise was in slicing them to find no hard, unripe center, as is the case with very large Tomatoes.
F. E. Bonner, Copenhagen, N. Y., says: Top Notch Tomatoes test out perfect. Found same to be better than your catalog praise. It certainly is the best I have ever found as containing the least acidity, and this climate is not adapted to Tomato raising.
Miss E. J. Johnson, Arkadelphia, Ark., says: From about forty-five hills of Ruby Queen Tomatoes. grown on very poor land. I sold between twelve and fifteen dollars’ worth of Tomatoes. One Tomato weighed 23 ounces.
Plate III
Spring Catalogue of Seeds, Bulbs and Plants for 1918
Childs’ Quality Asters— Best to be had
WE PRIDE OURSELVES UPON THE HIGH QUALITY OF OUR ASTERS, KNOWING THAT THEY CANNOT BE
EXCELLED ANYWHERE. New Aster, American Beauty
This wonderful Aster was originated by Jung of Wis- consin, grown by Bodger of California, and featured last year by Burpee. It is the finest type of Branching Aster with very long stems and immense bright rosy
earmine blossoms about the color of American Beauty
Rose. Grows nearly three feet tall, branching freely. Each stem carrying one immense double blossom. It is well shown on this plate, also a new one, Darkness, from Mr. Jung, now offered for the first time. These two have the widest petals of any Aster and are the largest bloomers. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts for 25c.
New Aster, Darkness
It is sufficient to say that this is just like American Beauty except in color, which is the darkest and richest purple-black yet seen in any Aster, and was originated by the same man (Mr. Jung). The enormous double flowers are borne on stems two to three feet long. It will create a sensation wherever seen. Pkt., 20¢; 8 pkts. for 50c.
Childs’ Mammoth-Flowered
Branching Comet Asters |
Our new Giant Comet type of full double-branching |
Asters is marvelous for size, beauty and full petals, making the most perfect and fullest flowers of the Comet type. Plants sturdy and vigorous, branching freely and showing scores of the finest flowers. These are of extraordinary size, full, double and of wonderful elear tones of color. Abalone, as shown in this plate, is a perfect representative of this new class of which we have seven separate colors.
Abalone — Most exquisite soft shell-pink. An Aster of
really marvelous beauty.
Agate — Beautiful clear rose. Large size and very free.
Cloud Rift — Exquisite sky-blue. Few if any blue Asters can match this charming color.
Crimson Glow — A rich glowing crimson of exceptional brightness. Blue Danube —A very deep, clear and rich shade of blue. One of the best colors in Asters. Royal Purple — Deep, rich purple-black color. tirely new and fine shade.
Snow Fieece — The purest white and largest size. No white Aster can compare with this.
Price — 15c per pkt.; any 3 for 40c; the 7 for 75c.
Mixed, All colors — This mixture of Childs’ Mammoth- Flowered Giant Branching Comet is carefully made up and includes some colors such as lavender and re ae not offered above. Pkt., 15c; 3 pkts. or Cc.
Aster, Novelty Hybrids Mixed
An extensive grower, hybridizer and originator of new Asters, has saved us a quantity of seed from his trials of new hybrid sorts, which are being tested and bred up for introducing. This mixture contains more than a thousand new types and colors of the greatest variety Oisuani.sizes, 1ormis, etc.. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c.
An en-
Joel H. Lancaster, Santa Barbara, Cal., says: “I have the finest Aster beds from your seed, in this county; simply grand.’’
Mrs. Edward J. Moore, Holbrook, Mass., says: “I took first prize with your Asters last September at the Wey- mouth, Mass., Agricultural Fair.’’ :
Mixed Flower Seeds, 100 Kinds
People who wish a great variety of flowers at small cost will do well to plant a packet of this seed. It is a mixture of one hundred different annuals, all the best sorts, and those which grow and bloom together in wild- garden style. It will make a brilliant and attractive bed. Large pkt., 10c; 6 pkts., 50¢.
A Wild Perennial Bed
A fine mixture of all the best and hardiest. Perennials, such as are suitable for a wild bed, or a mixture for any out of the way place. These plants, once started, will bloom profusely year after year. Large Pkt., 10c; 6 pkts. for 50c.
Hardy
NEW DAHLIAS FROM SEED — For our wonderful strain of New Paeony-flowere Sowing, blooming so profusely in a few weeks, see page 98.
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LIKE OUR DAHLIAS THEY ARE BEYOND ADEQUATE PRAISE.
NEW HYBRID CORNFLOWER ASTER
Stokesia, or Cornflower Aster
A lovely hardy perennial and a free bloomer all sum- mer. Plants grow eighteen to twenty-five inches high and begin blooming early. The blossoms are Aster-like, and very handsome. Grows well in any situation, and is immensely popular.
New Giant Hybrids — One of the best novelties in years.
These New Giant Hybrids have a wide range of colors
all through shades of blue and lavender to pure
white, also rich purples and pink-tinted whites. Flow- ers very large and borne freely, and plants flower the anywhere.
first year from _ seed. Perfectly hardy Seed, per pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50C.
Plants — 25c each; 3 for 60c; 12 for $2.00.
Summer
Forget-Me-Not
(Anchusa Annua)
A lovely hardy annual for sowing directly in the garden early. It blooms freely all summer and looks just Hke an elegant For- get-Me-Not. Color the most intense and lovely blue ever seen, with a white eye. It is a charm- ing thing. 15c pkt.
Our Asters and Sweet Peas are the finest on earth.
Our Mastodon Pansies cannot be excelled. Neither can our Cosmos.
The Woolflower is the very finest garden -annual vet seen in cultivation.
Dahlia seed for garden
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Cosmos, Giant Summer
The very finest garden flower for summer and fall, and the most exquisite of all for cutting, for vases and decorating.
This Cosmos is every bit as large and fine as Lady Lennox or any of the giant-flowering fall types. It begins blooming in July and continues till late fall. It is the grandest Cosmos ever grown, and the only early- flowering Giant type. Notwithstanding it blooms all summer it is better in the fall than any other Cosmos. One of the best novelties we ever offered. Colors range from white to light and deep pink, crimson, blush,
tinted, etc. Per pkt. Mixed — All colors. 3 pkts. for 25c...... Se em Pure White— Large clear white.......... oe sede Dark Crimson —Rich deep crimson-red. Fine aaa CULL) eames Rory Sec mney UA Sa epee eae 3 oe kc ee
Pink —A clear bright pink of wonderful beauty....10 1 pkt. each of these three colors for 25c.
FALL-BLOOMING COSMOS ‘ The following are the greatest improved strains of fall
blooming Cosmos: Per pkt. Mammoth-Flowering Mixed — Our superb strain..... 5 Lady Lennox — Immense lavender-pink ..........-- 5) Lady Lennox White— New, pure white........--. 10
New Double Cosmos
Being the original introducers of the Cosmos twenty years ago, and later the Giant Summer strain, we want to say that this New Double Anemone-flowered form is perfectly fine and will more than satisfy all who try it. Everybody is surprised and more than delighted with its wonderful beauty. Really one of the very finest or recent novelties. About two-thirds of the plants come true.
Mixed Colors — Pure white and various shades of pirk and lilac. Per pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c. |
Eureka, Mixed Colors — Pure white and various shades of pink and lilac. Large frilled and fluted petals.
Per pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c.
White Swan — Pure white with large petals. Pkt., 25c. Anemone-flowered, Mixed — Beautiful Anemone centers, full and double. Many colors, Pkt., 15c.
Mrs. Minnie Henry, Wauseon, Ohio, says: “I have had your Giant Summer Cosmos two years, and taken first premium on these each year at our County Fair. They are wonderful.”
Mrs. M. E. Rouser, Knoxville, Tenn., says: ‘Your Jewel Vine paid for all the seeds I bought. It grew twenty-five feet and was the admiration of all.”
Marv Longfellow, Oklahoma City, says: ‘We found the Jewel Vine a marvel of beauty, one vine growing twenty-five feet and covering a width of twelve feet. It was a flame of scarlet, and admired by all.”
Mrs. C. D. Lawton, Lawton, Mich., July 3, 1914, says: “My Giant Summer Cosmos are in bloom, and I wish to corroborate all you say in your catalogue. They are the grandest ever grown.”
“John Lewis Childs. Dear Sir: Cosmos began blooming middle of July. We had a long row across the front of the house. They were still in full bloom last night when the first heavy frost came. Think of it, a mass of those beautiful flowers from July to the first of October! Cosmos here has a pad reputation. People say: ‘Pretty, but it blooms too late!’ It is an aristocratic flower, very beautiful for the house. You did a fine thing when you brought out such a Cosmos. Sincerely yours,
“SB. DOTEN, Director Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion, Reno, Nevada. October 6, 1916.”
Childs’ Giant Summer
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Sweet Alyssum, Snowtuft
This marvelous new Alyssum is so dwarf, compact and free-flowering that a border of it is like a tuft of new-fallen snow. The plants grow so compact and the flowers are so numerous that nothing but a sheet of glistening white can be seen. We have attempted in our cut to give some idea of this, but cannot do it justice. Suffice it to say that this Alyssum is one of the very finest flower seed novelties ever introduced and one that will give satisfaction beyond what anyone may anticipate. Blooms in four weeks from seed and makes one of the finest pots of winter flowers. We have greatly improved this Alyssum during the past two years. Seed — Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c.
Plants — Pot-grown, ready in spring for early planting.
Will give magnificent results. $1.00 per doz.; $7.00
per 100. Jewel Vine (Cardinal Climber The most superb flowering’ vine in cultivation. his
is entirely new and distinct; a hybrid between the well- known Cypress Vine and Ipomea Coccinea. It is a tall, rapid grower attaining a height of fifteen feet or more in a season, branching freely and making the finest of screens with its luxuriant growth of bright, clean foliage elegantly cut and forked. The flowers open at daylight each morning and fade at sunset. They are one to one and one-half inches in width with a tube one inch long and borne in clusters of six to ten on stems four to six
inches long. Color is the most brilliant ruby-scarlet ever seen. These blossoms appear in such vast numbers
every day as to almost eclipse the foliage. No other vine produces such quantity of fine flowers, none so rich and beautiful in color, and none more clean healthy or beautiful in growth. Seed may be sown in the open ground or started in pots. One will make vine enough to cover a space five feet wide and ten to fifteen feet
high. Our word for it, this is one of the very finest novelties of recent times. Pkt. of 15 seeds, 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c,
NOTE — Jewel Vine seed may germinate slowly on ac- count of hard shell. Soak in warm water as recom- mended for Canna seed.
e New Flowering Beans Butterfly Runner — This produces a large, fine flower like the grand old Scarlet Runner, but the blossoms are a lovely pink and white color. A splendid thing in every way. Pkt., 20c. Bush Yellow —A new Bush Bean with large, creamy yellow blossoms; entirely new and fine. Pkt., 20c.
Double White Morning Glory
A fine double white Morning Glory, sometimes called Snow Fairy or White Tassel. It is the best double variety yet offered and comes quite true from seed. Pkt., 10c.
Everblooming Pelargonium
Mixed hybrids of the finest Pelargoniums, including the new everblooming sorts, Sure to give great re- sults. Pkt, of 10 seeds, 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c.
Mrs. E. F. Merrill, Wayland, Mass., says: “I have never seen any Cosmos equal to yours in size and beauty.”’
Mrs. Dr. Chenoweth, Flemington, W. Va., says: “I raised a Giant Summer Cosmos that measured flve inches across.”
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Spring Catalogue of Seeds, Bulbs and Plants for 1918 13
Childs’ Christmas Kochia
Kochia Childsi. (Giant Kochia) Finest of all Garden Foliage Plants
After three years of careful test we pronounce this new Kochia one of the finest garden and pot plants we have ever grown. The common Kochia grows only one to two feet high and matures and dies in September. This does not die until about Christmas or later outside, even though zero weather may prevail. It is the latest show plant of the garden, a pyramid of dense, lively green foliage all summer, but at touch of frost it changes to dark claret-red and is highly ornamental after everything else outside has passed away. The beauty of this rich color showing against the first light fall of snow can be imagined. Seed may be sown in the open ground or started inside. Plants grow three to four feet high, dense, strong and symmetrical from the first. If set two and one-half feet apart the plants will just about touch, three feet will give a little space between each pyramid of color. No plant on our show grounds ever attracted so much attention as this all through the summer when in a green state, and when its color changed in autumn. As a pot plant it is especially valuable and of great beauty and usefulness for Christ- mas and New Year’s decoration. It is equal to some of the finest Boston Ferns as an attractive foliage plant. Seed — 20c per pkt.; 3 pkts. for 50¢.
Plants — Ready in spring (pot grown), $1.00 per doz.;
$7.00 per 100.
New Giant Portulaca THE MOST BRILLIANT PORTULACA
One of the most strikingly brilliant and satisfactory of all garden annuals. Introduced by us three years ago and has created a real sensation wherever seen.
Plant a strong grower, much more so than other sorts, covering a space two to three feet across and showing fifty flowers at a time. Flowers enormous in size and of the most dazzling purple-scarlet yet seen, and borne in great abundance. All summer long from early Till late this will make the most brilliant show to be seen
in any garden. No other garden flower rivals it in brilliancy. We offer a new white variety below. Seed TOCBEr pt eDKts. tor 25¢.
NEW GIANT WHITE PORTULACA A sport from above and just like it in every respect except color, which is snow-white. Originated with us and is now offered for the first time. 15c per pkt., 3 pkts. for 35c,
New Eschscholtzias, (Cal. Poppies)
The Glorious California Poppy — One of the Greatest
Garden Annuals — Blooms Quickly and Profusely
in any Situation — Our Stocks Are Extra Fine.
The Eschscholtzia is one of the hardiest and most easily grown of our annuals. It is also a very showy one, growing rapidly and coming into bloom soon after the plants are above the ground. The foliage is finely cut and handsome and the flowers exceedingly large and showy. No garden can omit this superb and easily- grown flower that. makes such a show for everybody under all conditions. Per pkt. The Gaisha— New, frilled and fluted petals, intense
crimson-scarlet outside, light orange-yellow inside.
DES e er ANG VELYy © TING Soro oe vccen tok ss 2 sa aa eee 15 Improved Crimson — Deep, rich crimson. Very showy.10 Yellow Fringed — Beautifully fringed yellow....... 10 Chrome Queen—A new and lovely color. A Clear,
SOCAL Ome-VelOwW. — eB UMETA. is oc.c: 5 sous 5 os ete suave, = 15 Californica — The beautiful California Poppy....... D
Golden West — Light yellow with a deep rich orange center. Enormous size, sometimes four inches across
Burbank’s New White — We find this to be most su- perb in every respect. Large, white, profuse and long blooming. One of the very best new things.. 5
Single Mixed —A dozen fine colors................ 5)
Double Mixed — White, rose, yellow, etc. A splendid strain yet hardly one-half will be double......... 5
One pkt. each of the above 9 for 50¢.
es New Heliotrope
Midnight— A large-flowering Heliotrope which pos- . sesses the darkest color yet seen in this flower, almost coal-black. It is really a dense blue-black and very hnesy Pkt. 206.
Climbing — A tall-growing sort sending up long slender branches which may be trained twelve to twenty feet high. Extra fine for open-ground culture in Cali- fornia and the South. Pkt., 20¢c.
2 e Cazania, Longiscapa
Up to this time there has been no annual Gazania. This new sort is therefore a great acquisition as it be- gins to flower in a few weeks from seed, and continues in great profusion all summer and fall. The flowers are large, bright yellow, with a crimson-brown spotted cen- ter, exceedingly showy. One of the very best recent novelties. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts. for 25¢.
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Dwarf Nasturtiums
lf we were asked to name the six best annuals, the Nasturtium would be one of them. They are so easy to grow that a six-year-old child could plant them and care for them, and they have every good quality of a bedding plant—compact habit, attractive foliage, in- tensely bright and beautiful flowers, borne profusely the whole season, not troubled by insects, and standing dry weather well. Per pkt. Coccinea — Bright, flashing scarlet Empress of India — Dark purple foliage and very dark
rich crimson flowers. Grand for edging or beds.... 10 Golden King — One of the loveliest shades of yellow.. 5 King of Tom Thumbs — Deep velvety scarlet, with
handsome dark: foliage; - Very fine =... 233s... ou 5 King Theodore — Darkest of all, almost black in color. 5 Lady Bird — Beautiful yellow, stained deep crimson... 5 Peari — The nearest white. Good for contrast...... 5) Rose — A lovely soft shade of rose................ 5) Ruby King —An elegant new sort, with flowers of
large size and rich ruby color. A grand sort..... 10 Spotted — Gorgeous in colors and markings........ 5
Caprice — Bears large blossoms in abundance, some of which will be yellow, some crimson, some rose, and others beautifully mottled and variegated....10
Tom Thumb Fine Mixed — Per oz., 15c; per Ib., $1.25.
One pkt. each of the above 12 for 60c.
Giant-Flowered Tom Thumb, Mixed — The blossoms are simply enormous in size, marvelous in range of colors and infinite in variety of new shades. Clear
golden-yellow, salmon-pink, red, golden-brown, canary color, terra-cotta, orange and black, with all
making a most brilliant showing. The and compact in habit, with large
combinations, plants are dwarf
luxuriant foliage, and bloom with wonderful pro- fusion all summer long. 3 pkts., 20C; 0oz., 30C; ID., $2 .00 SE OseDeeeseeoaggeesevewecdws Breeds e's. 808 6.3 Bees 6€ ® 10
GOLDEN-LEAVED NARTURTIREL Nasturtium Golden-Leaved
A dwarf Nasturtium with very brilliant flowers rang- ing from searlet to yellow, and golden-yellow foliage. The contrast is most striking and the effect .beautiful and odd beyond expression. As garden or pot plants they are unique, combining highly ornamental foliage and showy flowers. Mixed colors. Oz., 30C....... 10
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Nasturtiums — Baby or Lilliput
A new class of very small grow- ing Nasturtiums, with lovely little leaves and the
brightest and love-
liest of blossoms borne in endless profusion. Truly they are ‘“‘Babies.’”’ * Dwarf Mixed - Many colors .. 5 a, Trailing Mixed he (Tom Ponce) Vines graceful
7% <9} with delicate flow- =. ers of red, scarlet, yRTIUMorange and yel-
low
John Lewis Childs, Inc.,
Floral Park, N. Y. Plate VI
Climbing Nasturtium—Cal. Giants
NEW GIANT-FLOWERED CLASS
Climbing Nasturtiums can be used as bedders by peg- ging the long shoots to the ground, as low climbers for window or screen, or used as house climbers in winter. They are never molested by insects, and are quick, clean growers that soon cover themselves with flowers of the
brightest, richest colors. They withstand heat and drought well. These are all of the California Giant ty . California Giant Butterfly. . 6. cece nwa ca eee 10 California’ Giant Goquette... .. co - seancuvk bee 10 California Giant Chameleon — Flowers of all colors bame-on same plant... Very fine. .6. scsne ew sunk 10 California Giant Jupiter — Fine yellow, immense size.10 California Giant Midnight — Very dark maroon...... 10 California Giant Moonlight — Fine light color...... 10 California Giant Twilight... .-... . .s0essm ees oe 10
California Giant Mixed Colors — All colors. climbing Nasturtiums. O2., 30C ..oscec.......- Good Mixed Tall Nasturtiums—Oz., 15c; Ib., §
we Ivy-Leaved Nasturtiums
All with fine fimbriated petals. Colors intense and very striking. Foliage also very beautiful, like Ivy, and vines exceedingly graceful. For the garden they are superb, but for window culture they are very fine. Ivy-leaved Tall Mixed — Climbing ivy-leaved Dwarf Mixed — All colors.............. 10
Variegated-Leaved Nasturtiums
These are of the trailing and climbing class with ex-
The finest 10
quisitely beautiful foliage and very showy flowers. Leaves light green, beautifully marbled and blotched with pure white. Makes a striking vine with iis bright blossoms of many colors. Many colors mixed....... 10
New Plumed Salvia
Salvia Splendens is the most brilliant and
This new
showy, and the greatest bloomer of them all. Many (put not all) of the flowering stems branch out into great brilliant plumes, as seen in above cut, and as may well be imagined are exceedingly showy.
Seed —15c per pkt.
Plants — 20c each; 3 for 50c: 7 for $1.00.
NEW PINK SALVIA This is also of the Splendens type, licht scarlet or pinkish color. Entirely novel.
but is of a very Pkt., 10c.
Plate VII
Spring Catalogue of Seeds, Bulbs and Plants for 1918 17
Childs’ Grand Pansies
The smallest yard must have its Pansies. Not poor, forlorn plants, struggling unaided with heat and drouth and hard-baked ground, though even there yielding us handfuls of cheery blooms; but, rather strong, vigorous plants, rioting in the cool, deep mellow beds they love, made rich with fertilizers, kept free from weeds. In such a bed one may gather great velvety Pansies by the hundreds—flowers so fYradiantly beautiful that they scarcely seem of the earth. Although the Pansy loves coolness, and gives its largest, finest blooms in early spring and late autumn, they are so easy to grow that those living in the South can grow superb ones by giving rich bed, sheltered location, and abundant water. Sow seed early in house or in open ground. In the open ground sow seed early in spring, while the ground is yet cool and moist, for late autumn and fall bloom; in August and September for spring and early summer bloom. For fall-sown seed have the bed moist and keep shady by boards or papers until the plants appear. These will make vigorous plants that will endure the winter if pro- tected by a few evergreen boughs, or other light cover- ing. Do not let the plants seed if you wish to keep them in bloom freely all the time. Poor Pansy seed is dear at any price. Per pkt. Large-fiowering, Choice Mixed Colors—A_ superb
strain of choice large-flowering types, including all
colors. Will give great satisfaction............ D
Giant Excelsior —It is impossible to convey an idea of the richness, the varied and exquisite coloring, the large size, perfect form and great substance of these Pansies. Plants are compact and bushy, and produce great quantities of flowers, borne well -above the foliage on strong stems. Owing to their vigor this strain withstands the hot and dry weather better than any other variety, and produces its great, beautiful blossoms in profusion all summer. All colors mixed
Masterpiece — One of the greatest novelties in Pansies, the border of every petal being conspicuously curled and fluted. The plants are exceedingly free-flower- ing, vigorous, strong and hardy, and the numerous blossoms large and showy during the entire spring, summer and autumn. Mixed ...... te: A eee 10
Orchid — These new Pansies take their name mainly from their superb tints and Variations in color, which remind. one of the gorgeous shades seen in Orchids. In addition to this they are large of flower, vigorous and healthy in growth and abundant in bloom. It is the most novel and distinct strain of Pansies seen in many years. Mixed
Giant Trimardeau, Mixed — Very showy class of vig- orous, compact growth and flowers of an enormous size. It is doubtful if any other Pansy will give such great satisfaction as these................ 10
Pure Gold — A Mastodon Pansy of fair size and a clear deep color without central rays. It is the purest yellow among Pansies and a very fine and showy bedder
7 BEST SEPARATE COLORED PANSIES
Snow Queen —A perfect beauty, being a pure snow- white which always comes true. A great bloomer.10
Yellow Bird — Very large flowers pure bright yellow.10
Silver Edged — Dark, rich velvety purple, with distinct white edge. Lovely for cutting and for funeral work 10
Black Giant-Flowered — A new black Pansy of the largest size; a rich coal-black; very fine and strik-
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IES OL. 4 tee See en Oe ee 10 Ruby Red — Flowers large, of a dark ruby-red..... 10 Adonis — Lovely light or sky-blue................- 10 Prince Henry — Darkest blue, very large..........- 10
4 pkt. each of the above 7 for 50c.
Tufted Pansies (Violet Scented)
This new type is a cross between the Pansy and the Violet, combining the ideal properties of each. The flowers are much larger than the Violet, more like Pansies, but with the delicious fragrance of the former. The habit of the plant is decidedly dwarf and compact, producing its flowers on long foot-stalks, and they ap- pear continually from. early spring until late fall. The range of colors run through white, buff, canary and azure blue; exceedingly delicate and charming. For borders and beds they are just superb, each plant show- ing from fifty to one hundred blossoms all the time. Mixed, etc. 2
American Mastodon Pansies
PERFECT MARVELS iN SIZE AND BEAUTY
These Pansies have a robust vigor unknown in other strains. Flowers larger than the Trimardeau, with the substance and rounded form of the German strains, a touch of the Masterpiece in the artistic curves of the petals, the wonderful colors of the Orchid Pansies and a delicate fragrance like the violet-scented.
The cool, damp climate of Oregon and Washington has developed this strain of Pansy larger in size, richer in colors, and far more vigorous and rugged in growth than any other strain yet introduced to cultivation. This is absolutely the truth and leaves nothing further to be said; yet, believing all this, he who plants them will surely more than realize his expectations. The enormous size of blooms, nearly four inches across, clear tones of color and with wonderful tints and variegations and free flowering qualities, even through the hot summer weather, will be a revelation. They are also very early, blooming two to four weeks quicker than other Pansies sown at the same time.
Mixed Colors— Such as white with dark center, dark blue and light blue, pure white, black, lavender, violet, blue, bronze (new), royal purple (new), rose, cerise- red, red with silver rim, mahogany, yellow, wine-col- ored, red and gold, lavender and gold, striped, mar- gined, etc. 10c per pkt. of 100 seeds; 3 pkts. for 25c; 4%-ounce, $1.00.
Superfine Mixture — This colors not found in the selected seed from choicest blooms. 3 for 50c.
Grand Duke White — Finest pure white Pansy.
Grand Duchess White — Snow-white with large blue center. Very large and perfectly exquisite.
Black — Very deep, rich coal-black.
Yellow — Rich and showy.
Dark Blue — Exceedingly beautiful deep blue color.
Bronze — This shows a bewildering variety and com- binations of rich colors in bronze, brown, old gold, yellow, etc. Very interesting, as no two plants pro- duce flowers exactly alike.
Madame Perret Red — Brilliant and beautiful shades of red, deep pink, scarlet, etc., are shown in the flushed faces of this exquisite variety.
Elks Purpfe —A genuine royal purple self, of fine form, great substance, and enormous size.
Price, per pkt. of 100 seeds, 20c; 3 pkis. for 50c; the
collection of 8 separate colors for $1.00. They all come very true.
Ice-Proof Mastodon Pansy Plants
Special offer for spring delivery Have a beautiful bed of Pansies at small cost
We grow young, vigorous plants of the Mastodon Pansy in open ground from September-sown seed that are ready for delivery from January = a =) to May. For the Southern and Pacific States we can ship now. For colder latitudes shipments are made as early in spring as the plants can be put out. They are hardened by the ice and snows of winter, and in spring are ready to jump into vig- orous growth and bloom, giving immense satisfac- tion. We mail plants safely to all points — Maine to California.
Price of Ice-Proof Mas- todon Pansy plants, mixed colors. postpaid, 42 for 35¢: 25 for 60¢: 100 for $2.00; 500 for $9.00; 1000 for $16.00.
contains a few rare new general mixture, and is 20¢ per: pkKt.;
Mr. N. Pearce, Sydney, Australia, says: The Mastodon Pansies I grew from your seed this season are the best ever seen. Admired by everybody both in the city and district of Sydney.
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Sweet Peas
Plate VIII
The Most Glorious Sorts
Why should we grow and offer our customers inferior varieties, when the newest, improved
sorts are as easily grown and almost as cheap.
This applies particularly to Sweet Peas, and
we have discarded all the old sorts of the common Grandiflora and Eckford types, and offer only the best selected Spencers, because they are so much superior in every way.
Sweet Peas
A beautiful low-growing vine for gardens, and the most useful of all in furnishing material for vases, bou- quets and all cut-flower work. Plant quantities of these lovely flowers and cut them with a lavish hand. Their presence will bring pleasure to the sick-room, adorn your friends’ empty vases, and make happy the flower- hungry children with no pretty yards and flowers of their own. For every flower you pick, two will come to fill its place. Easy to grow anywhere if sown early, very early. For the largest and finest blossoms, dig a trench six inches deep, put in two inches of rotted manure, a little earth, and sow the seed over this, three inches apart in a row, covering an inch and a half deep. Do this as early as the ground can possibly be worked in the spring, and as the plants grow fill up the trench around them with rich earth,
EXTRA EARLY SWEET PEAS
These come into bloom very quickly and are highly prized for that reason. Angelina — New extra early; exquisite pink and white. Christmas Pink — Rose or pink with blush white wings. Christmas White — Pure white. Le Marquis — Deep violet-purple, or dark navy-blue. Mrs. Alex. Wallace — Pinkish-lavender.
PERL. ,596:° the 5 for 20c: LARGE-FLOWERING MIXED SWEET PEAS
The finest mixture possible, as only the largest flow- ered or ‘“‘Grandifiora’’ type (Eckford’s) is used. More than 100 different colors; perfectly magnificent. Pkt., be; 02.5.7 5Cs 46 -., 4£0C; 3° ID. 92-00.
DWARF “CUPID” SWEET PEAS
This is a dwarf Sweet Pea, the plant growing only five inches high, yet spreading out and forming a solid mat of foliage and flowers one and one-half feet across. The blossoms are very sweet, of largest size and greatly abundant with three flowers on each stem. , Mixed — 8 sorts. Pkt., 5c; 0Z., 15c.
DOUBLE SWEET PEAS
These produce flowers nearly half of which will be double. Very beautiful and attractive. Double Mixed — Several colors. Per pkt., 10c; 0z., 25c.
New Early Spencer Sweet Peas
These are the best of all — See colored plate on other Side Early (or Winter) Flowering Sweet Peas are the ones to plant above all others. They are used for greenhouses for winter-blooming, but are equally valuable for the garden as they begin flowering weeks before others do and are consequently in bloom weeks longer. They are among the very finest of the Spencer types and give one a long season of glorious bloom, coming very early, when flowers will be better than those which come later. Early Flowering Blanche Ferry (Spencer)—The true large ruffled pink and white always so popular. Early Flowering Lavender Pink — Very lovely javender- pink of the larger type. Early Flowering Mrs. Skach — Extra fine clear pink. Early Fiowering Red Orchid — Deep solid crimson-red. Early Flowering Venus — Flushed white with picotee edge. Very fine, Early Flowering Snow White Pure white, large, fine. Early Flowering Yarrawa — Bright rosy pink, light wings. Early Flowering Mixed—- 25 finest colors. Price, 15c per pkt.; 3 for 40c; the 8 sorts for $1.00.
Waller’s Novelties (Spencers)
The following superior new sorts are offered for the first time. Originated by L. D. Waller, Sweet Pea expert.
Cardinal — Intense brilliant poppy-scarlet, large waved flowers of great substance. Stems long with four blossoms. It will not burn in the hottest California
sun. Pkt. 15 seeds, 20c.
New Buttercup — Nearest being a fine deep cream. 10 & stem, often duplex. 15 seeds, 20c.
approach to a pure yellow, Four immense frilled flowers A grand. novelty. Pkt. of
40 Grandest Spencer Sweet Peas
Messrs. Morse and Cuthbertson, who have made an exhaustive study of Sweet Peas, having tested and ex- perimented with more than one thousand kinds, name the following varieties as being among the very best from every standpoint; in fact, the cream of all. There are, of course, sorts that are scarcer and for that rea- son higher priced, but none better.
America — White striped with carmine.
Agricola— A fine large white slightly flushed lilac.
Barbara — Large salmon-orange.
Bertrand Deal — Clear rosy mauve.
Constance Oliver — Bright rosy pink suffused cream.
Countess — Splendid rosy pink.
Decorator — Rose overlaid with terra-cotta.
Dobbie’s Cream — Pure, clear primrose-yellow.
Duplex Cream — Beautiful cream color with double standards.
Elfreda Pearson — Deep blush, beautifully waved.
Elsie Herbert — Large white with beautiful pink edge.
Etta Dyke — Pure white large waved blossoms.
Fiery Cross——A new shade of red, and the most bril- liant of any color in the Spencer type.
George Herbert — Bright rosy carmine.
Helen Lewis— Orange and rosy salmon; very fine indeed.
Helen Pierce New — White marbled blue.
Hercules — Large waved blossoms of rich pink.
Iluminator —A_ glorious orange-salmon.
Jean Ireland— Cream color, edged with carmine-rose.
King Edward — Rich crimson, beautifully waved.
King Manoel — Giant chocolate-maroon, almost black; the largest and best of its color.
King Mauve — The largest waved mauve.
King White — For purity and vigor this is perhaps the best white Spencer.
me George Herbert — A large beautiful waved lav- ender.
Margaret Atlee — Beautiful apricot-pink.
Marks Tey — Violet with bronze wings; very large.
Margaret Madison New — Clear azure-blue.
Masterpiece — Clear lavender, large and fine.
Maud Holmes — A beautiful large. waved crimson.
Miriam Beaver New — Exquisite shell salmon-pink on cream ground.
Mrs. Cuthbertson — The best pink and white.
Mrs. Hugh Dickson — Pale salmon-pink and buff.
Mrs. = seemipily — Apricot suffused with pink, beautifully waved.
R. F. Felton — The best lavender Spencer.
Rosabelle — White with light carmine stripes.
Royal Purple — The best purple Spencer.
Scarlet Emperor — Extra fine large scarlet.
Thomas Stevenson — Rich orange-scarlet.
Vermilion Brilliant —Beautifully waved scarlet. the best.
Wedgewood — A beautiful azure-blue.
Price, 10c per pkt.; 3 pkts. for 25c; 7 for 50c: the whole collection of 40 grandest sorts for $2.50.
Any variety at 25c per oz.
SILVER MEDAL MIXTURES OF NAMED SPENCER SWEET PEAS
This is the greatest Sweet Pea mixture ever offered. All new named Spencers, 100 kinds, with enormous blossoms four in a cluster and of every color, tint and blend. This includes the seventy-five varieties of the American Sweet Pea Society shown at San Francisco- Panama Exposition, and which was awarded the silver medal of the National Sweet Pea Society of Great Brit- ain. It includes such sorts as Fiery Cross, Royal Purple, King White and all the late sensational varieties. PkKt., 10c: oz., 25c; Ib., $2.50.
One of
Mrs. W. A. Baker, Fort Frances, Ont., says: “Last spring I purchased \-Ib. of Sweet Pea seeds. I planted a double row seventy-five feet long. They were the ad- miration of the neighborhood, extra large and beautifully shaped blossoms, three and four in a cluster on long graceful stems, delicious in fragrance.”
New Sweet Pea— Queen Mary — A Wonderful Novelty from Australia
A new variety which produces long flower stems often containing aS many as seven or eight large blossoms
on one stem. Color, a blending of blue and white
3 pkts. for 50c.
bordered violet-crimson. ing so many flowers on a stem are qualities which are unique in Sweet Peas,
In color and its habit of bear- Per pkt. of 10 seeds, 20c;
Plate IX
New Everblooming Sweet William
Begins blooming in fifty to sixty days from seed, and continues in profusion all summer and fall. Also the following year, being hardy.
This is a great improvement upon the Annual Sweet William previously offered. It has none of the faults of that fine novelty, and is greatly superior in all respects. It blooms within two months from seed. and never stops till cold weather in late fall. Being perfectly hardy it starts blooming again in early spring and continues in- definitely—truly everblooming in every sense of the word. Flowers large, clusters very large, and colors ex- ceedingly varied and beautiful, ranging from pure white to blood-red. But the ringed and spotted flowers are most attractive and novel. Such a bewildering array of superb colors so exquisitely combined it is hard to find in any other flower. Our word for if, these new a eee Sweet Williams will please you beyond all
elief.
Seed grows quickly and easily, flowering in fifty to sixty days. All colors mixed. 15c per pkt.; 3 pkts. for 35e€:
Plants, fine young plants for immediate effect in the garden. 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100.
SHIRLEY
POPPY
NEW DOUBLE
Double Shirley Poppy
These possess the same large size and airy grace of the famous Single Shirleys, with a greater range of most
attractive colors through all shades and tints. It is in every way superior to the single sorts. The flowers are more durable and attractive. : All Colors Mixed — A superb variety...............15
New Hybrid Shirley Poppies
The finest of all Poppies is this New Hybrid strain, Shirley and Ranunculus flowered. The flowers are dou- ble and semi-double, of mammoth size, possessing a grace and beauty all their own. Colors, soft shades of salmon, pink, orange, light and dark scarlet, rose, char- moise, etc. There is absolutely no comparison between these and any other Poppies. AST +} eee
Lychnis Arkwrightii
A new hardy perennial which flowers early the first season from seed and is easily raised. One of the most. striking beautiful new border or bedding plants. A cross between L. Chalcedonica and Haageana, vastly su- perior to both parents in flower and form. A bed of two-year-old plants of Arwwrightii in full flow- er is a Sight for the gods, delighting the eye with its rich deep crimson hues. Colors of many shades of light and deep reds, pinks, salmon, etc. PEt., -20¢.
Spring Catalogue of Seeds, Bulbs and Plants for 1918 AI
New Dwarf Lavatera, ‘Liberty ’’
Plants grow only about two feet high, branching freely into a compact, symmetrical bush. Covered all the season with very large rose-colored blossoms which show a faint white border. Begins blooming very early and is one of the most pleasing annuals we have ever grown. The immense size of the blossoms as compared
to the plant attracts every eye, and its lovely soft color and fresh green leaves add a special charm. in open ground early. Pkt 20; 3° tor .50¢.
L Sow seed Fine for flowering in pots also.
SELE- SEEDING
DOUBLE PETUNIA |
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This is the first strain of Double Petunia to produce seed from double flowers. All other seed is saved from single flowers pollenized with the double. It is, there- fore, the very finest, producing seventy-five per cent of plants with double flowers, and these are of the giant- fringed and frilled type. Flowers of all colors and high- est quality in every way. A most important novelty. Per pkt. of 30 seeds, 20c; 3 pkts. for 506.
Platycodon Mariesi
Tom Thumb
A perfect gem of 4&4 hardy perennial plant, which blooms first year from seed. Very large, wide open, saucer-shaped blossoms which are per- fectly exquisite, and are borne all summer long. Plants bloom first year when only six inches high, but eventually reach two feet. Colors pure white to dark blue. Mixed — Our own select
SULA. “totes es .10 New Double
fine novelty.
large, double,
PLANTS
We can supply plants of Mariesi mixed for 20C . eachs a3, for, 50C- 3 4
New Ten Weeks Stocks Pasadena
This originated at the extensive and unexcelled gardens and park of the late Adolph Busch at Pasadena, Cal. it is a beautiful soft carmine-rose color. It grows about eighteen inches high and branches freely, making a very compact plant. For exquisite color, large flowers and great branching habit it has no equal. A further re- markable quality of this Stock is its habit of producing ninety per cent double flowers. It is sure _to become popular. Extra fine for winter-blooming. Pkt., 15c.
Flowers white.15
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a Chinese Woolflower e (CELOSIA CHILDS!) Most Showy Garden Annual in Cultivation
This was introduced from China by us four years ago and has proved a great success everywhere. There is not the slightest doubt but that it is the most mag- nificent garden annual ever introduced. Not since Wwe introduced the “Golden Glow Rudbeckia”’ (a hardy peren- nial), has such a truly valuable and glorious garden flower of any sort come to light. Its ease of culture and long continued season of bloom (early July until frost), together with its massive bunches of wool-like flowers and glowing color combine to make it the showiest as Well as the most odd and novel garden flower. Four years of cultivation have demonstrated this fact.
Plants grow two to three feet high, the blooms starting early with a central globular head which often reaches the immense size of two feet in circumference. Scores of branches are thrown out, each bearing a ball of scar- let wool. All these branches support numerous laterals with small heads of bloom mixed with fresh green foliage so that a plant looks like an immense bouquet splendidly arranged and set in the ground. None of the blooms fade in any way until hit by frost, but all continue to ex- pand and glow with a deepening richness of color, a deep crimson-scarlet. Flowers when cut in a fresh state and carefully dried retain their shape and brilliant color and are useful for winter decorating, like everlastings.
Start seed if convenient under glass about four weeks before time to transplant to the garden. If the little plants remain too long in pots or seed beds they will begin to set bloom, which is not desirable. Transplant to the garden as soon as danger of frost is past. Seed — Per pkt. (about 100 seeds), 10c; 3 for 25c. Selected Seed — Saved only from the largest and finest
flowers (150 seeds), 20c per pkt.; 3 for 50c. Pot-Grown a in May, $1.00 per dozen,
$7.50 per 100,
From Florists’ Exchange, Aug. 26, 1916: struck us as having real merit as a bedder was the Chinese Wool Plant. We had taken little interest in the expfoiting this plant was receiving, supposing it to be of no practical value. As a matter of fact one of the bright- est beds we saw on our grounds was of this plant. We predict that this will soon become very popular.
T. G. Morehouse, Flat Rock, N. C., says: Your Chinese Woolflower is a great success. My bed of it has been the tirst grown in Flat Rock, also your New Giant Por- tulaca,
Edwin Thomson, Rockville Centre, L. I., N. Y., says: Have been very successful with your Chinese Woolflower, and last month potted and brought in the house my largest one, which is still doing fine.
Dr. Karl Freitag, Chicago, Ill., says: I was well pleased with my spring order. The Chinese Woolflower is just grand, and is the admiration of the neighborhood, though we have had frosts, and everything else in the garden has been killed, the Woolflower is still in all her glory.
Dorothy Bolgren, Waltham, Minn., savs: The Wool- flowers we got of you last spring were flne, with beau- tiful large flowers.
J. G., Combs, Wildwood, N. J., says: 1 had a large bed of your Woolflower plants along the sidewalk, some two hundred plants, and it was a sight admired by thou-
A plant that
sands. Some two hundred women asked me for your address. Fred L. Summers, Parkersburg, W. Va., says: The
Woolflower, although it got a late start, did elegantly, and is still showing fine large blossoms.
Mis. Elizabeth Detrick, Dayton, Ohio, says: I am writing you to let you know | tried your Chinese Wool- flower and had the greatest success. My friends are perfectly wild about it.
R. R. Ralliett. Bovertown, Pa., says: Last spring I purchased several packets of your Woolflower seeds, and had about one hundred plants blooming. A double row one hundred feet long with a line of Cannas in center. Your Woolflowers are certainly all and more than what vou claim them to be. They were the wonder and ad- miration for every one who passed the place.
H. L. Read, Deer Park, Ala., says: The Woolflower has attracted more attention than anything on our grounds.
Mrs. B. M. Chenoweth, Flemington, W. Va., Says: Our Woolflower attracted so much attention that hun- dreds of people stopped to ask its name.
RUDBECKIA BICOLOR SUPERBA
Rudbeckia Bicolor Superba Semi Plena
A magnificent hardy annual bearing all summer long immense golden blossoms with wide, velvety, brownish black centers. Flowers are single, semi-double and double, borne on stems twelve to twenty inches long. They vary much in the size of the showy dark center, and are wonderfully attractive. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c,
3° — . New Columbines (Aquilegia) (Perennial)
One of the best of the early summer perennials. Curi- ous flowers, extremely graceful, and borne in great quantities high above the foliage which itself is very beautiful. Per pkt. Prize Mixture — 100 varieties, double and single, all
COMOTS oie de ek wwe 8 one kia ee New Double Mixed — New double varieties of many
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Giant Long Spurred Yellow — This was discovered growing wild in the high mountains of New Mexico. It is so much larger and finer than the common native yellow that there is no comparison. Grows four to five feet high, branches freely and has a succession of flowers for two months. These are pure lemon-yellow of monstrous size and extra long spurs. Perfectly hardy and a free, easy grower anywhere. $ pkts. for 50¢.4 6.12. .o0. 7 20
Long Spurred Hybrids — This fine novelty has been developed by a lady in England. Many delicate, harmonious colors, and brilliant shades of reds and crimsons that are entirely new. The long, graceful spurs add much to the effectiveness of the bloom..10
New Star Zinnias
(Z. Mexicana Hybrida)
These elegant low-growing Zinnias are covered all summer long with flowers about two inches across which show the most intense colors and varied combina- tions we have ever seen. The rich velvety petals, looking almost like some fabric, range in colors from deep crim- son-maroon to white, including yellow and orange shades. Most of the flowers are bordered or zoned in a manner which makes them remarkably effective. Packet, 10c; 3 pkts., 25c.
R: D. MacLachlan, Victoria, B. C., says: Both Chinese and Japanese have flocked to see my Woolflower and both claim it for their country. Apart from its beauty it has been of great interest.
T. H. Warren, Windsor, Ont., says: All my seed from you were @ great success, especially the Woollower.
W. S. Gregory, Lynchburg, Va., says: The Wool- flower surpassed my expectations and one specimen ex- ceeds your delineation in your catalogue.
Mrs. H. Copeland, Chelsea, Wash., says: My Wool- flowers bloomed all summer and they are as easy to raise as Tomatoes. Your picture does not do them justice.
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- SPECIAL STOCKS AND SPECIALTIES IN HOICE SELECT FLOWER SEEDS
OUR GREATLY IMPROVED STRAINS OF LEADING ANNUALS, PERENNIALS AND CLIMBERS — The Most Worthy Late Introductions, and Select Seed of Improved Standard Sorts.
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The ordinary commercial grades of fiower seeds, such as are usuaily sold, can be and are sold at a very low price. They are grown and harvested in large crops, much like grain. They are produced cheaply, sold cheaply, and are, in fact, cheap in every sense of the word; and he who sows them has no right to complain at their poor quality. They cannot possibly be anything but poor. Seed of high quality can be produced only by thorough, careful, painstaking and expensive metheds. We do not offer our customers the ordinary commercial grades of seeds. Our stocks are special strains of special varieties bred up to the highest mark of perfection and selected with great care, and for this reasen we grow and offer but a limited number of varieties — only those which are of the greatest merit and sure to give satisfaction everywhere. The very best varieties, bred up to an unequaiied mark of perfection, have made our seeds famous the world over.
. GERMINATING TESTS—All seed we sell is thoroughly tested and we know that it will grow under proper conditions. ; For the best summer display the garden is dependent upon flowers which are grown from seed sown every year. | There are “housands of varieties, some good, some indifferent, but the great majority are poor, or in some respecis unsatisfactory and not desirable for general cultivation. With a view to offering our customers only the very best varieties, those which cannot fail to produce good results in every part of the country, we have for years carefully grown, tested and selected to-ascertain what.sorts. possess superior merits. The list here presented is the result of our labor. It contains the very best of all sorts, and all which are really and generally desirable. a ANNUALS — In our list of flower seeds all:kinds that are not designated as ‘Perennials,’ ‘House,’ “House and 3 -Garden,’ or ‘Climbers’? may be put down as bedding annuals, although some of them, notably Pansies, Dian- thus and Garden Pinks, live out over winter and bloom as well the second season as they do the first. CLIMBERS — All sorts marked Climbers are annual vines; such as Sweet Peas, Morning Glories and Gourds. HOUSE — All marked House are window, or greenhouse plants; such as Cyclamen, Cineraria and Primroses. HOUSE AND GARDEN — Those marked thus are plants which are adapted to window and greenhouse culture, and for summer bedding outside; such as Geraniums, Lantana and Heliotrope. PERENNIALS — These are hardy plants which live and thrive in the garden year after year. Most of them deo not “bloom until the second summer from seed.
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ae \f 3 = _—_ 43 SP AMBRESIK oo ss i ERE its merits are long, pit ee es? stems, covered with beautiful 23sec as green foliage and seed - buds = which are exceedingly fra- grant. Desirable as a pot or garden plant with fragrant Rt >, poner’, and fOr mekme. up eT Me RES 2 into bouquets and other flora x Sh lestuss. work. An easy plant to grow. A favorite little annual, because of its fragrance and TPS Oks, 3 1a Ngee tr ane Pec eri Th 10 abundance of bloom. As easy to grow as any weed, and ae : _ blooms from early summer until severe freezing weather in fall. Sow seed very early in the open ground. Per pkt. Little Gem — An improved variety; much larger flow- ers, of a pure’ white, and, if possible, more florifer- ous than the old Sweet. Plant is also more robust and spreading, a single plant forming a thick mat gee GEL flowers and. foliage twelve to fifteen inches _-_—~—s across. _ Three and’ four hundred spikes of flowers in full bloom can be counted on a good plant at SS NOE a ee ie as oe wach aw ties tee 5 Compactum. ‘Lilacinum — Similar habit to the well- _. known dwarf Alyssum, Little Gem, but the flowers = are Of delicate: jae -COlOP: . 32. ow. sew cance ee 10 - Gompactum Lutescens— A form of the Little en which produces bloom of a primrose- -yellow color. .10 he 4 sorts for 25c.
- Ageratum : '*(House and Garden)
‘One of the ast useful and profuse-blooming piants known. A single head of Ageratum will remain fresh and perfect for a month-in the open air and from six weeks to three months in the window or greenhouse.
Little Gem— A beautiful-border variety. A sheet of
a _. delicate blue flowers the whole season; compact. 5
Princess Louise— A-, lovely dwarf ever - -bloomer,
crowded with flowers | every day in the year. As a
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The acknowledged queen of autumn annuals. _ Indis- pensable for the flower garden, fine as a show plant for fairs and exhibitions, and charming pot plants. Very profuse bloomers, with exceedingly beautiiul flowers of the most exquisite colors and most perfect form. There are several forms of Asters, some being imbricated like the Rose, some loose and globular like a Paeony, while
others are partly incurved like the Chrysanthemums, Per pkt. Giant Comet — Plants tall and of much vigor, while the flowers are of etxraordinary ‘size. Flowers are formed of largest twisted and curled petals, and look like Japanese Chrysanthemums. Many colors MIKOD cick Si erakodens sh ehys UREMR WAIL) dane, bio" tates Oras 10 Giant Comet, White — Immense size, snow-white....10 Giant Comet, Dark Blue — Fine deep color......... 10 Giant Comet, Light Blue — Lovely sky-blue.:;...... 10 Giant Comet, Rose — Soft rosy pink.../.......... 10 Giant Comet, Crimson — Deep and rich.......-..., 10 The 6 packets for 50c
New Crego — The Crego is probably the largest of all
Asters, the petals being exceedingly long and wavy and the flowers borne on stems some fifteen inches in length. It is a monster among Asters. A real treat awaits any one who plants this variety. Crego Pink Perfection — Superb rosy pink......... 10 Crego Snow-White — Magnillcent large white....... 10 Crego Mixed — Several cOlOrs’ 2... 1... eee eee eee 10 Vick’s Branching Pink —A beautiful variety of the large branching type, with large flowers, the color of a bright Daybreak Carnation. Stems long and stiff. A grand Aster for cutting and for*vases..... 10
Vick’s Branching, Pure White — A strong grower, and continues to grow and bloom later In the season than any other variety. The flowers are very large, often four inches in diameter, borne on long stems, adding greatly to their value for vases...........1
Vick’s Branching, Mixed — Several different colors.. .10
Early Queen — Decidedly the best early Aster, produc- ing flowers in profusion on long stems, and being
several weeks earlier than the other, The flowers
are very double, rendering them of exceptional value for cutting purposes. Sow seed early in open ground
and get the finest of bloom in August.
Early Queen, Pure White — Clear and superb........ 10 Pe ” iar site —— RIC. c). . dee Se ee 10 ‘? a Lavender — Delicate and lovely........ 10 a ti Rose — Fine. pleasing shade........... 10 a6 Ee All Colors Mixed.. 10
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Semple’s Marvel — Plants
erow twenty inches high, branch freely in an upright manner, producing 4 great number of magnificent blossoms on long stems. The flowers are very double-and perfect, and possess the richest colors. They bloom a little later than most kinds and escape the ravages of the Aster beetle.
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A greatly improved type of the well known Victoria Asters of the Daybreak type. They are very fine and will give great satisfaction. Per pkt.
Daybreak — Immense Paeony-like double blossoms of
the loveliest sea-shell pink. Large and beautiful blossoms im reckless profusion ................. 10 Purity —A fine, strong-growing Aster which branches finely and bears its great perfect snow-white blos- - Soms on Jong, stout stems. A fitting companion to
21> DUDS ee SSS SS ae, Seg Sea pen ee 10 Azurea — A splendid clear light blue.............. 10 Pale Lavender — A lovely blue-tinted flower Of great
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ASTER KING, OR NEEDLED
King, or Needlied — A distinct and very beautiful Aster with long needle-like petals... Should be in every PaMCeHOH.. Many COlOTS,-MIXeCG.. . oS. are es ep sta 5
King Needied, Sol d’Or —A new French Aster which has proved with us to be very fine indeed. Flowers
_large and beautifully quilled and of a fine straw- yellow eolor. A rare shade indeed among Asters. It is vigorous, medium bright, and is to be highly recommended
Coccardeau Dwarf Mixed — This splendid Aster is of dwarf growth with very large double blossoms of various colors, but all have large white centers, which makes them very conspicuous and showy...10
Mixed Asters
A bed of mixed Asters, all kinds, colors and varieties; is certainly attractive. We offer mixtures of both dwarf and tall-growing sorts separate.
Mixed, Tall-Growing Asters — All sorts and colors, will make an interesting and attractive bed. Large pkt..15 Mixed Dwarf Asters — All the low-growing sorts..... 10
One packet each of the two for 20c. Sh SZ...
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ALPINA. 23 2 WS > Aster Alpina (Perennial)
One of the most charming hardy perennial plants we have ever seen. Its flowers are borne in profusion early in spring, and are the size of a large wild Daisy, about three inches across, composed of a double row of in- tensely blue petals surrounding a golden-yellow center. It is double the size of any other hardy Aster, and closely resembles a large Paris Daisy.in shape and general ap- pearance. Another important point is its extreme earli- ness, beginning to bloom usually in May.
Mixed — Blue, white and several fine colors....-.--- 10
Asters offered on Plate lil: American Beauty, deep pink; and Abaione, light pink, Have a garden full of Asters the coming summer.
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splendid foliage plant and fine for bouquets. Sprengeri — For hanging pots or bracket pots when
the masses of rich foliage can droop in its natura!
erace, it is one of the loveliest objects. For cutting
it lasts weeks in water. , Plants also blossom freely
and ‘bear large, beautiful red berries:.......:.... a Rlumosus Nanus — Fine lace-like foliage, exquisite... 10
Argemone Grandiflora Hybrids
Flowers of. great size, opening cup-shaped, looking like exquisite tissue flowers, so_ thin and delicate and so beautifully waved and fluted. Centers filled witb a mass of exquisite golden’ stamens. Colors range from white to deep yellow. Foliage quite ornamental. A very showy and easily-grown hardy BTU M Nie fe acess OS epee 10
Abutilon (House and Garden)
As indispensable for the window or greenhouse as the Petunia is for the flower garden. Will stand more abuse and neglect than almost -any- other house plant. Grows rapidly from seed, and is soon in bloom. Leaves very ornamental and often beautifully variegated. Lovely bell- shaped flowers, bore the year round and in all colors— white, pink, yellow, orange, red, etc,
Choice. Hybrids Mixed — All colors mixed.........-. 10 Infanta Eulalia Hybrids Mixed — Large blossoms of various colors, The finest of all Abutilons, bloom-
og freely all the year. Much more desirable than tall-growing kinds. Many colors mixed, pink, te, yellow, etc. Our OWn STO WIDR sees Faget 48s 20
ABUTILON ARGEMONE . Agrostemma Coeli-Rosea
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An easily grown annual which blooms ina very short time from seed and continues in great profusion ‘through the entire summer and fall. Has highly ornamental, glaucous-green foliage and the, large daisy-like blos- soms are borne on long graceful stems. \ Flower white with a blue center and a yellow band at the base of the petals. The form of the flower is perfection itself and the color is novel and fascinating. _Most beautiful and easily-grown 4 eid
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many being’ beautifully tipped and variegated..... 10.
Giant White — Pure as snow, large, double, exquisite. 10 Giant Crimson — Rich deep color..... Mowe xitte tf. ..10
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Brachycome (Swan River Daisy) This beautiful hardy garden, annual has come out in new colors and with larger and fine flowers, white, blue and violet-red, making a.charming mixture, Flowers ap- pear by the thousands. Exquisitely lovely. Seed sown in
open ground is up and blooming in a few weeks. For pots these dainty flowers are most fascinating. Try
them either way. They will be a revelation. Per pkt. FURUS Goad CARIES eee ge ee oe oie U8 oe ee oken en OS 5 Little White Star — Very fine...............00.%. 10 Hybrids Mixed — White, blue, rose, efc............ 10:
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The gigantic flowers are double and perfect. tt is net-uncommon to see more than 500 of these magnifl- cent flowers upon a plant at one time, the branches be- ing perfect pyramids of bloom. The Balsam is one oi ee ce beautiful and easily grown of all garden an- nuals.
White — Pure snowy white, large, double and perfect. 5
Pink — Superb sort; clear, deep color, beautiful buds. 5
Scarlet — Almost dazzling in brilliancy...........+- 5
Fancy Strined — Various colors, flaked and siriped... 5
Fancy Spotted —— Beautiful shades, all spotted white.. 95
Mixed Colors — No finer mixture to be obtained.....10 One pkt. each of the 6 for 25c.
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Balloon Vine
\ clean, free-growing vine reaching ten lo fifteen feet, bearing delicate clusters of bloom and numbers of large, round, inflated seed-buds. The effect is most odd and curious. It is in every way a very at- STAVE YING ood: ons bo ole al ot ome eo 10
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Flowering Beans (Climber)
tall, luxuriant climbers. Finely scented,
Japanese White or Wistaria Bean — This new flowering Bean produces its long clusters of pure white flow- ers in the greatest profusion. These flowers closely resemble the glorious White Wistaria, and are borne in large clusters. It is a fine rapid elimber, and
Flowering Beans are beautiful as Sweet Peas, and fine, — :
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Pink Wistaria — Much like the above, but a,rich vio- let-pink and white, followed by ebony-red pods. 10
Scarlet Runner — Masses of intense scarlet flowers. ..10
Butterfly — New, like Scarlet Runner, but with exquis-. ‘ >
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Bush Yellow — New; creamy yellow...........4.-.20
Mixed Sorts — Many colors ........- Fee piece cece see Kudzu Vine— (Japanese Bean)—This is the,most rapid
growing vine known (twelve inches in-only one ..
day). It will grow fifty feet the first summer from. seed sown in the open ground in May. Its foliage is
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This good old annual has been a garden favorite for Aree hundred years. 3 a fine edging plant and good for cutting. Sow very ‘early in the open ground.
New Giant Hyacinth-fiowered White — This produces immense spikes of bloom resembling Hyacinths. It makes a most glorious mass of bloom, as shown in — cut. Few annuals cam equal it. 0z., BOC. Soe: ; 10
Dwarf Hyacinth-flowered. White — Just like the above - but growing only ie to eight inches tall. Very fine » for masses ...
e sho OW 8s. < ss bellata Aibida — creamy oe igs ces. 2. a een 5 bellata Lilac — Fine oe ee See a eo Umbellata Mixed — Many colors ........2......... 5 fom Thumb — Mixed colors. Bushy plants, only four to five inches Bigh, bearing profusely........... 5 Dwarf Large Flowered — Only six inches high, branch- ing freely and bearing immense numbers of large ' compact umbels of bloom. These flowers are very large and showy, being of brilliant and striking RT tee oo Sot ae gat asia es & Sie tw oo ecole e+ 10 empervirens — Large ‘flow ering, pure white. A fine _ hardy PERCHA SOLE 242% 5 iaisin os ace we ois clevars «eee sed
Cobaea Scandens (Climber)
One of the finest climb- ers, equally good for out of doors or for house culture. Pretty foliage and large, bell - shaped flowers that open a clear green, but turn to a love- ly purplish-blue. Plant Seed edgewise in moist but not wet soil, cover to prevent evapora- _ tion, and do not water
- again unless soil becomes very dry. When _ seed- lings appear water with TRORCTATIOR. oc. fe 5c + See
OUR GROP OF NEW GIANT HYACINTH-FLOWERED WHITE
Cornflower The well-known .Centau-=
rea Cyauns, Delightful colors in clear tones of blue and pink.
Blue Quality — Finest blue sort. It has’a blue color not found in any other SOMME ea oh Se ote ecw Se Ae
New Double Mixed —A splendid. double form of the ever popular Corn- flower. A good per cent comes true, and the colors are most exquisite ....10
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Crepis A lovely annual which blooms quickly from seed
and continues through June and -August. The flowers are exceedingly dainty in color, white, pink, tender rose, blush, etc., and borne on tall, graceful stems like fairy
double Daisies. Sure to olease. , ‘ All Colors, Mlixed...... 5
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Carnation — | | aS, Giant — é * | x, eS, Ever- | q a > “ee Blooming
Carnation, Monthly (House)
4 favorite with everyone. Fragrant double flowers of elegant form and exquisite markings. Spring-sown seeds make fine winter-blooming plants. Per pkKt. Monthly or Perpetual Hybrids — Mixed greenhouse
sorts. Will produce magnificent varieties.......-- 10 Giant French Everblooming — These Carnations are
absolutely as large, double and rich in colors as the
choicest cut-Nlower varieties seen in the florists’ windows. Yet, they are easily grown from seed and bloom in a few months from the time of sowing, making superb summer-bloomers for the garden, or when jifted and potted they bloom all winter in
a Window or conservatory. Color, white, pink, scar-
let, lenion-yellow, buff, striped, ete, Mixed colors. 20 Giant American Everblooming — We grow this seed
in our own greenhouses using the finest named
sorts, such as we offer in plant department, All carefully hand hybridized and will produce the grandest results. Pkt. of 20 BOCAS .nccdevcesies cme
Picotee or Hardy Carnation
These are perfectly hardy, standing the winter in the open ground and blooming most profusely in May or June. The flowers are extra large and perfect in form, very double and of every color, including fine yellows. Early Dwarf Vienna — Mixed colors........:....:: 10 Hardy Hybrids — Hardy free-bloomers, extra tine for
the garden or for pots. Many fine colors mixed. .1o
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+ - a: - Carnation, New Marguerite Dwarf Perpetual, Blooming in Three Months from Seed
Think of getting Carnations in flowée-from seed. in about three months, which last throughout the winter, and of various eolors, white, pink, scarlet, purple, réd, striped, mottled, Naked, variegated, etc.’ They are alike valuable for pot culture and garden, Do not sow cheap Marguerite seed; it will disappoint you. Mixed Colors — Half dwarf, the finest strain, with large double blos- soms in ninety days.10 Pure White—Tline...10 Rosea—Fine, rose...10 Scariet—Bright ....10 New Dwarf — Plant of dwarf, stout habit, and plant extra large- sized and brilliant. All colors mixed........415 Valmaison—The flowers are simply enormous in size, perfectly double and of a delicate blush color and strong clove fragrance. Growth very stout, with large, lux- a uriant foliage ...... 10
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Centaureas CHILDS’ GLORIOUS STRAINS
For an early summer garden flower noth- mg Surpasses these superbly new Centaureas. Each plant produces scores of flowers which are borne on long wiry stems and are exceed- ingly graceful, while for cutting for vases or corsage wearing no flower can surpass them. Flowers two or three inches across, of the most lovely texture and su- perb fragrance. Sow seed in open ground very early; the plants will soon be up and blooming and continue for several months. They grow in any situation. Per pkt,
Imperialis, Mixed Colors — The plant is much larger and more vigorous with blossoms fully double the size of the Marguerite. They possess the same colors and delicious fragrance, and long graceful
SECT rear at et ce ee i Ses ede ee At 10 Chameleon—A new light yellow of great beauty...... 10 ‘Pure White — Extra fine and fragrant..... Seep S cate ak 5 Lilac— Rrtra. fine ues ee kh ee ee Sein ee 5 Rosea—— Beautilul: LOSB == ve cS i ew ee eee 5 Suaveoleus — Brightest yellow ..........-..-200-5 10
Above 6 sorts for 35c.
CENTAUREA AMERICANA GIGANTEA A giant-flowering Centaurea, with white of lilac- tinted blossoms fully four inehes across. The petals are so constructed as to resemble rich lacework. Perfectly magnificent, and is a great favorite where it is known. It is rare, however, though one of the easiest of hardy garden flowers to grow. Extra fine for cutting......20
* Celosia The old Cockscomb of our mother’s garden, but vastly improved of late years. Its huge combs, from
six inches to a foot across, are of the most flery, gor- geous colors and very fine all the late summer and autumn. Start in heat and transplant in the open ground after danger of frost is over. Per pkt. Plumosa Castle Gould — This begins to develop its great feathery plumes early in the season, and they grow larger and finer all the time till killed by frost. In pots they last nearly all winter. Colors, brilliant scarlet, crimson, rose, orange, bright yellow, lemon, etc. These, showy plumes are so numerous and large that the whole plant is a pyramid of silken fluffy color,. more brilliant and beautiful than one can possibly imagine or describ€.......eee2ee0010
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Giant-Leaved Dwarf — Leaves of the largest Size, and richest colors of red, blackish-crimson and varie- gated. Highly ornamental as a pot plant, especially when showing its dense spikes of light blue flowers SUPOMUISUIINY ck wk ci Mew do pictade Ee ee ‘yt 10
seed, making fine specimen plants in two or three months, and if you raise a.thousand no two will be alike. The leaves are large (often a foot long) and wavy, spotted, mottled, striped, splashed, marbled, etc., with the most rich and charmime colors, white. purple, pink, crimson, green, yellow, velvety-red and black—in endless variety. Such colors, such combinations and contrasts! They excel Fancy- Leaved Caladiums and all other foliage plants. The seed we offer is saved from the most magnificent SPOCHTIUME 6 oe oe. dad ee ale whe UE OTS ee rey 2!
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Dwarf Mixed —A fine mix- ture of all colors, of dwart ; habit, but producing enor-
mous heads of bloom...10 * Clarkia Splendid hardy annuals for the garden, blooming
quickly and for a long period.
Scarlet Queen — Plants grow about two feet high branching freely, each stem literally crowded with beautiful scarlet Mowers like miniature double Hol- . lyhocks. It is one of the most showy hardy annuals and best novelties seen in a long time......... an 94
Double Mixed — Very fine, new colors and double... 5
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' Cannas, Childs’ Extra Early Dwarf Grown from Seed, Flowering in Three Months
These wonderful Cannas, dwarf and compact in growth, with highly ornamental foliage, produce their Hf magnificent clusters of brilliant blossoms all the summer and fall from spring-sown seed. In no other way can - so small an expenditure produce such a bed of glorious - flowers for so-tong a period. They are simply marvelous, showing colors and: variegations ranging from almost _ white to brilliant-scarlet and dark maroon, rosy pink, _ yellow, orange, buff, lemon, striped, bronzed, tinted and » variegated in a wonderful manner. Foliage highly orna- ~ mental... nee 5 ease Per pkt. Extra Early Dwarf — Mixed, all colors and shades...10 Extra Early Dwarf, Red Leaved —Leaves of rich : maroon-red,-bronze, etc. Flowers of various colors.10 - Giant-Flowered—All. colors mixed; saved only from _ the newer sorts of the grand Giant-flowered types. .20
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| Cypress Vine ( Climber ) Ss One of the, prethiest vines; imaginable; quickly clothed || with dark green, feathery foliage of great beauty, and ' dotted- with ‘intensely bright velvety flowers that shine like. little stars against their glossy background of green. Eine for training to,.smnall trellises or to run up poles or |@eetriNne Sen * =, yt fp 5:
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A inty. vine with. beautiful cut leaves and pretty
“Aelicate owéers of a Clear canary-yellow. From the
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f theif shape to a bird with wings expanded the plant
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Our Special Collection of Calliopsis is Extra Fine and Will Make a Most Showy and Attractive Bed.
The Calliopsis, or Coreopsis, is one of our brightest, cheeriest annuals and as easy to grow as any weed. The myriads of gay flowers, poised on long foot-stalks, above the foliage, make a mass or bed of these a. dazzling sight. ; . Per pkt. Tom Thumb Beauty — This superb new strain grows
only eight inches high, while the flowers are-in size
fully up to the taller growing variety and produced in endless profusion. The large golden-yellow blos- soms with rich velvety-crimson center are exceed-
TPR SPR IOS vairee ss se oe thats acer tf eros Saito Feo eee New Double — This new double form is fine........ Radiata — Two colors mixed, a solid rich dark brown-
red, and the same color freely spotted with gold.
The plant is very, very dwarf, compact and sym-
metrical, and a perfect bouquet of .bloom. all the
time: Perfectly charming. .7...... wa a ha ote 10 Golden Ray — Rich, velvety
or or
gold. Very effective. Dwarf and compact........ 5 Golden Wave — GAN Aa dof
For a mass. of iwi iV WAVAI ;
bright golden color ANN \W THA vig
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of all annuals.
Plant very bushy and compact, reaching two feet in height and cov- ered from July to-~ October with hun- dreds of beautiful < zolden blossoms < with small dark centers. When grown in rows or masses the effect is very. striking. if is, indeed, a wave of gold. Seed can be sown in the open ground very early, or transplanted. = it: ~ 4 = One of <<.
‘ those flowers which will grow in any situation, for any- 10
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Plants dwarf, compact, and im-
MGUSELY SHOW s.a-0 cate Se er 10
Lanceolata—One of the finest hardy perennials. Flow- ers rich yellow, of large size and borne on long, sraceful stems. Very profuse and showy and blooms very quickly from seed............ co Alaats
One pkt. each of the seven for 30c.
or
Chrysanthemum HOUSE AND GARDEN Chrysanthemum seed sown in the spring will produce ‘ large vigorous plants by Soin which Meee give a ereat pro- fusion of fine lowers. No matter-how many plants you Calendula raise, no two will be alike, and some’ are likely to be valuable. Al} colors, shapes, sizes and varieties will be
These are among the most beautiful and popular gar- produced. Seeds germinate freely and quickly, and: the den annuals. Sow seed early in the open ground and mat. being of a hardy and robust nature, make a they will bloom profusely from June on. Fall frosts rapid growth. We offer only seed of-enrcown saving do not injure them. The blossoms are very large and which has been carefully hy bridized and wip give grand perfectly double Per pkt. results. j ee) Per pkt. Mixed Colors — All fine double sorts....... Vite nal ciel a California Mixed — Grown in California from good
7 Meteor — Very double; petals small and each one NAME SOPTS -. 0. ease Soe eas Fee ae eR ag ey + shi marked with two shades of yellow; very effective... 5 Extra Choice sticky ol ii solo edgpestond varotes Prince of Orange — This has that glorious deep pril- cab ce Bee app aS te de $s 7b20 liant: orange “color,, SG) Warns and zlowing.. {that Is. ° Wap cs a ee ee ee ee ee ee pray fo Be ca ee ae ee found in only two other annuals, California Poppy Japanese — Tine double mixed ++. .4),..4+--.-+--> the and Dimorphoteca. No finer color among iowers. 5 Ostrich Plume — Or hairy warieties qixed.........29
Seven Oaks Hybrids — IlybPids of the }famous. ever-
Whirlpool This new sort must now take the lead, as : its how ers are about twice as large as any other blooming variety .....4...% 13 gfe sete eee nee 20 ‘often four inches across), and perfectly double to Hardy Pompon — Mixed colors, “row garden. + Fame 20 the center. The plant is also very dwarf in habit, Storm Petrel —A hardy perennial twit wnely. eut, 1 and produces its enormous blooms very freely. Two rern-like foliage. It bloonis at all sues {the ee colors mixed, dark orange-red and sulphur-yellow. .10 Plow ers pure wae. very hay Moule
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BURRIDGEANUM HYBRIDS
Annual Chrysanthemums
rwo fine new sorts of these showy, hardy garden an- nudis which bloom quickly and continue all summer. Burridgeanum Hybrids — Large, daisy-like blossoms
OF various colors, all inost exquisitely banded and zoned, These colors contrast very strikingly....10 , : . Golden Star — An English novelty of last year which : has proved very fine with us, Clean, handsome Cacti foliage and large golden-yellow flowers like beauti- » Class of 8 oms ‘ofusely ; S r : At onee one of the most curious and popular Class ful Daisies. Blooms pri fu ely all ummer on igie a \any 2 plants grown. Many varieties can be grown from seed Baby Golden Glow — They will begin blooming at once, with a little care and patience. Sow. seed in shallow making & most symmetrical and compact growth pans or saucers filled with clear, coarse sand, with good | and showing hundreds of brightest blossoms as drainage, Cover with glass, keep moderately motst, Dues double tet as perfect as Roses. Nothing but the not wet. Pot seedlings into very small pot s. ranious Golden Glow itself can equal it for a display. Maes 3.4 Bef 20 Grows only two feet high, flowering early and pro- Mixed Sorts — Thirty to fifty kinds. 05+ S, a PUSOCLY Cts; aes SNe ake 0 os Cpe oh tlie -...... 5 Burbank’s Spineless Fruiting Sorts —- MEGS veto hd
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- CAMPANELA CUP AND SAUCER -
Improved Rainbow Corn
' This is of dwarf growth With tong, wide foliage whieh recurves in a grace-
foliage iS abundant and is striped and variegated with white, crimson, yellow, bronze, pink, green, etc., in a way that makes it as
fine Dracaena. Jt grows well in any climate and Imakes a beautiful object, either as single hill or in -mass. superb, improved strain with any other so-called striped or variegated Cora. ‘It is ereatly superior, and is fair- ly good for popping. Per os Se eee ee 10
CYCLAMEN Cyclamen (House)
- For full deseription of our grand new Cyclamen, see Plant Department. Our strain of Cyclamen seed is the - finest to. be.had, as we have made a specialty of this -fiower for several years and secured the finest improved sorts. All our Cyclamen have most elegant variegated _ foliage and very large and perfect flowers of the most _ deheate and charming colors. — :
ersicum Giganteum — Finest mixture ............ 10 ay
ful and beautiful way. This .
showy and attractive as a.
Do not confuse this.
Crd N
Campanula (Perennial)
Beautiful. plants known as Canterbury
. ete. and thin plants to stand twelve inches apart. Double, Mixed Colors — A fine strain..... 5 _ Single Mixed — Large flowering ........ 5 Cup and Saucer — Beautiful wide-spread- ing flowers holding a cup. Very fine;
= all colors MUXeR Ve 2 oe es 10 avy Prize Mixture — All colors, double and SAC ssingle. A choice selection of all the SS \\ VEER Test. named Soris. Se a 10 Giant Harebell — Extra fine and _ free
blooming, with long spikes of lovely large blue. flowers.
e e | Collinsia “A beautiful and quick-flowering hardy annual blooming in thirty days from seed.
It is very showy and almost unknown in American gardens. Mixed colors ...... 5
Cynoglossum Linifollum
A fine hardy annual, growing over a foot high, with long, loose sprays of ‘beautiful white flowers, which Jook very graceful and pretty. It is especially valuable for cutting for bouquets, etc. It is a great honey-pro- ducing flower and bees just revel in it. Blooms very quickly from seed; in fact, we know of no annual which Gan beat it-in: this: respech . 2s . 2s we eo SNE 5
; = e 2 Sh Cineraria (House) A wondrously beautiful greenhouse or window plant,
and not at all hard to grow. © The large, luxuriant leaves are surmounted in late winter and spring by immense
panicles of magnificent large flowers of the most bril-
liant colors. No flower is more showy or effective, and
the flowers last in full glory for two or three months.
Colors exceedingly rich and velvety, ranging from crim- son-black to pure white, through all the shades of-crim- son and blues, frequently with large white centers or exquisite borders.
Grandifiora, Mixed—Large-flowering prize varieties. .10 -Grandifiora, Dwarf Mixed—-Two to three inches across. 20 j= ~v
Double Flowered — Extra choice mixed, all double....
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CALCEOLARIA Calceolaria (House)
One of the handsomest and most striking pot plants we know of. Each plant bears hundreds of pocket-like flowers spotted and marked in the most curious manner. Our great show of Calceolarias during the late winter and spring months is one of the noted attractions of Floral Park.
Dwarf Hybrids — Large flowering, mixed colors......10 Grandifiora — Spotted and tinged, as well as the fine self-colors; very large and exquisitely fine....... 15
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s New Dahlias from Seed Flowering in Three or Four Months Good Dahlias can be grown from Seed, and-plants will bloom the first season from seed. Anyone who can raise a Zinnia or Morning Glory can grow Dahlias-from seed. They are remarkably easy to germinate’ Seed sown in. the house.in March or April will produce flowering plants” as soon as plants grown from tubers. Some of the finest, largest Dahlias, and the richest colors we have'ever seen were among seedlings. Out of a large paper of seed, no two plants will be alike in Nower, while there will be every color represented from snow-white to blaek=
maroon, Per pkt.
Double Large-Flowered, Mixed — Will produte some magnificent new varieties 2 27 PrP Pe Se 15 nifee. ..7.. 16
Single, Mixed Colors — Flowers Very” rainbow colors, Exceedingly popular a cut flowers! 5
Double Cactus — Large double~ fantastic “blossoms, which in shape and brillianey @Beediors rival the finest Cactus. All colors and shapes“tte Meter. Yaa
Double Pompon, Mixed —— Extra choice ha
Colleret — Outer row of large rich? petals, Inner r of smaller pure white petals. Wery striking. 2) 270
Clematis Fiowered Great blossoms »glexible- pe to
ten inches across, with elegant wide #lexibl® petals
like the tinest Clematis. Colors dehecatez ind rich, 22
r * Ag Kochia ail’ . ee > Trichophylla — uri yi (Burning Cypress) ms ay, | : a ee ~ : ‘ i he . ve, A very brilliant plant in late. * RAYS Digitalis summer and fall. Nothing * DNV" more striking in appearance \RE Long pyramidal spikes of lovely pendant thimble- could possibly be grown. The shaped bells, snow-white, rosy-blush, exquisitely shaded plant forms a dense, pyra- or spotted. ; midal mass of very orna- Gloxinoides Grandiflora A strain with large beauti- — mental foliage, which is a
ful Gloxinia-like blossoms. All colors mixed...
Monster Branching Given plenty of room this is a lovely light green early in the
season, changing later to red. Se
very tall groweg with a dense spike of bloom often ‘ » ;
five feet high. ‘The spike is usually capped by an or scarlet of intense Dries KocHiac immense saucer-shaped bloom, very unlike a [ox QNCY -. ws eve crc ere wseens v ~. = glove. Branches freely also, and is in cae ey for a ite Linge oe _ 500 T, WA long period. The flowers are of varying shades and «
superbly tigered and spotted. About seventy-five Childs’ New Giant Christmas Kochia, shown on yplate per cent of plants will come true to character... ..10 5, is a wonderfully decorative plant. teh ees
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Dianthus Like its near relative; the Carnation. the Dianthus is superlatively beautiful, many varieties possessing 4 radiant-like fire that is impossible to describe, but it is the very acme of.richness and beauty. fiower for cutting or flower work. Sow early either in the house or open ground, and plants will not only bloom all summer.and fall, but will survive the winter end bloom the next season. Per pkt. Diadematus flora plena — Splendid double flowers of the richest, darkest shades, fringed, mottled, striped, spotted, flaked, margined, etc., in a most
BOG AUG PE EE PITY eco = picts wise oe oie te cw be ee es 10 Snowball, Double White — Fine; like Carnation..... 10 Eastern Queen — Grand flowers three or four inches
across, beautifully striped and Shaded............
Fireball — (New) — Very large and double, equal to the best Carnations. Rich dark scarlet. Superb....10
Mobilis — (Royal Pinks) — These are free, luxuriant
growers with dark robust foliage and very large
- flowers. of. many rich and various colors; they are
perfectly magnificent in every way. All colors mixed. Immense size ..... eS 3 ee 10 Emperialis — Double Imperial Pinks.
growers, bearing great quantities of large, double flowers of rich, glowing colors.:....-....-......
A grand
EXQUISITE DIANTHUS Mixed — Our own mixture of the most beautiful double
PINKS
and single sorts. and of every desirable shade. Will give a bed of beautiful flowers, scarcely two alike. .10
. ‘ Dimorphoteca
Aurantiaca — The plants, of very neat branching habit, grow about twelve to fifteen inches high and are exceedingly profuse in flowering. The blossoms show a unique glossy rich orange-gold, whieh bril- hiant coloring is rendered the more conspicuous by the dark colored disc surrounded by a black zone. A bed in full bloom is a magnificent sight. Seed may be started under glass or sown in the open ground
New Hybrids — New colors in all shades from pure white to deep orange. Many are beautifully rayed or zoned. Certainly a great acquisition and a mag- mincent - New—-earden - favorite... O26 ee. 10
Datura
One of the finest garden flowers, plants rapid and bushy growers, crowned with great Lily-like blossoms a foot in length, like an enormous trumpet, white as snow, fragrantiy seented. It is a fine plant for the center of -a bed of evening bloomers or to use at the base of a rockery. -One plant in bloom will scent up a whole garden or lawn.
Single and Double, Mixed — Many fine colors........ 5
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a ao . Delphinium (Perennial) choicest perennials known and increases year. Tall, stately growing, with im- mense spikes of flowers in. all shades of lavender, mauve, pale, medium and deep, dark blues. Per pkt. New Early Hybrids — This flowers the first summer
_ One of the in beauty each
om spring-sown seeds. Plants of Yarge stately srowth with magnificent long spikes of bloom in ious shades of blue. It is the perfect Delphinium
m every respect, and good for several years when nce planted. Don’t fail to try it. Mixed colors..10 New Double Mixed — Immense spikes of large double
flowers. “EXGPA@eIMIG wo cart hial.. . «bin ween sieue nae ae 15
erecostrn Monstrosum —A new monster flowering Ly] of the beautiful old Formosum,...........20 Cardinalis —A beautiful cardinal-scarlet.......... 10 Sinensis Abureum — Fine light blue. 5 Sinensis Butterfly -—— Dark Blue.... 5 Sinensis Album — Pure white .... 5 ;, Sinensis Mixed — All colors ..... 5
Feverfew ( House and Garden)
Fine border plants that are always in flower. They bloom quickly from
extra good for cutting. fine plants for winter-
and are They also make blooming in pots. double like borne at all
“i ii / seed
Roses, and very profusely times of the year.
Eximia Grandiflora - Flowers enor- mous in size, as double as Roses, and DUPE + SNOW -WHItG.. 25.000 orateretg 1(
Flowers Jarge and.
Floral Park, N. Y.
FORGET- ME-NOT .
‘Shasta. Daisy Hybrids
These new Hybrids are. immense, beautiful -and _ abundant bloomers in every. way. Some with. large flat petals, others quilled or twisted, showing all the esthetic beauty of Cactus Dahlias. Some will also
be quite double .. 2-2... sere wees wees ee ss 10 Forget-Me-Not, or Myosotis Beautiful for shady nooks and quiet beds, and ex- quisite for cutting and. for wearing.’ Like the Pansy there is something almost human.in the expression of these modest. flowers, that Jook you frankly in the eyes as though they had something -to” tell you. Fine
for pot culture. Palustrus — Elegant blue flowers of large size..... 5 Dwarf Mixed Colors—- Bushy growth, large size... 5
new six to
large-flowering
Triumph — This is a_ splendid eight weeks
sort which will blossom in from seed
EUPHORBIA HETEROPHYLLA
Euphorbia
This beautiful plant is an annual form
Heterophylla — of the grand Poinsettia. Called ‘“‘Painted Leaf,’ or “Fire-on-the-Mountain.” Sow early.under glass or in the open ground in May. By August the leaves on the tops of the branches will begin to turn scarlet .and in a short time the whole plant will present a dazzling ray of scarlet and greén BOY Chie the effect of which is very striking.......%4.0...
Snow-on-the-Mountain — Like the above but with snow-white leaves or bracts instead of scarlet. 1,0
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Flowers of eternal beaut¥, those that never fade. - U into
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, Mixed — <A fine everlasting, good for
the garden2;and.a pretty pot plant. The most deli-
| _ cate and graceful of this useful class............ _ XERANTHEMUM, Mixed Colors—An easily grown ever- - lasting, and furnishes.the only shades of blues and
purples to.be found in this class................
One pkt. each of the 6 for 25c. Ofiental G 2 - Vrrenta rasses _ Ornamental Grasses, Mixed — Very beautiful orna- _ mental grasses which are extra fine for making into = ago bouquets with Everlastings....... _ Briza Maxima — Clusters of exquisite drooping cones. Tears (Coix) —A_ most beautiful ornamental srass with great drooping sprays of hard bead-like <= These seeds are fine for various kinds of _ Ofmamental work and are strung and worn about the beck. In his way they are used for teething babies who. get much help and relief from chewing the - _ Strings Pens ads. SEBEL ge SSCS SET er oi Pampas Grass, Eariy Rose— Blooms two months earlier than any other Pampas, produces twice as many plumes. Little seedling plants will the second year produce’ from 25 to. £0 beautiful rosy plumes.
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This magnificent grass succeeds equally well as a pot
plant -for- window or veranda or in ‘the garden. .-The abundance .of. gracefully curved. foliage iis -(exeept when the plants are very young and small) a deep rich crimson color at all times. During summer and fall. the plants throw up numerous stems bearing long graceful plumes of rich crimson color and superb silky texture. Plumes Six to_twelve inches long and very. ornamental: May be cut and cured for dry bouquets.. Plants from seed pro- duce blooms in about five months. 10c per pkt.
USED IXTENSIVELY FOR BEAD WORK
SEED
TAIN GRASS
SINGLE GERANIUM
Geranium, Giant Flowered
Habit compact, with large healthy foliage. Flowers perfect in shape, round and sometimes beautifully cupped. Trusses immense and the blooming qualities of the plant truly wonderful. In coloring they are perfect marvels, showing combinations and brightness of tints hitherto unknown. The spotted or speckled varieties are very novel and extremely attractive. Flower quickly from seed and in every respect are superior to all other Geraniums. We grow all our Geranium seed in Califor- nia, and it is very fine. Per pkt. Mixed Colors — All types with varied and brilliant
colors, saved from more than fifty magnificent sorts,
all finest named varieties, plants of which are of-
fered elsewhere in this catalogue............... 10 Pure White — Extra large and fine ............... 10 Pink — Exquisite ‘Shemese sot rae i eee 10 Scarlet — All very. TOTUIANt 8. cn etn ce woe meme ame 10 Spotted and Striped — All superbly variegated....... 10 Fancy Mixed — Gold, bronze, silver, tricolor, ivy-
leaved, cle... AH serts IDIXeCG is 6 ete paw i Soe eee 25 Double Mixed — All -colors and a magnificent lot.
Saved from our own superb hybrids. Seed will pro-
duce some of the grandest double Geraniums ever
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Gaillardia
Perfection
These are ipt called the Chrysanthemum Gail- lardias, owing to their zreat size, brilliant colors ind double perfect bios soms. Flowers are enor! nous size, perfectly ju ble, and borne in great rofusion all Summer while the colors and varie gations are the most bril
liant and beautiful imag
inable scarlet, red orange, purple, lemon, buff, ete. As pot plants
they are also Start seed early. Perfection— Mixed, many colors, large double and ti. ca Ba « 6 de eek Ga 10 Amblyodon— (Red Daisy) —Rich blood-red, black center. blooms all sum- ? dA Sled. a. nin Poles 5
exquisite.
DOUBLE GAILLIARDIA
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a - Gerbera or Crimson Daisy This flowers both summer and wifter, and makes a fine pot plant. The flower stems rise to a height of two feet, and are exceedingly graceful bearing a large daisy- like blossom three or four inches across. Jamiesoni — Elegant bright crimson.............. 15
New Hybrids — We have secured from a noted French hybridizer a quantity of seed of a greatly improved strain of Gerbera. They cover a wide range of colors from white to crimson, pink, rose, yellow, and lilac shades too numerous to mention. This flowers both summer and winter, and makes a ine pot plant. The flower stems rise to a height of two feet, and are exceedingly graceful, bearing a large, daisy-like blossom three or four inches across, with a velvety texture which makes it particularly beau- tiful. Start carefully under glass and grow in sandy, well-drained soil if possible. Per pkt. of 10 seeds (3 pkts. for 50C.) ..--2..-..s--.- cee «ccd
ie. : A Gypsophila Giant White
An improved type of Gypsophila which pro-
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2 ; duces very large white flowers, the elegant airy sprays of which make one of the very finest Nowers for vases and bouquets, Sew early in. Open, ground... ... sad. dec lel Le eee 5
Gloxinia (House)
(See also Bulb Department)
Gloxinias grow well from seed, and if given good care will bloom in five months from the time of sowing of seed, giving large beautiful blossoms. Our seed is extra choice; all the fine bulbs we offer are all grown from seed. Per t.
Fine Mixed — From a good collection. ............. 0
Childs’ Giant Mixed —- The largest and finest of all — of Gloxinias. Blooms in a short time bean: Se SCC" cha an Te c's 0 o Has e d bin emus ah ee pee
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- s Godetia Quick growing and profuse flowering annual of showy colors. Easily grown by anyone. Sow seed ecrly in open ground, Per pkt. Mixed Colors — White, pink, lilac, etc............. 5 Crimson ‘Glow — This is a new Godetia of compact growth, flowering so freely that a plant looks like a beautiful and. symmetrical bouquet. The color of the flowers issintense crimson, with white center, and are produced’ in marvelous profusion. Sow seed in open ground.early,,and the beauty and brilliancy of this novelty will please all.- It is one of the great and gdod novelties of recent years..... Arar Double Mixed —A fine range of bright colors....... 5
Gourds; Ornamental (Climber)
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elimbers, with the most fantastic and a -imaginable. Fine for covering sheds, training over fences.or brush piles, and always sure to attract the attention of the children, who love to play With thepretty stmped and oddly crooked fruits. Keep
Aint) oS Per pkt. SS Ae 10
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ag tmp fits pretty, smooth ,. Ae As the shells
-usetultor nesteeges.= Very ornamental as well... .10
and strong and does not rust, rot or heat easily, just right.to, use.in dipping hot liquids, besides be- wig useful for bird’s nests, fancy hanging baskets, etc. WBS oe eee Diater Siss uta. ve = in oie tha @uarS «6 60 « « © 6 ©» 5 a Sugar Trough —. Enormous hard-shelled fruits, hold- : ing from three to ten gallons each, and as they never ©. rust of.rot. and are very light and strong, are as , just. right to.useas receptacles for lard, salt, seed 34 £0rn, soap, etc., ar to use as nesting boxes, buckets. : ERE MOCNE cde, ee Early Luffa— The lace-like net-work of fibre which - forms imside the fruits is a very useful article, og and is used for various purposes, such as dish-rags, : sponges, and even for bonnets and other millinery work. Flowers also large and showy....... fe ae __ Miniature Bottle — Fruit very small and pretty...... 5 .. eee eee) — Like a big, ripe Orange......... 5 ee nee AMIE StaNeU ea ks ee ee ee 5 ae: ’ ORNAMENTAL GOURDS
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< ih — Y/ } 12° or (OLLY HOCKS MY VN y 4 { L Y bl q / acs ay 3 \ (eld bold j q Hollyhock (Perennial) OUR SUPERB GIANT DOUBLE STRAIN One of the finest of all perennials and unsurpassed as a stately, imposing plant for backgrounds, screens, center of wide borders, etc. Plants grow from four to six feet high, and bear pyramidal spikes of large rosette-like flowers of every shade and color, from pure white to almost black. The yellow, magenta, rose and black are tutensely pure and deep, while the pure white, pale lemon, soft pink, and lavender shades are exquisitely soft and delicate. The pearly blooms of the white Hollyhock are as fine for all floral work as the best double Rose or Camellia. If seeds are started very early, plants often bloom by fall. Per pkt.
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Double White — Pure and true.................-.. 10 4. Magenta FIn€ Digit COlrs pis. ict» eek ee 10 Lemon Pure, Dright. Jamon color... s6s kv 10
Pink — Very ‘delicate and pretty... ........% 10
Black Rich. chocelate-DIRGK sci ha sk 10
One packet each of the above five for 30c. — Double Mixed Colors Very choice, embracing over. pwemey, Uifferent shades...) ... seule ee ae ee 10 Mammoth Allegheny Flowers four to. six across, lnely fringed and curled, and of
neche . such ex-
quisite shading as to resemble crushed silk. Colors.
pink, red, rose, shaded, tinted, bordered, ete., all
RCM Pisin’ tes Seth STAISip ike A aa,'s ct atc ’s , a Le Ye ee 10 Early Flowering — A new strain of Hollyhock which
grows quickly and Nowers in August and September
from spring-sown seed. Stalks not quite so tall as
other Hollyhocks, but the Nowers are large, showy,
double and singie. Mixed colors... oa alate Rte 10 Hollyhock Plants — Double,
20c; 7 for 81.00.
mixed, all colors, 8 for
At John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
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HARDY HIBISCUS
Hibiscus Hardy Hybrids
or Mallow Marvels ie
A fast-growing perennial that in oné season attains the height and dimension of. a shrub.- Exceédingly fine for clumps or ornamental hedges er seréen; as they-last always, never winter-kill and in -midsammer. when shrubbery flowers are scarce, they bear for wéek-: enor- mous flowers as large as tea sancers, white, blush, pale and deep pink, rose, dark crimson, ete., the: mest of them with deeper hued eye. -Plants,-from spring-sown seed will bloom by midsummer ‘and pfeve excéedihely showy. These new Hybrid’ Hibiscus<are mwonderfuliy line and effective, and when -onee planted are good for all time. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c, ~~ ea” 2
sige, SUE cee PO Hibiscus Sunshine
The enormous flowers are tem, to twelve inches across, opening quite flat and showingsto wonderfull advantage.
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Hugelia, Coerulae
This is not new, but is little known and very desir- able. It grows eighteen inches high, supporting on its long stems Clusters of delicate light blue blossoms, the single florets being in color - and size almost exactly like : a Porget-me-not. For bou- quets and cutting it is one of the choicest garden fllowers.10
Honeysuckle (Climber)
Everyone knows the Honey- es \ suckle, with its delicious fra-\\ % me vrance, but everyone does notes +) know that it is quite easily 4 grown from seed, blooming k
often the first season. f i Mixed — White, red, yel- low, etc. OS ae ,
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Lupin
Attractive foliage and beautiful, fragrant blossoms that appear in thirty to forty days from time of sowing
LUPIN NARTWEGL SUPERBUS
the seed? One of the most attractive early anauals.
Fall Mixed — Blue, white, etc.; very
Hirsutus Mixed— Very early blooming; white, rose
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e Heliotrope (House and Garden) NEW EARLY-FLOWERING MAMMOTH
This new strain. of ;Heliotrope blooms in a short time from seed, and plants -are as easily raised’ from seed as Pansies or Asters.. The seedlings make a rapid growth and are in bloom in a short time. They bloom abundantly in the. garden all summer or the year round in pots. The panicles of bloom are often six inches across, three times as ‘large as ordinary Heliotrope, while the colors range -from- indigo-black through all shades of blue to-almost pure white, and some with red tints, others with large white eye. In fragrance they seem to surpass the ordinary sorts. A packet of this seed will furnish a. bed of flowers for your garden or lawn, and give you great handfuls of delicious. blos- soms all summer. Per pkt. Mixed — All colors, white, violet, blue, purple, etc. .10 Mammoth Blue—Immense trusses ten to fifteen inches
across. All shades of lilac and blue to deep indigo.15 Mammoth White — New. Pure white. Great size...15
Midnight — New blue-black ..3....52. Sle Se elf. 20 New Climbing — Fine rovelty....................- 20 Linum Grandiflorum
Hardy annuals of great ¢ beauty and brilliance, flow- | ering very quickly from
= ~ <Q Rubrum — Rich ruby-red 57 Reseum—Fine bright rose 5
Linum Perenne This perennial flowers;
seed and is a _ beautiful thing. - It sends out long, wiry branches; which are clothed with a growth of small, almost hair-like foli- age. At.) tee tips..:0), athe branches are poised large blue or white salver-shaped blossoms, borne with such airy grace that they appear to be floating in the air. = 3 The effect is charming. ..10 NNE.
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Lobelia Charming little plants for small beds, edging baskets, etc. Graceful and pretty, and colors exceedingly clear.
A mnost charming pot plant for window culture.
New Trailing Sapphire—A glorious new sort that stands our hot, dry summers and blooms profusely in the garden (or pots). It fairly carpets the ground with a mass of vines and foliage thickly set with large sapphire-blue flowers with a pure white
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Double Dwarf — (Wonder)—A grand new Double Lo- belia of great beauty and profusion. Mixed colors. .10
Mesembryanthemum (Ice Plant)
desirable for hanging pots or
vases and for the garden. The foliage is very beautiful,
having the appearance of ice, or dew,
Crystallinum — Ice Plant — Its leaves glisten like ice, and it is one of the most effective basket or vase Peas. CAL DO STOWND : . .%.s. sv. eae ele SA A be 5
Elegant trailing plants,
Tricolor A lovely trailing plant for pot or garden culture, which bears in great number large blos- soms of peculiar beauty. Color, light yellow wilh G66prreu ceusor, Se CDOWplant) .... .« iss ete Veatch © 5
Variegated Hop (Climber)
A new annual Japanese Hop which is a wonderfully quick and vigorous grower like the Kudzu Vine. The large handsome leaves are beautifully variegrated, white,
green, and pale yellow. It is a highly ornamental vine and one that will grow in any situation and cover an im- mense amount of space, reaching fifteen to twenty
A hardy perennial bearing great panicles of white or lilac-colored flowers. Almost as showy as Perennial
Phloxes. Will naturalize along fences or woodlands and bloom abundantly every year. Mixed colors. 02., 20c; pkt., 5c,
Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
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(House and Garden)
New, and seed will produce fine flowering plants in two or three months, the plants continuing to flower most profusely all summer and fall im the garden and all the year round in pots. Habit, dwarf, compact and bushy, loaded down witb bright blossoms all the time. Colors white, crimson, orange, yellow, rose, pink, etc. No novelty has proved more satisfactory than this, either for the garden or for pots. .Very easily. grown
in any soil or situation. Per pkt. Trochere — Crimson-red, yellow center ............ 5 Eole — Beautiful rose, yellow center............... 5 Francein — Rosy lilac, cream cent@ér................ 5 Lemon Gem — Fine straw-yellow:.......4. 2.024 bgt Ree) © Mixed — Some twenty different colors... ..<...0.0... 10
New Climbing — A fine climbing or trailing Lantana of great beauty
Larkspur, Tall
An improved strain of the Giant Hyacinth or stock-flowered type. Al- most as good as the finest Delphiniums, and blooms very quickly from seed. Tall Branching White. ..10 Tall Branch’g Dark Blue.10 Tall Branching Carmine.10 Tall Branch’g Sky Blue.10 Tall Branching Mixed. .10
The 5 pkts. for 35c. Dwarf Hyacinth Flowered
‘Mixed, {solid spikes like HEVECIANS Kocmie se coved cae i)
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Mignonette
Mignonette is the French word for No more expressive word could well be found for the sweet flower. -No garden is complete without its pot of Mignonette, no nosegay finished without its sprig of this sweet-smelling flower. We pride ourselves on our ehoice strains of this favorite flower and believe no fier seed can be procured anywhere. Sow early in the ground for summer blooming and in pots any time for
the window. Per pkt. Common Sweet — Very sweet. Per 0z., 20c...... Se Pyramidal or Giant Tree—A robust grower with
numerous large spikes of flowers. Branching very freely and blooms for a long period; very sweet...
rank, Tuxuriant foliage, deeply cut and decidedly ornamental. Each plant bears great quantities of ‘Jarge, snow-white spikes, that are very pretty for “cutting and for small bouquets...... Wie ee 5 Improved Machet — One of the finest. Plants bushy and profuse bloomers, with extra large spikes of a
pretty brick-red color; exceedingly fragrant...... 10 Golden Machet — Fine gold color................. 10 White Machet — Pearly white ................... id
Allen’s Giant Goliath — This is decidedly the largest ‘and finest Mignonette ever grown. lt is fine in the open ground, but grows to best advantage asa win- ter bloomer -in pots. With good care it produces spikes over a foot in length, and of enormous size.10
New Sorts Mixed —A fine mixture of a lot of new large-flowered sorts; representing a range of shades
_ varying from brown-red to yellow.............. 10
One packet each of the above 8 sorts for
in the e. foliage ines and in all places..... 5
, exceedingly graceful habit, very handsome,
fate. pretty Foxglove-like blossoms. borne in t=10n,~.end= keeps green until after severe
mty white. eroon and -rose.. Mixed...... 5
‘Jittle darling...
Giant White Spiral — Very distinct from all other sorts;-
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Marigold
Petted by our grandmothers, neglected by our mothers, now once more on the high wave of popularity. Bright, showy fiowers, that need only the slightest care. Per pKt.
French, ..Mixed Colors —Doublie flowers, rich, dark shade 5 Legion of Honor— Plant very dwarf and compact, bearing its flowers well above the foliage. These are of large size, and exceedingly striking, owing to the wide contrast in their colors. The center of the flower is a bright brownish-red, while the outer half is fine golden-yellow. A solid pyramid of bloom. African Giant Orange — Richest orange with immense double blossoms, equal to Dahlias. Extra fine...10 African Giant Lemon — Like above except in coler, which iS-a-fine clear. lemon... 2.0 ..Ss yet een African Giant Mixed — Extra fine.......cccccccceece BD
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_ Plants are crowded for months with innumerable silk- like flowers of the most ravishing colors, and exhaling
a delightful perfume. Indeed, the celebrated ‘Jockey Club” perfume is made from Longiflora. Tom Thumb, Yellow Leaved — Mixed colors. A new
dwarf strain of great beauty. Grows only twelve inches high, and each plant is a compact mass of lovely vellowish leaves, which in evening are hidden by hundreds of gay blossoms of all colors......-. 5 Longifiora — Flowers four inches long; very fragrant. 0
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A new strain with gigantic blooms as large as Moonflowers, colors, markings and _ variegations never before*seen, and of indescribable. beauty. Seed germinate quickly, and the vines grow rap- idly and are soon in bloom. The flowers are borne by the hundreds, are of enormous size, five or six inches across, and of the most delicate; vivid and blending colors to be seen in any flower. Some will be pure white, others crimson, brick-red, light and dark blues, pink, etc.; while others show
a rich and varied combination of colors blended together in a most enchanting way; spotted,
blotched, striped, stained, penciled; bordored, mot- tled, and variegated in every conceivable manner. To add to their beauty the leaves of many of the varieties are richly marbled and variegated white and green. Per pkt. Mixed, All Colors — More than 100 kinds..... 10 Giant, Mikado— The newest and grandest strain with enormous blossoms, and the great- est range of beautiful colors and fantastic variegations fects ciate. 20 . * Other Morning Glories Double White Tassel (or Snow Fairy) — Strong grower, a free and early bloomer, lasting all the season. Flowers double, pure white, and resemble suspended tassels ........... 10 Trailing Morning Glory——One of the fnest basket plants in existence. Beautiful trail- ing plant, completely covered with blue flowers which remain open all day. For a basket on veranda or in window, or as a trailing plant in the garden it is just splendid............ 10 Fuchsia Flowered — Fuchsia-like flowers on long thread-like stems. Very distinct...... 5 Common Morning Glory—As lovely now as when it was the pet of our grandmothers. Give the dear old vine a place, Mixed colors....... 5
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n rae @ e . Nicotiana Really. one .of the most satisfactory of all. garden or pot flowers, and equally valuable for either purpose. Sandere and the new- Sandere-Affinis Hybrids are en- tively new and beautiful beyond description, and loaded with flowers at all times. Nothing can surpass them for Heauty, profusion of bloom and ease of culture. Blooms in sixty. days from the time of sowing seed. Per pkt. Sandere — Plants from seed attain a height of two to three feet in Jess than three months and are covered with exquisite long tubular blossoms of a fine deep crimson eolor. <A superb garden plant, also a great pot plant: for fall and winter blooming........... 5 Sandere Hybrids —Exquisite hybrids of Sandere and Affinis: witha fine range of beautiful colors from crimson to white — the pink, rose and tinted shades ape simply exquisite. Flowers very large, almost
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as large aS Petunia, with tubes five inches long....10 Affinis —.Three feet high, with hundreds of fragrant white bl@ssems-borne for months.............-.. 5 she is ia = of . E . e ~ .- Nemophila
erowing annual with clean, neat foliage and
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vs % o ; 5 a ‘ - : 3 : SF Bas eee = sic... Nigella Often called Love-in-a-Mist, from the curious way in which the/-prettys blue blossoms are veiled by the feathery, close-enyeloping foliage. Fifteen inches. An easy grower of much-b
The grand Lotus, a Water Lily of great size and sur- It should be planted in rich mud, with one or two feet of water, It flowers the first season, its flower stems rising out of the water to the height
of four to six feet, surmounted by a great double yel-
low flower, which is a foot or more across.
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4 wer of Tue eauty. Dwarf mixed colors.... 5 _ _ Nelumbium Luteum (Hardy Lotus) ee
__passing beauty.
Moonflower (Climber)
lts rapid, luxuriant growth, its thick, overlapping elossy foliage,-and its nightly scores of immense silky blooms of rare fragrance, are merits that cannot be By actual. count a.strong vine will bear one to three thousand of its superb blossoms in a season. Very fine for piazzas. . ee Ipomoea Noctiphiton — Grand foliage and magnificent.
snow-white blossoms four or five inches across 10
Blue Giant — The true, large,’ deep blue Moonflower.10 Ipomoea Learei — Flowers lovely azure-blue........ 10
Ivy_Leaved — A new Moonflower which opens early in the morning and remains open nearly all day. It ts the greatest bloomer of all vines, a single plant pro- ducing thousands of flowers each day. Flowers pink or creamy white; leaves ivy-shaped and pro- duced in great masses, making a dense shade.....10
Mixed Moonfiower Seed —- All the above, and others. .i5
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
sll MONARCH PRIMROSE Primula Sinensis (House)
Easy to grow, pretty in leaf, handsome in flower and
continually in bloom for months at a time. These merits alone would earn a place in every window, but when we add that it is one of the plants never attacked by in- sects and that it will bloom in a sunless window, it is clear that the smallest collection would never be com-
plete without it. Our seed can be relied upon. Per pkt. Mixed Very good; from a fine collection....---+--+- 10
Fimbriata Globosa, Mixed Colors —A strain of Fim- briata with unusually large flowers of great sub- stance, colors very clear and pleasing, such as rose, carmine, steel-blue, white, pink, striped and flaked, RETRO ~ oc. 25s cee abe aoa oe bee 4
Fimbriata, fi. pl., Double, Mixed Colors — The double Primulas are among the choicest of all window
lants and the admiration of all who see them. The eed we offer is the choicest to be had and will pro- duce a large percentage of magnificent double DIGSSOMIS: vein cislojaleie oc. 26 o cacy ined? SOS fH eeeem! 25
MONARCH, OR OBCONICA PRIMROSE New, large-flowering Obonica-Sinensis Hybrids of var- ious colors, as large and fine as Sinensis. Colors, pink, violet, blush, rose, lilac, white, etc. Very charming flowers. being borne in large trusses, at all times of the vear in great profusion. They bloom quickly from
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PRIMULA MALACOIDES
Now Large-flowering. For Plants see Plant Department
A novelty of last year. Very profuse with hundreds of graceful flower stems, bearing sprayed clusters of ex- quisite white flowers. Hardy, robust and as easily crown as a pot plant. This has proved to be one of the very finest winter-blooming plants yet introduced. it blooms all winter long in wonderful profusion, and is a success in any window. New Giant White — Pure white, very large and fine. .10 New Giant Violet-Rose —A lovely shade of lilac, or
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violet-rose. Flowers very large and profuse...... 10 Mixed Colors — Several colors. Plants from seed bloom in about two months.......-+-- 2, AS Ge
HARDY PRIMULA, VERTICELLATA
New Hardy Abyssinian Primrose. This beautiful hardy perennial is as hardy 4s any of the English Prim- roses or Polyanthus and much more beautiful and im- posing. it also grows very freely and quickly from seed. Plants produce stocks bearing whorls of light yellow flowers, which are of good size and fragrant. .15
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ry S —~ reek | REY Nemesia Strumosa Suttonii Those who are not familiar with the improved forms of Nemesia will be surprised and delighted with this wonderful strain that blooms so quickly from seed, with flowers of such large size and colors of such rare beauty and variety. Very few garden annuals can equal it. By all means add it to your garden this year. All Colors — Mixed .....-.++++:> 5 i ov das ear wine ee
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This is a flower for everybody. Few high-priced and rare plants can begin to compare with the Petunia for beauty, and not half a dozen other flowers on our list are aS showy in beds or masses. The smallest yard or the finest park -is not complete without these butterflies among flowers that mind neither heat, drouth nor rain, but bloom in profusion until winter is almost upon us. The seed is best started in the house and the young plants transplanted to. open ground one foot apart, but if the soil iS made very fine, seed can be sown in the open ground and covered lightly. Per pkt. Striped and Blotched— Fine mixed, very compact,
_free-flowering Habit, and extremely showy ...... 10 Starred, Mixed Goiors — Superb colors, all with pure white centers, elegantly starred........
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NEW GIANT-FLOWERED PETUNIAS
Giant-Flowered Single, Mixed Colors —Enormous single flowers of a good variety of superb colors and fancy markings. Exceedingly beautiful.......... 10
Ruffled Giant — Flowers of this new strain are ex- ceedingly deep-throated and very large. They are ruffled, fluted and fringed, striped, blotched, and of solid intense colors, with many combinations new in Petunias. It is a great strain which will surprise.15
Giant Crimson — The most brilliant Petunia yet grown. Flowers of immense size and of the rich- est dark crimson color. These wonderfully showy blossoms are produced in great abundance and make a brilliant display
Giant White — Just like the above but pure white in color. Flowers of extraordinary size and very WetraePcoma meee. ee ey Sc. ee Ee a See ic be one Sas 15
MONSTER FRILLED AND FLUTED
A new strain with blooms of immense size, superbly marked and veined and ruffled and fluted petals. The colors cover a wide range of light and dark shades, varied tints and beautiful variegations in endless variety. The size of the flower is also a marvel. No other Petu- nia can compare with these in magnificence of bloom. . 20
DOUBLE GIANT-FLOWERED PETUNIAS
This is the choicest Double Petunia seen that the world can furnish. A larger percentage will produce more double flowers than any other, and the flowers will be larger and better. Among double flowers of all kinds there are none to exceed the Petunia in exquisite soft. pleasing colors, beauty of form and texture. They are almost as large as the biggest Dahlias and much more beautiful, and in pots will bloom all the year. Per pkt. Giant-Flowered Double, Fringed, Mixed Colors —The
largest and finest colored Double Petunias yet seen.
Their size and beauty will be a revelation to all... .20
DWARF BOUQUET PETUNIAS
Plants very hardy, robust and compact, producing their bright blossoms in such wonderful profusion that each plant looks like a perfect bouquet set in the ground.
Norma — Rich velvety blue, white center........... 5 Snow Ball — Pure white, very fine ..............--- 5 Rosy Morn — Superb rose, white throat............ 5 Star — Brilliant crimson, with a large, conspicuous ~
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The 5 pkts. for 20¢c.
New Trailing —A charming little Petunia with many long slender branches creeping out over the ground, covering a space three feet or more Mm diameter. The flowers are crimson with violet throat, quite fragrant, and borne by the hundred. We know of no other Petunia which will produce one-half so many flowers as _ this. Splendid for hanging ssh or baskets as well as for the garden......------
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Phlox Drummondi
of the very best of all sedding annuals is the Phiox Drummondi, surpassing almost everything else in dazzling brilliancy. We may well be proud of this dis- tinctively. American flower, for it is xtremely beautiful, neat in growth, and an extraordinary bloomer. The newest sorts of Phlox are so far ahead of the older varie- ties that we have discarded all the latter, and now offer none but those beautiful new ones of recent introduction. The Phlox make beautiful ribbon beds when different colors are sown side by side, and also grand for masse=
of colors. Per pkt. Grandiflora Mixed — Thirty different. colors. Fine for large beds and masses. Per 0Z., ee ie a
CHILDS’ JUBILEE PHLOX ricowers of great substance, beautiful form and uncorn- rion size, while the colors are extraordinarily rich and varied. glowing crimson, dazzling scarlet, deep rose, soft pink, pale blush, maroon-black, lavender-purple, pure white and numberless other shades, many with con- trasting eyes, stripes. or feathering.
Jubilee Alba— Large; pure white ........++++++5 10 ~¢ Coccinea — Rich velvety scarlet..........-- 10 " Atropurpurea — Dark velvety crimson-black.10 - Lutea — Fine primrose-yellow .....-++2+555 10 nee Rosea — Beautiful bright glowing. rose...... 10 ¥, Stellata, Mixed =— Many fine colors, all with icpe white eve. Very effective... ........+.08+5 10 Jubilee Striata, Mixed — Many fine colors, all striped th white. “Splendidh to. 2.4 cet ee we es 10
Jubilee, Mixed, All Colors — More than forty different s} es of rich and brilliant colors...... ee.
One pkt. of the above 8 for only 50c.
CICILY PHLOX s new very dwarf compact form of Phiox bearing
extra large and showy blossoms. Plants come into bl in a very. few. weeks after sowing the seed, and ire very brilliant, carpeting the ground with waves ol col Many fine colors mixed, and the very best of all
ery best dwarf PHIOX......- seers seeeeeenss 10
CHILDS’ STAR PHLOX wwe size and curiously pointed, fringed and toothed
hlossoms—utterly unlike anything else- colors of ever) col ivable shade, more than a hundred distinet tints. shades and combinations. No two same shade and colo! Mixed, Many Colors......--+--eeeeereterneees S at- tet O
PERENNIAL PHLOX
e new large-flowered hybrids. Seed is uncertain in cermination to a eertain extent, unless sown in fall, or allowed to freeze. All. colors mixed ee ee 90
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Perennial Pea
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
No praise can be too high for this lovely iron-clad
vine, that blooms constantly from ea a profusion of long-stalked clustered. sNowers,
pink, rose, etc.
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_ This is a gigantic Evening Primrose, as white as snow and asJtarge asa Moonffower. [It is one of Luther Bur- Dbank’s best recent novelties. = Sow seed early in the open ground, and in«a-very-few.weeks the plants will be up and blooming, and=wheh you see it for the first time you will marvel.at ts size aad’ magnificence. [t-will be a center ~of si and: attraction in your garden all summer lon Our advice and try it. It will do well. anywhere; peewee ae ee ee. . 10 Oenct er Ode = Beautiful yellow, large size. and On Tt
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F s land Poppies _ Here is a new strain of Iceland or Nudicaule Poppies, hardy perennials that flower well: the first season and ‘for years afterwards... They. are most. beautiful and eraceful, the bright. large blossoms being borne on tall. re-like stem. well above a beautiful crown of fern- e foliage. The colors are exceedingly. bright and
hovel: Lemon: lew, orange, salmon, white, scarlet. _ Theysbloom @H the season through. Per pkt. fe Mixed — Fine large sizes...............4.. 5 me Wexed—— Very elfective . 2... 2.2 eerie ee. 10
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SHIRLEY POPPY Poppies
Universal.garden-favorites from the days of our grand- mothers. ..There is nothing-more grand than the silky blooms~of-the single Poppies; nodding at the apex of their long wiry stalks like so many. tropical butterflies that a passing zephyr might waft from their airy perch. There is nothing more gorgeous than the double Poppies, bursting with fullness, glowing with color, and. like great Paeonies, or Snowballs in size: There are few flowers easier to grow. Do not-wait-for warm weather to sow your seed, but sow very early in the spring.
- Per pkt. | Improved Shirley — No better flower seed novelty has
been offered than this..- Habit of the plant dwarf and
stout; blossoms of enormous size, and of the most charming colors to be found in any flowers. No
display can surpass a bed of these Poppies. A
great Improvement over ordinary. Shirleys......... 10 Childs’ Great Paeony-Flowered Plants attain a height
of three feet or more, and bear many flowers of most
brilliant colors. Large and double like fine Paeonies 5 Peacock — Dazzling, flery-scarlet flowers with vivid
-black centers, and borne on long, wiry stems...... 5 Snowdrift — As pure as the driven snow, large, double:
and full, yet soft and loose like a great ball of snow.16 Rosebud — Dainty flowers like silken rosettes, cupped
like Roses, The coloring is wonderful. Intense:secar-
let, crimson, pink, white, blush, mottled. fringed, etc. 5
One pkt. each of the 5 for 25c. ALL POPPIES MIXED Poppies grow so rapidly and ilower so quickly that they may be planted anywhere for a showy mass or for cutting. A large packet of more than fifty sorts.16
PEONY-FLOWERED POPPY NEW PERENNIAL POPPY If there is a more gorgeous flower anywhere than the Perennial Poppy we fail to know it. The most indif- ferent observer stands spellbound in the presence of its magnificent flre-like scarlet flowers with their silky tex- ture and foil-like heart of innumerable purple-black sta- mens. Each bloom is as large as a saucer, and sits perched like a bird On the end of a swaying, hairy, slen- der stem, high above the deeply-incised and handsome foliage. Many consider it the most showy flower that blooms. A grand plant to light up dark corners and dull shrubbery. Mixed Hybrids — Many fine colors in shades of scarlet and orange. Often blooms first season.....------- {0
Portulaca
The drier the weather and the hotter the sun, the more
they flourish, carpeting the rround with their mat of succulent foliage that is almost hidden by clouds of gay blossoms in every color of the rainbow. Fine for
rock work and bedding. Beautiful in can be transplanted even in full
bordering walks, ribbon beds, and they
bloom. ; Per pkt. Grandifiora, Mixed Colors — White, erimson, rose, scarlet, yellow, striped, ete. Very brilliant....... 3)
Double Rose =-Flowered, Mixed Colors — Large blos- soms as double as Roses and the greatest variety OF colors i. i620 CG ee at 10
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One of the best window Palms, and lack ol
<jeceed, Stands dust and dry air,
ind is very ornamental with its elegantly fan shaped leaves of. a rich, dark, leathery green, picturesquely rringed with long thread-like fliaments along the seg- ments of the leaves... The plant 1s 4 compact grower
vell adapted to pot culture, succeeding in any with fair treatment.
Mixed Palms — Fifteen popular sorts,
Smilax (House)
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vine, but exceedingly fine for in the open ground it grows juxuriantly, fur
nishing great quantities of its dainty, glossy-ereen sprays that are exquisite for bouquets, Its feathery
little blooms are delicately fragrant,..+eeseerssses
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The seeds of Passifloras are large and easily grown. Some varieties are grown for their elegant foliage, others for their beautiful blooms. A fine vine for window, or for planting out in summer. Mixed sorts... 0
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ters. Some will be double, others single, and it 1s hard to tell which are the most beautiful, ~All ‘have that rich
and beautiful fragrance so prized in thé Old Garden Pinks. Habit very dwarf and compact, one plant often showing 100 blossoms. Flowers from Juae to October. Mixed Sorts Ye ss ee ee *“eeeeveevneeeeevee
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With seed of these Roses, plants may be had in bloom fjower garden. Each plant bears a profusion of beau- in sixty to ninety days from the time of sowing. Plant tiful flowers, rich, velvety, glowing, and unlike any at any time: They grow quickly and flowers appear in other flower, while the long, wiry stems fit them for use
large clusters and in such quantity that a plant looks in bouquets and vases. Per pkt. like a bouquet. Perfectly hardy in the garden, where Mixed Colors — (Mourning Bride) ................ 5 they bloom all summer. In pots they bloom both sum- Double Mixed Colors — Dwarf habit, fine colors..... 5 mer and winter... From a.packet of seed one will get Snow Ball — Large, perfectly double, white as snow. .10 Roses of various colors—white, pink, crimson, etc., no Double Rose — Fine rose Color................-2. 10 two alike, and mostly perfectly double and very sweet. Fiesh Pink — Fine and double................ eo Rose Polyantha Multifiora Hybrids — All colors mixed. Double Biack — Very fine (Mourning Bride)........ 10
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Burbank’s Sweet — This iS Luther Burbank’s new strain of soft lavender, blue, pink and white shades PVT CPO ERNIE me cs Cs Tye sah nen eee Se Pe eS 10
4 pkt. each of above 8 colors for 40e.
Choicest ‘seed, 15¢ per pkt.; 2 pkts. for 25c. Azure Fairy — Fine double blue..................
we . Thunbergia (Climber) A lovely trailing plant with large showy flowers. lt
will trail over the ground, forming a dense mat of foli- , 3 age and flowers. Colors range through all shades of
fn : aN, yellow, orange, buff, to pure white, mostly with jet- = \ AWW ik , : black centers, or eyes, which are very effective. Some- § css “PL ANT 2 : ee tp A ee Dae eas superb pos ss ne plant and one at wi oom freely during winter.
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‘stay in a room where it:is grown if they can escape. —~ ‘Aside from this-most remarkable quality, it is a beauti- ful flowering plant, arid blooms in a short time (sixty days) from seed. -It is particularly valuable as a winter | bloomer, the blossoms being large, cup-shaped and of a slovely light blue color, with a white center. It is a "profuse bloomer in pots both summer and winter. in “the garden it grows too rank and weedy to be of any _ Value. oo) 0 wt Rae me 2
e @ : th Spe °° : OG fe rae ee Ricinus Zanzibarensis - There are several varieties of this superb new Ricinus, all of which are characterized by extra large and hand- = some. leaves, compact, branching growth forming a perfect pyramid of elegant foliage. The seeds are very
” large, and éach kind of different colors. All beautifully marked and motiled. Nothing produces a more tropical = effect than the Ricinus Zanzibarensis. Pkt., 10¢€.
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A stanaard bedding plant.. It stands heat and drought remarkably well, and its colors are very showy and in- tense. Seed is best started under glass. Cuttings are easily rooted and make fine winter-blooming plants. Spiendens Compacta — TI ine dwarf -habit, very free
flowering and. of. intense. brilliancy #2)... Soe 10 Spiendens Rosea — A beautiful new pink sort....... 10 Silver Spot — Brilliant scarlet, foliage spotted yellow.10 Childs’ Anniversary —So dwarf and compact, and
its flowers so large and numerous that it is the most brilliant bedding or pot plant. yet known. lt flowers all summer Jong, making a carpet or mass‘of the brightest color yet seen. As a pot plant it is a solid bouquet of bloom all the fall, winter and spring...15
One packet of each of the four sorts for 35c.
Schizanthus Wisetonensis Hybrids
Like Beautiful Orchids. Feliage Like Fern Fronds.
This exquisite new Fern-leaved annual has proved to be the most novel and beautiful. Plants grow freely and the flowers appear in immense panicles and resemble some species of Orchids. The colors are beyond de- scription. Each flower looks like a beautiful butterfly With spreading wings of delicate, varied and fantastic colors. Plants dwarf, compact and solid pyramids of bloom and, best of all, easily grown from seed, commenc- ing to bloom in about two months from the time of sow- ing. As pot plants for” window culture during winter, they are in bloom for several months and are as easily raised as a weed, either in pots for winter or in the gar'- den for the summer display. There are colors without end in white, crimson, violet, rose, pink, mottled, blended and deep velvety shades that glow with richness....10
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bel * . . Linaria Excelsior Hybrids (Baby Snapdragon)
It is like a miniature Snapdragon. Not so heavy and bulky, but airy and graceful with exquisite blending of colors, White, yellow, orange, rose, pink, lilac, violet, erimson, ete. It blooms in forty to fifty days from seed, and continues in perfection for three to four months, fas neat, pretty foliage and delicate fragrance. Splen- didly adapted to winter-blooming in pots, and for the saruen,:: Died. COIS: fa et 4. ek SR ae ats OOD 10
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The Snapdragon is now one of the most important gar -- den flowers, ranking with the Aster or Pansy for lone and superb blooming season. It has been so wonder- fully improved of late that few realize its great worth. These are all of the finest new Grandifora type. Per pkt. Giant White, Scented — This is a perpetual bloomer,
branching in habit, sending up flower spikes by
the dozen, one to two .feet in length, almost as large and more beautiful than Gladiolus. Golor, pure white, with lemon-tinted throat, and a levely — fragrance. Flowers keep two weeks. after cut...,..10 Giant Yellow Scented — Pure lemon ............68. 10 Giant Scarlet Scented — Deep and Drilliant...... caw Giant Silver Pink. Scented — Very fine.........., ite Giant Papillio Scented — Blood-red, white throat, ..10 Giant Venus Scented — Lovely pink, white throat,,..10 Giant Scented, Mixed —-A score of finest colors..,.. 10
Above 7 finest of all Snapdragons for 50c.
Tom Thumb — Dwarf and a most beautiful plant. Mixed colors in great variety... ..e0. tes eee eae %
Wallflower
Early Mixed — Flowers early the first season from seed, blooming in profusion from early June until late autumn frosts without injury. The blossoms are large size and borne in compact, short spikes or clusters, and are exceedingly. sweet-scented,. The plants are not injured by fall frosts and bloom until December; are also hardy and bloom well the second year. Colors yellow, dark brown, striped, etc...
Double Mixed Colors — A favorite English flower... if
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This entirely new and magnificent Salpiglossis has suddenly gained a world-wide reputation. One cannot wonder at this when we see the magnificent large blos- soms borne in such graceful tall panicles, to say noth- ing of the rich and varied coloring. For rich and charm- ing penciling, no flower can excel it. Its velvety tex- ture, with deeply sunken veins, penciled. and shaded with the richest tracings on a ground-work of the most pleas-
ing colors. Many mixed colors. Per-pkt. Dark Scarlet — Rich and fines....................10 Nigra. — BlaCk fase oF oe es St 3 ere 10 Rich Yellow —Fine ............. SRO age lp ae LP ee 16 Finest Mixed — Many Colors ......c.2ce eee erences 10
Sweet William (Perennial)
The favorite flower of our grandmothers. One of the best edging plants for the border, bearing in early sum- mer large heads of the richest and most varied colors.
Very fragrant and a favorite with everyone for vases —
and bouquets. | ’ improved Mixed Colors — Perfect in form, large in _ size, brilliant and varied in colors............. a a
Double Mixed Colors — Fine double blossoms........10
Yucca Filamentosa
The stately clumps of stiff, bayonet-like leaves, brist- ‘ling out from the center in every direction, are evergreen in mid-summer. Thick, woody flower-stalks are thrown up, growing as high as a man’s head, and bearing -im- mense compound panicles of creamy, beH-shaped flowers, each floret two inches across, A single panicle will con- tain 300 or more florets.......- ey sie see we Nels ow sities
Whitlava Gloxinioides
A very pretty annual with abundant bell-shaped whit and blue. Gloxinia-like blossoms. Sow in garden early -and plants will be up and in bloom:-in about a month. Lovely on account of its quick-blooming habit... .. D
Sunflower,
Very popular and useful for garden decoration in many ways. } Per pkt. Multifiora Nana —A dwarf-branching Sunflower, grow-
ing less than two feet high, loadell at all times with
lovely Cosmos-like blossoms, of /perfect shape and wide-spreading petals. Rich, deep yellow with black center. It begins blooming in a month after seed is
sown, and few garden flowers ave more attractive. . Large Double — Magnificent blossoms as large as a
man’s hat, and perfectly double/like a Dahlia...... 5
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Variegated Leaved — Leaves moftled.. Elowers very large and a lovely light lemon ¢olor; quite distinet.. 5 Chrysanthemum Sunflower — This ‘great double Sun- flower bears flowers a foot across and as double and compact as a dense Chrysanthemum bloom. Petals are also frilled and somewhat quilled, which gives the enormous flower a very refined and beautiful appearance, without the coarse aspect of Sunflowers. Height five to seven feet, producing many flowers...10 Rainbow Mixture — This is made up of al -the soa- ~ealled red Sunflowers, and ‘red hybrids. Best col- MBSE SOLES, —. ccsace Mote eas BRE Bae “ir SESS > EE wie te Burbank’s Manteca — Introduced by Luther Burbank last year. A mammoth-headed variety with pearly white seeds. Larger and more prolific than’ any Wate. OF, 1 Os I gaat ih cat. a ater < «sels ole ete Seni Above 7 Sunflowers for 30c.
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Wi] Ten Weeks Stocks
ro jour mind we do not catalogue a finer flower than the Ten Weeks Stocks. It has every merit of a perfect flower—a compact habit,. many and long spikes of closely-set, large, double flowers, each as double as 4a hose, Waxy of texture, exceedingly sweet, and varying in color |from snow-white to dark maroon-brown, and throu¢h all intermediate shades of red, blue and yellow. it is & grand bedder, and a fine pot plant, blooming the winter through. This plant requires rich, mellow soil, and hulst never be allowed to suffer for water. It is worse than useless to plant inferior seed for this flower that has been brought to its present high standard by careful breeding and high cultivation. Our seed is high
class. Per pkt.
Early Ten Weeks — Twelve of the finest colors mixed.10 “6 6 ¥ Pure white, very sweet.....«.++- 5 “ ‘ si Rich criMSON ..cesesecee ee re 5 “ be _ Clear. blue ....- 24 se Se. eae Re D & se as Yellow, new and fine....-++++-- 5
Dwarf (epman — Mixed colors. An extra fine strain of large flowering StoCKS ....6eee cere ere eeerreees 10
New Laige-Flowering Pyramidal — One of the finest of all. mmense spikes of grand flowers, in almost rainbow colors. We have counted twenty-three dif- ferent shades in a single bed of these flowers.... 10
Giant Perfection
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One of the finest for the open 4 ground, growing to the height of 2% feet, flowers y also of immense size. Many beautiful colors mixed. 20 |
Abundance — lowers of extraordinary size, very full,
double and perfect, and borne in such Wonderful |
abundance as to make the plant look like a large ex-
quisite bouquet. Deep crimson-pink. .. see... ess 10 Abundance Blanca — Pure snow-white .... sees ehs 10 Abundance Monte Carlo — Large double yellows ..>.. 10 New Perpetual Branching Stocks — This improved
Perp. Branching, “ “oe
Stock has proved to be the finest in_ it blooms very quickly from seed, the stout. branching and compact, with numerous flower spikes of very large size. The in- dividual Nowers are large, very double and perfect in form. For pots itis greatly superior to any other variety, and as apot plant itis just superb, flowering for a long period and at any time of the year, ac- cording to time of sowing. Also the very best gar- den variety. Another great point in its favor is the fact that only a very small per eent of the» plants raised from seed will be single. : Rich Crimson — Peep rich crimson, .10 Brilliant Rose — Very handsome. .. .10 Princess Alice — Snow white,.... 10 Sapphire —— Dark blue. ....... ean ! Creole -—- Creamy yellow ; Mixed — All colors. 2... 660s eee
The 6 pkts. for 50¢.
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Verbenas
Like the Pansy, the Aster and the Petunia, the Ver- bena is a favorite with everybody, and one of the most universally popular of all flowers; both for the garden ) and for pot culture: For constant and profuse flowering, . and for brilliancy and beauty of colors it has no equal. Start seed early under. glass; if -possible, that good,
strong plants may be had for transplanting in the gar- —
den. They will commence blooming in June and continue
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Extra Choice Mixed — From named collection........ 10
Childs’ Prize, Mixed Colors Hundreds of delicate
- shades. Bnormous-sized flowers; prodigious bloom- ers. The plants are vigorous and _ short-jointed with perfect sheets of blooms. The trusses are very. largé, the flowers of mammoth size, perfect es and embracing the richest and most velvety colors: :. :
Childs’ Prize, Pure White — Comes true from seed. Great trusses of snowy blossoms of exquisite
FRAPPR ACER oe ens PL ei eka Se Soe SEE SER, 10 Childs’ Prize, Scarlet — A very intense scarlet..,.... 10 Childs’ Prize Purple — Rich dark purple........... 10 Childs’ Prize Blue — All blue shades.............. 10
| Auriculaefioria Gigantea — Giant Auricula type. Light le eolor predominating. Very fine mixed........... 20 | QGdorata — lt is so hardy seed can be sown in the open ground: early in the spring, where they will quickly germinate, grow rapidly, and-in a few weeks be in bloom, and give a great profusion of beautiful blos- soms ali summer, The blossoms, instead-of being in clusters like other sorts, run up into spikes, usually
three or four inches long. Very sweet scented and pure white’ 2... 2... Oot AGES ee OE eRe 3) Moss — This produces amass of fine moss-like foliage, and as the branches spread out over the -ground in all directions, a lovely carpet of mossy green is formed, above which are borne the delicate clus- ters of purple-blue or pure white blossoms in the widest profusion, having the same delicate fragrance as the Sweet Alyssum. Mixed 5
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Lovely garden or pot plants, producing a profusion of
: Seeds started eariy in pots make lovely blooming plants by early summer. which will continue in growth and bloom for a year. As bedding plants for the garden they rival the Geraniim. Yheir
soft and delicate colors and profuse blooming habit make them at all times attractive.
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a e s Virginia Stocks This is a hardy annual for sowing in the garden very early. It will be up and in/ bloom in thirty to forty days. Grows only six to twelve inches high, but is a mass of brilliant flowers aj] the time. One of the prettiest and earliest of garden flowers. : Mixed Colors’: .........° BASHA eon aes OBS 5)
- le — Violets A fine collection of many/ varieties and colors—blue, javender, white.
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t Many of the finest-scented varieties are included. Spring - sown seed 2 make fine plants for fall GOH blooming. | Cornuta, Mixed Colors —) These. bloom almost as quickly from seed as Pansies. Are hardy and
free flowering Odorata — The lovely sweet garden Violets, so fine for
winter blooming. Mixed colors
the Pansy and_- Violet. Flowers large, and borne: in — endless profusion. Lovely violet-lilac -
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Zinnias—Childs’ Special Double Strains
This Zinnia is a robust, free grower, furnishing an abundance of large, double blossoms whieh are varied
and brilliantaeolors, during the entire summer. and fall.
Each flower keeps perfect for Six. weéks- before
rading, and each plant is a great mass of bloom all the time, making a showing which: is peculiar, Nothing
else -€an fill -their place. We grow the finest Zinnias in the world. Ball, Cardinal, Giant, etc., cannot be excelled.
Childs’ Improved, Mixed Colors— Saved only from select flowers, perfect in shape and color. Every plant will preduce immense double blossoms or vari- ous colors frome white to deep crimson, maroon, pink? Yellow, orange, scarlet, violet, primrose, buff, stripéd, ete.. Every plant will give fine double fiowers ..3%. ey | SE Fale atte aeel pois eto
Light Bright and Striped—A erand strain representing all the leading colors. Mostly Jight, striped and very bright colors. Really superb.........6.04-. 10
Jacqueminot — Beautiful double flower of the same rich velvety-crimson ‘olor of the well-known Jac- queminot Rose. This \is a real acquisition and adds much to the value and beauty of Zinnias.......... 10
Fire Bail — Dwarf habit, double blossoms of intense scarlet, as round and perfect as a ball. It makes a fine border or. mass, its bright color and perfect habit showing to great \advantage......... She Serena FA
Snow Ball — Exactly like Fire Ball, except in color, whic is snow-white. \Finest white Zinnia...... 10
Pompon, or Lilliput, Mixed Colors — This strain 15 the au¢@me of perfection in Zinnias. Plants of bushy erowth, each one bearing scores of beautiful blos- -oros/of the most perfect shape and brilliant colors.
indeed. Always
These charming Zinnias are germs ) ioulwe as roses, and each\ plant bears three times as Iminy flowers as the other sSorts.........s-0. 10 New. Miniature, Mixed — A perfectly wonderful plant growling only four to six inches high and bearing
ereati numbers of double blossoms of various colors. it is ko dwarf and compact that a plant looks like a tasty, bouquet set in the ground, the mingling ol igit blossoms and foliage being very effective.... 5 1 pkt. each of the 7 fine Zinnias for 40c.
New Giant Zinnia, Cardinal
intensely colored It is rare that one The flower There is no introduced,
This Zithia bears one of the most cardinal lowers we have ever seen. finds suc: a beautiful scarlet in any flower. itself is -@ry large and perfectly double.
subt but -that it is the finest Zinnia yet Pkt., 15¢ @ pkts., 35c.
Star Zinnias
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Flowers of wonderful size and beauty are borne: on plants of this new German strain}. Our stock. is pure and genuine, as we imported seed the first year it was offered
and have since grown it at home, aS Per pkt.
Giant Double — Enormous blosséms opening flat like - a Chinese Chrysanthemum. Flowers very much Jarger than any other Zinnia and quite distinct in shape. There are several fine colors, including pure white, lemon, orange, crimson, searlet, rose, ete. Sure to give satisfaction. Mixed colors.......... to
Giant Orange-Scarlet — Large and brilliant..... . 2.40 Giant Yellow — Fine yellow and orange shades....10
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et Vegetable Seeds. We grow and offer ut our Flower Seeds on page 25, may be said about our
a a limited number ef varieties, only those which possess the greatest vaiue for the eae garden ane ee
markets. These varieties are also special stock, cultivated, selected and improved ‘until: they have reache é
ghest ; rfection which it is possible to attain. ;
i Pgs ape round, smooth uniform,.tender; Cabbage, large, oa crisp, Lae = a Seen
fect; Melons, of high flavor, quick and robust growth,
car Tomatces, large, smooth, uniform, tender and per - ee de aiek eee een porate and luscious; Onions, uniform in size, perfect .in shape and color, : aN
f Garden Vegetables. Our thousands of customers in
which we have brought to perfection in our prize strains o ah ee ee
f the country Know this, and to them we refer those who have Snore ee com wittte. for ae supply half a million planters direct, and is in itself the best possibie nest of the Ei adel quality of our Seeds.
-Brussels Sprouts : Next to the Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts are the - most peers of all the - Cabbage family. _. w- Befance A finely bred, Z large and tender strain 2 Ys of _ this .delicious-. vege- G27’ -- table. Stems -tall and: 6 -- covered--with tender little Rs S heads or ‘sprouts’ from Sy. ‘ -. the top to bottom. Quality. ‘es ~ very -fine- when cooked and a served like Cabbage. This ~ : pe aid ‘vegetable -~phould COPYRIGHTED (
kn try it nineara eTow it Pkt, 10¢;°0Z., 50¢. Matchiess—A variety of vig- orous growth and . fine, Solid sprouts of the very. best quality. An extra fine sort. which is_ highly prized in Europe. Pkt., 5¢; 0Z., 15€; Ib., $2.50.
Cress (Peppergrass) COPYRIGHTED 18S pa ‘Extra Curled — An appetiz- - °Y-hers " ing relish, of fresh, pi- quant taste, often added to lettuce and other fresh Salads. for variety. Splen- did for Canaries, who are “very partial to- it, and keep healthier for its use, Very eGasy to grow, and can be sown-in any’ Bitlows nook or vacant spot. Pe dC; 0Z., 10c; Ib., $1.00. ? Water Gress — Grown in moist, wet places, or at. LA the edge of running *” streams. Increases rapid- ly, is. very hardy, and as it~ is of an evergreen nature can be used all winter. A salad-bowl /f = heaped full of this Cress, /f4 == = of dark green leaves, is : - a pretty sight in January. Pkt; 16e: Se 50¢. Upland — A perennial Water Cress for garden culture, ready for use in earliest spring. Pkt., 5c; 0z., °20¢.
poy NE: EMPEROR ‘Chufas, or Earth Almonds Asparagus These nuts are very
nd the sweet, highly flavored . the most delicious of all vegetables, an , See : Se ‘be taken from the garden, A bed once well and nutritious; they
. grow - under’ ground, planted is ‘good. almost for a lifetime with little or no very ” eased Carface’
~ €areé. Easily and cheaply Giant Emperor — An improved strain of Giant Argentieul. grown anywhere, abun-
d ; : localities this gives a good crop the secon dant in yield, greedily ; pe daa ‘Stalks grow to weign at the rate of eaten by every living ‘Tiree to four stalks to a pound, We never ate finer thing. They mature in Asparagus than that cut from a neighbor’s patch in Sepiemnel, and lie in ‘April, jus} eleven months from the time seed was me BL oe varies, sown and by the way, seed should be sown where ae poi et “ eRiags plants are to grow permanently, to avoid the check Pkt., 10¢; pint, 35¢: | of transplanting Seed, 10c per Pkt. ; 0z., 25€. Roots, quart, 60c. --- 60¢ per dozen $2.50 -per 100. . “ee ‘Barr's. Mammoth — oF: Palmetto — The pest. SaaHeps Mrs. G. H. Salsbury, Oneonta, N. Y., says: Years ago he -home garden. Seed, - G. O. y; Oe ST aly ae pt, a eg ee ie ore Lume Ane -year roots, my father raised Chufas and we kids thought them the ~B0e'doz.; ae 00 100- $12.00 per 1000. best things we had ever eaten.
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Carrot
The Carrot crop is a large and valuable one among
root vegetables. We aim to
grade of seed.
Danvers — (Private Stock)—The true strain. No better to be found anywhere. All gardeners know the im- portance of securing the best seed to grow really fine crops. This can be relied upon as the best seed to be obtained at any price. It will yield twenty tons per acre.; ;- Pkt.; 5c; 0zZ., 20c; Ib., $2.50;
improved Long Orange — Heavy Cropper. 10c; ID., $2.00.
supply the very highest
Pkt., 5C; 02z.,
Oxheart — An early table sort; small and short, but fine-’
grained and tender. Can be forced or sown in the garden for early use. Pkt., 5cC; oz., 15c; ID., $2.00.
New Long Yellow Stump-Rooted — This new carrot pro- duces long, tapering roots which are well stumped or round at the base. They are of the most excellent quality for the table... Very productive. The distinct yellow coloring is a novelty. Pkt., 5¢; oz., 15c.
Chantenay —A half-long Carrot, medium early, bright orange, large shoulders and stump-rooted. Quite ex- tensively grown for market, Pkt,, 5¢; 0z., 15¢; Ib., $2.50.
Earliest — This remarkable new Carrot is like a Radish in regard to quick growth and delicious flavor. People like it raw like a Radish as well as cooked. It is fit for the table in a very few weeks after sowing the seed, and its quick growth, beauty and delicate quality Will be a revelation. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 20c; Ib., $3.00,
Mr. R. P, Stuttoford, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, South Africa, says: “I wish to acknowledge receipt of the parcel of bulbs and seed and to thank you for the Splendid value which you have given me. 1 am delighted
for the bulbs are in excellent condition.”
A vegetable at once healthful, toothscme and beautiful. Said by physicians to be of great benefit in alk diseases of the nerves and kidneys. Deliciously fresh, crisp and
“nutty to the taste,.and the broad stalks, ivory white,
waxy yellow or rose-red, tipped with finely composed leaflets of pale, glaceous-green are ornamental to the finest tables. Sow in hot-bed and transplant, or sow out- doors when the ground becomes warm. When plants are four or five inches high transplant, giving six inches between plants in the row. Have the soil very firm and rich, plant in trenches, and as the plants grow draw the earth closely around them to blanch the stems or, better yet, bleach them between boards. Never do-this in wet weather, or the stems will rust. South of the Ohio,
Celery can remain in the ground all winter with a Httle
protection. In the North plants should be taken up and
stacked closely together, with soil firmed around the roots, and kept in the cellar or a pit for use,
Winter Queen — Grows thick, solid and heavy stalks and large heart. A close, compact grower and when blanched is creamy white. Pkt., 10¢; 0Z., 25¢; Ib., $2.00.
Golden Self-Blanching— (French Grown)—Fine to follow White Plume. An exceedingly fine-flavored sort; blanches easily to a beautiful golden-yellow, and is very brittle and crisp. No garden complete without it... PRée ee; 0Z., The
White Plume — One of the most beautifulvof all, and the earliest. Brittle, tine-grained andthe easiest known sort to blanch. Pkt., 10¢; oz., 40eg-ID., $3.00.
Giant Pascal — A sport from the Golden Self-Blanching, of immense size; broad, thick, stringless stalks, re- markably crisp and nutty, early to branch, and the very best keeper of any Celery. The huge stalks of this kind will ‘‘snap”’ like glass, they are so tender, and they never are watery or strong. Fine market sort, and one of the very best for the heme garden. Pkt., -406s 0z., 30c: ID., $2.50.
White Perfection —-A splendid white Celery’ that we consider is an advance on existing varieties. It is very suitable for market growers or for the private garden. Producing firm, fine “heads,” elean at the base, and very crisp and solid’in the stalk, It is com- pact in habit and of a strong and vigorous constitution, We can recommend it as a fine, very. select stock of White Celery that will give satisfaction. PRt:, 10c; oz., $1.00. if
Celeriac Perfection
An improved Turnip-rooted Celery of Superb quality. It is the finest thing ever grown for soups, giving a favor which Celery itself cannot furnish. When boiled and f sliced like Turnips and served @& With butter and salt it makes == a most delicious dish. | Per pKt., 10¢; 02Z., 30c; Ib., 82.50.
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~ very family garden ought to have a selection of Sweet
Gorn, irom: the .earliest to the latest varieties. Fine for
drying, aswell as for summer table use:
Golden Bantam — Finest of all Corns for the family gar- den. This variety is very early, sweet and luscious. It
r is. very hardy, which permits of early planting. The
i stalks average about four feet in height; the ears are : eight-rowed, five to seven inches in length; the grain
Pes is-a rich golden-yellow and unrivalled in quality. Pkt.,
. 1 5 . 7 . . 9.5 . 7 3 pacha 6900, Be dio Boe) SPs Golden Cream — This is a hybrid between the Country
oF Gentleman and Golden Bantam, combining the superior | ; Ae fF C2IS | Se | A 14 LOS | t Sh f ay = ee \ Ni = ( key)
qualities of both. Golden Bantam is famous for its high quality, Country Gentleman is also famous for its high quality, with larger ears and narrow, deep ker- nels. In Golden Cream we have the two combined. Medium ears, rich eream color, deeper and. narrower
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Cabbage Test theg 5 ten ¥ _Voiga — This is, without exception, the nearest approach
; . Pte gp ae See ee: to perfection of any variety... Heads uniformiy solid: i
There-is no -garden -vegetable ‘grown ‘that success: or. this respect it is°a wonder, as the heads are, of about failure so plainly depends: upon the quality of ‘seeds equal size-and shape, weighing fronr twetve to fifteen sown. . Poor seed of Cabbage is poer at any price. .Gur Ibs., €ach.: In one Held of three acres’ there was net-a seed is ail raised on Long Island, ‘where the finest Cab- . Single plant thrown. out, or showed, in any respect. bages in the world are grown. We could buy common any variation from a true and valuable type, Unlike Cabbage seed for very much less, but we know our cus- most types the heads are perfectly solid and the stem tomers would rather pay a little more and get seeds they » does not. run into .the head nearly as. far as in. other can rely upon. -Three things are necessary to raise fine types, and the flesh is ‘exceedingly firm, tender -and Cabbage—extra good seed, rich mellow soil and thor- white, making it a mest desirable form for Kraut, as ough cultivation. well as for’ all-othér purposes. The most severe All Seasons — As the name would indicate, good for all winter known in this section did not inflict the slight- seasons—early, medium or late. A sure header and ést injury on the Volga;:-not a-.leaf was lost, while all long keeper; quality very fine. It is a remarkably other kinds suffered terribly. This type is remarkable good new sort. Head large and solid, round with fat for its quick-growing habit. We have noticed par- top, Nnest quality and ready for marketing almost as ticularly this sort and find that it will mature its early as the standard early sort. Pkt., 5c; 0z., 20c; heads fully two weeks earlier than any of our late-
Th., $4.00, growing kinds. Pkt... 10c; o0z., 25e; Ib., $4.50.
COPENHAGEN MARKET
Copenhagen Market — Absolutely the earliest and the very best round-headed early Cabbage for summer; short stemmed, compact with broad leaves and perfect heads of about ten pounds in weight. Remarkably uniform tn size and maturing. The most remarkable o new Cabbage in 20 years. Pkt. 15¢; oz., 40¢; M.,' $5.00. ‘
_E. Dadgeon, Calgary, Alta., Canada, says: Your All L. P. Moths, So. Bethlehem, Pa., says: I raised a liead é Seasons Cabbage is a great success. I grew solid heads of your World Beater Cabbage 42 x 37 inches, the big- ~ weighing thirty to thirty-five pounds. gest head ever raised about here. Tat lay
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True Surehead — Very certain to head, however hot and
dry the weather. The heads are large, round and flai, and very hard and firm of texture, fine-grained and most excellent quality. It is also a remarkably good shipper and keeper. -Pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; Ib., $4.00.
Long island — A new early sort of great value, and one which can be grown for early, medium and late crops, either af the North or South. It is very early, of large size, uniform, and a sure header; if does not burn or blister, but retains its lustrous, fresh green color even after being shipped to distant markets; hence its great selling A hr By’ those who have grown it, if is said to be the most valuable Cabbage-in cultivation either North or South. Pkt., 10c; oz., 30; In., $4.00.
Perfection Savoy — Large solid heads of the Drumhead type with very deep, rich green eolor; heads of ex- ceptional beauty and uniformly perfect. As to quality it is simply superb. Crisp, delicate, tender, rich and delicious beyond description. Either for market or for family use itis the pearl among Savoys. Pkt., 10c; oz., 40€; Ib., $5.00.
Red Dutch — The most popular pickling Cabbage. Large deep red. Pkt., 5c; 0z., 20; Ib., $3.00.
World Beater — A new Cabbage, as large or larger than Marbiehead..Mammoth,. yet uniform in size, true to type, and-a very solid-header. No doubt it is the very
best mammoth Cabbage to be had. Originated on Long Island. -Pkt5.10c; 0z.,°35c; Ib., $4.00.
EARLY CABBAGE, SEELANDIA
Seelandia — A fine new Danish Early Cabbage of great merit. Height of stem four inches, and the heads are firm and compact, medium size, round with rather large foliage. lt is a great favorite when known. PKt., 10¢c; 0Z., 30c; Ib., $4.00. :
Savoy All Head — This new Savoy is a perfectly splendid thing recently introduced from Germany. Heads me- dium, compact, a beautiful yellowish-green. Can_be planted closely. Its season is medium early. The quality of this superb Cabbage is quite as good as the best Brussels Sprouts. Perfectly delicious and very hardy. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c; oz., 50c.
Danish — A remarkably fine Cabbage from Denmark hav- ing qualities that are lacking in any Standard American variety. Heads medium size, uniform, round, remark- ably solid. It is a fine shipper. For late Cabbage for winter use it has no superior,-being of good size for family use and of extra good quality; crisp and tender; better than any Cabbage can possibly be with a less solid head. Pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; Ib. $4.00.
Excelsior Large Flat Dutch— This is a fine strain of Flat Dutch, always a standard sort, particularly in the South and Southwest, as it heads well in hot weather. ae good and size large. Pkt., 5; 0z., 25e; ID.,
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Early Long Island Wakefield — A standard variety, early
and of fine quality. By all odds the best and most profitable early sort to grow in any part of the eoun-
try. Our strain is perfect. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 35c: Ib., $5.00.
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Cucumber
Do not try to grow Cueumbers in poorly prepared ground. Make low, flat hills from four to six feet apart, each bill two or three feet across, and thoroughly pul- verized sixteen to eighteen inches deep. Mix a large shovelful of-rotten manure in the soil of each, hill and plant from six to eight seeds in each, as some are apt to fail. If bugs appear, dust with slug shot or with lime and soot.. Allow no fruit to ripen on vines. For pickles and late Cucumbers, seed can be sown as late as July. Bennett’s White Spine — (Private stock)—Our seed from
this is saved from one of the finest stocks on Long
Island, and Long Island Jeads the world in choice gar-
den vegetables. These Cucumbers grow seven to ten
inches long, uniformly plump and full to the very ends,
a glossy dark green in color. A superior quality in
every respect. - PKTf., 5¢; 0Z.,.15¢; Ib., $1.50.
Childs’ Ivory Monarch—An ivory-white Cucumber, grow- ing nearly two. feet in length and weighing flve or six pounds. Six times larger than any other sort. It is really amonster, and when half-grown is exceedingly fine in quality.- Its enormous size, great beauty and oddity make it one of the finest vegetables for exhibition. at fairs, and it never.fails to capture first prize. Its flesh is. thick and solid, with very small seed cavity, and
notwithstanding its size, it has fewer seeds than any .
other Cucumber we ever saw. Very scarce, crop a failure. Pkt. of 25 seeds, 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. RBEARING > CUCUM EVERI i ag BER
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Thorburn’s Everbearing — Clatmed to even excel the Early Russian in its everbearing character, producing fruit in immense quantities, whether fruit is allowed to ripen on the: vine or not. Fine for table or for pickles. Cucumbers short and thick. Pkt., 5¢; 02z., 165c;-IbD.,, $1;50+4-5
Improved Early Russian — One of the most valuable, es- pecially in the South. It is so very dwarf hills need be only three feet apart, yet it is one of the most pro- lifie varieties of all, bearing its short plump fruits in clusters, and if not allowed to ripen seed will bear from June until October, and that in hot, dry weather that crisps nearly every other variety, root and branches. Pkt; *5c;.02:, 100% IWD.,. $1.25,
Improved Long Green — A well-known standard variety, about twelve inches in length, of most excellent qual- itv, and when young makes the best pickles. When ripe it is the bést of any for sweet pickles. Vines vigorous and very productive. Our strain of this val- uable sort is unsurpassed by any. Pkt., 5c; 0z., 15c; ID «5 $1.25.
Davis’ Perfect — This is almost seedless, and most im- portant of all; it does not lose Its dark, rich color when erown outdoors, and resembles a hot-house cucumber so much that dealers cannot tell the difference and are willing to pay as high prices for it as for the product of the hot-house. Pkt., 10¢; 02z., 20c; Ib., $1.50.
Early Green Cluster —A _ prolific variety, with crisp, brittle fruit. A fine pickling variety. Pkt., 5c; 0z., Loc; ID. , +8472 8.
Gherkin — Small, thick, oval and tender. Used only for. pickling. POC: ID .3° $1.25;
Green Prolific Pickling — Standard pickling variety, with slender dark green fruit, very crisp. PkKt., 5c; 02., 10c* -1D (81.20;
fruit, very priekly, crisp PRE OC}. 025
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Japanese Climbing — This Cucumber Is such # strong and
vigorous grower that the yines attain twice. the lengti. of ordinary varieties. The vine climbs readily and may be grown on fences, poles or trellises thus saving much valuable space in small gardens. When picked freely, a vine will continue bearing during the entire season, and one hill will keep a’ good-sized family supplied all summer. PkKt., 10¢; 0z., 30¢. —
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These slightly. resemble Cabbages. in, grow.tb® and are largely planted in the South for use as bolling-greens during the winter months and also, to. furnish green forage for poultry and stock in the winter, |
in growth all winter. As the leaves are pulled off, the stems increase in height and bear new leaves. , Pkt., 5¢; 04.5 25C;—1b.,; 33.00. got
Pe-Tsai, Chinese Celery Cabbage
This has become very popular in the last two or three years, and most deservedly so. Pe-Tsai produces beau- tiful crisp, celery-like heads that blanch easily and that resemble a giant Cos Lettuce, As a salad it rivals the finest Lettuce, while cooked like Cabbage or Spinach it makes a delightful “greens.” Early sowing is not rec- ommended, as during the hot weather it has a tendency to run to seed without heading. Sow seed, in any good soil, the first of August, making rows 24 10 $56 inehes apart and thinning to fifteen inches apart in the row. Pe-Tsai will not stand frost, so that. heads intended for winter use should be stored in a cool frostproof cellar, Pkt., 10c; 0z., 30¢; ™., $3.00. 4
They frm, a mass of Jeaves on tall stems, and in the South continue
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Everla asting~ : ueumber (Keeps all Winter)
Ww Varié: ye @& very finest quality that will keep rok soa eyén I the winter, without decaying OF, i anging eolor. =m short, it may be picked from the vines in the open sground in the fall. and sold in the market in a fine condition during December and Jan- uary, when good Cucumbers bring enormous prices. It is of the White Spine type, of good size, uniform,- per- fect shape and rich, dark green color, which seems to hold forever. Quality the best of any Cucumbers we have tested. Vine strong and vigorous, a rapid grower and early bearer. Resists bugs, drought and disease to a re- markable degree... in short, outside of its wonderful keépings qualities, * it is’ the fnest all-around Cucumber we have ever. yaowh, but of course its great value and novelty isin its tong-keeping qualities. With it one may havé delicious<Cucumbers in winter from summer or fall growing. © poe: per Det 3 Pkis— for’ -30c; .oz., 50¢: Di. $6.00. ;
‘Jennie - ‘hen: Briée, Ohio, says: “Your Everlasting Cucumber* A$ ja° wonder. Vines filled with bloom and green fruit; owlen killed by frost in October. No blight oF diseases, “x3;
Mrs. J. Messell, Cincinnati, Ohio, says: ‘“‘The Everlast- ing ‘Cucumber. was ‘fine,”’
A. B. Borts, Cobleskill, N. Y., says: ‘1 desire to add a testimonial to your Ww onderful Cucumber known as the} ‘Everlasting.’ It certainly is very correctly named and is as beautiful and prolific and palatable as it is lasting. 1 made an exhibition of them at our County Fair last Sep- tember and won the first premium in strong competition. We served them later for our Christmas dinner.”
c. B. Beck, Robstown, Texas, says: ‘Immediately after 1 planted Everlasting Cucumber seed a drought set in and ‘lasted forty-two days, the strong dry Texas | winds intensified the dryness, but the ‘Cucumbers lived | through it all, without a drop of water and produced a | fairly good lot of fine Cucumbers. 1 saved one of the} Cucumbers four months in good condition.’’
Jay Hilts, Breakabeen, N. Y., says: ‘‘Your Everlast- ing -Cucymber is<all that you claim for it.” | = mer, Elyria, Ohio, says: “l have at present (Jan. 20)>15 ny cellar an Everlasting Cucumber ten int i ; 9%4 in circumference, taken from the . vine on ttn day. of August, which’ e defy anyone to ¥ “tell perfeet- Cucumber from the -vine; as yet it ign of Tot, and is as perfectly natural-in color en it came from the vines.” =. Edward: Cousins, ‘Tillsonburg, Ont., says: ‘The Ever-
lasting Gu¢umber. is all: right. We pulled off.a medium- cs sized. fruit Oct. ft; kept it on a shelf in the pantry all} andit was g0o0d-and sound in March. Two local plished accounts of it.’? ‘ord, Austin, lll., says: “My sister, who lives Michigan, writes that the Everlasting is ume rful’ Cucumber she ever saw. They bear 5 ae in Winter just as-you say.”
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Cauliflower
The most luscious of all the Cabbage family.
Requires high cultivation and rich soil. Cook by steaming until tender, then dress with drawn butter and serve hot. ~- It is one of the most delicious of all vegetables.
Snowball — One of the very best varieties for early cul- ture. Dwarf, compact grower, with large heads of snowy whiteness and delicious flavor. This is a sure header, very early, but valuable for late as well as for early Cauliflowers; the perfection of all the Dwarf Early Erfurt Strains. PkKt., 15c; 0z., $2.50; lb., $30.00.
American Beauty — A fine early Cauliflower, especially adapted to American soil and American-grown seed. Heads early, size large, quality the best. Pkt., 10c; OZ., $2.25.
Autumn Giant — Extra large and fine. Pkt., 5¢; 0z., 50c.
Danish Large Early — Very early, very large, very firm and extra fine in every respect; the latest improved Cauliflower, and by all odds the best. Pkt., 15c; ao-O2., Tuer Oz, $2.75.
Danish Perfection — This is the very earliest Cauliflower known. Fully ten dav earlier than Snowball or Dwarf Erfurt. In all desirable points it is perfection itself, sood size, uniform, solid, and of highest quality. PKt., 20¢; 3° pkts., 50c.,
Danish Giant or Dry Weather — A splendid late variety. It is of dwarf growth, producing very large stone-hard and snow-white heads, fully protected by the foliage. As indicated by the name it is especially fit for dry and hot weather climates or for sections subject to long dry seasons, being a sure header when all other
3 pkKts. for 50c.
sorts fail. Pkt., 20c;
—= SS - DANDELION —— New Dandelion Nothing makes finer greens than the well-known Dan- (elion, except the new Improved Wonderberry, or Sun- berry. The variety of Dandelion here offered is the best. mproved Large-Leaved — The old “‘greens’”’ of our grand- mothers, now improved to large, thrifty plants with wide, long leaves, of superior quality. These make a very healthful, nutritious and pleasant food that can be used very early in the season. This new strain is the largest, finest and quickest growing variety yet known. It is a splendid vegetable which should be found in every garden. Pkt., 5c; oz., 50¢.
Endive
Green Curled — Well known in fashionable restaurants under the name of Chicoree and particularly fine served with Lettuce and French dressing. Sow seed from middie of June to end of August. When wanted for use blanch the inside leaves by tying the outer leaves together over the heart, and the plants will be ready for use in about one week after. Never tie up when the eaues pre wet, as it induces decay. Pkt., 5c; oz.,
oc; Ib., $1.50,
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Improved — Very ‘popular
in 4all the city This is the easiest, finest and largest variety grown, ard is a fine sert for either market or private
New York markets.
garden. Start seed in hotbed and transplant to warm, rich, mellow soil. The fruit is very handsame, large, smooth and round, and of a rich, shining purple-black coler, and is borne until frost. Cook by cutting into half or quarter-ineh slices, and, after paring dip them into salted water for an hour; then dip in beaten eggs and cracker crumbs and fry in fat until golden-brown. Pkt., 10¢€; 0Z., 40¢; 3
Kale, Dwarf Spreading
Kale is very easily grown and much hardier than any Cabbage, standing the winters welk if protected by a little light litter or straw. The action of frost improves its flavor wonderfully, and it is particularly fine for winter and early spring greens. This is an extra fine strain of beautiful curled and dwarf German type, but of a rather spreading habit, and extra quality. PKt., 5c;
0Z., 15¢; ID., $1.50, oD Kohl Rabi ay Extra Early Vienna—A
curious vegetable in ap- pearance half-way between a Turnip and a Cabbage with a turnip-like swelling of the stems above the ground, which, while young and tender, has a delicious Cauliflower flavor very appetizing and pleas- ant. Very easily grown, requiring only such care as will make a Turnip or Cab- bage do well. It is cooked much the same as Cauli- flower and served with pepper, butter and salt. It is certainly most delicious. Pkt.,. 5¢€; 02., 20c.
Aer Giant Hardy Winter Rhabarb able” ‘in:
ae = “Four ‘Months: From. ‘Seed. ~in: alt “respects, just like- ‘Burbank’s iriaicene
ia -Phis— is Winter. at liacts "except itis” Tour” 4ameés-large:, == tectly-hardy jn. the ‘extreme north. Plants of: this wender-. - tak Rimibarb- sold: last year by an agent. of the ‘originater ~
= for $5200 each... Mr. Wagner, the originator, says it is. * “more ruggéd than-the. Crimson" Winter and fully twice.
~ the size of Linnaeus, or any old variety.’ it has the
¥ - fine-crimson- color ‘and: sprightly delicious flavor of Bur- ~
- bank’s Crimson -Winter<and’ is available for use from _ = - earliest sprmg to fate mm Pecember, ..The stalks some-
- times. attain. -aclength of. three’ feet and weigh over one- = pound: “Sixty stems picked from-oné plant at a single - . picking weighed thirty” pounds. Such a great number of _S§talks from_.one -plant are possible, as the plant divides _ -So rapidiy<into numerous crewns. It will, of course, ~ _ supersede the old_Crimson Winter as fast as ‘planters ean get the stock. Those who set a few plants now will reap a rich harvest; not only on the Pacific and in the South, but in the North: as well, where the old variety is ~ not Teliable.
It is the earliest of all Rhubarb by a long way and fit for use not only in the spring, but all through the sum- mer and-fall. As fast, as Stalks are pulled fresh ones will _ take their piace. In the-Southern: and Pacific States it
may. be used allt the year round, requiring only water in dry localities to keep. it growing. It-is particularly - fine in winter. :
In quality. this. ‘Rhubarb is simply: superb, fully equal in - flavor to the finest-berries. _ The stalks are not-so bulky, soft and watery .as-niost other kinds,-and the skin is so-
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when cooked a beautiful. crimson-colored. sauce. is the _ result, looking, as well as tasting; like berries. Flavor, > sprightly. and refréshing,- combining: that of the Rasp- “berry and = Strawberry, but greatly superior to either as a. cooked fruit.’ In fact; it makes - the most delicious Be: sauce and pies: we have tasted- Price of Roots, 20c each; 74 for 50c; 12 for $1.00; 100 a tor $7.00. ~ 3 _ 2 Price of: Seeds, 45c per. packet; 3 packets for 40c. = a - From seed’ -sown-in the open ground in April or May one will get fine, jarge stalks for cooking as early as
23 July. or. August: — a _ ~ John S. Bond,- SheUmouth, “Man., Canada, says: “Your * -claims for your. New Giant Rhubarb seed is fully justi- fled. 1 sowed -seed early and in August picked three to oA - four pounds of good stalks from half a dozen plants.” | A. &. Jones; Philadelphia, says: “1 raised the most wonderful and. delicious Rhubarb 1] ever saw in my back- _ yard from- your ‘seed.: It was ready to use in a sur- _ prisingly ‘short time.” ; _ _ “J sowed one package of your Giant Crimson Winter - Rhubarb” feur_months-.ago and in spite of unusual heat ~ and. the: claim: that Rhubarb don’t grow in Texas, I have vos So. stalks from which ‘we are making most
conaary 1. W: a3 FECHNER. ~~ “pallas, Texas.
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Herbs, Sweet or aot
Indispensable. to the cook, useful in the sick room, oe Pkt.
- Anise — For WaNGNGNS = Sot ee ee ee 5 te ~ Baim — Very. * fragrant Jeaves: “Wedicinal- Yee Si gaeire Si ” Caraway - — Sed: extensiv ely” used “fer. navorig” ST aces i ' <Geriander — Used for flavoring. cakes, etc. Bo EB: _ Catnip — Weill known? and useful 2... 2<52. N5 = S90: Ditl—Used to_impart.a- pleasant flavor. to. phekten B=. 10 - Hearhound—Used< for. curing ‘coughs and colds 5. 20 ~ Lavender—Fragrant. feaves uSed-fo scent.clothing 5. 40~ - Sage—Most useful of all; needed in every: garden Seer 2 | ae Sweet -Majoram — = Pet. herb Sy Wed oer aie ae Paar ape Ge Sereet-Pennel: . eS se ES ee eo 20 - Fansy — For medicinal. use. Sy Sap ee : eee 30 UME ag Ce ce os gee ae 5 40 _- Savory, Summer — Fine for flavoring, aressing 5 15 Rosemary — Aromatic and medicinal. Very fra-- grant; aise @ moth preventative........0.0.. on 50 Wormwood — A splendid plant for poultry.. 20
One packet each of the above 16° fine sorts, B0c.
~ Mammoth Sage
A plant of this new Sage will yield more than a dozen of the common sort. The leaves are of-enormous : size and -superior quality,-and the plant. a- compact, rank grower, rarely flowers and never runs to seed, and can be picked all the season. It is-_perfectly hardy in the
coldest climate. Every person who has use: for Sage ‘shauld plant this variety. - Seed -i10c -_per pkt. See
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Garden Lemon — This fruit makes delicious preserves,
sauce, etc. This is something like the Vine Peach, but needs no Lemon in putting up, as it is much more acid. Cultivated like Melon. PKt., 5c; 0z., 20c. Vine Peach — This sort has fruit the size of:a large Peach and of a bright orange color. Flesh firm and . When cooked with. lemon, to give it a slight. acidity, makes fine pies, sauce, sweet pickles or Preserves.
Easily grown and a good: keeper. Stored in a cool, dry “place they keep -fresh- and good for. several ~ months: Pkt.,-5¢:°0z.; 5c. °°
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LETTUCE
~ An indispensable vegetable — certainly the finest salad plant known. Easily grown, either in hot-bed or garden, and can be sown very early. “South of Mason and Dixon’s line can be sown in the open ground in fall, and needs only a slight protection of straw or loose litter to be perfectly hardy.
CHILDS’ HALF-CENTURY LETTUCE— THE FAR-FAMED
This Lettuce was grown and selected for fifty years by one family. Its leaves fold together, forming a long, loose head, remarkable for its lelicate flavor. for tenderness, brittleness and delicious quality this Lettuce grown in the open ground surpasses any other sort. It is so brittle and tender that its leaves break to Pee in handling, if care is not used. It is a quick srower, attaining its full size in forty to fifty days, and remains in fine condi- tion for a long time, Pkt., 5c; 0z., 40c; Ib., $1.40,
CHILDS’ HALF-CENTURY CRISPHEAD LETTUCE — THE PERFECT
A sport from our famous Half-Century Lettuce that produces a large, solid head. It has much the same characteristics of the Half-Century, being exceed- ingly crisp, brittle and unsurpassed in flavor; but it is a true heading variety, forming a solid head as large as a smail Cabbage, It is superior to all other head varieties in superb quality, @ quick grower and long keeper. The Cali- fornia expert growers of Lettuce say that “‘Crisphead”’ is the longest-keeping head variety in cultivation. The value of this cannot be overestimated. Its superb quality makes it the finest Lettuce for the home garden, which, with its long-keeping quality, Must make it the best and most popular sort for market growing. Pkt., 10C; 0Z., 25¢; I., $2.00.
Your Half-Century Crisphead Lettuce is the finest thing ever. Had good bed of it last year and delighted the neighbors as well as ourselves.—fF, 8S. Reader, New Brighton, Pa.
For years I have grown your Half-Century Lettuce, and have found none equal to it.—Mrs. Harry White, North Andover, Mass.
Your Half-Century Crisphead is the best header of any Lettuce I ever grew. —f. Nelson Lyon,: Nelson, Neb,
We have used. Childs’ Half-Century Lettuce for twenty-five years—our friends also. All agree there is none to equal it.—Mrs. A. Favencomb, New- castie, Ont.
Crisphead is decidedly the best Lettuce we have ever raised.—Mrs, D. W. Gardner, Salyersville, Ky.
{ must add my word of praise for your Half-Century Lettuce. It is the finest I ever grew.—G. F. Bartholomew, Stroudsburg, Pa.
CRISPHEAD GROWN BY G. NELSON LYON, NELSON, NEB.
Buttercup — A beautiful garden sort, almost as orna- mental -as a Coleus. Large heads and fine quality;
’ Deautiful golden-yellow. PkKt., 5¢; 0Z., 20C.
May King— This=remarkable variety has proved itself capable of satisfying the most exacting requirements that could be made of an early outdoor Lettuce; if can alsc be easily raised in a cold-frame. It is not éasily affected by cold or wet weather, grows very quickly and produces,-even in poor soil, splendid
~ globular “heads, which are ready ten or fifteen days before other heading varieties and stands a long time before showing signs of running to seed. The leaves
_ dmside are of a golden-yellow shade and in point of
_ . flaver unextelled. PkKt., 5c; 02., 15¢; Ib., $1.60.
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"Denver Market, or Savoy — An early variety of head Let- * tuce, either for forcing or open ground. ~ Forms large, solid head of good light-green color. The leaves are
_ beautifully marked and_blistered Cab - » _hbage) and crisp and tender; of excellent flavor. This + .i8.in Many respects a most unique Lettuce, and one _ _ -which- will be very popular as’soon as known, occupy- Inge the same place among Lettuce as Savoys do among
_-@abbages. Pkt., 5c: 0z., 15c; Ib., $1.35.
(like Savoy
Big Boston —A very desirable large variety for forcing in cold-frames and for outdoor planting. In the kitchen garden there is no better variety to use. Plants large, hardy, vigorous. Leaves broad, smooth, thin, of a light-green color. Heads large, handsome and solid when grown inside, somewhat more loose. when grown in the garden. Pkt.; 5€; 0Z., 15c; 1b., $1.50.
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Brittle Ice — This makes large heads of pleasing ap- pearance, and: retains its crispness and mild flavor to a great degree during the hot summer months. While specially adapted for midsummer, it is most desirable also for spring and fall, but_is not suitable for ship- ment to distant markets. _The plants are of quick, Strong growth, attaining a diameter of twelve inches with good cultivation. |The leaves are of a soft, bright sreen, growing cicsely around the head. The heads are tightly folded, six to eight inches in diameter, sue to a silvery white. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; Ib.,
Curled Simpson — A fine sort, still able to hold its own against all new comers. In every respect this is a first class sort, and always popular. Pkt., 5¢: 0z., 15c; Ib., $1.20.
Cream Butter —A crisp, tender, richly flavored variety, forming large heads of a beautiful creamy color: medium early, and stands summer heat remarkably well. This is one of the very best summer varieties
/ of head Lettuce we have ever grown. Pkt., 10c;
_; 02Z.,-20C; Ib., $1.50.
White Paris Cos — This is a popular European sort, and
-is good for forcing or early summer sowing. Well grown heads weigh five to seven pounds. Pkt., 5c; 0Z.,°15¢e; 1b., $1.35.
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Muskmelon
This fine fruit is much more. delicious: when eaten fresh from the vines than when allowed ‘to stand for days in the heat of the market. Grow them like Cueumbers.
Kinsman Queen — This greatly improved Melon comes to us from a large grower in Ohio who pronounces it the finest of all Melons he has ever grown. Our trial of it for three years shows it to be very fine indeed. We call it the very finest melon we ever grew and we firmly believe that all our customers. who plant it will say the same. It is of good size, very deep meated, and the color of its. flesh is a rich orange- salmon. It is very tender, melting, and of the highest and richest flavor. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 30c; Ib., $2.00.
Burrell Gem — We are glad to be able to offer a new strain of the .famous Rocky Ford Melons and one which we think is far superior to all others, particu- larly for general cultivation. This Melon is the result of many years of careful breeding at Rocky Ford and has the closely laced gray netting of the original Rocky Ford Cantaloupe. in size it is somewhat larger, aver- aging nearly two pounds. the meat. thick, fine-grained and very rich. .dAts carry- ing qualities are-much superior to the ortginal’ Rocky Ford; “Per pkt.,; 10cg o02.; 25c; -ID., $1.75.
Montreal Green Nutmeg — An wncommonly large Melon
and a great cropper; flesh green, very firm ‘and de- -
licious, and unlike most varieties, does not lose flavor during wet or cloudy weather. -Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c.
Banana — Melons very slender and two or three feet long. A very fragrant variety, and if not picked until thoroughly ripe of very good quality. Its flesh and flavor, aS well as its shape, reminds one of a great luscious Banana. Pkt., 5c; 02., 30e.
fmproved Rocky Ford Finest of the Netted Gem type and a famous Melon owing to its unsurpassed quality. We all know that for years past the best, and, in fact, the only real good Muskmelons that have come into our Eastern market were the Roeky Fords. An expert has been to Rocky Ford, Colo., where these Melons are grown, and bought the finest strain in cultivation from a private grower. This can be relied upon for produc- ing fine Melons. Pkt., 5c; 0z., 10c; Ib., $1.25.
Champion — A very handsome, large, round Melon of de- licious flavor and rich in quality. A’ great cropper and a favorite market sort. A fine standard sort which will give great satisfaction in any locality. For ship- ping it is. without doubt the’ very best of all Musk- melons. It keeps well and is of fine appearance and high quality. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10¢c; Ib., $1.10.
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Fordhook —A hybrid Emerald. Gem and Jenny Lind. Equal to the former in delicious flayor and of solid thick-meated salmon flesh, better than any of the “Rocky Ford Melons. Vines: vigorous in growth, each setting five to eight Melons near the stem) and each Melon about two pounds in weight. J high-bred variety that produces all high-class fruit. For the home garden, especially in the East where Melons are apt to do poorly, it is undoubtedly the best, one Seo. valuable for market. Pkt., 40c; Oz., 20¢; *> . .
KINSMAN QUEEN - Emerald Gem — In quality this leads all, and every home garden should include it. Medium size, round, with salmon flesh, so rich, sweet and juicy that it needs to be eaten with a spoon. Few other Muskmelons can
compare with it in eating qualities, and it is a grand,
sort for the home garden. $1.30.
Bush — The plant grows in compact bush form after the style of the Bush SquaShes, Melons round, netted and deep ribbed... Quality very Nine indeed. -.A hill in bear-
Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Ib.,
ing is a novel and attractive sight, and presents a -
truly odd ‘appearance, with its large green follage and handsome Melons set close to the base of the grow - ing plant. lt is a very shy breeder. Pkt., 10¢; oz. 50G
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Watermelon Never plant Watermelons on hard, poor soil. Plant in large, deep, melHow-hills, made very rich with well-rotted manure, and youwill have great crops of this delicious vegetable, which.to be had at its best must be picked - from one’s own garden. Rosy Nugget — In free and easy growth, productiveness, beauty and superb quality there is nothing that can compare to it. Weight, fifteen to twenty-two pounds; shape, round; color, very rich dark green. Rind very thin, atmost-none at all, but outer shell is hard. Flesh solid, absolutely no cavity, crisp, flavor such as cannot be found: in any other melon, its richness, delicate quality-and sweetness far surpassing all others. -Pkt., 10¢; 0%., 35¢€; db... $3.00. ;
Kleckley’s Sweet — The earliest large melon, weighing * fifty to sixty pounds each, and ripening in about ser -
enty days from the time of planting. Ilt-is a great yielder, and in quality the sweetest, juiciest, most crisp, solid and luscious. Grows two and one-half feet in length: Brilliant red inside, dark green without. This is the best melon ever tested. Pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Ib., $1.20." 4
Early Harris:— This has proved itself to be the earliest as weil as the finest extra early melon grown. It ripens*fruit im fifty-five days from seed, under favor- able conditions; sixty days, however, is the usual time, and this result. may be expected under ordinary con- ditions. It is a handsome melon of medium size (about 20 Ibs.), of fine quality, and a quick seller in any market. Pkt., 5c; 0Z., 20c; Ib., $2.00.
Duke Jonés — Briefly, this is supposed to be the largest, handsomeéest, most prolific and in other respects the finest melon grown. Will average nearly fifty pounds each By the field, while some specimens reach nearly
- one Bundred pounds. PkKt., 10¢; oz., 20c; Ib., $1.25.
Selected -Chilian — A large, dark-skinned, round melon
- Weighing about. 40 Ibs. Flesh highly colored crimson, very tender and melting, of superb flavor, and ripens to the rind,~ in every way extra fine. Pkt., 5c; 02z.,
eo Winter Cheer
This is a beautiful round qmelon of about fifteen to twenty pounds, with a skin that is almost snow-white. The i flesh is light pink and of ex- | cellent quality. lt is a melon ‘which ripens fairly late, and
stored in a cool, airy place,
Eit will keep in excellent con-
=dition far into the winter. 10¢ per pkt; 3 pkts. for 25c.
Coles’ Early Watermeion
< The very earliest Melon grown, and one of the best as to quality. Medium or small size, just the best for family use. The easiest Melon to grow, succeeding where ail others fail. For northern latitudes where the Season is short it is a real godsend. Pkt., 10c; o0z., 20c.
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_This little melon from Italy is indeed a gem. The vine may be allowed to trail on the ground or may be trained and tied to trellises, etc. The melons are about the size of a Cocoanut, with seed no larger than an apple seed. They are very solid, rich crimson flesh and of the
. highest quality, perfectly ideal for the home garden.
Fruit ripens for a long period, unlike. other sorts which ripen their fruit mostly at one time. We picked melons from our vines of this variety for a period of two months. Novel and attractive. Pkt., 10c.each; 3 pkts., 25c.
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SS —< o se American Onions One of the most wholesome foods known, and niuch relished by most people. Most physicians agree that the free use of Onions as a food is a healthful and beneficial
-timulant to the system. Suecess or failure depends upon
the quality of the seed sown. The best Onion seed is
always the eheapest. We are certain that ours is as od as can be found anywhere. Have the ground made Ty fine, deep and rich for Onions, and keep free from ,eeqas,
Lerge Red Wethersfield — A favorite red-skinned sort, of large size and handsome appearance. Onions somewhat fattened, flesh purplish-white, high-flavored, and keeps well without rotting. A Standard sort and a great [fa- ‘orite with market gardeners. Pkt, 5¢€; o0Z., 15c; Ib., $2.50.
Ycltlow Globe Danvers — Another popular Onion widely srown for market. Plump, handsome, yellow-skinned fulbs, very uniform, round and perfect. We have an eXtra fine strain of this. It does well everywhere, and
all soils and climates, and is everywhere a popular market sort:<’ Pas... 0G; 0Z., 15¢- -D., -$2.75.
E-:ra Early Red —A quick-growing variety much liked
the North, as it grows well in cold, mucky soils, here other sorts fail. Pkt., 5c; 02., 20c; Ib., 32.75. Southport White Globe — A globular, mild-flavored Onion ine appearance and superior. quality. The most ir White Globe variety. Pkt., 210G:*0z.; 20c;
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Australian Brown —A medium-sized, smooth, handsome Onion. with a beautiful brown skin. Hard, solid, crisp,
Navored and a good keeper. In fact, one of the
' t Onions grown. Sé€ason very eariy Pkt.. 5c:
L ise; Ib., $2.00.
xyes . . Winter or Tree Onion-For Fall Planting In this we have an Onion different from those raised i; or sets, or from the Top and Potato Onion, et that when once set out, without the -light- ction, it will come up year after year as soon ost breaks the ground, and grow so rapidly that ' ready for market or home use two or three weeks fore eny of them. It is usually ready for table earlv May When left standing a lot of top sets will bil 1 August for fall planting. Sets (borne on toy | in fall are fit to pull and eat or market in early
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i! nd are everywhere greatly prized. It is per- ect rdv in all sections of the North. Should be in eve ome garden. Fall is the best time to plant. Sects repaid by mail, 1 pint package, 20c; quart, 30c;
iarts for $1.00. $y express not prepaid, peck, $1.00; bushel, $3.00. rhe Winter or Tree Onion Sets are for fall planting only. <All orders will be booked for shipping September 1. Pianted out then they will be ready for use the next Spits
Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
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“WHITE VELVET OKRA Okra or Gumbo
Very popular lor making soups, stews, etc. Gun New
Velvet is superb.
New White Velvet —A great improvement on the ol! White Velvet in every way. It is undeniably the best variety grown. Its large thick pods are round and smooth and of an ivory-white color. It is @ very profuse bearer, and is ornamental as well as useful. Pkt., 10c; @s., 15; -Ib., 6128;
Mammoth Long Podded — A most superb new Okra which produces an abundance of fine large pods that are of superior quality for soups, ete. Plants grow four feet high, but begin to bear pods when eight to twelve inches high. These pods last long in a fresh prime <tate, and are borne in great quantities al) summer. Pkt., 5¢; .02., 20c; Ib.,78i-00,
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far ahead of any other Onion. the breath, and is liked by all. - t8 used: largely for eating raw, like a Radish, yet when
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italian’ Oniens-fave come into favor with astonishing rapidity. Where a few years ago they were grown only as fancy. farden crops,.they are now planted extensively for market, and they ‘are, too, a profitable crop. They are of rapid growth, attain a very large size in a won- derfully short-time.- Phey are not only large, but uni- form, perfect in shape, and handsome in appearance. In quality they are acknowledged on all sides to be the best, having an exceedingly mild, delicate and pleasant flavor. For eating raw, they are, of course, greatly su- acts to other Onions, owing ot the mildness of their
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Mammoth Silver King —— A superb Onion that sometimes grows to weigh twa to.four pounds... Silver-skinned, White-fleshed, very ‘mild and tender—so mild, sweet and tender that it can be eaten raw like an apple. It
‘has an-average diameter of five to-seven inches, mak-
ing. a gweurmference of fifteen to twenty inches. A grand Seller in- all markets. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 30c; Ib., $4200. = z <A Pe
Prize Taker —A large Yellow Globe Onion, very hand-
some, Ane flavor and a grand sort for market. re to the and- is claimed to be the largest, handsomest,
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‘The prettiest button-like little Onions imaginable. Small,
_ flat and silvyer-skinned, so mild in flavor that they can
be eaten raw, like a stalk of Celery, and for pickling are Leaves almost no odor on Three weeks from seed.
cooked it has the most delicate flavor.
Pkt., 10€; 02., Byer Ib .,. $4.00.
Onion Mammoth Pompeii — No ; this year... ef
Oyster Plant : or Salsify |
One of the most delicious of all root vegetables. So hardy that it can be left in the ground all winter, and dug as needed, whenever the
ground thaws. Stew until tender, then cook exactly like oysters with pepper,
cream and butter. Try a: large bed of them this year. They are delightful.
Large .White — A _ quick S erower; very fine flavor. S Pei bChs 045-400. -= ts; $2.20.
Sandwich Island Mammoth— Like the above but twice the size. Cannot praised too highly. Pkt.,'¥
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Plant this. year. a fine vegetable.
Leek, A()6=30s Giant Italian
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li’ The Leek is a very hardy, easily-grown yege- vy) } |; table, of mild, agreeabie wh. flavor, and ig much used == for soups, stews, etc., as == its flavor is more delicate = than that of the Onion. This is @ new and very } large variety, the best for my general cultivation. Pkt., SCs OZ.,020C;, ID 392-00.
Finest Garden Peas
This delicious vegetable is so much finer when freshly gathered than when allowed to shrivel for days in the market, that every family, if possible, should grow their own Peas. For early crop, plant as soon as the ground «an possibly be worked in the spring, and plant every two weeks thereafter for succession until summer.
Childs’ Morning Star — A new wrinkled Pea, earlier than any of the small, round varieties. It is the earliest Pea grown. It is a fair-sizea, wrinkled variety, and, therefore, possesses the same delicious quality of the
late wrinkled kinds. For the first time the fine quality
of the late varieties is combined with extreme earli- ness. Added to its other qualities it is exceedingly >, and continues to bear longer than any other sort. It grows eighteen to twenty inches high,
‘3 not require bushing. It is the most reliable
wrinkied Pea for fall use—sown August 1—that 1 have
prolific early
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ever grown. Mr. J. Goody, of Clare, Suffolk, England, writes: “Your ‘Morning Star,’ beats any Pea in Eng-
land f by «
rafirst crop.” Pkt., 10¢c; pint, 40c; quart, 75c. kpress, per peck, not prepaid, $2.50.
Gradus, or Prosperity —A new, large-podded, strong growing Pea, which is only a few days later than the earliest small round sorts. 1t has all the fine qualities of the large late varieties, yet is extra early. So vig- orous and strong is its growth that it effectually resists the Pea aphis, which do so much damage to early crops nowadays. Largest Peas and very finest quality. Stock very scarce. Pkt., 10c; pint, 45¢; quart, 80c; per peck, by express not prepaid, $3.50.
Prices of Peas, Corn and Beans are very high this year and are now generally sold by the pound, instead of by the measure (pint, quart, peck, etc.). Write for special prices if you need any of these in quantity.
Champion of England — Still able to hold its own among all new-comers as a Pea of superlatively fine quality. Late and heavy cropper. Pkt., 10c; pint, 30c; quart, 50c.
eo; American Wonder — An early wrinkled Pea of exquisite flavor, ready for the table in thirty to forty days after planting. Grows only a few inches high. Pkt., 10c; pint, 30c; quart, 50c. McLean’s Little Gem — An old standard Tom Thumb va- riety, still among the very best for a first erop Pea. Very hardy. Pkt., 10c; pint, 30c; quart, 50c.
Everbearing —A fine sort for the home garden, as it does not ripen its pods at one: crop, but-contimues in bearing a long time. Fine Flavor. Pkt., 10¢;pint) 30c; quart, 50¢ : ;
[= Alaska — The best of all early round varieties, ripening ahead of all others, except Chi:ds’ Morning. Star, and bearing great quantities of fine Peas, richly flavoréd. A fine market Pea, as the whole crop matg@hes almost at one time. Pkt., 10c; pint, 35c¢; quart, §0c. By express not prepaid, peck, $2.50; bushel, @8.00.
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“the latter. -It is the earliest of Peppers, and outgrows - Chitds*-Kaleidoscope — One of these Pepper plants, with . Other. kinds. Growth exeeedingly vigorous, and each | its. dark green. leaves, and hanging full of -eharming
3 fron SEER ; pink, yellow, rose and red fruits, is exceedingly beau - pea - a Sees ore gowiigs pier ty with et Np ee 8. 7 i her as pe er eh heir load _of-jewel-like fruit. —- Pkt 5¢;-02., 20¢,-.. — ‘hot. The most valuable market Pepper yet introduced, Ruby King-—The beautiful plants are erowded with
- Selling quickly at faney prices. _ Pkt. 10c; oz., 50¢ large, handsome fruit ef a bright ruby-red color; which _ |- Childs’ Celestial Improved — A plant will show Peppers srow four to six inches long by three to four inehes - in every Stage of growth; and in three or four different through. They are remarkably mild and pleasant to colors, according to the stage of ripeness—creamy- the taste. They can even be sliced and eaten with White, pink and vivid scarlet, all on the bush together, vinegar like Tomatoes or Cucumbers. Pkt., 5€; 02Z., 25€. > @ most novel and wonderful sight. Pkt., 10c; oz., Chinese Mammoth——A grand sweet sort, bearing enor- 50e. : : mous deep crimson Peppers, as large as big Turnips.
Brings in market double the price of others. Pkt., 10c. Ruby Sweet — This splendid Pepper originated with us several years ago. -It is so sweet and palatable that it may be eaten from the hand like a Radish. Cut into strips and cooked with meat or stews it is simply great. in mild and delicate flavor we know no other ~ sort Hke it. Pkt., 10c; 3 for 25c. : Perfection — This new Pepper is of the Pimento type, but has been brought up to a degree of perfection not - found in any other variety. The meat is from two to- three times as thick as that of the Bell types and, yields fully a half more preduct to the same measure-- *" ment.. In-quality itis the very best, being entirely free — from pungency, and as sweet and delicious to a degree - not known before. Smooth and uniform’ in shape and. the skin -easily shps. off -after-a little burning over a fire or by botling a few minutes in het- water. -i¢ has- no equal in any respect. PEt, 10¢; 02.,.406; Ib., $4.25.
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Hardy and easily grown. Very fine for garnishing, as Well as useful for flavoring’ soups, etc. Extra Double Curied — Mossy curled and crisped leaves; _ very. beautiful and good. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15¢c; ID., $1.25. Beauty of the Parterre — One of the finest sorts for gar- hishings.or low. edgings.. PKt., 5¢€; 0z., 15c¢. -
EVERLASTING “PUMPKIN
The Everlasting Pumpkin
Keeps Perfect a Year
This most remarkable Pumpkin, a good companion to ip famous Everlasting Cucumber, was originated by a Mr. Vandeveer, of Flatbush, L. I. Attention was first called to. its wonderful keeping qualities when he first exhibited three specimens of it at one of the Long Island aerieultural fairs and took first premium in the face of creat competition. The same three specimens were kept n perfect condition and exhibited again the next year, seam taking first premium. This amply illustrates its Everlasting or keeping qualities. Pumpkins in first class condition the year round is the just and proud claim for t. But this is not all, for in addition to its great keep- ing qualities it is probably the best all-round variety for amily use in cultivation. In quality, size and color it is unexcelled. 1t is rather flat or cheese-shaped, creamy in eolor outside, a bright deep orange inside. Cavity very <mall. the flesh being exceedingly thick. It is fine-grained, eooks easily, and for pies it has a most delicious flavor, far superior to any other Pumpkin we have ever tried. Vine a strong, healthy grower and very productive, PkKt., {0¢: oz., 20c; 1b., $1.50.
Pumpkin
\n indispensable farm crop, and necessary to the
tchen garden. Who is there that would be willing to oo without Pumpkin pies especially when made from the following superior sorts:
Genuine Mammoth or True Portion — This is the giant Pumpkin that always takes the premium at the county fairs for size. Grows so large two men Can scarcely ift one of the fruits, which have been grown to weigh nearly or quite 200 pounds. Flesh bright yellow and very fair quality. Pkt., 10c;.0z., 20c; Ib, $1.50.
Large Cheese — An old standard sort, and a grand variety for large fleld crop. Pkt., 5c; 02Z., 10c; ID., 75c.
Small Sugar — This is the small sweet Pumpkin. Very fine-grained, most deliciously sweet-Navored, also a <plendid keeper all through the winter, They average about ten inches in diameter, of a round, flattened shape; deep orange-yellow color; extremely attractive. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; ID., $1.00.
Grow some Peanuts for the children. Not at all hard to grow, and stands the heat and drouth like a salaman- der.. We have-had most excellent reports on the Early Sweet from.all parts of the North, and we feel sure the “wo new sorts which we are offering will be equally pleasing. “iy Early Sweet — This sort is so early that it ripens in the Northern States the very best, the nuts being exceedingly sweet and rich when roasted. Any light, sandy or loose soil suits “them. Pkt.; 10e: pint, 20c;° quart, 35¢c: © Earliest Long Pod — A most remarkable new sort bear - ing three to four nuts in each pod. Greatest yvielder known and will do well’on. most any soil, and fli out better than any other large variety. The distinct long, handsome pods grow closely together, Flavor very best and about as early as Early Sweet. pint, 50¢; quart, 95c. 4 : Mammoth Prize—-An- enormous Peanut, tie earliest large sort, and tlie greatest bearer. Twice. as produc- tive as any other and four to six times Jarger than Early Sweet. It is really a marvel, and of the very finest quality. Pkt., 15c; pint, 60c; quart, $1.00. One pkt. each of the 3 for 30c.
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Parsnip
One of the few winter vegetables.
The roots are per- fectly hardy and are improved in flavor by the action of the frost. Roots can be dug during thaws in. winter or very early in spring, when a change of food is most rel- ished. They are boiled whole, then slited thin and fried brown with salt pork. improved Guernsey -— This is not the coarse Stock Guern- sey, but the table variety of that name, the sweetest, finest-erained Parsnip. grown. Smooth, thick roots, about twelve inches long. Very fine stewed, fried, etc. Pkt., 5¢: 0%, 10¢; MD. Tbe. x9 Improved Long Smooth Hollow Crown — An old standard variety, of fine quality with long roots. : ly raised for stock feeding and for that purpose it is truly a valuable root, menseiy and thrive wonderfully when they feed freely upon them, PKt., 5¢€; 02., 10c; Ib., 75¢. ;
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The following are the cream of all sorts:
Earliest Forcing — Earlier than any other sort by a week. ‘Bright scarlet turnip Radish, very smooth and round, with small tops, allowing it to be grown closely to-
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EARLY SCARLET TURNIP Icicle —-A long Radish of almost transparent whiteness, whieh has no rival among all existing varieties. It is so early that the roots are four to five inches long In twenty days from the time of sowing the seed in the open ground, and ready for the table. As to quailty, it has no superior, and is the most beautiful Radish yet seen.-A long white, alabaster-like, early variety has-not been known. Pkt., Sraue: ip., $1.25.
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- in twenty-five days, : : é - one-inch in diameter at the top, three inches In length and tapering to a point. Color, brightest, richest scar- let, tipped with white. Quality very mild, crisp and delicious. By far the best flavored Radish we have ever seen, and the most desirable for table use. It Seems to combine all good points — earliness, beauty, food size and superior quality. Really a great ac- @uisition. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 30c; Ib., $2.00.
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Giant Crimson — Roots attain an enormous size without getting pithy or losing their fine flavor. Skin bright crimson, flesh white as snow, crisp, tender and muiid delicate flavor. _Pkt., 10c; 0Z., 2d¢€; 1b., $2.00.
Violet Giant — Much like the above but a lovely vielet color, and Keeps a long time tender and crisp. PkEt., 1063. 0Z., -45€.
White Giant Forcing — Largest of the fine pure white forcing varieties. About one inch thick, grows rapitily and is tender and delicate. Pkt., 15¢; 02., 50€,
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tier.”’ This variety sometimes reaches the enormous length of two or three feet and is sometimes eight inches through at the top. A very quick-growing ya- riety, crisp, juicy and tender, and mild in flavor. its color is a fresh pink and white. and for market has no superior among summer Radishes. It remains tender and good for several weeks after it is ready for use and is a splendid all-around Radish. PkKt., 5¢; oz., 10c; ib., 90¢.
French Breakfast —A very attractive pink and White Radish, olive-shaped and with delicate flavored fiesh, free from Coarseness: or any biting quality. A grand little table sort. Pkt., 5€; 0z., 10¢C; ib., $1.00.
White Vienna — Finest of all long white Radishes. Skin and flesh pure white, beautiful shape and fine flavored. Pt 563/025-1706; AB., “75€-
Early Scarlet Turnip — A fine quick-growing early Rad- ish, of fine eating qualities. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; Ib., $1.
Chinese Rose Winter — A handsome and superior nmea- summer, fall and winter sort, of a lovely scarlet-rose color, and large size. Flesh meaty, crisp and tender. Keep roots in soil for winter use. Pkt., 5¢€; 0Z., 10¢; ibn Dio. ‘
Sakurajima Mammoth — Very crisp and tender and 0! remarkably mild and pleasant flaver.. Most people at once pronounce it to be the ideal table Radish ¢{ fall and winter. kt., 10¢; 0z., 40c.
Twelve-Months’ Radish Mixture —A superb mixture ¢ all kinds of Radishes, early, medium, fall, winter, Chinese, etc. Sow a row of it and it will furnish you delicious Radishes throughout the year. The ear! and medium ones, as they mature and are pulled, mak: room for the larger growth of the fall and_winte! varieties. This mixture is made up of twenty-five Des varieties, and with it it is necessary to make but on sowing: for the entire year. This novel mixture Wa- introduced by us some years ago. Pkt., 10¢; 0Z., 15 Ib., $1.25:
Squash
A delicious table vegetable, and, when cooked like
Pumpkins, makes superior pies.
Eiue Hubbard — (New)—Since the old Hubbard lost its
- Sterling qualities by deterioration no sort has come to take its place till now. Blue Hubbard is a better Squash in every way than the old one was at its best. It is of the same general quality but higher flavored, and keeps better after being cut open. In fact, it beats all other Squashes as a keeper. In productiveness it is a marvel, yielding a ton of Squashes to less than forty hills. its shell is in all respects like the old Hubbard except in its handsome blue color. In rich quality no Squash can approach it. Pkt., 15c; oz., 95; ID., $2.50.
Early Scallop — An early summer sort. Very fine and pepular.’*” PR; 5¢: "02:5 1106: 1b. 31 350:
Fordhook —A long, golden-yellow Squash, with very dry and fine-grained flesh. This is one of the best winter Squashes and an extra fine keeper, and the plants are so robust that failure is very rare. Resists the attacks of the Squash borer better than most kinds; matures early and is a sure cropper. Pkt., 106; 'O2., noe iD. o2.0U-
Giant Summer Crook Neck — A new crook neck, which is a little earlier than the old variety, and fully twice as large, being nearly two feet in length. It is of extra fine quality, handsome in appearance, and finds a ready sale at good prices in any market. Pkt., 5c; 0Z., 10c; Ip., $1.10.
Metcalf — Maine variety of extra fine quality, fine- grained and dry. No better eating Squash can be found anywhere. A long winter keeper, good till spring: » Pkt., 10¢; 02.; 20¢; Jb., $1.25.
Mammoth Chili — Specimens of this have been grown to reach three hundred pounds in weight, and is of very fair quality, and keeps well. Pkt., 10c; oz., 20c.
Mammoth Whale —A new French variety of the enor- mous weight of one hundred or more pounds, Fruit thick and an ashy-gray color, and tapers toward the end. Flesh solid, beautiful orange-yellow and of ex- cellent quality. It has also the advantage of being a long keeper and a variety which does well in any soil or climate. It is a splendid variety in all re- spects, especially for exhibiting at fairs. Pkt., 10c; 02., 80.
Neapolitan — (New)—tThis_ gigantic Squash is from twenty-four to forty inches long, with peculiar shape. It has a very small seed cavity, the whole fruit being almost solid meat. It is dry, fine-grained and rich in flavor, and is as easily grown as a Pumpkin, anywhere. A most superb novelty. Pkt., 10C; 0z., 20c; Ib., $2.
Sibley —- Another fine winter Squash that keeps well nearly all winter. Shell hard and flinty, pale green in
color. Flesh a brilliant orange-red; very dry and rich flavor. A fine baking variety. Pkt., 5c; 0z., 10c; Tt., $1.50.
Perfect Gem — Fine small sort. Pkt. 10c,
Tomatoes OUR TOMATOES ARE OFFERED ON PLATE No. Il. THEY ARE THE FINEST EVER GROWN
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Aug. Weisbroch, San Antonio, Texas, says: “I took” first prize of $5.00 with your Baseball Tomato at the San Antonio Home-grown Vegetable Exhibit, as being.) the finest variety shown. It is all you claim for it.”
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| Turnips A valuable garden and farm crop. Good Turnips are
almost as desirable for table use as Potatoes. For winter
use sow last of July or first of August.
White Egg — Beautiful white, egg-shaped sort, of rapid growth. -Flesh firm amd solid, fine-grained, sweet and of very mild flavor. Fine either for early or late variety. Grows to a good size. Pkt., 5¢; 0z., 15¢; Ib.. $1.75,
Purple Top White Globe — A large Turnip of fine keep- ing qualities. _Pkt., 5; oz., 15c; 1D., $1.50.
Large Yellow Globe — A large round Turnip, with deep yellow flesh and fine, firm grain; very sweet and good. PKt..~ 50;-04., 4002" IDS *37.25;
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Spinach
_ One’ of the most delightful. vegetables is the Spinach, and a most welcome addition to the table in early spring. It is by far the most healthful of. vegetables, for it contains a large per cent of iron, a most necessary tonic. Physicians tell us that if people would eat more Spinach they would be much better off.
American Savoy — A heavy cropper of fine quality and very hardy; succulent leaves, curled and crinkled like Savoy Cabbage. Hardiest and most productive sort. Pkt., POC5. OZ.5. 206; 10.53.2360
Victoria Long Standing — This thick varie- ty is distinguished by the. exceedingly dark green color, and also for its long- Standing qualities and crinkled foliage, especially valuable for summer use, re- Sisting heat to a remarkable degree. Pkt., 10C; 0z., 25¢; Ib., $2.00.
Summer, or Everlasting — See page 7.
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Carter’s Elephant — Of great size and a wonderful crop- per. In shape it is beautiful-and perfect and remark- ably uniform, quick growth, and excellent quality. Owing to its very large size it will turn out more bushels to the acre than any other and is, therefore, the most profitable, especially for feeding. Pkt., 10c; oz.; £5c; Ib., $2.20. :
Breadstone —A white Ruta-Baga, so tender that it will cook in fifteen minutes, while the flavor is uncom- monly sweet and delicate. PKt., 5c; 0z., 15¢; Ib., $2.
Improved Purple Top Yellow — Large, smooth and handsome, quick in growth, tender and fine in quality. A superb standard sort. Pkt., 5c; 0z., 15¢c; Ib., $2.00.
White Quality — When people know this Turnip they will grow it in sufficient quantity for everyday use, like Potatoes. ‘It is so delicately flavored, so exeeed- ingly crisp and tender, which added to its snow-white color marks a real -evolution. lt was evolved from the famous Breadstone, .ong celebrated for its exceptional quality. Size, medium; color, pearly white; growth, vigorous and rapid. Sow seed August 1 fo 15, in good soil and in October you will see the finest crop of the finest Turnips you ever grew, and they will hold this fine quality and surpassed tenderness and crispness all winter. Pkt., 10c;°oz., 20c; Ib., $2.00.
~New Turnip, Cream Tankard
This new Turnip came from Sweden. We are more than pleased with it. It is somewhat the shape of a stump-rooted Carrot, three inches thick at the top, and a foot long, about one-half this length is above ground and light green in color. Below ground is a light creamy-yellow. When cooked it is a light creamy color, very tender and delicate in flavor, just the nuakiy are
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Helianti
A very showy flower and a new winter vegetable -—a complete substitute for fresh Asparagus.
This new hybrid plant is of the Artichoke family, pro- ducing showy golden-yellow flowers like Cosmos blos- soms in endless profusion, and immense quantities of fleshy tubers, that are splendid eating fall. winter and sprmg. It stands both heat and cold and will thrive any- Where in apy soil, and as a flower it is very showy.
CULTURE — Plant tubers in &pring or fall three feet apart each way in rows and hill up the same as Potatoes. jllarvest the tubers during fall, winter or spring as needed, The yield is something enormous. Absolutely hardy,
AS A FLOWERING PLANT — It is probably more valu- able as a flower than as i vegetable. During August and september it is certainly wonderful and hardly. excelled by our famous Rudbeckia Golden Glow. Flowers golden- vevow, large and fine, in dense masses, fully as showy as olden Glow. -lt begins to bloom August 1.
FOOD VALUE — As a hog or cattle food Helianti is far superior to anything else, but as a table vegetable it inust rank high, being tender and palatable, more easily digested than potatoes, and remarkably free from stareh.
{ts taste is difficult to describe. It resembles some- what the French Artichoke and Asparagus with a distinct flavor of Mushroom. May be cooked in many ways, like Vptatoes, Asparagus, Cauliflower, Oyster Plant, Squash,
ete. Cut and fried the tubers excel French-fried po» tutoes. The green stalks are fine food for cattle and may be cut repeatedly during the growing season,
Fine tubers, & for 20c; 12 for 30c; 100 for $2.00; 1000 for $12.00.
New Sweet Potato, Early Triumph
This is so early it can be grown in the North. Ripens in sixty days from the time of setting the plants. Tubers, large, oval, oblong, very handsome. Flesh
creamy yellow and extra fine quality, dry and highly favored. Plant in warm sandy soil if possible, and it will succeed anywhere. Pot-grown plants, ready from end of May to July, 50¢ per doz.; 84.00 per 100.
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New Variegated Artichoke
A Splendid New Ornamental Plant With a Useful Tuber This is a variegated-leaved form’ of the Jerusalem
Artichoke which is very ornamental. he flowers-of this Artichoke are showy while they last, but thé foliage is attractive all summer. Plant a free’ grower,: with an
abundance of large leaves which are a mixturesor greet —
and white, the white predominating. - This fine foliage effect is prime from the time tubers send up their sea- son’s growth until the leaves drop in autumn. When plants are in bloom the combination is particularly at- tractive. Tubers sweet and delicious, differing but little if any from those of the common variety Fime tubers,
{se each; $ for 30c; 12 for 80c.
Asparagus Roots
We offer fine roots of two best sorts as follows: Barr’s Mammoth or Palmetto — 50c doz.; $2.00 per 100; $12.00 per 1000, Giant Emperor — For full deseription and cut see page 61. 60c¢ per doz.; $2.50 per 100,
Giant Winter Rhubarb
Grows to cooking size in three months or less from
seed or roots. See page 71. This Rhubarb is a great success everywhere and is easily raised from seed or
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Ae valus a introduction of the U. S. Depart- ment of 5 riculture. It is a much more rapid grower than the « Yyariety in general use and is therefore ready
for use. as reat deal. earlier. Its large, white roots may be raised-in any Soil, and when planted in rows may be harve; -Hke © potatoes, The quality of this Horse Radish is far superior to the old variety in strength and
Sets or:roots, which will make an enormous ies aa 3 for 30¢; 12 for 75c; 100 for
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tO. - this new Sage will yield more than a dozen = ok the ws mon- sort... The leaves are of énormous size and superior “quality, and -the plant. a compact, rank ePower, covering a spdee of more than three feet ~in diameter, Ta ‘ely flowers. and never runs to seed, and can he picked all the season. It is perfectly hardy in the coldest elimate.. Every. person who has use for Sage should pian lant this- 1 for 1.00 -Fine plants, 15¢€ each; 3 for - 80c; 6 Tor s0cs. 15: for’ $1.0 ;
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Japanese Mountain Rice FOR DRY LAND
We have secured from Japan a Rice which grows perfectly and yields large crop$ on any good farm It does not require the wet, muddy situations as the common variety. tain Rice sown in our garden last May in September. It is mental as well as useful for dry bouquets and dec- orating fully equal to many There is no reason why any one in the country cannot grow a crop of Rice with this variety. 10c; Ib., 75c, postpaid.
Early Red Tap Sugar Cane ad FOR THE NORTH
This Cane is so early that it matures here in September trom May sowing. feet high and up to the time it heads, looks just The stalks are very sweet and from them syrup may be had as it is made in the South. Splendid for cattle and hogs, as it is so sweet it has great fat producing quality. eurious and may be made useful as well. seed in drills a few inches apart and make the rows Pkt.,
Our Frost-Proof Cabbage Piane
There are a number of sea islands along the South Carolina seacoast where the soil and climate condi- tions are just suited for growing tough, hardy Cabbage plants during the winter and early spring. The seed is planted in the open field in the months of October, November, December, January and February. The plants make a slow but steady growth, until at eight to ten weeks of age they are very tough and hardy. When in this 2ondition they can be shipped to territory furthe: north and planted in the open ground a month to six Weeks sooner than the home-grown hot-bed or cold- frame plants could be planted. These Frost-prcof Cab- bage Plants will stand a temperature of eight to ten de- grees above zero without injury, the land freezing, or the plants being covered with ice, sleet or snow after they are planted will not injure them.
The top of the plant does not grow until regular spring weather opens up, but the roots grow from the time they are planted, and just as soon as spring weather starts the established root growth assimilates the fer-
tilizer in the soil, the plants grow very fast maturing
headed Cabbage ten days to three weeks sooner than ia a mature them from hot-bed and cold-frame plants.
To get the advantage of these Frost-Proof Cabbage Plants they must be planted a month or six weeks earlier than you would plant the home-grown plants.
Our Cabbage plants are grown from the best Long Is- land grown seed and are shipped direct from our grow- ing station in South Carolina by mail or express. We
can fill orders from December 1 to April 15. We guarantee good order delivery. : The plants will be somewhat wilted and have a hard,
stunted appearance, which will be disappointing to per - sons whq have never used these plants before. Regard- 1éss of appearance, they will produce the crop results.
~Varieties: arly Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Large Type Wakefield, Succession and Early Flat Dutch. Price by Mail postpaid: 100 for 50c; 500 for $2.00; 1000 for $3.50. Price by Express not prepaid: $2 .00 per 1000; 10,000 for $15.00.
Plants packed 500, 1000, or 2000 to the crate, and weigh about twenty- five pounds per 1000 plants crated for shipment, and can be shipped to any point where they will arrive within a week.
Ira. Williamson, Oskaloosa, Kan., says: By using your Frost-proof Cabbage plants we have Cabbage iong be- fore any one else around here. to freeze hard, for I have tried it.
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The seed of this wonderful Millet was brought to this country from China by a Kussian soldier who served in the Japan-Russian war,
The most striking feature of White Wonder is the Size of the heads. hese will run from eight up to eighteen inches and a single head will have as many as 15,000 seeds.
The vield of White Wonder Millet is very heavy. fully half again as much as German Millet and some growers state that it will outyield other Millets three to one,
Another very, desirable feature is its earliness. It is much earlier than German Millet and is almost as early as Siberian Millet.
The foliage is very heavy and the leaves broad, resembling those of Corn. It produces an immense amount of excellent fodder which cures very readily.
On account of the earliness, the immense yield of both grain und fodder, and the very vigorous growth which leaves the ground clean, White Wonder will be in big demand and we urge a liberal planting. Oz., 10c; Th., 35c; 5 IDS., $1.50; postpaid. Peck, by express not prepaid, $1.00.
New Hardy Hybrid Alfalfa
Successful on Poor Soil and for Pasture
Some thirty years ago we helped introduce Alfalfa and urged its cultivation, Everybody now knows its enormous value to the farms and ranches of the country. ]ts one great fault is that it will not succeed eexcept in highly favored localities. We are, therefore, most pleased to be able to offer a new hybrid sort, fully as good in every way, that it is perfectly hardy and at home on any farm in the United States or Canada,
A eross between the wild, yellow-flowering sort with the common Alfalfa; thereby giving us the hardiness of the former with the productiveness of the latter, and it is as bardy 4s an oak,
This valuable new variety has, instead of only one tap root, a branching root system. Also, instead of a single exposed crown at the surface, it has an under- ground receding crown, with a perfect protection of- soil over it, thereby pro- tecting the young buds and tender shoots from extreme heat and cold; but more, and most especially, from injury by bruising, splitting and tramping by stock pasturing thereon. It is the only successful Alfalfa on shallow soil, on account of its spreading root system affording the greatest possible security against dam- ace of all sorts, There is untold value in this New Hybrid Alfalfa to farmers in sections where the common Alfalfa does not succeed or is uncertain, Our advice to Such is to get started with it as soon as possible: Per oz., 20c; 4-ID., 60c; i D., 82.00; 3 IDs. $5.00.
New Mammoth White Rye
This wonderful New Rye bas qualities which will commend it to every farmer, No matter where situated it will prove to be twice as valuable as the old variety. Mammoth White is an extra high yielding strain that stools so freely as to produce twelve heads from one seed. Valuable for grain and makes the best early spring pasture for all kinds of stock. Will grow on any soil and make big yields. Val- uable for green manuring and soiling purposes.
Price — By mail postpaid, per ounce, 10c; per pound, 35c; 3 pounds, 75¢; 7- pounds, $1.50. By express or freight, at buyer’s expense, peck, $1; bushel, $3; 3 bushels, $8.00.
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other variety of Corn can approach this, and it is bound, when
known, to be more extensively grown than all other kinds put to-
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Select Seed — By mail or express prepaid by us, 10c per pkt., 35¢ per Ib.;.3 Ms...90c; 7 -Ibs., $1.60. By express or freight, pur- ehaser ‘to pay charges, per peck, 90c; bushel, $2.75; 2 bush- els, $5.00, — ; = : ,
ae -_ ¥- : - a +a a _. Johnson County Prize White -At the National Corn Show, in competition with the -_ finest samples from all over the United States, Johnson ~ - . County White always captured the prize for the best Corn of any colorin the world. ‘Length of ears about -- ten inches, with twenty rows of grain. Weight of ten ears thirteen and one-half pounds, of which twelve pounds is Corn and one and one-half pounds cob. About - one thousand grains to the ear. Growth strong and vig- orous, and should be planted in rows not closer than - three and one-half feet. Yield enormous. From every standpoint of scientific breeding this is the finest Corn Selected Seed — 0c. per pkt; 30c per Ib.; 3 Ibs. for 15¢; 7 Ibs., $1.50. Carrying charges prepaid. By ex- press or freight at buyer’s expense, $1.50 per peck; $5.00 per bushel.
New Field Corn, Yardstick
Far better than any other, Longfellow type. Possesses great beauty, enormous productiveness and earliness. In - . cold climates where the season is short, Yardstick is just the Corn that is needed. It gets its name from the enor- mous length of ears, which though not a yard in length ' are often one-half of it, by far the longest-eared Corn _ we have eyer seen, and the most beautiful, color golden- - yellow. © Quality like that of all the fine flint Corns, which is much superior to any Dent variety._ There is no doubt _ but that Yardstick is twice as productive as the common _ varieties of flint Corn. Its superb quality will be ap- . preciated by those who grind it into meal for home con- ' sumption. Pkt., 10c; Ib., 40e; 3 Ibs., $1.00; 7 Ibs., _ $1.75 prepaid. By express or freight at buyer’s expense, peck, $14,00; bushel, $3.00; 2 bushels, $5.75.
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_ A most remarkable new Flint Corn which we grew last year for the first time. Kernel exira large, deep _ yellow and fiinty. Ear very long and very large, the eight rows of bulky kernels make ears very formidable ' in size. it appears to be early and of high quality. _ Evidently a greatly improved Flint Corn. Growth of plant larger and stronger than any other flint variety, _ Making a fine fodder. Pkt., t0c; th., 60c: 3 Ibs., $1.50, 3 On ag By express not prepaid, peck, $2.00; bushel,
__ S. F. Strohm, Hanoverton, Ohio, says: ‘‘The Golden Superb Corn is the best I ever raised.” ' J. M.-Ranch, McClure, Pa., says: “1 grew four differ- - ent kinds.of Corn end Golden Superb yielded three times . as much as any of them.” | | Wm. Duncan, Takapuna, New Zealand, says: “At our ereat Corn Show I took flist prize on your Johnson _€o. Prize White. I have grown Corn for thirty years d@ this is. by far the best I ever saw. _ Golden Superb also greatly 4a imired.” =
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(IMPROVED PENCILARIS) Most productive hay or fodder plant known. Grows twelve to fourteen feet high and ripens a heavy crop of seed in 100 days from sowing. It can be mown down when it reaches five or six feet for hay, and will grow up again so quickly that three to five mowings are secured in a season. Three pounds of seed covers-an acre sown broadcast, or in drills twelve to thirteen inches apart, dropping seed six inches apart. The broad, dark green Jeaves closely resemble corn and it surpasses in nutritive value any other forage plant. It is greatly relished by all kinds of stock, either green or cured. For seed purposes plant three feet apart each way and cultivate. There will be forty stalks to each plant and twenty seed heads which are from twelve to fourteen inches lone and cov- ered with seed. Besides a heavy crop of fodder; it will yield 3,000 pounds of seed per acre, unequalled for poultry food, and will ripen in any latitude that will ripen corm. Our seed is Northern grown. PRICE — Oz., 10c; Ib., 75c; 3 Ibs., $2.00, or quantity, 65c per Ib., prepaid.
Sudan Grass
NEWEST AND GREATEST OF ALL FORAGE PLANTS
This wonderful forage plant was introduced from the Sudan about six years ago by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Farm Bulletin No. 605, issued by the Agrt- cultural, Department at Washington, discusses Sudan Grass from every point and asserts that it is bound to take the place of Johnson Grass in the South and Millet in the North. It is a most wonderful annual Grass, growing five to eight feet high with an abundance of broad leaves and stools to the extent, sometimes, of 100 stalks from one seed, Seed panicies, loose and open and the seed is larger than Millet. Should be sown about corn planting time, sixteen to twenty-four pounds to the acre. Two or three fine crops of hay may be cut in one season, making, under favorable conditions, flve to eight
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tons of extra fine hay to the acre. Unsurpassed also for soiling and silage. lor seed purposes Sudan Grass yields in Virginia 500 pounds, Ohio, 800 pounds; Minnesota and Dakota, 1200 pounds, and Texas, 800 pounds to the acre. Under irrigation in California and the Southwest it — goes over 1000 pounds. These are all facts reported by ~ the U. S. Government. Our experience is this: Last year we sowed seed in drills on May 25, nearly a month too — late. In less than sixty days, however, the plants stood ~ five feet high and were ready for the first cutting; seed was ripe end of September; it stooled marvelously and ~ was a wonderful crop in both hay and seed. But what struck us as a most vital and valuable point, and one 4 that has not yet been brought out was, the grass stood erect all summer, in a single row fully exposed to heavy winds and storms, one of. which leveled all flelds of | corn to the ground. Sudan Grass, with nothing to pro-— tect it, failed to blow down or. lodge. We have grown — Teosinte, Wonder Forage Plant, Johnson Grass, Sorghum ~ and all the Millets, but none of these can compare to — Sudan Grass as a forage crop. The Department of Agri-— culture also points out this same fact. Give it a trial> at least. It possesses great value to every farmer in” the United States. Seed per oz.. 10¢; Ib., 50¢; 5 Ibs.,7 $2.00, postpaid; peck, not prepaid, $3.00. z
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Summer-Flowering Bulbs
Bulbs are favorites with all.
They are so easily grown and so satisfactory to everyone that they are inval He Bulbs require no skill and very little attention to grow to perfection. x ¥ er severe freezing is passed, and they will soon be up and will flourish and bioom all summer.
Plant them in the garden in spring, after In autumn, after early
freezing, the Bulbs should be lifted and stored in a cellar or some other position away from frost, for planting
again the following spring. than any other two houses in the world.
We are headquarters for summer-fiowering Bulbs, and grow and sell more of them
The Gladioli
For twenty years we have been the largest growers of Gladioli in the world and our stocks are
recognized the world over as being the largest, choicest, and best.
We have had customers in
Europe order a million bulbs at one time. We have sold in a single season a million bulbs of
Gladioli America alone.
On our Flowerfield estate we grow several hundred acres of Gladioli,
and in quantity, quality and prices we are not to be outdone.
The Gladioli is the most satisfactory, the most desir- able and the most popular of all garden bulbs. Nothing else of the kind costs so little, and nothing else grows and blooms so rapidly for anybody amd everybody, in any soil or climate. It is, in short, the most satisfactory garden flower, thriving and blooming, as it does, with the least care and attention, and makes a display which for brilliancy and beauty of coloring few bulbs can equal and none surpass. aa
Our Superb Mixed Gladioli
_Our mixed Gladioli are not the poor dull colors, old discarded red sorts and worthless seedlings usually sent out as mixtures. On the contrary they are made up from splendid named sorts, brightest and most varied colors, white, yellow, pink, rose, blush, intense scarlet, carmine, violet, striped, blotched, variegated, etc. Com- mon and poor sorts have been discarded and this mixture is the highest grade.
Gandavensis, Mixed, All Colors — Large flowering bulbs. 25e per dozen; $1.75 per 100; $15.00 per 1000. Childsi Mixed, All Colors — 30c per dozen; $2.25 per 100; $20,000 per 1000. Childsi Mammoth Flowered, Mixed — A mixture of the largest-flowered named sorts of Childsi. Dozen, 60c; $4.50 per 100. Pink and White Mixed — An exquisite mixture of all pink and white colors. 40¢ per dozen; $3.00 per 100. - Yellow and Orange Mixed — All fine yellow, orange and lemon shades. 75c¢ per dozen; $5.50 per 100. : Scarlet and Red Mixed— All bright colors. 30¢ per = dozen; $2.25 per 100. i Mixed, Blue Hybrids — A new strain, a large per cent of = which are various shades of blue. $1.00 per dozen. Lemoinei Mixed — Fine mixed sorts in all colors. 25¢€ S per dozen; $1.75 per 100; $15.00 per 1000. Primulinus Hybrids — New and distinct. -See page 92. 50c per dozen; $3.50 per 100.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
6 Grand G. Childsi for 25c.
Here are five of the most popular Gladioli Childsi for
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z Columbia — Orange-scarlet, blotched.
F. L. Oakley — Scarlet, white throat.
_ Klondyke — Light yellow, crimson center. Mrs. F. King — Finest of all scarlets. Rosy Spray — White sprayed rose.
6 of the Finer Gladioli for 35c.
Every sort in this collection stands high among the very finest sorts of to-day. The six for 35¢ is the greatest bargain ever offered in valuable new Gladioli.
Attraction — Rosy scarlet, white center.
Baron Hulot — Fine blue. :
- Golden Queen — Bright yellow with large crimson stains. Halley — Sort of orange-pink; very large. Princeps — Largest and finest scarlet.
Snow Cloud — White, suffused pink.
Collection of 6 sorts, one fine bulb of each for 35c.
8 Very Rare and Fine Sorts for 60c. The following Gladioli are very fine and rare high- priced sorts. At 60c for the collection they are a won-
derful bargain. They are: ; : harmer, Negerfurst, Niagara, Mayor, Melrose, Princeps,
- Schwaben and Winsome — All for 60c.
color yet seen.
CULTURE — Gladioli are of easy culture. Plant at any time from April to July, in any fairly good soil, well spaded. Set in rows three inches apart, or in masses, four inches apart each way. Plant in full sun, if pos- sible, and keep down weeds. After fall frosts, lift the bulbs, remove the tops, and let them dry a few weeks under cover. Then, after removing the roots, store them in a cellar, or any cool, dry place, away from frost, for planting again in spring.
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Gladiolus America
Named and Introduced By Us It Is Still the Most Popular Variety the World Over —We Grow It By the MILLION and Have the True Original Stock. Without an exception America is the most beautiful and useful Gladioli yet introduced. Strong and healthy, with luxuriant dark-green foliage. Flower spikes two to three feet long, erect with a great number of large- spreading blossoms. Color exquisite soft lavender-pink, the same as seen in the most beautiful Cattleya Orchids. No color like it in any other Gladioli; none so beautiful. 10c each; 3 for 20c 12 for 60c; 100 for $4.00
See Gladiolus Schwaben, New Yellow
es “This is a fitting companion to America, as it is equally good in flower and the most beautiful primrose-yellow Magnificent large flower. and spike. See front cover.
20c each; $2.00 per doz.
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The following fine G. Childsi are 5c each; 50c per doz.; $3.50 per 100; one each of 12 for 55Sc. Attraction — Deep, dark crimson-pink, with a large pure white center free from mottling or spots, making a most conspicuous and attractive contrast. The spike
and flowers large, regular, and all facing one way.
Columbia — Light orange-scarlet. freely blotched and penciled with bluish-purple. Throat freely mottled. F, L. Oakley — Large wide-spreading flower, of a rich salmon-scarlet with large, showy, pure white center. Kate — Blush white with fine crimson blotched throat.
Little Blush — Extra fine blush, compact size.
Mrs. Francis King — Beautiful light scarlet. Flowers very large and showy. - Spike tall and very graceful and charming. One of the most popular cut-flower varieties.
Mayor — Fine, large, compact spike: rich purple-rose.
Mirs. Beecher — Beautiful deep rosy-crimson. Large, well-opened flowers, with pure white throat.
Mohonk — Deep dark pink with spotted throat, shaded orange and flaked with crimson.
Rosy Spray — A large and exquisite flower. Color almost pure white, beautifully sprayed with soft rose.
Snow Cloud — White suffused pink. Fine.
Salem — Fine salmon-pink, maroon blotches.
Following varieties 10c each; any 3 for 25c; 90c per doz.; $7.00 per 100; one each of 20 for $1.60
Anna — Orange-pink with yellow throat. Good spike.
Brilliant — Beautiful orange-red with carmine and white throat. Superior to all other scarlets,
Boston — Flaming orange-scarlet, with white throat.
Cincinnati — A gorgeous flaming searlet, deep and rich, with maroon and gray mottled throat.
Claret — Rich claret or purple-red with conspicuous white stripes on lower petals.
Dr. Parkhurst — A spike nearly three feet in length and
bearing upwards of twenty-five flowers. Dark brilliant red, with an elegant white mottled throat.
Dr. Sellew — Deep, rich rosy-carmine slightly penciled darker. Petals and throat rayed white.
Ethel — Beautiful soft rose with white and crimson.
Expansion — Large, widely expanded blossoms. White, pink and crimson freely mottled.
Geo. B. Remsen — Crimson and white intermixed.
1. S. Hendrickson — One of the largest. Color white; marked, flaked and penciled bright pink.
Irene — Fine large flower and stalk. Color a fine shade of pink freely flaked bright crimson.
Lizzie — White, tinted blush; violet-crimson throat.
Melrose — White flaked pink bright crimson center, Very large and fine.
Mrs. W. N. Bird — Beautiful lilac-rose, crimson-white mottling in throat, and carmine marks. Extra fine. Nezinscott — Bright blood-scarlet, with deep velvety
crimson-black blotches and white mottlings. . Portland — Rosy-red, penciled darker, mottled throat. Spot — White, freely spotted with beautiful rose. Sunlight — Light crimson, with large canary throat. Superb — Enormous flower and spike, one of the very
largest; pink, flaked and striped with salmon-pink.
Following varieties of G@. Childsi 20c each; any 3 for 50c; $1.75 per doz.; one each of the 14 for $2.00 Cardinal — Perfect flower and spike, clearest and most intense cardinal-scarlet yet seen. Very rich and showy.
Conspicuous — Beautiful clear light cardinal-red, with large conspicuous white throat. Very attractive.
Bopeep — Rather dwarf in growth with compact spike, flowers large, orange-salmon, with primrose-yellow center blotched with crimson.
Hoosick — Bright orange-red shading to salmon with a velvety crimson throat blotched with sulphur-yellow.
Lavender Queen — Beautiful blending of lavender and lilac. Entirely new colors, very distinct.
Lael — Soft pink, with bright carmine throat, shaded orange and having a peculiar metallic lustre.
L. Joerg — Rich crimson and white. Compact.
Mrs. F. B. Fullerton — Large flowers growing in a com-.
pact spike, rich ruby-red, slightly penciled. darker. with big white blotches on four lower petals; very handsome and striking, ;
Newport — Salmon-rose, exceedingly soft and pleasing,
with large white center, wide flower and good spike.
Osceola —A tall fine spike of very light salmon-red flowers with yellow and maroon throat.
Pink Pearl — Medium flower and large compact spikes, ~
beautiful shade of rich pink with maroon blotch. Prescott — Lovely flower. almost white, pink tinge and large bright purple throat. Exceedinely showy. Torch-Light — Very large spike of large, licht. flaming scarlet flowers. Willie Wigman — Tinted white blotches. Very showy.
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New Ruffed Gladioli
This new elass of Gladioli have beau- tifully ruffed and fluted petals, large
posing spikes. They mostly originated with Mr: Kunderdin and are known as Kunderdin Glories. .
Giant White — An-extra large white of great size and substance: Pure white ae elegant Jris-blue_ throat. 60¢C each,
zapricot with light tint of pink,. and fine markings-of bright red on lower petals. Can be grown over five feet tall with high culture. 10c each; $1,00.-permdoz. :
Grange Glory — Grand orange colored, with “beautiful lighter throat. Very rich and striking color. ,Beautiful and
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Olid Glory — A fine shade of dark red, elegantly striped all over the_large blooms: with pure white. Also pure white bordered petals. A grand fancy show sort. No other like this.._50¢ each, : :
Rose Glory — A very large and beautiful ruffed variety. Purest rose-pink color. Deeper in throat. Fine. 60c each.
White King — AS tall as Kunderdi Glory, very rich sulphur-white, splendidky ruffed, and nicely marked on lower petals.- 25c each; $2.50 rer doz.
White Glory —A gorgeous pure white of exact size and type-known as Kun- derdi Glory, with beautiful Iris-blue throat. Fine as a delicate Iris. Grand: 60c¢ each.
The 7 Gleries for $3.00
The 5 Great Kings for 50c
These are all stars in their color. Fire King — Intense scarlet.
G, GANDAVENSIS : Gladioli Gandavensis
These are the glorious old favorites that have stood ' the test of time and comparison against all new comers. ~ Augusta —Lovely pure white, with blue anthers. : ee, NeTaaiqn “scarlet Very brilliant and =, showy. | Ceres — Pure white, spotted with purplish-rose. » &mma Thursby — White; striped and blotched. eugene Scribe — Tender rose, blazed carmine-red. © Glory of Brightwood — Scarlet, with lemon throat. Very x brilliant and -striking. » Le Poussin — Light red, white blotch. » 1. Lehman — Pure snow-white. 7 Madame Monneret — Delicate rose. Very beautiful. > May.—A lovely pure white, finely flaked rosy-crimson. " Taconac — Brightest pink flaked and striped darker. ~ Velvet King — Large open flower, fine scarlet-red. . The above sorts are 5c each; 50c per doz.; $3.50 per 100; . $30.00 per 1000. One each of the 12 for 45c. = © e s ° 2 Gladioli Lemoinei | Cracker Jack — Large flowers, rich, velvety dark-red; ; throat spotted yellow and dark maroon; beautiful. Enfant De Nancy — Purplish-red; finely blotched. _f. Bergman — Large orange-pink, with carmine stains. = Jessie — Long spike of a fine velvety cardinal-scarlet. ~ Lamarck — Salmon, crimson and yellow spots. > Lafayette — Very large, yeliowish-salmon blotch. _ Mad. Lemoiner — White tinted lemon, large crimson oe Center. : me Marie Lemoine — Pale creamy color, purplish-red blotch. _ Morning Star — Pure white, crimson center. Very fine. _ Minnesota — Pale orange; long, strong spike. _ Pactole — Creamy-yellow, blotched carmine. 40c each; any 3 for 25c; the 10 for 75c; or 75c per dozen; $5.00 per 100
Snow King — The whitest white. Ruby King — Finest ruby-red. Salmon King — Best salmon color. Sulphur King — Purest yellow.
The 5 Kings for only 50c.
NEW RUFFED, GLORY
1 each of the Five Leading Colors for 40c.
_ Niagara Yellow, Peace White, Baron Hulot Blue, Princeps Scarlet and Panama Pink. All for 40e. They are about the finest of their color.
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Our Grandest New and Special Gladioli
The following pages contain the newest, rarest and best Gladioli known to cultivation. Most of them are of our own naming and introduction. Some are of French origin; others American. In nearly all cases we possess the largest stocks and grow the world’s supply.
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. a! Niag ara THE GIANT YELLOW A BUNCH OF BEST WHITES . ° 2 T © $ a 7 Grandest Yellow Gladioli 7 Finest White Gladioli CANARY BIRD — The Canary-yellow. ALASKA — Newest and Finest White.
Superb canary-yellow. Tall slender spike. One of Offered three years ago for the first time, A pUrGy the very best yf its color 10ec each: 8 for 25c: 12 white Childsi variety having a strong constitution ang ne ee ee 3 ear ae ee Ct Sno producing long spikes of well formed flowers. 30c eachy for 90c, is Fos = Crims $3.00 per dozen, a GOLDEN QUEE an rhe old and epee oe ALINE —A Grand Tulip-flowered White. a
Style of Kon lyke but a much brighter yellow, an Large wide-open flower, tall graceful spikes, pure
the large crimson stains are also deeper and richer. A very beautiful sort. 10c each; $1.00 per dozen, LOVELINESS — The Lovely.
A superb primrose-tinted white of wonderful size and beauty. Sort of half-way between 4 white and yellow. 90¢ each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.75.
NIAGARA — New Giant Yellow.
In color the flowers are of a delightful cream shade with the two lower inside petals or segments blending to canary-yellow. The throat is splashed and tinted with carmine. The flower spike is very erect and stout and is wrapped with broad dark-green foliage, This is destined to lead the cream colored varieties. p5e each: $1.50 per dozen,
SCHWABEN — The Primrose,
Delicate primrose With yellow and crimson center. Magnificent large flower and spike, Finest of the licht yellows, even better than Niagara. 20c each; $2.00 doz. SULPHUR KING — The Great Yellow.
Beautiful, clean, sulphur-yellow, finest and clearest of yellow sort; without any doubt this is the very best yellow variety yet introduced, 20c each; 8 for 50c; 12 for $1.80.
SUNBURST — New and Fine Canary-yellow.
Flaked and striped scarlet. 25c each; $2.5
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white slightly striped crimson and pink. every way. 20c each; 12 for $2.00. BLANCHE — The Giant White Childsi.
Enormous flower and spike, very largest pure whi variety. Exceedingly grand and exquisite from ever point of view. 25c each; $2.50 per doz.; 320.00 per 10% CRYSTAL WHITE — The Glistening.
Beautiful tall spike of snowy-white blossoms, havi a violet-crimson throat. One of the most superb whit varieties. Magnificent in every way. s0c each: 38 fF $1.00; 12 for $3.50. PEACE — The leathered White.
Flowers are large, of good form, correctly placed . a heavy straight spike. Beautiful white, with pale lil feathering on interior of petals. 10¢ each; $1.00 per dom SNOW KING — The Whitest White. fe
New this year. An improved Augusta and the whitest” sort yet, as it has no pink tinge at any time or under any conditions, 10c each; $1.00 per dozen, WHITE QUEEN — The Branching.
Very strong grower, one bulb often producing two @F three flower stems. Long spike; flowers of middle size; with the exception of a very small purple streak at 1® bottom of the throat, the flower is of a perfectly pure white color. 40c each; 3 for $4.00; $3.00 per dozém
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BLUE VISTA
5 Fine Blue Gladioli
These are the best in blue eolors,
FIRE KING
BARON HULOT — The Dark Blue.
Long, graceful spikes, of good-sized, well-opened flowers, having a rich indigo-blue color. It stands alone as a unique and beautiful shade, and never fails to attract ettention. 10c¢ each; 3 for 25c¢; 12 for 90c.
BLUE JAY —Tall, Imposing Spike.
Fiowers large, wide-spreading on long, fine spike. Color, beautiful deep blue with bright crimson throat and large conspicuous canary-yellow blotches spotted dlue. This combination is exceedingly odd and beauti- ful. True Childsi type and large size. $1.00 each. ELUE VISTA — The Blue Striped.
Almost pure white with deep Iris-blue markings. A beautiful, unusual combination of color. 25€3; $2.50 doz. LE VERRIER — The Velvety Blue. :
Biue with large, rich, velvety violet-crimson blotches bordered with yellow, slender growth, wide-spreading flowers. 30c each.
VCGLA — Violet-blue.
Lovely deep violet-blue, of Lemoinei type, vigorous
and strong. 20¢ each; $2.00 per dozen.
The 5 sorts for $1.50
5 Extra Early Gladioli
All extra eerly, and we may say all are extra fine, also. CAPT. C. B. TANNER — The Big Early Pink.
Extra large and fine. Brilliant rosy-pink flaked and mottled crimson. 10¢c each; 3 for 25c; 12 for 90c. CHICAGO WHITE — The Early Snow-White.
Extra early and a fine pure white. 10c each; $1 doz. HALLEY — The Early Giant.
Salmon-pink, immense size, very 3. for 20e€; 12 for 60C.
JESSIE — The Graceful Early Scarlet.
early. 1Q¢ each;
Extra long spike of a fine velvety cardinal-scarlet color. Extra showy. It is very early. 10c each; 3 for
2005412 “Lora oc: 100° for $5.00. MORNING STAR — Earliest to Bloom.
Snowy white with a large, rich, velvety crimson throat. Striking and beautiful. 10c: $1.00 per doz. These 5 extra-carly sorts for only 30c; 3 for 75c.
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5 Grandest Scarlet Gladioli
These are the newest and finest sorts in vivid scarlet All are of the glorious Childsi type.
CARDINAL — The Cardinal Scarlet.
Perfect flower and spike, clearest and most intense cardinal-scarlet yet seen. Very rich and showy. 20c each. DAZZLER — The Dazzling Scarlet.
Magnificent large Princeps-like flowers of vivid sal- mon-scarlet with throat blotch on the lower petals of red-orange, further ornamented with carmine-lake flakes; fine long spike, well filled. 40c each.
FIREKING — The Flaming Scarlet.
Long graceful spikes showing half a dozen immense blooms open at the same time. Color intense fire-scarlet. More brilliant than Brenchleyensis, Cardinal, Mirs. Fran- cis King or any other variety. It is perfectly grand. ang will become the leading cut-flower variety of its color. 20e each; $2.00 per dozen.
GORGEOUS — The Glowing Scarlet.
Immense flowers of vivid scarlet, with large, strongly contrasting silvery-white throat blotched on the three lower petals; tall, well-filled spike. 20c each. PRINCEPS — The Amaryllis-flowered.
Rich crimson with very deep shadings in throat, and magnificent large white blotches on lower petals. Flow- ers as large and fine as an Amaryllis, and probably the most magnificent sort as-to size and beauty. Blooms for a long time. Like America we have the largest stock of this in the world. 140c each; 3 for 25c; 12 for 90c;:
100 for $6.00. The 5 for 96c.
6 Finest Pink Giadioli
Here is a collection of the very finest pink sorts. FASCINATOR — The Big Salmon-Pink.
Magnificent salmon-pink flamed with cearmine, throat with lake penciling; very large flowers and tall, well-filed spike. 25c each; $2.50 per dozen. LESLIE — The New Pink.
Light delicate pink with rich crimson-maroon blotches, pointed white. 20c each; $2.00 per doz.
PANAMA — The Grandest Pink.
Banning’s new seedling of ‘“‘America’? which resembles. that variety in every way except it is much deeper rose- pink, A grand variety. Awarded “First Class Certif- icates’”’ everywhere. 10c each; $1.00 per dozen. RADIANCE — The Radiant.
A grand, big pink—-immense flowers of a charming tone of rose-pink slightly flamed with deeper lake-pink; splendidly filled ‘‘stand-up” spike. 40c¢ each.
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Splendid large flower of softest, sweetest rose color, with large Magenta stains. 20c each; $2.00 per dozen. SUMMER BEAUTY — The Rose-Pink.
Exquisite bright soft pink. Flowers in dense spikes. Extra fine. 30c each; 4 for $1.00.
The 6 finest pink sorts for $1.10
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ALL-A-GLOW — The Glowing.
Large, rich, blood-scarlet flowers, having a long, nar- row throat flame of ruby on two lower petals; growth three lower petals; splendid upright spike. 30c each. CAPTIVATION — The Catchy.
Large, cream-colored flowers with throat tintings of garnet, and a large, light yellow blotch on each of the three ake petals; splendid upright spike, well filled. 30c each,
CHARMER — The Charming.
Large, broad-petaled flowers of soft mauve-pink, blending off lighter in the throat which is penciled car- mine-lake with a large blotch of same color on the cen- tral lower petal. 20c each,
‘CYNOSURE — The Tall Rose.
Immense flowers of exquisite deep rose-pink marked on the lower petals with a throat blotch of crimson-lake; tall, sturdy, well-filled spike. 20c each. CARDINAL — The Glowing Childsi.
intense cardinal-scarlet, rich and glowing to a won- derful degree. 20c each; $2.00 per dozen, CHARLEMAGNE — The Massive.
Very large opened flowers on massive spikes; color sunrise-red, flaked darker, marked with large creamy- white blotches, densely dotted with purple-carmine, 40c., CONTRAST — The Scarlet and White.
Flowers of great substance and a beautiful compact spike of perfect form. Color intense scarlet witb a large, distinct, pure white center which is neither tinted nor mottied. One of the most striking and beautiful Gladioli ever introduced. 40c each; $4.00 per dozen. ENCHANTRESS — The Enchanting.
Blush-white, lightly flaked with lake-pink toward the
margins; throat encircled on the lower petals with car- mine-lake blotch; a dusting of golden-bronze zoning the blotch is unique, 20¢ each,
ESCARBOUCLE The White Banded.
Handsome well-opened flowers of good substance, dark carmine-red, verging to grenade, pure white band and blood-red blotch on lower petals. 40c each; $4 doz. EUCHARIS — The Blush.
Large, well-opened flowers on long spikes, of a deli- cate blush-white, blotched slightly deeper; a charming, dainty coloring. i0c each; $4.00 per dozen.
EUROPEA — The Best White.
The largest and very finest pure white variety, but does not always do well, but is likely to flower well the first year. 40c each: 3 for $1.00. EMPRESS OF INDIA The Maroon-black.
Maroon-black. Very dark, rich and fine. $2.50 per dozen.
FLAMBEAU — The Flame.
Immense flowers of vivid orange-scarlet with an ef- fective throat blotch of white shaded and marked with tyrian-lake on the lower petals. 40c each,
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FREAK — The distinct.
Brilliant blood-red broadly striped with pure white. In color it is quite unique among Gladioli. New. 40c. FLORENCE — The Lilac and White.
Delicate lilac with white center. 40c each; $4.00 per dozen. GORGEOUS — The Brilliant Scarlet.
Immense flowers of vivid scarlet, with large, strongly contrasting silvery-white throat blotched on the three lower petals; tall, well-filled spike. 25¢ each.
GOLDEN QUEEN The Gold and Crimson.
Style of Klondyke but a much brighter yellow, and the large crimson stains are also deeper and richer. A very beautiful sort. 10c¢ each; $1.00 per dozen. GRANDESSE — The Grand,
Tall spike of large flowers of a peculiar upright or crocus-like form. Color lilac-pink freely flaked. 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.
GODETIAFLORA — The Upright.
Each flower stands upright, opening like the Godetia. Petals uniform in size, and the flower is perfectly sym- metrical in all respects. Color, a beautiful Lilac-ma- genta with distinct white blotches. 30c each; 4 for $1. HALLEY — The Early.
Delicate salmon-pink, tinged rose, creamy blotch barred with bright red. Enormous, large wide-open flower. Blooms extra early. 10¢c each; 3 for 20c; 60¢c doz. JANE DIEULAFOY. The Superb.
A large, fine, creamy-white flower, with large salmon- maroon stains. Very conspicuous and beautiful. 20¢e each; $2.00 per doz.
JUNE — Improved May.
White or delicate blush freely flaked rosy-crimson. Elegant long spike showing a score of flowers. In color, size, vigor and general beauty this is a most decided im- provement on the glorious old May. It has a freshness and softness of color rarely seen. 20c,
JAY The Massive.
Bright crimson-pink, flamed darker, large open flower of great substance and a massive spike of exceptional beauty. 40c each; 3 for 81.09.
KONIGIN WILHELMINIA — Pxtra Large Flower.
Color soft pink with delicate red flakes. 50c each; $3.50 ner dozen.
KLONDYKE — The Crimson and Gold.
Streng plant, blooming early, flowers round, well opened, of a clear primrose-yellow, with blotch of vivid crimson-maroon. 10c each; 3 for 20c; 12 for 70c. LUSTROUS — The Lustre.
Large flowers of lovely orange-rose; lower petals have a large throat blotch of yellow, slightly shot with pur- porter growth, stocky and branching; enormous yloomer. 20c each; $2.00 per dozen.
LOVELINESS — The Lovely.
A superb tinted white of wonderful size and beauty.
25c each, $2.50 per dozen.
Very large and fine.
MRS. PENDLETON
/ LA LUNA — The Exquisite Primrose. * The large heavy buds open as pale yellow, changing to nearly white when expanded. Splendid. 50c each; 3 for $1.25, -E TRIOMPHE — The Rose and Lilac. Splendid spike: very large flowers, from four to five ches, well-expanded, rosy lilac, striped with carmine- d; white blotch. Variety of great merit. 90¢ each; for $2.50. “LYDIA — The Variable White and Pink. : = Immense flowers and spike. Color a fantastic mottling Sof pinkish-white and deep rich crimson, in some flowers the white predominating and in others the crimson; no Pwo alike: 10c each; $1.00 per dozen. MRS. FRANK PENDLETON — The Blotched. : Immense-sized flower, delicate salmon-pink, with big "blood-red blotch. One of the most showy and beautiful of all. _i5c each; $1.50 per dozen. NEGERFURST — The Black. 5 ; Very dark blood-black, with velvety black spots, In- amed with white and flaked lilac-rose. A very odd, "DHeautiful color, long graceful spike and robust free habit. 20c each; $3.00 per dozen. NORMA DEE CHILDS — The Delicate Shaded. © Extra large flower and spike. Color delicate white, Softly penciled with rose and with large sulphur-yellow ‘throat. Perfectly exquisite and distinct. 40c each; 94.00 per dozen. NIAGARA — See page 93. PRINCE OF INDIA — The Wonderful Bizzare. » One of the most famous of the Childsi group which introduced a few years ago. Its varied and fantastic Oloring is indeed startling. Color varies from light to Meep smoky-gray, many of the petals being zoned and Danded; and freely penciled with dark slaty-blue with a eine erimson throat which is profusely mottled with White. A most remarkable mixture of colors and one of great oddity and beauty. 40c each; $4.00 per dozen.
“PRINCEPS — See page 93.
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EUROPEA
PACHA — The Tipped Petal.
Bright scarlet. Each petal tipped white; yellow mot- tled throat. Fine. 30c each; $3.00 per dozen. RICHRED — The Richest Red.
Tall and handsome spikes with good size flowers of good form, and a rich deep blood-red color. Richest red we have. 20c each; $2.00 per dozen.
RARERAY — The Rare Colored.
Large, wide-spreading flower of a rare bright lilac- pink with carmine-flaked throat. lt is a very rare and most beautiful and desirable shade of color. 40c each. SILVRETTA — The Late Beauty.
Creamy white with carmine blotches on lower petals, spike strong and tall. Blooms later than mos¢ sorts. 30¢ each; $3.00 per dozen.
SHEDOWA — The Mottled Pink.
Soft, delicate pink exquisitely marked. Enormous spike and large, wide-spreading flower. 40c each. SCRIBE — The Variable Ruffed.
Tinted white, streaked and variegated fine crimson; sometimes crimson varied with white; frequently these
beautiful variations will show in the same spike. 1i0c each; $1.00 per dozen. SCARSDALE — The Big Violet.
Large spike and flower. Superb violet. 10c each;
$1.00 per dozen. WINSGME — The Winning. Great round flowers of exquisite blush, shaded with carmine-pink. A conspicuous throat blotch of crimson- lake ornaments lower petals. 20c each. WILD ROSE — The Delicate Tinged. Very bright rose or blush tint, exceedingly delicate and pretty. 10c each; $1.00 per dozen. WAR The Giant Black. Maroon-black. Tall imposing each; 2 for $1.00. YELLOW BIRD — Just Light Yellow. A very pleasing shade of yellow, penciled with dark wine color on lower petals. 10c each; $1.00 per doz.
spike. Grand. 60¢e
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GLADIOLUS RNA PRIMULINUS ‘WRAY HYBRIDS.
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Gladioli Primulinus Hybrids
Now the Rage— Next to America These Primulinus Hybrids Are the Greatest Recent Sensation
Rare species from South Africa, growing to an im- People of refinement and artistic tastes value them im- mense height, very vigorous and long blooming. The mMensely. : ined . ) flowers are somewhat hooded in form and possess the All Colors Mixed —A great variety. 3 for 15c; 12 for
5 ° ‘or 83.5 clearest tones and tints of color to be found. Lemon, banat Pore Yellow —— The brightest and finest clear
primrose, orange, reddish or rusty browns, bright rose, yellow color yet seen in any variety, 106 each; etc., are shown in the most bewildering variety. The 3 for 2be; 15 for $1.00. r
spikes are very tall and graceful, someti.nes reaching the Primulinus Concolor — Another fine yellow of different unprecedented height of five to seven feet. They branch form, 20c each.
freely and a bed of them shows blooms for a period of Primulinus Maculata — Extra large and fine yellow. 25c. two to three months. In truly wsthetic charm they lead. The 3 fine yellows for 40c
ALWAYS PRIZE WINNERS — Our Gladioli have won thousands of prizes, including Largest and Best Collection at Panama-Pacific Fair, San Francisco. Our exhibit of 240 distinct varieties won first prize for the Largest and Bes Collection at the combined exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and American Gladiolus Society at Boston, 1916. Our variety, “Sulphur King,” won first prize as best yellow. Our seedling won first prize for bes seedling in a competition of twenty-two entries, etc., etc. See next page for some of our trophies.
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Here are five wonderfully popular Dahlias which we can sell very cheaply, considering their real value. Black Beauty — Deep maroon-black; flower large and
perfect, rich and handsome. Large show type.
Cockatoo — Flowers very large and double and of many colors borne on the same plant at the same time. White and lemon-yellow predominating, but there will be pink, blush, red, bronze, and intermediate shades. Most of the flowers show more than one color. Of the Cactus type.
Dee-lighted — The Dahlia with the Roosevelt smile. The largest and finest show Dahlia, with immense double blossoms six to eight inches across, and as white as snow. The center in many of the blooms, instead of being round, is elongated in such a way that it sug- gests at sight the Roosevelt smile, as it is caricatured. it is a remarkably strong, vigorous, healthy plant, and a great bloomer, and it is the one white Dahlia that will eclipse all others for years to come.
Floral Park Jewel — Flowers of many colors, from deep maroon to blush-white, including beautiful spotted and variegated forms, are borne in great profusion on the same plant at the same time. In fact,-a plant will hardly ever produce two flowers alike. The most popular Dahlia known. Large show type.
Ruby Queen — A most superb color, being a rich ruby- red. Flower large and perfect. Large show type. Fine tubers, 25c each, or the collection of 5 wonderful Dahlias for only $1.00.
EARLY AND PROFUSE FLOWERING DAHLIAS The following remarkable Dahlias are noted for extra early blooming and for the wonderful profusion of flowers. They produce all summer and fall. In respect they are in a class by themselves, and will give immense satisfaction.
Coccinea Superba — Intense cardinal. and profusely. One of the grandest most brilliant. Decorative type.
Firelight — Raised by us three years ago and now of-
Blooms very early sorts and the
fered for the first time. Flowers bright Indian-red, grading into shades of yellow, and varying much, nearly every blossom different. Flowers early and
most profusely till frost. Of the Nymphea type and a fine companion to Coccinea Superba.
Jack Rose Like the richest of the glorious dark crim- son Jacq. Rose. Long stems, large and very double. Extra free blooming, and extra showy. Of the decora- tive type.
Princess Juliana Pure produced on long stems; free blooming.
Rose Nymphe — A broad petalled variety, reminding one in form of a Water Lily: in color a delicate flesh color, shading to a soft rosy white. 25c each! the 5 for $1.00. A superb collection.
Single Flowered Dahlias
These are more decorative than the finest Cosmos with flowers six to ten inches across. No words ean properly convey an idea of their real value and beauty
white flowers, well-formed and
both for garden and for cutting. We can only say that everybody who loves Dahlias should grow these glorious new single sorts.
Frigola — Rich ruby, with large pure white tips. Extra
large and showy beyond words, The Bride — Immense pure white. Twentieth Century — Large white, flushed pink Field-grown roots, 20c each; the 3 for 50c. Mixed Single Dahlias A great variety. Fine roots.
$1.60 per doz.; 812.00 per 100,
New Paeony Dahlias— From seca
These exquisite Dahlias grow as readily from seed as an Aster, flowering in less than three months from seed sown directiy in the garden in May. If seed is started earlier inside they will begin flowering sooner, but this is not necessary. Plants grow three to five feet, producing vast quantities of elegant flowers of all colors, some double, semi-single and single. Superb for cutting. Pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c.
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
Dahlias, the World’s Grandest Sorts
There are more than 1000 named Dahlias in cultivation, out of which we have selected a cream of each class—to offer our customers. varieties known and excel in size and elegance of bloom; early, abundant and continuous flow- perfect habit and easy growers.
They are abselutely the best
Large Show Dahlias
Great big blossoms, round, double and perfect to the center. No other double flowers can compare with these. Dreer’s White — The most glorious double flower ever
seen. Snow-white, large, perfect and majestic.
Dorothy Peacock -——A grand flower and the very best large pure shell-pink variety in cultivation. ~
Emily — Show. Delicate lavender, overspread with white. The daintily blended colors make this an ex- ceptionally beautiful Dahlia. Long, ‘ha stems.
Frank Smith — Deep maroon and white, shaded, blended and varied in many ways.
Gaiety —A superb flower of the showp. type, each petal being pure white bordered bright cardinal. A grand and striking sort in every way. © *)
Grand Duke Alexis — White tinted Mlelieate lavender. Enormous blossoms with wide petals which roll up forming a tube. Very beautiful, odd and distinct.
Mrs. Roosevelt — Enormous double blossoms, very deli- cate lilac-pink or blush. Almost the exact color of Gladiolus America. One of the very largest and grand-
est. Norma — Beautiful butter-yellow, overspread with red-
dish tinge. Very round. Fine. Red Jacket —A beautiful, rich, oriental red, perfect balls, strong upright stems,
‘fne for cutting. scarlet, tipped, cutting varie- Prof. Mansfield — White, yellow and red, finely inter- mixed and varying in every flower. Somewhat of the decorative type. Extra fine in every way.
Syivia — Very double, pink with white center.
Vivian — Large and of beautiful colorings, Center of blossom dark magenta, the inside of the petal being much lighter cerise or jaequeminot.
Yellow Colosse — Very larce: lemon- yellow... most remarkable free bloomer and perfectly grand.
Veracuny —A giant flower on lon a delicate creamy pink color, It has no PRD AFIOT fF s
this class. Price fine tubers, 25c each; 8 for 000; the 18:tor $2.75 $2.00 per doz.
Souvenir — Bright rich gated white and pink.
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~ Aurora — A variety of the most exquisite coloring; soft
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: _ Cactus Dahlias ALL SELECTED NEW SORTS OF GREAT MERIT
3 These are all marvels of beauty. Many of them re- - mind one of the magnificent Japanese Chrysanthen:ums. In color they present a varied brilliancy and richness not ' before seen in Dahlias. In grace and beauty of poise and
_ habit they are not out-classed by any flower. As cut _ lowers for vases or any sort of decoration these Dahlias
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pink, slightly tipped white with golden heart. Countess of Lonsdale — Extra large, double and fine. Peculiar shade of salmon-red.
Dainty —A charming novelty. Ground color lemon- yellow, which becomes paler with age and is more intense, Canary-yellow at base of petals. MHalf-way from the base of petals one notices the Frose-pink, while the tips are golden. Good size, long stems.
Duchess of Marfiborough — A beautiful tint of solferino, backed by a sunshine-like golden suffusion af the base of the petals. One of the very finest Cactus.
Fleuriste Bizet — Entirely new. Flowers medium size, fine form and blooms exceedingly free. .Petals are white with both edges bordered with rich blood-red. The points are finely serrated, making a beautiful fluffy appesrance with wonderful blending of colors.
Goldiand — A splendid primrose-yellow, of perfect form —
and very free-flowering.
J. B. Riding— Yellow base shading to deep orange. Large flower of fine form. Very attractive.
Mrs. F. Jeffries — Extra-fine large flowers in profusion. Color rich erimson-black.
WVirs. H. J. Jones — Scarlet, tipped and variegated white. A perfectly formed flower of great beauty.
Nellie Riding — Deep crimson and white marked and varied in a thousand ways.
Pink Pearl — Beautiful flesh-pink, shading to white in the center, large and perfect blossoms.
Ruth Forbes — The massive clear pink flowers composed of heavy petals, are often accompanied by stems measuring three feet in length, extra stout, and excel any. other variety for large vase purpose.
Tricolor — Buttercup-yellow, with a blotch of scarlet on each petal, and as the flower matures the end of each petal becomes suffused with rosy-white. |
Wodan — A very strong-growing variety, with bold, ‘large flowers six inches in diameter; a graceful ar- rangement of semi-incurved tubular petals of a pleas- ‘ing, delicate salmon-rose color, shading to old gold in
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Great big blossoms, opening wide and flat, double to the center, wide overlapping petals. Often a foot across. For sorts of odd and startling beauty this is the most remarkable class among Dahlias.
Bel inconstand — Golden-yellow, striped and suffused scarlet, sometimes showing white tips; very free and very showy.
Delice — The finest pink decorative Dahlia. Lavender- pink, suffused and blended. Perfect in form and habit, producing flowers on long stiff stems.
Eventide —A splendid flower of perfect form and large size, on long, stiff stems, which for all purposes may be termed a white Dahlia, there being but the faintest lush of delicate rose on the edge of the flower.
Gaiety —-A showy variegated or fancy variety; in color a bright strawberry-red, each petal having a broad band of white through the centre,
Giant of Stuttgart — Fine dark vermilion, rich as velvet. Very large and fine,
Glory of Baarn — New fragrant Paeony-flowered Dahlia. This most fascinating variety appeals to every flower- lover as a true sensation. The coloring is exquisite, being a delightful clear soft pink; a most pleasing Nower whose light rosy tint forms a perfect contrast with the deep green. foliage. The beautiful golden- yellow center completes the artistically arranged gem and lends an additional charm,
Golden West — (ne of the best, large primrose-yellows, very full double flowers With petals cleft at the tips.
Jean Wood —A delicate silvery rose. An early, free and constant bloomer.
Hortulanus Fiet-——A colossal flower nearly one foot in diameter, of the most delicate shade of shrimp-pink, the tip of each petal barely touched with gold. The entire flower has a sulffusion of delicate tints of red and yellow, which gives a glowing softness of color difficult to describe.
Le Grand Manitou — This is an enormous flower of the decorative type; larger than any other Dahlia that ever flowered, and double to the very center. Color, plum-purple and white, elegantly striped and varie- gated. Occasionally a flower will be clear solid pur- ple and again one may be almost white. It is very beautiful and very scarce.
Lucero — The greatest in stem
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any decorative yet grown and is the flower for cutting
as it has such long stems. Its coloring is bronze-buif with a®rarmine flush and a deeper tinted center, al- ways full and grows better as the season advances,
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culting. An early free and continuous bloomer, with long straight stems. oo oa
Mina Burcie — This new finest varieties to date; a champion variet flowers of gigantic size and remarkable beauty. In color a glowing, brilliant scarlet. The flowers are of perfect decorative type, and borne upon long wiry stems, well above the foliage.
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Mme. A. Lumiere — A very distinct and attractive va-—
riety; ground color white, suffused towards the ends of the petals with bright violet-red. Mme, Van den Daie — immense size and beautiful form, six to-seven inches across. - The coloring is exquisite, a soft shell-pink, with deep pink shadings. Moonbeam — An immense flower borne on excellent stems. Color, clear canary-yellow. One of the very best of the light yellows. Plant a sturdy grower. Blooms very freely and an excellent keeper when cut. Papa Charmet — Deep velvety crimson-maroon, shaded lively red. Extra large, with long graceful stems. Paul Bonyon — Extra large, fine form, fringed petals, free bloomer, upright strong stems. Gold and pink. Souv. de Doazon— Nine and one-half inches across, simply a monster; it impresses every lover of flowers with grace, beauty and elegance. Richest searlet and one of the finest Dahlias grown. Weber —A_ glorious Paeony-flowered mense flowers on long stems. der-pink. Very free bloomer. Fine tubers, 25c each; any 3 for 60c; $2.00 per doz.; The coilection of 20 for $3.60
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Perfect flowers, as round as a ball and double;
a plant often shows one hundred of these superb
blossoms at a time. Must be in every collection as they
are so unlike other Dahlias and so charmingly beautiful
and attractive. ki
Alewine — elicate pink, tinted lilac. -)Fine,
Brunette —— Crimson and white. Very tne,
Cheerfulness — Yellow, eo terminating in red; showy
Corona — A decorative Pompon with Nowers like a big pure white Carnation, borne in wonderful profusion,
Darkest of All — Almost coal-black; splendid form.
Daisy — Superb terra-cotta,
Colden Beauty — Best bright yellow Pompon.
Highland Mary — Bully pink and white, Pull and perfect
Lassie — Bright violet-red shaded yellow.
Neatness — lelicate blush. <A perfect little gem, a
Sunshine — Brilliant scarlet, full centér? long stems,”
White Aster — Snow-white. ee sat
Price of field-arown roots, 20c each; any 3 for S56;
the 12 for $2.00 (or $1.80 per doz.)
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Spring Catalogue oi Seeds, Bulbs and Plants for 1918
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Best New and Rare Dahlias
Here are new Dahlias of a size, beauty, variety and quality of bloom that was not dreamed of four or five years ago. This list, and our list of Latest New Dahlias. and the Howell Mighty Six reveal an advancement in size, beauty and variety of types that are well-nigh _ in. omprehensible,
Prices quoted are for fine fleid-grown tubers. Should these become: exhausted we supply at same price strong pot-grown plants in June.
America — New Holland Paeony-flowered. A beautiful shade of apricot-orange. Undoubtedly the finest of its color in-this type. Flowers beautifully formed; one of the most reliable. 50¢.
American Beauty — (A champion Decorative Dahlia) The flowers afe of. gigantic size and produced on _ long heavy stems, well above the foliage. The color of this acquisition +is a-gorgeous wine-crimson. American Beauty is the largest and best of its color in exist- ence and gan be highly recommended. 40C.
Attraction — (Cactus) Large elegant flowers of a clear lilac, rose_eolor; long, strong stalks. It is an exhibition flower and garden Dahlia of rare merit. 75C. Avalanche — (P. F.)- Pure <white, the best white in this - class. 40C. ees ; . ' Cream of the Valley — (Show) Creamy pink, shading to a crimson tip...Vvéry large and regular in form. A glorious flower in every way. 950¢.
F Crepuscule oa (GagiyA © sigantic flower, pale orange- F yellow at. ceater exquisitely deepening to beautiful
deep amber-buff at outer petals. Has won many first
prizes. A beawtifully formed refined flower, which blossoms early and produces its flowers in remarkable - quantities. 40C.
) p. M. Moore — (Dec.) Immense bloom of a dark maroon,
black; fine for exhibition. Large and striking, 30C.
Denison — (Cac.) Pure rosy. pink, six.inches in diameter, “sharp pétals, lomg stems, light green foliage, early » bloomer, very, fioriferous, fine keeper and does not ' show center, o0c.
|) Dreer’s Yeilow —‘‘The best Yellow Show Dahlia yet
It is a good grower, an early and profuse _biloomer. In general form and makeup the flowers resemble Dreer’s White, but they are larger, fre- quently over seven inches in diameter, yet without any coarseness, it having a refined appearance at all stages of development. 50¢.
ndard De Lyon — (Giant Cactus) The flowers are of » ahybrid-cactus type, distinct in shape from all others;
' the petals are broad, curled and wayy and form a flower fully. six inches in diameter and four inches deep, a-yery.jlarge.large flower, yet without any stiff - “ness or formality; its color is a rich carmine-rose, 5 with a brilliant suffusion difficult to describe. 50€.
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Evening Star — (Cac.) A fine “Autumn Shade” variety; ps asides golden center, shading to bright terra cotta. 0c.
Flamingo — (Dec.) As a cut-flower Delice; the flowers held erect on a rich and glowing rose-pink. 450¢C.
Grand Duchess Marie — (Giant Show) This is a glorious hew variety of rich buff, overlaid orange; a fine bloomer; stems twelve inches long. 50c.
Juliet — (Cac.) An exquisite shade of live shell-pink, with a dainty blending of white at center. The plants make ideal specimens averaging about three feet in height; a single plant making a very effective showing. The foliage is a heavy deep green; a perfect contrast with the pink and white blossoms. “It is one of the most satisfactory garden varieties we are offering, the plants being literally covered with blossoms from early July until frost. The uniformity and perfection of the flower shows unusual qualities. Unquestion- ably the finest pink and white decorative. 40c.
Loveliness — (P. F.) Pale lilac, shaded mauve, with pink edges. A very pleasing variety. Sometimes it comes with full center. One of the finest varieties. 30c.
Mrs. A. 1. Du Pont — (Dec.) One of the most extra- ordinary varieties in cultivation of geod.habit, beauti~ ful and ample foliage, flowering -early-and continuing profusely until late frost. The stems are upright and strong, supporting an extraordinary flower perfectly double Chrysanthemum-like shape, of the brightest ruby-red color, showing scarlet under artificial light. 50C.
Mrs. Warnaar — (Cactus) A “Garden Cactus’ of su- perior quality; heralded from Holland and recom- mended as one of the finest cut-flower varieties in existence. This most fascinating variety appeals to every flower lover as a true sensation. The color- ing is exquisite, being a delightful creamy white, overlaid and blending to a charming shade of pink. The flowers are produced upon long, stiff stems, well above the foliage, the habit being most pleasing. A blossom of gigantic size, and great merit. 75c.
Oregon Beauty — (Dec.) A brilliant gorgeous flower that attracts much attention on account of its rich color, an intense oriental-red with golden sheen and garnet suffusion. Produces its large flowers on long stems in the greatest profusion. A splendid variety. 30c.
this ranks with stiff stems are of
Princess Mary — (P. F.) Vivid light pink, margined
blush. One of the showiest varieties in pink. Carries a mass of flowers on strong stems, and proved this year to be an extra seller. It will soon be one of the most popular Dahlias. 50c.
Yellow King — (P. C.) The finest Peony-Cactus Dahlia _ ever shown was the report of the jury last year. Clear ’ yellow, large, elegant flowers, on long, stiff stalks. 50C.
The collection 6f 20 for $7.00.
DAHLIA GENERAL MILES Latest New Dahlias
These are the newest, or the rarest of the new sorts of special merit. Our customers will find them wonder- fully satisfactory, in fact, they will astonish you with their wonderful beauty and merit. Cardinal — (Peony Dec.) Maroon-purple,
An immense large showy flower. 50¢€. Diana — (Peony Dahlia) Crimson-violet;
finely shaped, long stalks. 50c.
Eugene Mezard (Show) Dark yellow with scarlet tips and centre. Very large. 50c.
Francis A. Butts — (Dec.) The seedling of great possi- bilities. An immense flower seven to eight inches in diameter on the longest stem of any Dahlia in exist- enee (over two feet long, without a leaf). The stems are very strong, making this the best Dahlia on the mInarket for decorative purposes. The eolor is flesh- white with a slight edge of pure lavender, bleaching to a pure white. A flower of great beauty. 50c.
General Miles — (Show) The finest bi-colored variety of massive size. This is the finest exhibition flower yet produced. Color a light lavender-pink or light violet; heavily striped and spotted with purple-magenta,. A wonderful creation, 75c.
Gigantea— (Dec.) One of the largest Dahlias known. Blooms of immense size; creamy white in color. 50¢e.
Glory of Nikerk — (Peony Dahlia) Extra large flowers of a beautiful cerise shade of purple-violet; a wonder; attractive deep-spreading flower; fine stems and beau- tiful cut foliage. One of the finest. 50c.
Great Britain — (Dec.) Gigantie New Holland Decorative Dahlia. The average size of the flowers is nearly eight inches in diameter, The uniformity and perfec- tion of bloom shows unusual qualities. As an exhibi- tion Dahlia it has no peer, as a garden Dahtia it is unrivalled, and as a cutting Dahlia it is in a class by itself. In color, a beautiful deep mauve, 50c.
Jhr. Boreel — (Dec.) An elegant, large, showy flower, buff yellow and terracotta suffused and blended, 75c.
Kalif —A truly majestic flower, frequently measuring over nine inches in diameter, of perfect Cactus form, in color a pure scarlet. The habit of the plant is all that can be desired, growing with us, about four and one-half feet high; the gigantic flowers, which are produced very freely, are held erect on strong, stiff stems. $1.00.
The Millionaire — (Dec.) A monster Dahlia. This re- markably large, newly originated Dahlia of the decor- ative type is certainly a wonderful production. The shade cannot be.surpassed in daintiness of colorings in the most delicate of lavender with a faint pink cast overshadowing it. The depth of this flower and the number of large, fhely shaped petals in its formation has never been equaled in any Dahlia. The fulness of the centre of this flower is very remarkable, as the immediate centre of this flower, when it is per- feetly matured, is a pure white and the flower can be preserved until all of the lavender petals wither away and the whole flower becomes white, Another very unusual feature of this Dahlia is that the im- mense heavy flower stands erect on its stems. A novelty worth while. Cost $10.00 last year. $2.50
very strong.
large flowers;
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
Leo Xii— (P. P.) This is the largest Peony-tlowered — Dahlia on the market, and stands without a Fival a an exhibition flower. The habit is ideal in every par=- ~ ticular and we recommend it to all. 50e. -
Manitou — (Dee.) This is like the peerless Le Grand Manitou (see page 100) except in color, whieh is buff with a bright golden center. One of the grandest. 40c¢.
The Collection of 13 for $7.5C (piants only)
All Dahlias on this page are so new and scarce that there is no supply of tubers and we can offer only ereen plants (strong pot-grown) ready at planting time in June. All orders will be booked for shipping at
per itme. These plants will give fully as good re- Sults as tubers.
DAHLIA ARGYLE .
New Howell Dahlias
(Offered for first time Capt. Howell, of Long Island, a Dahlia faneier, has originated six remarkable varieties which will make his name famous, for no other grower in the world can match his record. Four are of the new Hybrid Decora- tive class of massive size, one a wonderfully colored
Cactus, and one a gigantic yellow show. Any of them
will surprise those who plant them. Prices are for
strong pot-grown plants ready June 1. No gs 2 of tubers, but green plants are always as good or better.
Argyle — (Dec.) A large, attractive flower of dull rose or erushed strawberry color lighted up by the flery glow of rich old gold. Wonderful beauty. 50c.
Minnie Baxter — (Cac.) This is one of the finest in its coloring, being a very dark maroon, almost black, and is fine aS a cut flower. It is classed’ as’a. Decorative Cactus as its petals are fatty and broad and sharp- ened at the points; while not a real large flower it attracts nearly every one. Stems two to three feet The intense flery glow in the petals underlaying the rich crimson-black color makes the flower one of pe- culiar and wonderful beauty. 50¢e,
Mrs. Atherton — (Dec.) The largest clear deep yellow variety yet produced. Flowers eight inches across are not uncommon, The enormous blooms are borne on long stems. Petals both long and very wide. A re- markable sort. $1.00.
Mrs. C. J. Mills — (Dec.) A nearly black decorative with a tinted blotch or bright spot of claret-erimson in the center of each petal and is a grand bloomer, fine stem and a large flower. A true show flower, but with the immense wide petals of the decorative type. Ex- ceptionally good, 0c.
Mrs. J. D. Howell — (Dec.) Lilae-rose shaded gold. Re- verse of petals much darker than face. Immense large flowers on long graceful stems. $2.00 each. :
Mrs. J. P. Smith — (Show) The largest show Dahlia in its color yet seen or grown by us and is a color of rich red, with a cherry flush shading all over the — coloring. Great bloomer and a fine long stem. “> ers of enormous ortions and as perfeet:as possible. This. General Miles and Dee-lighted are’ the three finest show Dahlias. $1.00. OR fies Sia |
The € Grand Dahlias for $4.00 (plants only)
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Hard y Lilies
~The brush cannot paint or the pen portray = quisite purity and delicacy, yet magnificent grandeur of
the ex-
- the stately Lily. 1f is the ‘plus ultra of floral beauty and we urge our friends to each year add a few Lilies to their collection. No other flower will so adorn our homes when in bloom, and they constantiy improve after
planting. We feel sure if our readers could see a good coliection of from twenty to forty different sorts in
_ bloom they would never rest until they had a goodly
_ number of their own. As a rule Lilies are of the easiest cultivation, especially the following, which have been
carefully selected as the very hardiest, handsomest, and
the best.
Batemanni- — Rich apricot.
$2.00 per doz.
_ Canadense — A fine belil- aloes flower, light orange-yel-
Se low, spotted. 10c each; $1.00 per dozen.
Canadense Rubrum — Rich, ‘dark red; spotted. 20c each;
- $2.00 per doz.
e Pardalinum — Rich. scarlet and yellow flowers, spotied
E with rich brown. Robust and free flowering. A su-
é perb Lily, and one which will give the greatest possible
_ Satisfaction. Succeeds im all situations. 15c each;
e $1.50 per dozen, —
' Superbum — Three to six feet high, flowers from five
to forty, nodding, brilliant orange-red. 15c each;
$1.50 per dozen; $6.00 per 100.
_ ‘Tigrinum fi. pi. — "This is a plant of stately habit, srow- ing four ¢o six feet high, bearing an immense number cS of double; bright erange-red flowers, spotted with E black. i0c each; 12 for $1.00; 100 for $6.00.
_ Tigrinum Splendens — improved - Tiger Lily. 10c each;
4 “o. 06 per: dozen; 56.00 per 100.
| | Saree amar —A great beauty and the brightest of ali
_Lilies. Grows twenty-four inches high, with finely cut _. foliage, graceful stems and beautiful shaped flowers o7 a brilliant eoral-red. From ten to fifty blooms to each stem. Blooms very early. 15¢ each; $1.50 doz. 2s kadai. = tie, of the very best, blooming in June, with large, perfect flowers. Colors range from bi ack- _ red, through all shades of crimson, rose, yellow, buff, apricot, ete., many finely spitted.. Twenty- -five sorts mixed. 1c each; $1.00 per dozen.
ae ‘Lilium Elegans|
For general use these are the most showy, vigorous
| hardy and satisfactory of all Lilies. They are as prilliant as Tulips, with great cup-shaped blessoms of many fine colors, in upright umbels. Very early, blooming om early. June to late July. Fine for winter- blooming. antiacum Verum— Beautiful, pure apricot-yellow
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Very handsome. 20c each.
without ‘$pets. Very fine. 20€ €aeh; 3 for 50, Le sonard erg — Light orange-red, center flashed apri- ) er , Showy. -15¢ each; 12 for $1.50.
d u uperb for winter-blooming or for the garden. ~ Flowers: wery. large, wide open; light orange-salmon,
: richly spotted chocolate. 415¢ each: 12 for $1.50. _Elegans — All sorts and colors. $1.25 per doz.;
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Grand Sacelosun Lilies These are the hardiest, and most robust and free- flowering of all Lilies. Also among the most beautiful and showy. We advise our friends to plant lots of Speciosums. No Lily more beautiful or pleasing. Rubrum — Deep rose, freely spotted crimson, and mot- tled white: perfectly exquisite. Rubrum Incomparabilis — Deep crimson, edges. Robust and free-flowering. Meipomene — Words cannot describe the beauty of this yariety. . Frosted white, spotted, clouded, and bearded with pinkish-crimson. Peials deeply recurved and widely bordered red. Magnificum — A superb new sort, an improvement on Rubrum, being larger and brighter colored.
Price, 25¢ each; $2.50 per doz. Auvratum Lilies
Auratum — Color white, spotted crimson with golden Dand through each petal; three to thirty fiowers on a stalk, each a foot wide. Extra strong bulbs, 25c¢ ‘each; 3 for 60c; 12 for $2.00; 100 for $12.00.
Auratum Macranthum — A very robust form, with large, broad-petaled flowers of smooth ivory-whiteness, a broad golden band through each petal, and numerous golden spots. A beauty. 75e.
Auratum Rubro Vittatum —A very distinct flower of enormous size, of frosted whiteness, with a deep blood-red band through the center of each petal, and the whole flower thickiy dotted with crimson spots. The contrast of colors in the Lily, together with its © great size and maichless form, make it marvelously beautiful. $1.00 each.
Auratum Virginaie Album — A pure white Auratum with golden bands. 75c each,
Very Rare Lilies
Hansoni — A very rare and fine Lily; blooms extra early, the: flowers appearing in large clusters. Color, rich yellow with a few black dots. This is one of the very rarest and finest Lilies knewn, and we now have such @ large stock of it that we can offer it very low. 50c each; $5.00 per doz.
Speciosum Henryi— New and exceedingly rare, tall, strong srower, producing flowers in great profusion: often as many as fifty on one stem. Of a fine apricot- yellow color. This yellow Speciosum is a glorious new thing. 40e each; 3 for $1.00; 12 for $3.50.
Regale — Newest and erandest of Lilies: hardy, robust, with immense trumpet-formed flowers, shaded brown outside, golden-yellow throat. Lovely beyond words to describe. $1.00 each.
Elegans Orange Queen — This is the newest and finest Elegans with broad, heavy wax-like petals, large cup- shaped blooms, and a clear, pure yellow color, slightly spotted. 60¢ each.
Davuricum Giant Yellow — Pure yellow. 30¢€ each; $3.00 per doz.
Davuricum Hybrids—This is the Elegans style, but more slender, and blooms earlier. The colors are very clear and bright, ranging from dark red to to light yellow, spotted, blotched and variegated. Exceedingly beautiful. For beds or massing they fill a rare want for a brilliant early-flowering Lily that may be used also among shrubbery or ‘hardy perennial plants.
“20c each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.75.
Tosy white
Very large.
Cannas
The very finest varieties only.
Cannas are now the most popular and most magnificent of all We have selected these varieties We offer after careful tests of hundreds of sorts, and our
ding and massing.
customers can rely upon them as being the most magnificent -and
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Qut of a thousand kinds, these we offer are the very best.
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summer-blooming plants for brilliant bed-
desirable in every _respeet,. combining large
flowers of great brilliancy with beautiful foliage, free-blooming and easy-growing qualities:
THE NEW ORDER OF BIG-FLOWERED DWARF CANNAS
The following glorious new Cannas represent a new race of which King Humbert may be said to be the fore- runner. They are dwarf in habit, of the true bedding style, but with flowers of unheard of grandeur, as to size, form and color. Some of them are seven inches across and of fine substance, unlike the flaccid texture of old Cannas. Their magnificence will astonish all. COLOSSAL — THE GIANT-FLOWERED.
Five feet. Without doubt the largest-flowered Canna to date, as the average flowers more than cover @ man’s hat. The color is a strikingly vivid scarlet that retains its brilliancy. 30c each; 4 for $1.00.
EUREKA — THE GIANT WHITE.
We consider this the best white flowering Canna for all purposes. It is of robust constitution, growing four feet high, forming sturdy, shapely plants very quickly. Free flowering. 40c each; 3 for $1.00.
FIRE BIRD — THE PEERLESS CARDINAL.
This is the finest Canna ever introduced, the size and glory of its blossoms are almost incredible. Flowers of the most intense cardinal-scarlet, seven inches across the ereat wide petals flaming out like a torch. Substance good and petals stand out flat, rarely-rolling up as do so many of the large sorts. Blooms very early and very freely. Leaves rich green; height four feet. 30c each; 4 for $1.00; $2.50 per dozen.
KING HUMBERT — THE WORLD-FAMOUS.
The finest Canna that grows. Very dark bronze fo- liage and flowers of enormous size. Color bright orange- scarlet streaked crimson. Three to four feet. This is among Cannas what America is among Gladioli, the most popular variety the werld over, yet the new Yellow King Humbert is still better. 20c each; $2.00 per dozen. GARAM — INTENSE ROSY SCARLET.
A most glorious shade of color, Flower and cluster of immense size. As good as King Humbert in this respect. three to four feet. 40c each; 3 for $1.00. MRS. CONARD — PEERLESS PINK.
The best pink Canna ever introduced and unsurpassed for planting either singly or in large beds. The ex- quisite salmon-pink flowers are of largest size and so freely produced as to keep up a superb showing for months, Four feet. 30c each; $3.00 per dozen.
NEW SPORT —A STRIPED BEAUTY.
This is a sport from Wawa, and is unique in color. Yellow with distinct stripes of deep orange. Four feet. 95c each: 3 for 50c.
ORANGE BEDDER —A NEW COLOR.
A particularly attractive bedding variety of a bright orange with just sufficient scarlet suffusion to inten- sify the dazzling mass of color when the wide branch- ing stems are covered with Nowers. 40c¢ each; 3 for $1.
ROSEA GIGANTEA — THE IMMENSE.
The giant-size flowers are wonderful. It is a prodi- gious bloomer, with great flower heads of soft rose to carmine-pink, darker than Mrs. Conard, and by some preferred. It has recently received the highest award
accorded any Canna. Three and one-half feet.- 30¢ each; $3.00 per dozen. REMARKABLE — THE TALL CARDINAL,
Dark foliage and large cardinal - flowers,
imposing. Five feet. _30e each; 4 for $1.00. THE GEM—A GREAT BEAUTY. >
An entirely distinct spotted variety. The immense trusses of flowers are borne on upright branching stems well above the foliage, and are of deep eream or straw- vellow, spotted with deep carmine. 40¢ each; 3 for $1. YELLOW KING HUMBERT—A SPORT. ——
From the famous King Humbert, having green foliage, and flowers of a beautiful yellow spotted-crimson. In all other respects it is just like King Humbert. A great acquisition. 30c each; 4 for $1.00; 12 for $2.50.
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10 Favorite Cannas
These grand sorts have made a lasting place in all collections of good Cannas. All are quite new and wonderfully fine. Some like Hungaria, Dee- mer, Wabash, Gladiflora, ete., being among the best new sorts.
Gladifilora — Remarkable for the unusual shape of the flowers. Color is erimson, changing: to carmine-rose with edge of gold. Three and one-half feet.
Gladiator —A very showy bedding Canna with large flowers of brassy yellow thinly speckled in red. The long center petals and lower petal are dark red, making a most striking contrast. Three feet.
Hungaria — Very compact, and of a very luxur- iant growth. Leaves blush-green, never burns.
Trusses of enormous size, borne well above the foliage. Flowers very large with broad petals. . Color purest La France pink With satin sheen. .The most delicate pink in Cannas. Three feet.
Kate F. Deemer — An exquisite blending of canary-yellow, rose and crimson or canary-yellow with rosy-crimson cen- ter. A unique color. Two to three feet.
Mephisto — The darkest crimson variety yet introduced. Almost black. The large flowers are held well above the foliage. Three and one-half feet. Extra fine in every way.
Panama— The eolor of this splendid Canna is unusual, being an attractive rich orange-red, with a well defined edge of bright golden-yellow. The flowers are very large, the petals being almost round and the immense spread of the individual blooms, coupled with the -early,. free-flowering -habit and unique coloring, make this Canna most noteworthy. Three feet.
President Myers — Flowers light scarlet color. Foliage dark, being a mixture
of green and maroon. Three and one-half feet.
R. Wallace —A grand new Canna, by far the larg- est and finest pure yellow yet grown. Flowers ermormous and color fine. Four feet.
Wabash — This has the same great size and ¢car- mine-pink color as Mrs. Conard, but exquisite bronzy leaves. It is truly the bronze king, so large, so magnificent and so exquisitely colored. Three and one-half feet.
W. Watson — Dark foliage, rich saimon-pink flower. Immense flower and spike. Four feet.
PRICE — Above 10 fine Cannas, 15c each; any 4 for 50c; the 10 for $1.20. In quantity: $1.25 per, GOoz.; $3.00 per 100.
Giant Orchid-Flowered Cannas
These are the tall-growing sorts with immense blooms of great beauty and known as Italian Cannas. Allemania — Enormous flowers, six inehes across,
petals two and one-half inches wide. Bright
yellow and orange-salmon, beautifully spotted and variegated. Finest spotted sart. Four feet. indiana — Four feet. Color is a glistening golden orange dain- tily marked and striped with red. Single blossoms are often seven inches across. New York — Intense cardinal-scarlet.. Extra large flower.
Rich chocolate-bronze foliage. Five feet.
Pennsylvania — Six feet. The flowers are pure deep scarlet, of immense size. Pacific Beauty — Very large, black foliage, often finely striped
and variegated. Flowers orange-crimson. Four feet. 6 Uncle Sam — Glorious deep, rich, flery red of marvelous} ‘ beauty. Extra large and fine blossoms. Five feet. , Wyoming — Seven feet. This is one of the most majestic Cannas in the ‘aa orchid-flowering class, with the additional attraction of having a lux-4
= uriant growth of rich, purple foliage. Great plumes of massive orange- : colored blossoms. 20c¢ each; any 3 for 55c; $2.00 per doz.; the 7 for $1.10
Canna Seed, Extra Early Dwarf Mixed Cannas--For Large Show Beds
r. Plants Grown from Seed Flower in Three Months A mixture of the finest ltarge-flowering kinds which
These wonderful Cannas, dwari ; will go well together, and make a most magnificent bed frowth, with highly ornamental ee. eee or border of bright colors, We can recommend them. Magnificent clusters of brilliant blossoms all the summer Tall Mixed — All the finest kinds that grow four feet
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‘Giant-Flowered — All colors mixed: se i aves ing be:
H ed saved only bronze-tinted color, the edge of the leaves being bea
orn the Dewer sorts of the grand Giant-flowered tifully banded with bronze-purple. Eight feet. 1 ypes. Pkt., 20c: 3 pkts, for 50e. each; $1.50 per doz,
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Acidanthera Bicolor
A new summer-flowering bulb with a large, odd and conspicuous flower quite unlike any- thing else. The flower may be said to resemble somewhat an orchid; color, creamy white with a large prominent chocolate center which makes a striking contrast. It is showy in the gar- den and fine for cutting, as may be seen by our photographic cut. The bulb is grown and flowered successfully in pots, but» this is not necessary as it grows and blooms in the garden with perfect freedom treated like a Gladiolus. No summer-bulb is more easily managed.
Bulbs are sometimes slow in starting if planted early as it takes warm weather to bring them on. 5c each; 5 for 20; 12 for 40c.
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i : 2 New Giant Burbank Amaryilis This new race of Amaryllis produces a bulb of enor- mous size and streneth which throws up broad, healthy foliage and stout flower scapes, each producing blossoms -of truly gigantic size. The flowers are often a foot ‘or more across, larger than the Auratum Lily, and with — colors, which for purity and intensity are truly marvels. _- Their great superiority over all other Amaryllis is ac- - knowledged. — - Atlantic — Fiery crimson, almost searlet, with orange — tint; lightly shaded at base of petals with greenish- white and crimson. Goldstone-like glisten. Large, strong, heavy stalk. Long, strong, light foliage. Four fiowers to a Stalk. Flowers seven and one-half inches across. $41.00 each, — ;
— Light crimson, limed and shaded darker crim- son, With broad bands and featherings of snowy-white. Broad petals; flat, wide-open flower. Foliage ex- short and compact; flowers six to eight inches eeross. $3.00 each. : tstinetion —- Enormous fiower of ereat beauty. Prob- ably the finest of all Amaryllis. Brilliant scarlet, wide- ly banded white. Veined and mottied. $5.00 each.
Elite — Enormous white with scariet veins. $1.00 each. .~ Hovey Giant —An immense flower of white and crimson _variegations. One of the grandest. $1.00 each. Morning Star — Light crimson, nearly one-half covered with white. Wavy petals. Flowers seven to eight inches -across. Height, twelve inches. Earliest to : bloom. $41.00 each. _ Newport — Glistening crimson. Enormous flat flower. . Velvety sheen. Petals striped white at base. $1.00. _ Santa Rosa— Variously shaded, veined, feathered and - fined crimson and. white. Broad white band reaching to tip of petals. Yellowish-green tinge at the base of the broad regular petals. Flat flower. Broad light green foliage, four to five flowers to a stalk. Flowers _ eight to nine inehes across. $1.00 each. _ Snow Cloud — Yellowish-white when first opening, turn- ing white’ with age. Very slightly feathered_crimson. Silvery glint-like bead work in sunlight. Enormous flower over nine inches across. Three of the petals : four inehes wide. Foliage light green. Extremely vigorous Dlant. $2.00 each. _ Wellesiey — Scarlet-crimson; rainbow .featherings of _ darker crimson. =— Small greenish-white band at base _ Of each petal. Flower seven inches across. $1.00 each. 4 One each of the 10 for $412.00
Mixed Burbank Giant Amaryilis — All shades and colors. » Large bulbs, 50¢ each; 3 for $1.25; 12 for $4.50. 3 ve FOUR FINE AMARYLLIS _ These are the very finest of the old varieties. Regina — Soft light scarlet, white center. Very fine. - 380cC each; 4 for $1.00. ohnsonii— A grand old sort always popular. Flowers _, lange and -yery beautiful, deep red, striped white. 40c. Psittgcinum — Broad, well-opened flowers of great sub- _ Stance. Red, with white and green stripes. 50c. Solandrizfiora — Magnificent large perfect blossoms, of 4 ANG finé* colors, variegated white, pink, rose, etc. 50c. 4 each of the 4 for $1.50
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Amaryllis Formosissima (Jacobean Lily)
There is hardly a flower which has such deep, rich velvety crimson color, a color so intensely brilliant as this. It is a free-bloomer and succeeds well either in pots or in the open ground, and blooms very soon after planting. Few flowers can equal it in richness and beauty of color, and it blooms profusely every year. 10c each; 3 for 25c; 12 for 85c.
COPYRIGHTED 12358 BY J.L.CHILDS.
Gieereor arate : Amaryllis Vittata Hybrids
_ Robust, free-flowering and easily grown strain of beau- tiful Amarylis, ranging in color from white to crimson, Tose, pink, striped, ete. These are sure to give satis- faction and.are quite inexpensive. 20c each; 4 for $1.00: 12 for $2.50. |
Amorphophallus Rivieri
A large, easily grown bulb which has very ornamental foliage and a coal-black flower which is of enormous size, generally not less than two feet in length. It is a great oddity and attracts every observer. The flower usually appears soon after the bulb is potted and before the foliage starts. This is a very odd and interesting plant not often seen in collections. 25¢ each.
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Stately plants of the Amaryllis family, with bulbs of enormous size and strength which produce large blos- soms in immense clusters with most delicate colors and superb fragrance. Fine for pots or the garden in summer, Ornatum — Supremely peautiful. Flowers of immense
size, almost as large as an Auratum Lily. Color, pure white, with a deep band of brightest, richest, crimson through center of each petal. Orchids only can equal this flower in supreme beauty and contrast of color- ing. Flowers very fragrant and borne in great Clusters. 75c each.
Moorei — Flowers borne in large fine clusters, and are exceedingly beautiful and fragrant. color a most deli- cate yet bright and beautiful pink. It possesses a de- gree of loveliness which cannot be described. 75¢c.
Moorei White — Like the above but pure white. No grander flower than this ever bloomed. No Lily can excel it in regal beauty and fragrance, 80c each.
Kirki — Flowers large, and like a most beautiful Lily, borne in immense clusters at the top of the stout scapes. Color soft, delicate blush, with a searlet bar through the center. of each petal, and very sweet- scented. 30c each.
The 4 Grand Crinums for $2.00
SS Chlidanthus Nay Fragrans
}} This bulb is a revelation jeof beauty. It is much like San Amaryllis, with a strong bulb which starts growth land blooms as soon as pot- . Mted. The flowers are borne
in clusters of four to six and are in eolor the brightest golden yellow, and such [ra- grance! Strong without be- ing in any way rank or offen- sive as in the case with many highly scented flowers, Two or three spikes of these ex- quisite large yellow blos- Ssoms are produced at each } blooming period. Pot the ZY bhulbs at any time, winter or spring, and they will soon be in bloom. A truly magnif- icent thing. Strong bulbs, 5e each; 6 for 25c; 15 for 50c.
> 3 e Cooperia Drummondi _ This bulb belongs to the Amaryllis family, and can either be grown in pots or the open ground. The beau- tiful Lily-like flowers are profusely borne on stems ten to fifteen inches high, and spring up as by magic re- peatedly through the season. Color, pure white. Bulbs, large and strong, 5c each; 6 for 25¢; 15 for 50¢c.
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“Paberous Rooted Begonia
This great plant is a rival to the Gloxinia‘as a window or conservatory plant. The enormous size, and intense prilliancy of the flowers astonish those who have never seen any but the ordinary house Begonia. The bulbs can be started from March to June and will be soon in full bloom. Our strain of both double and single is a very superior one, many of the fNowers measuring four to tive inches across,
GIANT CRISPA AND CRISTATA HYBRIDS MIXED
Enormous blossoms, with elegant fringed, frilled and crested petals. One of the grandest strains yet seen. Mixed colors. 415c each; 4 for 50c; 12 for $1.40. Double, Mixed — Our strain of these is grand, All new
types, finest colors, largest and most perfect blossoms,
This is not a common, cheap mixture, but @ mixture of
all fine named sorts. Not an inferior one in thé lot.
30e each; 4 for $1.00, APY ‘Ore 4 6!
It is impossible to get Begonia bulbs from Holland or Belgium this year as usual. Our supphy.is ordered from France and the stoék is of very high quatity.
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‘Their peautifully shaped and elossy foliage is elegantly : “Vlapeated in the most telling manner, One, perhaps, is regularly dotted ‘with round raised- spots of white, an- other ribbed and veined with pink or scarlet, or yellow, while still another is flasheé and marbled with white or '_ marked with delicate and vivid colors. More showy than _ flowers. “The small early leaves do not always show ail ! - the fine” colors Of -the large ones which come Jaier. pee Jaenicke — ivory white, with purplish-pink mot- tlings, 7 Baron de Mammore — Large leaf, ground color white heavily interlined with light green, crimson and pink Stripes. Center dark crimson. Ribs scarlet. One of - the best. ~—
“Candidum — Large, heart-shaped leaf, color satin white ee green Spots, and dark green ribs. One of the
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: ‘Elaborate — Brieht red, veined erimson. Large, wide - mottled border of yellow tinted white. Extra fine.
‘Emerald — Green, heavily blotched and ribbed crimson.
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Rexdorf — Green, pink center and large silver Very large and beautiful.
Snow Storm — Immense leaves, almost pure white with motthlings of light green. Makes a superb specimen. Tanager — Beautiful network of green and white, deep
blood-crimson ribs and central ‘flush. Truce — Large leaf almost pure white, red splash at heel. Torch Light — Fine light red bordered with bottle green, veined with deep crimson. White Fiag — Immense leaf, pure white with transparent blue tinted blotch. 25c each; any 3 for 600; 7 for $1.25 The entire collection of 17 sorts for $2.75 Mixed Sorts — Our mixtures are all from above-named sorts and are of the highest possible grade. 3 for 50¢; 12 for $1.75.
New and Rare Fancy Caladiums
These are all extra fine new and rare sorts of wonder- ful beauty.
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Aymore — Leaf large, white transparent center. Ribs pink. Green zone covered with irregular purple splashes. 50€.
John Lewis Childs — Large leaves, almost pure white, with blood-red center; splashed “and mottled. $1.00. Sea Shell — A beautifu: green leaf with a large delicate
pink center. Very odd and attractive. 50c. Florida — Fine leaf largely overspread with bright crim- _ son-red.. 50c. New York —A new seedling offered now for the first time. Splendid large leaf, white and green, beauti- fully mottled. $1. 00.
Vireo — Green with light tinted center and conspicuous 50c.
scarlet ribs.
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Beautiful bulbs from Mexico blooming very freely in the garden or in pots.
Cyclobothra Flava — Narrow, grassy foliage, and a eon- stant bloomer. Pretty bell-shaped flowers, yellow dotted with brown. Very graceful and charming.
Milla Biflora— The flowers are pure waxy white, two inches in diameter, star-shaped, and borne usually in pairs on long slender stems, It is beautiful, especially for cutting, as it lasts a long time in water. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon this lovely flower. The blossoms frequently last two weeks when eut and placed in vases of water. It is a perfect gem in every way.
Bessera Elegans — Rush-like foliage, flower stems from one to two feet high, bearing loose umbels of beautiful drooping scarlet and white flowers. A charming bou- guet flower. The long beds of this bulb seen on our grounds the past few years have attracted much atten- tion. Few flowers present such a graceful beauty, while growing in a natural state or when cut, as does Bessera Elegans.
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New Bulbous Callas
A few years ago—we had only one so-called Bulbous Calla (Common Spotted). Now there are several, and they are truly marvels of beauty. Do not confound these superb sorts with worthless Arums, which have been extensively sold as red, pink, green and yellow Callas. These now offered are all genuine Callas, with large, magnificent blossoms and will grow and bloom freely in pots like the common white Calla. They are all fine for garden culture, also treated like a summer-fowering bulb, but we think they are better when grown in pots. Note our low prices for these grandest of all Callas, Rhemanni — (Pink)—This magnificent new Calla has a
large flower of a rich, deep shade of pink that is per-
fectly exquisite, A strong, easy, grower, and free bloomer, It is still a sensational flower novelty in Eu- rope, and one of the grandest flowering plants we
Having grown an enormous stock we Do not miss it. . Fine
have ever seen. can offer it at a very low price. flowering bulbs. 50c each, Elliottiana — (Giant Yellow)—This is the great new yel- low Calla of marvelous beauty. Flowers very large and of the brightest golden-yellow. Leaves beautifully spotted with white. Sold recently at $5.00 each. Its great size of bloom, brilliant yellow color, and gilori- ous large spotted leaves make this a plant of unusual beauty and novelty. Strong flowering bulbs, 30c each; 4 for $1.00. Mrs. Roosevelt — Flowers light clear yellow, produced very freely on long stems. Foliage deep, rich green, distinctly and freely blotehed with white, making a very showy plant. It does particularly well planted outside, grows strong and flowers freely. 30c each.
Aurata —-(Lemon Calla)—-New and fine, flowers being a beautiful light yellow, with jet black center, there- fore very conspicuous+ and showy. Its foliage is
large and handsome, deep green, freely spotted white. Makes a most superb pot plant. 25¢ each; 5 for $1.00. Spotted Caila—— The leaves of this beautiful Calla are deep green, with spots, which give. the phins- a amag- nificent appearance. The flowers are pure white with black center. Fine for open ground eulture, > 15¢ each; $1.50 per doz, 1 :
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Those who are familiar with the true Giant Ismene Can not say enough in praise of its beauty and purity. The flowers are of very large size, like an Amaryllis, novel form of snowy whiteness, and are also exceedingly fragrant. It is really one of the most lovely’ of all the great Amaryllis tribe, having a peculiar grandeur which one can appreciate at sight, but cannot describe. Bulbs are large and strong and begin to flower in two jor three weeks affer planting, sending up tall flower stems, which bear several of iis Inagnificent blossoms, As & pot plant if is grand, and as a garden bulb ireated like a Gladiolus if is one of ihe choicest of all flowers. Do not fail to try it. Jt will more than please you for it is superior to the Ber- muda Easter Lily as a flowering bulb. 15c each; 3 for 40c: $1.50 per dozen.
Healing Quill
An old and highly cherished bulb among the com- mon people of some European countries. Botanically it is Scilla Maratima, and is referred to in all old works on Materia Medica, on account of the healing quality of its leaves when applied to bruises, burns, sores, etc. It is a good-sized onion-like bulb with long narrow foliage and flower scapes two feet tall. 20c each. 3 for 50¢c.
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This beautiful new vine is of slender growth and very graceful, and produced in dense masses. Foliage of good size and forked or divided, of a deep, emerald green with a decided lustre or sheen rarely seen on any foliage. Tubers round and solid like Gladioli bulbs, therefore most convenient to handle.- Flowers in droop- ing racemes and so numerous as to be a very distinct and attractive feature of the vine.
Large Bulbs ——10c each; $1.00 per doz.
Madeira Vine
A rapid growing vine, covering a large space in a short
time. Fleshy, heart-shaped leaves of a light green, and in late summer numerous racemes of feathered flowers of powerful fragrance. A very beautiful and popular vine, which succeeds admirably everywhere and should be ex- tensively planted, being so cheap, quick of growth, beau- tiful and fragrant. 5c each; 50c per doz.
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New Giant Montbretia
One of the brightest and most winsome flowers we know of. Should always be grown in masses or groups and are thus remarkably showy and brilliant. From July to October they are one mass of blooms, spike after spike of flowers, so graceful and bright and. cheery.
These are entirely new and magnifleent. Ali of gigan- tic size both in flower and spike as shown in above cut. Giant Mixed — All finest named sorts. 10¢ each: 8 for
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Eucomis Punctata’ —
This plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and is nearly hardy in New York. It is most useful for decorative purposes as a pot plant, -The a panying illustration gives a good idea of its.emee ness, and there are few plants more useful @pothat will attract wider attention. Easily grown and a g00d,.bleomer. May be treated in all respects like am Amaprylis’-at is also very fine as a garden plant, treated like a? Gladiolus.
Fine bulbs, 35c¢ each; 3 for $1.00. ~
Ipomoea Mexicana
This has a large tuberous root that can be preserved over winter like the Dahlia, and it gives the plant a strong
and early start each spring. Very handsome and grace- ful airy foliage, deeply incised or palmated,. The blos- soms are of indispensable rosy-crimson, with a.shadoew of violet or blue, very beautiful, resembling rich satin, A grand vine for a conservatory in the winter as well.as for the open ground in summer. In fact, its the g : est of all Nowering vines. 2h5e each; 3 fer—-60e. De
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Oxaus 7 ¥) TEC LASANDRIA” = ZY a = c e Summer-Flowering Oxalis No bulb is so valuable for edging the borders of walks er flower beds as the beautiful flowering Oxalis. When planted three inches apart they produce an unbroken row of elegant foliage and pretty flowers, and as they bloom quickly after planting they furnish a neat and attractive border the whole-season.- They are also splendid when planted in a mass, and make a very showy bed. Dieppi White — Pure white; very fine. Dieppi Rose — Fine:rose. : é Lasandria — Fine-rosy-pink, beautiful cut foliage. Everblooming Shamrock — Lovely foliage like a big four-leaved clover, deep green in color with a con- - spicuous zone ef purple-black—just like a Shamrock. Blossoms bright pink amd produced all summer, Price of bulbs 10¢€ per dozen; 25 for 15c; 100 for 40c; 500 for $1.50; 1600 for $2.50. 12 buibs each of the 4 kinds for 30. Mixed Colors of all sorts. 10c per dozen; 50c per 100.
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New Spider Lily
This grand New Spider Lily forms large, imposing elumps that are a mass of clustered heads of pure white, fragrant flowers. The flowers have a peculiar and strik-
me beauty, which must be seen to be appreciated. The E fdwers are Dorne:in large clusters, are of waxy-white-
mess and unsurpassed fragrance. More beautiful than most of the high-priced Lilies. An extra choice garden flower which we can not too strongly recommend. Also a fine pot plant. Fine flowering bulbs, 30c each; 4 for $1.
Bulbs and Plants for 1918
A grand new plant for the garden having a large tuber- ous root somewhat like a Dahlia; the foliage appears in
great spreading fern-like fronds, and is highly orna- mental. The fiowers are borne on stems two feet tall, and are of large size like a beautiful Gloxinia, and of a deep rich rose color. ®looms nearly all summer, Incarvillea Grandiflora— A new large-flowering sort, which is scarce and high-priced. 40c each.
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Pfitzeri Everblooming — Plants show from six to twenty grand flower stalks all the time, each holding at a height of three to four feet a great cluster of flame- colored flowers of indescribable beauty and brilliancy. Each cluster keeps perfect several weeks, and when it fades, two or three more are ready to take its place. Fall frosts do not kill or stop its blooming, and it is as brilliant as ever long after all other garden: flowers have been killed. For cutting it is unsurpassed, and the beautiful long spikes keep several weeks in water. Strong plants that will soon bloom. 30¢c each.
May Queen — This will flower in May, sending up tall stems on which are borne the great plume-like blos- soms of rich yellow and flame color. The plants are
also perfectly hardy in the open ground here, and start srowth and bioom very earty in the spring. — They are in full bloom end of May. 25c each; 5 for $1.00.
Goldelse — Pure yellow, slender; graceful form. 25¢
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The one flower the rich man must have and the poor man can not do without. We all love its massive spikes of thick waxen-white blooms, and delightful fragrance. Excelsior Pearl — First introduced by us years ago, It is
the finest bloomer of all Tuberoses: habit dwarf, flower
Stalks short, spikes and blooms enormous in size and
very double and fragrant. The finest for pots as well
as for the garden. 10c each; 3 for 25c; 12 for 80¢c. Tall Double —- The old popular variety. Splendid for the open ground, 10c eaeh; 3 for 25c; 12 for &80¢c, . * ° * Tigridias fa : One of the most showy of all =e summer bulbs, and blooms from mid-summer until frost, grow- ing two feet high, with large wide-open triangular blooms, four to six inches across. The colors and markings are very brilliant and peculiarly odd and attractive and clumps of them in the border have a most gorgeous effect. It is difficult to name a flower of such unique and ex- quisite beauty. They are easily grown and always more than satisfactory. One cannot with- out seeing them’ realize how truly beautiful they are. Grandifiora Hybrids, Mixed -—— 10¢ each; 3 for 2he: 12 for 90c.
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The Zephyr Flowers. or Fairy Lilies, are gems of rare beauty; and when planted either in pots or in the open eround they produce very beautiful Lily-Hke flowers nearly all summer. For pot culture plant three or four in a five- or six-inch pot and they will bloom beautiful- ly. For the garden, plant in spring and lift in the fall, like Gladioli. Those who plant them either in pots or the open ground will be delighted.
Atamasco — This is, in all respects, like Rosea, except in color, which is pure white, It blooms all the season.
Andersoni — Bright orange, tulip-shaped. ~
Candida—— Pure white and a free bloomer, -
Ftoribunda — Very beautiful, being of rich golden-yellow, and exceedingly sweet-scented.
New Pink — A lovely new sort with light pink or blu tinted flowers. Rosea — Beautiful clear rose, flowers large and very
handsome. Blooms all summer,
Texana — Lovely buttercup-vellow. New. s Price, 5c each; the 7 for 30c; 50c per dozen. — Mixed Sorts — Hybrid seedlings, named sorts, ete. 45¢
per dozen; $3.50 per 100.
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Valotta Purpurea
A bulbous plant of the Amaryllis family, pi clusters of great Lily-like blossoms of the LO ots rn | scarlet color. An old and highly prized pot — of
easy growth, now very rarely seen, but always in great — demand, 50e each.
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Achillea Grandifiora lf commences to bloom by the first of July and is a perfeet_mass of bloom until frost; as many as flve thou- -sand flowers have been counted upon one plant at one _ time. Flowers pure white, perfectly double, and are _. produced in large sprays, and are unsurpassed for all a sorts of cut-flower work, bouquets, etc. It is perfectly hardy anywhere, and so vigorous that it will take care of '< itself among weeds. For cemetery planting there is : nothing finer, for it is sure to live, thrive and bloom profusely year after year. The plants we send out will
- bloom profusely this summer. 15c¢ each; 5 for 50c.
Achillea Kelwayi (Crimson Yarrow)
x . Blooms all summer, its superb erimson blossoms in _ large clusters showing to wonderful advantage. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.80.
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: shrubs when once planted they are good for a life-time and we come to regard them as part, not only of our ‘frome, but of our very existence. Eris, etc.
What wouid induce us to part with the grand old clumps of Paeonies, Lilies,
Candytuft
A plant of exquisite beauty, heing of low, compact, spreading growth and producing its profusion of biooms in May or June when pure white flowers are particularly searce, Its profusion of bloom is\so great that a bed of it looks, at a distance, like a mass of fleecy snow just fallen. Few hardy plants will give as much real satis- faction as this beautiful gem. Lifted late in the fall will bloom well in the-house during winter. Perfectly hardy, and foliage evergreen. 15c each; $1.50 per doz,
Ten Thousand Flowered Boltonia
Flowers like a native Aster, pure white and borne in endless numbers as may be seen by the cut, which represents a single-stem plant the first summer. An-
other year this plant will throw up six to ten stems just.
like this one and a mass of bloom shown that no other plant can equal. Strong plants, 15¢e each; 3 for 30¢; 12 for $1.00; 100 for $6.00.
Ajuga Reptens
A plant of low-creeping habit with a profusion of dark handsome leaves, and numerous spikes of pretty blue flowers which appear early in spring. It is splendid for cemeteries, rockeries or any kind of carpet work. The
‘handsome leaves, being evergreen, thrive in sun or shade,
dust, dirt and most any situation where few if any plangs would survive. i5c¢ each; 5 for 50c; 12 for $1.00.
Apios Tuberosa (Tuberous Wistaria)
A valuable, hardy tuberous - rooted climber closely resem- bling the. common Wistaria in vine and _. foliage and having: elusters of rich, deep purple flowers, which have a strong, deli- cious violet fra- erance. Plant the bulbs near a freilis, tree, fence, or ‘any place where you may wish a climber. They grow t@- a great height,~ and bioom profusely. The bulbs are -perfeetly hardy, and should not be taken up over winier. 10¢ each; 3 for 20ce.
es ye Cinnamon Vine “A pretty, hardy vine, with edible roots and neat, glossy cordate foliage. In mid-summer it bears clusters of tiny but exceedingly fragrant flowers. One year roots, 10€¢ each; $1.00 dozen. Bulblets. 10c per doz.
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Hardy Amaryllis, Hallii
(Magic Lily, or Lycoris Squamigera)
For twenty years we have had growing in one of the hardy borders of our lawn a beautiful Amaryllis, which sends up tall flower scapes each year crowned with @ cluster of large lavender-pink blossoms. Lately we have found a source of supply in Japan, and have imported it in quantity for several years, and it has ow become very popular. Its luxuriant foliage appears in the spring and dies down in July. In August the tall flower scapes
spring from the ground like magic, bearing immense clusters of exquisite and fragrant flowers. Our cut is
a true photo of three bulbs showing twenty-four clusters
of blooms. Perfectly hardy everywhere without protec- tion. Increases in size and beauty every year. Fall is the proper time to plant.
Good Flowering Bulbs — 30c each; 4 for $1.00; 12 for
stems, 40cC each; 3
Eupatorium Azureum
An exquisite perennial blooming all summer Jong.
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masses of azure-blue Nowers are always attractive, borne
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on graceful stems, The plant is simply a sheet of bloom the time up to severe frosts. 20c each; 3 for 50¢; for $1.80.
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Hardy Semperviren
A most useful and beautiful plant for permanent bor-
ders around walks or beds. It increases rapidly and may be divided and re-set every spring, if desired, but when left undisturbed for a year forms a solid miniature wall- like border. Blooms in June, and is. very preity. A dozen planted this year will, next springy give enough for
many feet of border. A _ splendid plant for sample bunches or masses. Fine also for pots. 1i5¢ each; 3 for 25c; 12 for svc,
Calliopsis, Quillied
A beautiful and novel quilled form of the well-known and showy Calli- opsis lLanceolata, Perfectly hardy and blooms all the time from early to
late. 20c each; 3 for 5o0c: 42 for S480,
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“ . e 2 b) b KarlyFlowering HardyChrys’nt’ms A These are exceedingly fine, and are perfectly hardy planted in the open ground, and flower magnificently in - October and late into "November. They shouid be planted on the south side of a building or wall, or in some spot where they will be sheltered as much as possible. In such a situation they are sure to bloom magnificently, de- - spite early. fall frosts. They make a border which is as brilliant and beautiful as the gayest flowers of summer. They are of the Pompon type, and very double and per- fect flowers in great clusters. Also erand as pot plants. Baby - — Like little golden buttons.- Very double, perfect ‘and borne in great masses. Bright yellow. Baby Marguerite — Like Baby but snow-white. Black Douglass — Color almost black, while the tip of each petal. shows a glint of gold, making the whole _ -blessom appear, as if sprinkled with gold “dust. Daisy — Great sheaves of double snow-white blossoms. - Eagle d’Or — Golden-yellow. me, _ Fred Peele — Deep crimson, tipped gold. i Globe d’Or — Clear lemon- yellow, shaded. - Klendyke— A beautiful hardy Pompon of rich gold color. _ Wirs. Vincent — Dark crimson. _ Prince of Wales — A very fine pure white. Purity — Fine white. . Repeater — Blush-tinted blossoms in great profusion. _ Salmon — Splendid clear salmon. _ Tibert — Crimson-brown tipped yellow. z ~45c each; any 5 for 50c; 12 for $1.00
New Hardy Chrysanthemums
- Hardy ‘and fine’ for outdoor planting as they bloom lee in early fal. — Cactus — Fiery - terra-cotta,
very free and effective. Carrie — Deep yellow, 2 beauty.
_ Champagne — Bright ruby-red: wonderfully cciored.
Champ d’Or — Canary-yellow; very bushy habit.
q Lady Mary Hope — White, slightly shaded blush.
_ October Goid — Fine old sold on long stems.
_ Distinction —A Pompon of wonderful color, being a + mixture of crimson-purple and white, irregularly _ Marked and variegated. A fine and novel hardy sort. ae each; 3 for 50c; the 7 for $1.00; $1.59 per dozen
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_ Euphorbia Corollata
eer useful for bouquets and other cut-flower work, as it is in bloom a long time during summer. Flowers “white and star- like in lovely sprays. When made up
vith colored flowers they add a peculiar charm to a bou- quet or vase, setting it off as does rich lace a beautiful ess. 15¢ each; 3 for 30c; 12 for 31.00.
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owering Forget-Me-Not, of the vurest sky- It is of compact orawtn, with broad, dark ee, and makes an ideal plant, aod one that
shape of a small Cactus,
Perfectly hardy and blooms profusely in garden n early spring until fall. 20c each; 6 for $1.00.
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Blew Hardy Cactus, Blesant
_A New, Hardy, Spineless Cactus for the North
This literally covers itself with ciear, deep yellow flowers in summer and the next spring is Toaded down With brilliant scarlet fruits, one to two inches long, which when ripe are good to eat, far superior to the little thorny fruits of the common kind children are so glad to get in the early spring. The flowers are very large and showy. In facet, it is one of the finest among Cactus. Plants perfectly hardy anywhere in any climate. Extra fine for rockeries, etc. Price of stabs ready to Deapened and which may bloom this summer, 15c each;
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Nepeta Glechoma
This new Nepeta is hardy, fragrant and pretty, its leaves finely bordered with white. One of the prettiest
things in the world to carpet graves, as it roots wherever it touches the ground and forms an impenetrable network of vines through which weeds and grasses cannot creep. It will grow in any kind of soil, in sun or shade, hot or cold location, and is ever a mass of green and white, Unsurpassed for vases, hanging 12 for $1.00.
refreshing to the eye.
pots or baskets. 15c each; 3 for 30¢;
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DICENTER KR me Dicentra Spectabilis
The glorious old Bleeding-Heart. Exquisite for winter blooming in pots. Also a ‘favorite early _spring bloomer it for pots, and treat same as recommended for Hyacinths and other flowering bulbs. 25c each; 3 for 60c; $2.C0 per dozen.
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Day Lilies (Funkias)
Alba Variegata— Leaves as handsome as a flower. A rosette-cluster of almost white leaves, lightly striped with green. Flowers pale lilac-pink on tall spikes.
Fine also for pots. One of the very finest hardy plants. Aurea Variegata — Leaves green and yellow and highly ornamental Beautiful light blue _ flowers. Priee, 25c each; the 2 for 40C; $2.00 per doz.
Hemerocallis
<plendid new sorts of great heauty, hardiness and free-flowering. ~ Seven finest named sorts, mixed, 20C
each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.80.
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\ perfect gem of a hardy perennial plant. The plant kes a tuft of foliage close to the ground, and from its crown sends up splendid Stems to the height of five to ten inches, bearing very large, wide-open saucer- shaped blossoms which are perfectly exquisite. Plants,
20c; 3 for 50c. Seed, 40c pkt.
HARDY PRIMROSE Primrose, Crimson and Gold
Primula which flowers profusely in early spring and is a real beauty. Not onky-are the -erimson and geld-colored flowers. attractive, but the foliage also. 25c each; 3 for 60¢; 12 for $2.00.
Yucea Filamentosa
This plant is an object of beauty the year round, if oaly its leaves are seen; these are one oF two feet long, pristling out at all angles with sharp points; -flowersy stalks stout, four five S&S feet high, with fifty to 200@X$ bell-shaped creamy white Y blossoms hanging branching arms. 8 for 60c. Seed, 5c pkt.
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Lantern Plant ot Or Highly Ornamental and Se Useful
The plant produces white , flowers, which are followed by large inflated husks, much the shape of Chinese lan- terns, at first a green color; changing to brightest scar- let, and as they hang sus- pended among the green foli- age they represent a most novel and beautiful appear- ance. In these husks or ‘“Janterns” a fruit is borne, in color a deep ruby-red, and good either for cooking, : - serving or eatingsand keeps well into the winter, : +7
Strong roots, 25c eacW; 3 for @@c, °°} Seeds. 10c per pkt-
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= : e - @ = 2 Finest. Double fris Kempferi These new Iris from Japan rival the Lily in stateliness, the Paeony in majestic beauty, the Orchid in marvelous delicacy and blending of colors, the Chrysanthemum in profusion, and surpass almost every plant in size and kingly magnificence of flowers. A plant wiil send up to the height of three feet a dozen flower spikes, each spike bearing from two to four enormous blossoms eight to ten inches across and of the most delicate and beauti- ful colors, markings and combinations: Once planted in your garden they are a joy for a lifetime without further care, blooming profusely in June or July. Apollo — White, pink center. t Dominator — Rich indigo-blue with narrow white stripes and light center. One of the finest and richest colors. Gold Bound — Tall and showy with flowers of enormous ~ size; probably the most beautiful of all. Pure-snow- . White with large ‘goid-banded center. Mount Hood — Light blue, shaded darker, Oriole —- Rich plum, marked yellow. Pyramid — Tall and showy, flowers very large; -violet-biue with slight white veins. Templeton — Violet-blue, mottled pink and white. Above double sorts, 20c each; the 7 for $1.15; $1.75 per dozen; $12.00 per 700.
_ Fine Mixed. tris Kempferi — More than 40 finest sorts. double and single, 5 for 50c; 12 for $1.00; 100 for $6.
: BEST SINGLE SORTS Amethyst — Immense wide-spreading single flowers of _ _ fine substance. Color, light lavender or amethyst.
_ Bluewin indigo-blue shaded purple, freely - _ striped and flaked white. _ Distinction — Light lavender-pink, bright yellow blotches - _ at base of petals. Distinct and fine. ;
_ Ondine — White, shaded light blue towards center, Very F large, nine to ten inches.
20¢ each; the 4 for 75c; $2.00 per doz.
> NEW OR RARE KAEMPFERI - Caprice— (Single)—-Scmetimes a solid lavender-blue, but more often the petals are striped and mottled in a __ more or less irregular way.
_ Col. Thomson — (Double) — Large deep violet and gray. _ Kamata — (Single)—Large, deepest sky-blue color.
- Nightfall —-(Single)—-Very dark purple-blue, with ex- _ quisite iridescent luster. Richest color in any Iris.
40c each; the 4 for $1.50.
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These might be called early dwarf German Irises. They erow only six to twelve inches high, showing a perfect mass of large elegant flowers very early in spring. lm fact, they bloom with the Tulips and are very desirable. Sambo — Fine biue-black. Azure-Blue — Beautiful light blue. Lutea — Fine yellow. The Bride — Snow-white. . Dark Blue — Fine violet-blue.
20c each; the 5 for 80c; $2.00 per doz.
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Hardy, early-fiowering Iris, smaller than Kewempferi, but very beautiful. They bloom just after the Ger- manica.
Orienlatis Violet Blue — New large violet-blue.
Orienlatis Snow Queen — Another new Siberica of Snowy whiteness. Very fine. 20c each; the 2 for 30c¢; $1.60 per doz.
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Immense Size — Wonderful Golors — Quick Slooming
We have developed a wonderful strain of Hybrid Seedling Iris Kempferi that are marvels in beauty and perfection of bloom, with a wide range of exquisite col- ors in blue, lavender, white, rich purples, plum-red, tinted, striped and mottied in endless vartety. These flowers seven to ten inches across on stalks four feet high, and no two alike.
They bloom from the end of June during July, filling a gap between the blooming season of Iris Germanica, Peonies and Gladioli. During this period they are with- out a single rival in the garden — in fact, no garden flower can excel them at any time.
Strong Roots for quick blooming. $1.25; 100 for $7.00.
Seed — 20c per packet; 3 packets for 50c.
5 for 60c: 12 for
Paeonies—25 Grandest Sorts
The Favorite of to-day, as it was fifty years ago. Lux- uriant foliage plant, with magnificent double incurved flowers of enormous size and rich colorings. . Nothing can Surpass the intensity of the dark varieties that fairly glow with a radiant fire of richness, while the white and pale
varieties are very soft and delicate in their coloring. There are hundreds of sorts of Paeonies. We aim to grow and offer only the best within reasonable cost, and the list here presented is a choice one. We grow many acres of Paeonies.
Albert Crousse — Immense, very full, convex bloom, per-
fect in outline and contour. Petals imbricated like a Carnation and overlap. The color is best described as an even, delicate sea-shell pink, an unusual shade for a Paeony, and is unapproached in this regard by any other variety. This grand Paeony has all the points of excellence. $1.00 each.
Asa Gray — From the formation of the flower it is desig-
nated as a double-decker. Very large, full imbricated bloom; guard petals salmon-flesh, center of bloom very full and perfectly formed: color delicate lilac plenteously sprinkled with minute dots of deeper lilac. striking, imposing and beautiful. Here is a flower you want to linger over. No Paeony produces more
bleom year in and year out than does Asa Gray. Fra-
grant and distinct. This variety at a local flower
show swept the boards. $1.00 each. Atrosanguinea — Semi-double; mid-season. A marvel-
ous flower of globular form, Color brilliant rosy ma-
genta, outer guards streaked with white. Strong, vigorous grower with spreading habit; free bloomer.
s0c each. Avalanche — One of the most glorious of all pure white Paeonies. Large, full, double, and sweet. 40c. Couronne D’Or — This is the famous “Crown of Gold’:
immense, fine-shaped bloom. Color, snow-white. The
attainment of perfection in Paeonies, 40c each. Decorative — This closely resembles Paeony-flowered
Dahlias. \ vigorous grower, soon forming dense
clumps which bear dozens of blossoms, on long stems. Color, rich deep crimson. 25c; 3 for 60c.,
Duchess De Nemours — Very fine, cup-shaped blooms, sulphur-white with greenish reflex: fine bud. 35c. Eugenie Verdier — Pale Hvydrangea-pink:; color. lighter; center deeper flecked crimson; fragrant; one of the largest and finest in existence. 40¢ each; 3 for $1.00. Edulis Superba — This 1s the famous Decoration Day Paeony. With us it never fails to be in full flower on
May 30. Buy Edulis Superba, 50c; 3 for $1.30.
Felix Crousse — Large, globular flowers, solid and com-
pactly built from edge to center. liant, dazzling ruby-red. Exceptionally flery, brigh and effective. Both the color and size are startling. None better. 40c; 3 for $1.00. ‘cs
Festiva Maxima — Enormous full double bloom. Petals
yh , are a rich, even, bril.
very broad, color pure white with an occasional car- —
mine spot, vigorous grower. One of the best white Paeonies.-. 40¢; 3 for $1.00. - =. Glorie De Douai — Purplish scarlet-crimson with black. S : Humei — Immense bloom, carmine-pink, very late. Lady L. Bramwell — This is a Paeony which grows four to six feet high, and bears flowers nearly. as large as a man’s hat which resemble a perfect rose. In fact, the flower is the same shape, fragrance and exquisite satin-like pink color as Baroness Rothschild rose. 50e; 3 for $1.30. ; : Madame Bollet — Very compact, globular double bloom; color, rose with silvery-white reflex, lingulated with carmine; fragrant, free and fine. 30c; 3 for 75c Madame Calot — Rose type; early. Large, convex bloom. Hydrangea-pink, center shaded slightly darker with a somewhat sulphur-tint in the collar. . The Paeony has three distinctive qualities over all other varieties. First, it blooms any and every year, never failing; second, it produces more flowers than any Paeony ever introduced; third, it is the most fragrant of all Paeo- nies, the perfume being delicious. points Madame Calot stands pre-eminent.
Simply a wonder. :
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Madame Chaumy — Large, very full and compact flower, -
beautifully formed. Silky petals, soft pink, shaded with bright rose. Slightly drooping, graceful habit. Late and very sure, profuse bloomer. 50 Marguerite Gerard — Enormous, flat-shaped broad petals blooming in Clusters; color, delicate Hy-
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drangea-pink, changing as the flower ages to creamy- —
white. Many of the central petals and even the guards have minute dark carmine, almost black, flecks on the tips; fragrant. A decidedly choice variety. 75c. Marie Jacquin — (Water Lily)—Semi-double type; mid- season. What shall we say of this large, glorious flower? Color glossy rosy white, with rose tinge on buds, with a great wealth of golden-yellow stamens in the center, which gives it a very chaste and elegant appearance. When first planted the blooms come sin- gle, but after becoming established it is semi-double The flowers of this charming variety suggest our na- tive white Water Lily; fragrance very rich and lan- guorous. 60c; 3 for $1.50. Marie Lemoine — Color, ivory-white. size. Fine cut-flower variety. Maxima and is as fine as that standard sort.
Blooms of gigantic Comes mere ee abe.
Mons. Jules Elie — This is the king of all Paeonies, and is —
without question M. Crousse’s Masterpiece. Color, an ideal glossy lilac-pink shading to deeper rose at the base of the entire flower, overlaid with a sheen of silvery-rose that fairly dances and shimmers in the sunlight. An unapproachable variety from any stand- point. 75¢ each, : + Monsieur Krelage Deep currant or solferino-red with amaranthine center. There is nothing in Paeonies of its color. Large, fat flowers as big as a plate; perfect in outline; grand in every way. 60c, eee < Officinalis Rubra Plena— Immense double blossoms of the richest growing crimson-red color. This is the old-fashioned garden Paeony, a very early bloomer and one of the most glorious varieties.. 50c = Queen Victoria — The very best every-day white. When cut a first-rate keeper. Flower of good substance and
color; very. pretty in the bud state, when it has a
faint blush tint; an old standby. 25c.
Triomphe Du Nord — Violaceous pink; enormous bloom, —
30c; 3 for 75e. This collection of 25 grandest Paeonies for $10.50
Paeony Lutea—A distinct species with golden yellow single blossoms. its color. $1.00 each. :
Paeony Whitmanni Grandiflora — Another species with large single pure white blossom. $1.00 each. .
New Giant Iris, Pallida
These are kings among Irises. they are supreme; quite new and little known. Pallida Dalmatica— With wide, massive folltage, and
immense flower-stalks, rising three to four feet high,
each with eight to twelve magnificent blossoms. color of its great blossoms is pure sky-blue. each; $2.50 per doz. ; Pallida Lohengrin — New, color blue with shaded lilac- red falls. 40¢ each 4 ~ ae
Pallida Odorata — Blue with a rich fragrance. “#0e¢ each.
Pallida Albert Victor — Extra large, rich deep bine, in tall clutsers. 30c each; $3.00 per doz)" | Pallida Plumeri — Coppery rose an
Pallida Her Majesty — Lovely rosy pink. ls crimson tinted darker. n ex risite blending. 50¢ Ag 3 The collection of 6 for $2.00. = — : = ce. 4 Y
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Phlioxes Large, field-grown plants, strong and vigorous; sure to make a: magnificent show early next summer. These new varieties are in bloom from June until frost, and the individual florets are twice the size of the old-time Phlox, ‘and the shades of color the brightest, richest and clearest. There are no finer or more useful perennials than the Perennial Phloxes, or which will give more complete satisfaction. The varieties we offer are new and fine, and the plants we send out will bloom magnificently the coming summer. we hope that allt our customers will plant them.
Pyramidal White — A plant of sturdy, compact growth, bearing enormous pyramidal panicles of great snow- white blossoms.
Pyramidal Crimson — Like the above, with same great blossoms, but of brightest crimson color. The two sorts contrast, finely. They bloom all summer long, and are equal to- Hydrangeas in majestic beauty.
Pyramidal Oculata — White, large crimson eye.
Pyramidal Lavender — Delicate lavender; white center. Very fine indeed.
Pyramidal Rose — Large, bright rose.
. Pyramidal Blush — Blush-tinted; extra large and fine. _ Pyramidal Wine-red — Splendid deep, rich wine-red. Pyramidal Striped— White and crimson, beautifully
_Striped and variegated.
Giant White Branching — The new Giant White Branch-
ing Phlox is in -many respects the finest of all. The flowers are large, pure white and borne in large pyramidal panicles; freely and
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Border Queen — Elegant rosy pink: very strong; florets and panicles of great size. Blooms for a long time. Candicans Blue—-A superb, compacf-growing Phlox which throws numerous flower stems, each crowned with a cluster of large blue blossoms. It is a novel color in Phloxes as well as a very -beautiful one. Plants also bloom very early in spring, which adds
greatly to its value.
Price. 20 each; any 4 for 60c; the 12 for $1.50; or, $10.00 per 100. ya Mixed Phioxes-——A fine mixture of more than twenty
BY sorts. $1.00 per doz.
Phlox Subulata
These are the beautiful Moss Pinks, so early and so ae, like Candican only not so tall, having a creeping abit : Subulata Pink — Qne of the finest of low, turfy-growing
plants, fine for carpeting under trees, around rock-
work, edging beds, etc. Early in spring is very showy with its cloud of pink blossoms. We do not under- stand why this is not more widely grown, for it 1s perfectly hardy and once planted will take care ol - itself. Subulata White — Like above but pure white in color. 20¢ each; the 2 for 30¢; $1.50 per doz.
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OUR IMPROVED GIANT STRAIN Having named and introduced the Golden Glow Ssev- eral years ago we think we now have an improved strain
Or 8. Under good conditions it grows ten feet high, branching freely, and bearing by the hundreds on long, graceful stems, exquisite double blossoms of the bright- est golden color and as large as Cactus Dahlias. As cut flowers the blossoms last well... We unhesitatingly re- gard it as the most desirable hardy perennial. It is the most effective flowering plant for August and Sep- tember in cultivation. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 10 for $1.00.
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Fine roots, 40a per doz.; $3.00 per 100.
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& Spireas Herbaceous Spireas are as yet little known, but they are certainly among the best of our border plants, and quite indispensable where many cut flowers are used,
their soft, feathery sprays giving the same finish to a
bouquet that filmy lace does to an elegant dress. These
plants form large clumps, and are very pretty and pro- fuse in bloom, succeeding anywhere.
Palmata — Two feet high with large feathery plumes of rosy crimson bloom,
Paimata Elegans — Pure White.
Filipendula — This looks like a hardy-flowering Fern, for its beautiful long leaves are just like Fern fronds and make a beautiful plant at all times. In early summer the flower stalks appear holding great masses of exquisite double snow-white blossoms like little Roses. Elegant for cutting. Plant perfectly hardy anywhere. Give good soil. Makes a lovely pot plant as well as garden,
Queen Alexandria — Large feathery plumes of exquisite bloom of a lovely pink color. Forces well and makes a superb winter-bloomer. Outside it blooms in June,
Montblanc — Like the above but pure white, These are two grand plants. ;
Price of all Spireas, 25e each; 8 for 60c; the 5 for
$1.00; or, $2.00 per doz.
New Perennial Poppies
Magnificent new hybrids of great size afid beauty. Nothing more brilliant than great Oriental Poppies. Little Prince — Brilliant scarlet, with large black spots.
Compact and very ftree-blooming,
Mrs. Perry Fine apricot; very large. Princess Victoria Louise — Soft salmon-pink; very large. Silver Queen — Silvery white, with black blotches, Silverblink — Salmon-rose with white blotches.
80c each: the 5 for $1.25; $2.50 per doz, Mixed Hybrids — Extra fine. 3 for 50c; 12 for §1.80.
.g © 7 Various Perennials Young, vigorous plants for the garden, will bloom finely this spring and summer, Double Hollyhocks Finest mixed colors. Digitalis, or Foxglove — Finest mixed colors, Columbines — linest mixed colors. Sweet Williams Finest mixed colors, Campanula — Finest mixed colors. Delphiniums — Finest mixed colors, Perennial Pea — Finest mixed colors. |, Bellis (Daisy)— linest mixed colors, Price of all the above, $1.50 per dozen, prspaid
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Select New, or Recently Introduced Window or Greenhouse Plants +. In_plants_we offer comparatively few varieties, only such as are of unusual merit, new or of recent intrco- _ duction, and which will give great p easure. We are careful to send out oniy weili-rooted, healthy stock, and te Ber offer only such varieties as are sure to give complete satisfaction — the very best of their kinds.
_f New Trailing Abutilon
A novelty of most startling quality and im- portance. This wonder- ful Abutilon has rich, deep green leaves all beautifully spotted rich yellow. Flowers long and somewhat trumpet-shaped of the richest blood-sear- let color, while the grace- ful slender branehes will grow several feet in length, trailmg- superbly from & suspended pot, or maybe trained as a climber. In either form it is a plant of striking beauty and novelty. It created a senSation at the big international Flower Show in New York last Mareh. Fine plants, 30¢ each; 4 for $1.00.
A butilon, Giant Flowered
These are very fine new Abutilons. They produce flowers of wonda2rful size and-beauty, far superior to any of the older sorts. Foliage is also very vig- orous and handsome. Giant-flowered Yellow — Immense wide-spreading blossoms of a fine clear lemon-yellow.
Giant = flowered Pink — A rich, dark pink of great size and wonderful beau
ty. infanta Eulatia — This is per- fection itself. Plants dwarf and short jointed, producing ex- = quisite large cupped blossoms by the SS score from the time the plant is four \G inches high. Blooms all the time, summer and winter. Color a most exquisite soft, satin-pink. : Wm. McKinley — Exactly like the above, except in color, which is a beautiful clear lemon-yellow;
: CAs exquisite. 20c each; the 4 for 75c.
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: _ Ageratum Dwarf (New)
' Two new Ageratum of very dwarf, compact growth and a great profusion of extra large snow-white blos- toms. Extra fine for both bedding and pot culture. '6now White — The finest-sort we have ever seen. Grows 3 only three to four inches high and is a solid sheet of _ bloom all the time. Splendid for pots.
; wart Blue — Like the above but of a lovely blue colors _-- 45c each; the 2 for 25c; $1.00 per dozen-- ~
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Acalypha Sanderi
A straight, stout branching plant, clothed with larg
green leaves of good substance, and out of the axil of every leaf grows a spike of blossoms, glowing crimson-
scarlet in color. Twenty to fifty inches long, as large around as one’s finger and looks like a long piece of crim- son-scarlet chenille cord. They last for months before fad- ing and before they fall off several other spikes have started out in the same leaf axil, and it is thus always in bloom—January to December. Even tiny plants in thumb-pots bloom, though, of course, the spikes are proportionately smaller. 20c each; 3 for 50c
Asparagus Splendid plants for ornamental specimens or for cutting.
Sprengeri — A new variety of the finest ornamental qual- iities. For hanging pots, or bracket pots where the mass of rich foliage can droop in its natural grace, it is one of the loveliest objects it is possible to find for window decoration. For cutting it lasts weeks in water. Plants also blossom freely and bear large red berries which add greatly to the beauty of the wavy foliage. Nothing finer for decorating, or for bouquet making. Fine plants, 20c each; 3 for 50c. Seed, 10¢
Downy Plume—A erand plant with wide-spreading foliage which is very tine, soft-and feathery. Nothing else so good as this to make up with cut flowers. Grows rapidly and foliage may be freely cut. 20¢ each; 3 for 50c.
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years ago, but now almost lost sight of. It bears great Clusters of Lilv-like blossoms which are very attractive, The white is comparatively new. Large Biue Well-known. sort,
Large White fare and fine.
2Sc each; the 2 for 3dc
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Elegant pot plants much used for Easter decorations. Though attaining a good size, commences to bloom when very small. The flowers are large and very beautiful, always much admired, and range from white to deep crimson in color; with all intermediate shades and mark- ings. Easily grown in a window. Our plants are finest new varieties, and are greatly superior to the older sorts. All bear immense double blossoms. Mixed, many kinds and colors, 25c each; 3 for 60cC (See Hardy Shrubs for new Hardy Azaleas.)
DOUBLE BRUGMANSIA) Sg Brugmansia Double |”
Three feet high, with twenty to thirty pendulous flow- —
ers open at once; great creamy-white blooms, eleven, twelve and thirteen inches long, and eighteen inches wide, of a texture resembling thick, Muted satin, Creamy white and very fragrant. shaped flowers are indeed glorious. Thanksgiving and Christmas, end. is on@eof the most su- perb plants we can grow. Blooms at alletimes. ~ Strong plants, 30c each; 3 for 75e., : Brugmansia Sanguinea —- Extra large single flowers of @ dark red color. Very rare. 40c each.
Campanula Isophylla(FallingStars) ~
This beautiful pot plant which we have previously offered is now very-scarce, '
Large Biue — A fine blue color. Flowers ba e n profusion on exquisite drooping ~ vines. each, Large White — A pure white, now exceedingly Tare and scerce. _50c cach. 3 be eee bs
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These new varieties of Begonia Rex are of our own origin, and they far excel any that have previously been in cultivation. The colors and markings of the leaves are exceedingly varied and rich. ‘ _ Alfonso — Silvery-green with a dark border filled with | conspicuous silver spots. Exceedingly novel and fine. _ Czar Nicholas —A beautiful stipple of green and silver with a finely flushed center. | _ Crimson Glow — Magnificent large leaves, center half of which is a rich, metallic crimson, which graduates into a wide zone of light green with lace-like veins, the _ rim of the leaf having a distinct border of the same — metallic crimson ‘as the center. _ _ Edward IV.— Deep maroon-black with a striking zone .. Of pink and silver spots. Grand, ee _ Emperor William — Very light green leaves, overlaid with fine crimson. Entirely distinct. _ Fireflush — Immense leaf, silvery colored, bordered dark _ purplish-green, and with a dark center. The whole - leaf flushed with crimson-pink. ‘Midnight — Elegant leaves almost black in color, varie- gated with large pink blotches, with iridescent glow. Monster — Leaf two and one-half feet across. Color, |. pure silver, veined with dark green. | Mikado — Large silvery-gray leaves, bordered maroon- | _ black, with @ blush ribbed center flushed crimson. _ New Spotted — Superbly spotted foliage. Storm Cloud — Rich dark €olor, a sort of blackish-green rpletustre, and large, pure silvery spots.
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Giant Begonia—Immense
A new flowering Begonia of wonderful size and beauty. The clusters of crimson-pink blossoms are.as large as
a man’s hat. Plant grows two to three feet tall with handsome spotted foliage. Blooms all year round, and is a superb new plant in every way. 40c each; 3 for $1.
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New Large-Blooming Varieties, Always Loaded With ; Flowers, Indoors, or Out. These beautiful quick-flowering Hybrids of Begonia
Gracilis are among the best and easiest grown plants, either for pots or bedding. —Plants bloom very quickly from seed and are easily raised. Colors, white, blush, pink, rose, crimson, ete. Make exquisite pot plants al- ways in bloom. No better bedding or pot plants than these superb Begonias.
New Luminaris — For bedding it blooms abundantly all the time from early till late, and its foliage is a rich bronzy crimson color, while the large showy blossoms are another shade of crimson or scarlet, the whole making a most showy mass. As a pot plant it is a great bloomer, with live green foliage.
Pearl White — Large, snow-white.
New Bonfire — Bright rosy scariest.
Primadonna — New, exquisite, large pink.
20c each; the 4 for 65c.
Childs’ Monster Carnations
The following are mostly new Carnations, mammoth- lowering hybrid sorts;
Alma Ward — This beautiful new Carnation is pure white, and the largest and most fragrant ever grown. Flowers perfect in every way, three and one-fourth to four and one-half inches in diameter on stems three feet in length.
Benora — A superbly variegated variety; new and fine.
tlue Novelty —A most distinct color, bluish-purple, rich, handsome. Flowers very perfect and very fra- grant. <A strong grower and great bloomer.
thampion — Splendid searlet. Extra fine in every way.
shristmas Cheer—A pot Carnation absolutely unique. Color, a brilliant, glowing Poinsettia scarlet. Easier to grow than a Geranium. Will produce one hundred or more blooms in a season, and can be had for Christ- mas with twenty-five to fifty blossoms and buds.
Darkness — New, very large and perfect; richest dark crimson, shading well into velvety. crimson-black.
Enchantress — Enormous flower of perfect form, full double and sweet, on Jong, graceful stems. Light pink or blush; an exquisite tint.
Giant Striped — Wide scarlet stripes on blush ground. Flower of enormous size and perfect form.
Mrs. Lawson — Extra large flowers borne on long stems, and are of the most lovely deep pink shade.
Mrs. Ward — Beautiful pink; mammoth size.
Rosyfiush —A cross between white and pink Lawson. White flushed and variegated maroon.
Sangomo — New and extra fine, large, exquisite pink.
Victory — Brightest scarlet, on long stems.
White Lawson —A sport from the above, same mon- strous flower and vigorous growth; white as snow, White Wonder — Snow-white, large double and firm. Splendid Jong stem. Grand, Yellow Prince — Pure yellow, other color. Best yellow yet. Very strong plants, 20c each; 3 for 50c; $1.75 per doz. The collection of 16 sorts for $2.25
. Cyclamen Grandiflorum (Improved Large-flowering)
Tew pot plants are so desirable as Cyclamen, espe- ecia:ly for winter-blooming. They are of the most dell- cate blush and pink shades prevailing. Often the flow- ers will be spotted and marked, and nely variegated. the foliage is beautiful, being variegated with different shades of green, and helps to show off the flowers which rise above it to a remarkable degree.
Giant White — Pure white; enormous size. Giant Carmine — Very bright.
no tint or mark of any
Giant Pink — Exquisite shades, ‘ Price, fine bulbs, 35e each: the 3 for 81.00, Giant Mixed \fl colors, 25e each; 3 for 60c¢
CALLA GODFRY
New Callas (Ethiopica)
Godfry — This Calla has the habit of the very dwarf sorts by blooming when very small, growing on through the various stages of dwarf, half-dwarf, and large sorts up to Giantissima, with its immense leaves and flowers, and long stems. It has also fragrance and everblooming qualities. To all these may be added the novel quality of summer-blooming in the garden, if treated as a summer-flowering bulb. 25¢ each; 3 for 60C.
Giantissima — Most superb of all Callas. Leaves two feet long and flowers a foot in length, three times larger than any other Calla. It is a strong, quick grower, but requires a large pot and a little time to
bring it to perfection, Foliage very dark green. hlowers snowy white and open unusually Mat and broad. We have had single plants showing ten or
more of these magnificent blossoms at once. 25¢
each; 3 for 60C.
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Jessamine (Gardenia)
- ‘Superb pot or garden plants possessing refined beauty -
_ and unsurpassed fragrance. :
~ €Everblooming — This grand novelty does not differ from
_ the common Cape Jessamine or Gardenia except it blossoms all the year round, while the old sort blos-
_ so0ms only a short time in the spring. The flowers of
this are very large and perfect, with pure white wax- - like petals and gtorious fragrance. Large, double and surpassingly lovely. A good plant will show flowers every day in the year, and it is an easy thing to manage, growing well as a window plant. 25c each; 3 for 60¢, :
New Dwarf — This very dwarf form of the grand old Cape Jessamine forms a most compact and bushy pliant which is perfectiy smothered in a profusion of snowy- white wax-like blossoms like perfect Roses, and have a powerful fragrancé. The blossoms are as large and as fine in every way as the old variety. Plants bloom when only three or four inches high, and are ex- quisitely beautiful. A very fine novelty. 25c each; 3-for 60¢.
Primulinum — A new and exquisitely beautiful flowering
"plant. Extra fine for pot culture, or for the open ground in the Southern and Pacific States, where it
» is hardy. It makes a very graceful plant with long, wavy stems, thickly clothed with handsome foliage,
and when in bloom each stem or branch is almost a solid wreath of large, golden-yellow single blossoms
. like immense Primroses: Plants bloom when very small. 20c each; 3 for 50c.
- Revolutum — Fine star-shaped white blossoms in profu- sion. Very lovely and excessively fragrant, 20c each; 3 for 50c. -
One each of the 4 Jessamines for 75c.
Coleus—Newest and Best
_ These are all fine for bedding and as specimen pot plants during winter they are wonderfully attractive. Traiiing Queen — Leaves green with bright. red cen- ter shading to yellow at base, bordered with choco- late markings. One of the most charming and beauti- ful foliage plants known. A free, rapid and easy grower. Blooms freely in winter, dense spikes of
lovely blue Lobelia-like blossoms.
Dr. Ross — Enormous leayes like a Rex Begonia, but
more exquisitely colored, being a blending of yellow, - ¢rimson, pink, green, chocolate, etc. — men. plant.
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Hero — Black with a metallic lustre.
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_ Lyon — Long, pointed, fringed leaf, most exquisitely col-
- ored; yellow, cardinal, maroon, green, etc.
Queen Victoria — Velvety crimson from beautifully bor-
* dered yellow. ;
Sensation — Rich purple-maroon, center
_ vayed and ribbed bright rosy-scarlet.
Mrs. Hays — Straw-yellow, slightly marked green, and
_ blotched deep crimson at base.
- Spotted -—-Leaf is an exquisite blending and ' spotting of lively green, pink, crimson, yellow, ma- roon, ete., im an irregular manner. Very showy. Price, 15¢€ each, any 3. for 40c; the 9 for $1.00
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This grand Cactus is like the Night-blooming Cereus in size but beautiful pink in color and borne by the Score. It is one of the choicest pot plants. Blooms every year no matter how small. A little plant only a few inches high will often show several magnificent flowers. Very easy to grow. 20¢ each.
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The following are the very best introductions of the
Jast year or two. They are all prize-winners,
Alice Lemere — Soft pink, of the largest size.
Belfast. Of the largest size and a light pink color shading to cream. Bloom after every other variety. Daisy —A pure white double daisy-like flower of great beauty. Small pompon with flowers in immense sprays.
Perfectly exquisite for cutting for vases, etc. Hardy.
Doliy Dimple —A fine large, well-built yellow variety; strong grower with good foliage.
Elsie Papworth — Large full, double; purest white.
Fall Glory —- Our novelty. A fine early pink sort that is remarkably fine outdoors as well as inside.
Coliath — Under ordinary care its flowers are immense, but with special care its flowers will be larger than any other. Perfectly double to the center, beautiful shape and the brightest and finest yellow color,
Gloria — A superb long-stemmed light pink,
Golden Chadwick — Yellow sport from W. H. Chadwick. By planting late may be had for Thanksgiving or later.
Helen Newberry — A large pompon of great beauty, The perfect, full round blossoms mature at Thanksgiving, and are of snow-white color.
Indian Summer — The upper surface of the petals is yellow suffused with red, presenting a very pleasing shade of bronze, while the reverse is buff or chamois.
Klondyke — Another hardy pompon seedling of our own. Great masses of golden-yellow flowers.
Mile. Arlette Dubois — A white Japanese incurved.
Odessa — Bright yellow with an incurved flower of finest form. The largest of its color and has eclipsed all others at all the great shows,
Modello—-In form like a huge decorative Dahlia. In color, very striking golden bronze or golden amber, as near as this color can be described.
Naomah —- One of the best recent varieties, Has pure white, perfect incurved blooms on long stems.
Poon tees, Taft — Incurved Jap, of great size and snow- white,
Roman Gold —A very intens: yellow, maturing Novem- ber 1 to 10. Perfect stems and foliage, easy to man- age. From late buds they show the bronzy tints in the depth of petals, but this rather adds to their beauty.
Thanksgiving Queen — Very large, comes just strong.
T. Carrington — Growth vigorous, amaranth, large. Owing to its distinct color, is unrivalled for classes calling for any other color than white, Wink, yellow, - Woodmason — The very largest of the reds. A fine companion for our Goliath. ~
White Ball — Our novelty. Very early, large full round ~ flower like an immense ball. Pure white.
15c each; any 4 for 50c; the 22 for $2.30
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GOOD GRACIOUS .— NEW HAIRY OR OSTRICH PLUME "MUMS ; These four new Hairy sorts are of our own *aising and are now offered for the first time. In size, shape and texture they are the very finest of the Ostrich Plume © class ever offered. ; Golden Down — Deep, rich yellow. Very large, perfect and downy; finely incurved. i Pink Ostrich — Beautiful pink, very fluffy; wide-spread- ing flat flower. ‘ Roseate — Violet-pink, white center. . Swan — Immense-—pure white, full, double, 7ound and very plumy, the finest Ostrich Plume ever offered.
20c each; the 4 for 60c.
GOOD GRACIOUS CHRYSANTHEMUMS | These are all alike except in color. They bear flowers as large as a man’s hat, double to the very center. A mass of quilled and irregular petals. Very striking. G. G., Pure White — Immense. G. G., Bright Yellow — Showy. G. G., Pink — Very fine.
15c each; the 3 for 40c; $1.50 per dozen.
LILLIAN DOTY CHRYSANTHEMUMS ~
BL gy round and perfect as a ball. Superbly beau-
tiful.
Lillian Doty, White — Beautiful round shape, like a ball
Lillian Doty, Pink — New sport, lovely clear pink.
Lillian Doty, Yeilow——New seedling. Deep golden-yellow, 15c each; the 3 for 40c; $1.50 per dozen.
NEW EARLY - FLOWERING CHRYSANTHEMUMS
These new sorts produce the largest-sized flowers in the open ground end of September and during October. They are the first mammoth-flowering sorts early enough and strong enough to produce large showy flowers in © the garden, equal to good greenhouse varieties. . Dawnray — Exquisite large pink of great beauty. ™ Snowcap — Pure white, large and double, <A perfect
plant. Extra early. —
Chrysolora — Finest and brightest yellow. 20c each; the 3 for 50c; $1.50 per dozen.
New Hardy Chrysthemums
Hardy and fine for outdoor planting, as they bloom freely in early fall Cactus — Fiery terra-cotta, shape of a small Cactus;
very free and effective. : Shampagne — Bright ruby-rey; wonderfully colored.
Champ d@’Or — Canary-yellow; very bushy habit, Lady Mary Hope — White, slightly shaded blush, — ctober Gold — Fine old gold on lomg stems. .
oris — A button type pompon, reddish bronze in co Golden West — A trifle larger than Baby, but of simil formation, An excellent pot plant variety, = = = Western Beauty — Deep rose-pink in color; flower me- dium sized. The best late pink pompon. . i. Distinction — A pompon of wonderful color; being a m c-9 ture of ecrimson-purple and white, irregularly marked and variegated. A fine and nove hate Ae : ‘” 20c each; 3 for 50c; the 9 for qe #4 =
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spring ‘and all summer. as well as in the fall: Flowers
New Perpetual Blooming Chrys’m brightest golden yellow, double to the very center. of
large size and borne in clusters of three to six. ; “GLORY OF SEVEN OAKS” Plants, which will begin: blooming almost at once, 25¢
Introduced by us four years ago and we have sold one each; 3 for 60c; $2.00 per doz
hundred thousand plants which have in every case proved Four Early Chrysanthemums a delight and satisfaction to our eae Blooms re EARL KITCHENER fusely all winter in pots as a window or conservato ; i Hite cat tac pian Flowers four to five inches across on stems two | Amaranth, with a silvery reverse. An enormous flower
h feet. Begins blooming in thumb pots. Also (i @ rare color at the present time. Stem, foliage and to three feet. Begins flower are alike tremendous. There will never be any perfectly hardy in the open ground and blooms all sum- = question about, weak neck or poor foliage with this mer and fall. Just think of it. a magnificent large Chry- variety. 30c each. santhemum blooming all summer bedded out, or all the POTENTATE year around in pots. There is no doubt of this for it _A new seedling of our own offered now for the first has been exhibited in bloom at all times of the year, to time. Extra early and extra fine in every way. Enor- the amazement of thousands who have seen it in winter, mous incurved eee ee yellow. 30¢ each;
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Extra fine and extra early white sort with strong stems and large incurved flowers. A gem in every Way and a fit companion to Mari- gold, being about the same size and early. 25c. =
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The most phenomenal early yel- ‘low ever offered. Fully up to exhibition size (nine inches in di- ameter) maturing October 20. Stem and foliage perfect. Very -iShort jointed. 25c.
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Boston Ferns We make a specialty of Boston Ferns and grow im- mense quantities of them. We have all the newest and best sorts which we aim to offer at low prices. This is the finest decorative -plant in cultivation. All are robust, vigorous and easily grown in any window, in
heat or cold, sun or shade. Few flowering plants can equal in beauty a well-grown Boston Fern of any variety. The mass of elegant follace which endures for such a
long time is beyond adequate description.
Boston Fern — (Original)—-Of all decorative plants for jouse culture, this is perhaps the most imposing and satisfactory. It is so hardy that it will stand and
ve in most any situation in a room even if out of
* sun’s rays. Plants form an immense number of aceful drooping fronds, varving in length from two
; ve feet and always of a fresh, healthy and beauti- ful green color.
- This has the finest follage of
Lace, or Baby (Goodi)
all Ferns. It is so delicate that a lady on seeing it ex- Claimed: “Call it the Baby's Breath." It gives the impression of fine lace work Our word for it, no Fern in existence can compare with tt in fulfTiness,
it is a hardy, easy grower in any window, dwarf, com- pact and perfectly charming in every respect
Amerpohtlii This to our mind is the most graceful and beautiful of all Boston Ferns It is very much su- perior to the Fern Ball, and well adapted to a hanging pot. Fronds broad, finely cut and waved like ostrich plumes. No other Fern fronds so beautiful as this,
Mrs. Roosevelt —A «reat improvement on the old Bos- ton Fern. It is more upright in growth, grows faster and makes about four fronds to the old varieties’ one, It is also a deeper and richer color
Teddy, Jr. — A superb dwarf form of the splendid Mrs, Roosevelt Fern. New, Schoizeli This is really a fine crested form of Scotti
‘onds erect with graceful arch. Makes a most bean f'*rl mien at any size or stage of growth.
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Pierson’s Boston Fern Immense wavy fronds, of the Ostrich Plume type, but longer and more beautifully feathered. Without doubt it is the most magnificent Fern grown, and possesses all the*hardy, fobust and easy-growing qualities peculiar to the common Boston Fern and its varieties,
Pierson’s Baby Boston Fern—-A great novelty and a great beauty. Like Pierson’s Fern, only smaller in size and far more feathery and plume-like. It is per- fectly exquisite
Superbissima New: clusters, each frond odd and beautiful way.
Scotti——A decided acquisition. It is a @yvarf, compact grower, and has two or three times as many fronds as the Boston Fern. it makes symmetrical handsome plants in either large or small size. : ;
Price of all Ferns on this page, 20c each; any 3 for SOc;
the 10 for $1.59.
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Muscosa — Avery dwarf Fern, with dense compact fronds of the deepest and richest emerald green. A fine companion to the Lace Fern. No other Fern like it.
Elegantissima — New. ‘and ‘very fine. On the order of Pierson’s, but differing in a more elegant frond. This is about the. best, of the lot for all-around purposes.
_ Elegantissima Compacta — A very dwarf, compact form of the above. Fronds shorter and more numerous. This is in, every way distinct and unlike any other
- sort. For a very dwarf compact Fern it is supérb.
* Robusta — The largest of all with immense wide fronds - of great beauty. Unsurpassed for foliage effect, the great fronds showing up to wonderful advantage. Whitmanii Improved —A beautiful Fern with elegant wide fronds tapering to a long slender point. Color
an exceptionally fresh lively green.
' Pasadena Boston Fern — This beautiful sort is erown ‘freely in California both as a pot and garden plant. “It is remarkably hardy and robust, sending up long, narrow frends which are quite stiff and erect, and two . feet or more in length. The color is a remarkably fresh, lively green which is very attractive. The fronds are numerous, forming in great masses and make a lovely, compact plant for pots. This is a form of Tuberosa and is very lovely.
- Pictinata — This is' a dwarf form of Pasadena Boston - Fern, with very narrow, upright fronds and lots of ae An exquisite little Fern in every way and one Wwe can highly recommend. Th is absolutely distinct and ce pretty:
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WHITMANIE Stag Horn, Splendida or Big Four —The most wonderful
Fern of them all. It combines the good qualities of the four most popular sorts. It has the grace of a “Boston,” the wavy effect of a “Roosevelt,” the fluffy effect of an “Ostrich Plume,” and the uniqueness of the “‘Fish Tail.”” Some fronds will be straight “Bos- ton,” others will be true “Roosevelt,” in others the ends of the pinnae will be the feathery ‘Ostrich Plume,” while in others the ends of the pinnae will De the genuine ‘Fish Tail.” This is the strongest srower of the Nephrolepis. We have no hesitancy in Saying that this is the most valuable of all. It well deserves the name of “Big Four Fern.” Be sure and try it.
Price — All Ferns on this page 25ce each; 3 for 60c; the 8-for $1.50.
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ilere are the latest and some of the most superb Bos-
ton Ferns, All the new varieties up to date.
Childsi (Childs’ Boston Fern) — This remarkable new sort which originated in our greenhouse, being a sport from Muscosa. The fronds are short, narrow and rigid, held mostly erect in dense masses which make a most peculiar and attractive plant. Each plant be- comes a tuft of very dark and very light green fo- lage, the young fronds being light in color at first, but deepening to a rich dark green as they mature. It s exceedingly robust and will stand Jots of abuse and look well all the time, Very distinct. Fine plants, 30c each; 4 for $1.00.
Tuberosa Plumosa — Exquisitely beautiful: the laterals
if the fronds streaming out and drooping and curling
like ostrich feathers. Color, darker and richer green than others. Habit fine, making a plant of great beauty. 30c each; 2 for 50c.
Todzoides (London, B. F.) — This is after the style of Whitmanii,. belonging to the Ostrich Plume type of Nephrolepis. It is claimed by its introducers that it does not run back so badly as Whitmanii. We believe it to be somewhat of a stronger grower. Certainly a fine Fern. 40c.
Whitmanii Compacta — This is a condensed form of the
“Ostrich Plume Fern,’ with valuable characteristics added, the pinnat= subdividing, making miniature fronds, which are superimposed on the main fronds, looking as if two or more were condensed in one. Graceful beyond description. $1.00 each.
Fish Tail (Furcans) — This is a grand Fern, entirely distinct from any of the other varieties of Nephro- epis. At New Orleans this Fern takes precedence over uli others. The ends of the pinnae are so formed as to resemble a fish tail, giving the fronds a crested ap-
pearance, very effective, It mows into shapely plant. Grand for house culture. Giatrari— A dwarf form of Scottl, and is quite distinct and valuable. each. Harrisi — This is on the order of Mrs. Roosevelt with more distinct lobes, and much larger fronds. It is even larger than Robusta, most superb specimen. 40c¢ each. Millsi — Finer than Elegantissima, more dwarf, but with
larger and wider fronds. Hardy, robust and will stand lots of abuse. 30c each; 3 for 75c.
the most 25c each. growing compact 50C but and stronger ind makes a
NEW BOSTON FERN, TUBEROSA PLUMOSA
Wanamaker — In presenting this new Boston Fern we feel confident that it will make a place for itself. A “sport” from Scholzeli, with longer, narrower, grace- fully drooping fronds. It is not so campact in growth and is a durable house Fern. It is a rapid grower, making an abundance of fronds, and is quite distinct from any other. 40c each.
Verona — Ai larger and coarser form. of the Baby or Goodi Fern. Very hard and tough, making a wide- spreading plant of the most beautiful form. Semi- dwarf. 40c each.
Superba — Long, heavy fronds like Robusta, with su- perbly curled and crinkled edges caused by all the sections of the frond splitting up into various forms. 75c.
Mayi— A tall stately yet quite different distinct. 75c. alt s
Norwood — The most beautiful form of Nephrolepis! to date: graceful, compact and symmetricalpia vigorous healthy grower. No written deseription ‘ean convey an adequate idea of its extreme value. "$1100 each.
Baby Randolf— Style of Pierson with marrow and smaller fronds. Very fine. 75c.
crower with fronds like Childsi, and hard to descritie.’ Entirely
Wagneri — Narrow but long, graceful fronds with re-_
curved edges. Very light green when young, growing darker with age, like Childsi. A very promising new Fern, 75c¢ each.
The 15 New Ferns on this page for $6.00.
See inside back cover for two exquisite Boston Ferns which we are introducing this year.
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Our Great New Hydrangeas
For tubs or bedding what is more beautiful or classy than big bushy Hydrangeas standing in large pots or tubs adorning’ porches, verandas or the lawn. They are easily grown and any one can have them who will plant the fol- lowing superb new sorts. They are also fine ior bedding out in summer and produce clusters of bloom by the po as large as a Man’s hat. Winter plants in a cellar or pit. >
Sea Shell — Probably this is the most magnificent of all pot plants. Itis a new color running to a most exquis- ite soft soft sea shell-pink or a blue tinted pink or pink tinted blue, there being some variations. The clusters of bloom are simply enormous, aS Many as twenty ap- pearing On a year-old plant at one time. Very small cutting plants also bloom when only a few months old. One of the very best things we ever had.
Mam. Manillara— This is truly a giant-flowering Hy- drangea, with flowers fully three to four times larger than any other. Single florets three inches across are
~ produced on well-grown plants. It is so much larger and finer than any other sort that there is no com- parison.’ Color pure white. Blooms when plants are
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_ . Avalanche — Exactly like Sea Shell except in color, which
is pure_white, and perfectly magnificent. : Bouguet Rose — Flowers a foot across, fine dark pink tinged amber. Emile Monillere — Flowers very symmetrical, and freely borne, “Pure ‘white with a fine carmine-pink center. - Very attractive-and beautiful. Entirely distinct and unlike any other: Hydrangea.
Renel Gaillard —- Thick woody habit; enormous size and perfect bearing. Creamy white with fringed edges. Anges Barillet —A most floriferous variety of splendid “habit. Flowers large, round, soft creamy-white. Ex- eellent for forcing for winter. ;
25c, each; 3 for 60c; the 7 for $1.25
s Oleander What home is complete without its tub of Oleander? ant that can be grown in almost any
the cellar. Its dark green, willow-like foliage is in itself neat and pleasing; but when it blooms it is beauti- ful beyond expression with its many large, delicate satin- like flowers.
Pink — Large blossoms of fine rosy-pink. Very double. White — Magnificent large snow-white double blossoms. Crimson — Fine deep crimson-red. Extra.
- Yellow — Large and very beautiful.
Variegata—— Leaves bordered with creamy-white; flow-
.- ers pink, very double. _A magnificent plant, the con- trast of foliage and delicate ‘color of blossoms being ~ very striking. Sap =
teas Price, 25c each; the 5 fer $1.00
as | aeed ~~ S. New Crimson Fountain Grass (Pennisetum Cupreum)
As a show plant for beds or borders it is most superb, the cut above being photographed from our lawn last summer. This magnificent Grass succeeds equally well as a pot_plant for window or veranda or in the garden. The abundance of gracefully-curved foliage is (except when the plants are very young and small) a deep rich crimson color at all times. During summer and fall the plants throw up numerous stems bearing long graceful plumes of rich crimson color and superb silky texture. Plumes six to twelve inches long and very ornamental. May be cut and cured for dry bouquets. Plants from seed produce blooms in about five months, but best re- sults will be had from plants already established Strong Plants — 25c each; 3 for 60c; $2.00 per doz. Seed — Will flower first year. 10c per pkt.
Baby Honeysuckle, Nitida
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These Geraniums show great improvement over sorts previously introduced, in habit, vigor, size and quality of bloom and radiant coloring. For several years they have been the admiration of all who have visited our conser- vatories.
SINGLE SORTS Alabama — Deepest, darkest red; a grand and rich color. Almira Star — Extra fine white. Blue Tint — This remarkable variety has a large flower of a distinct bluish tinge. Center rayed orange-scarlet. Indiana — Pure lilac-pink, spotted. Very large size. New York — Enormous cluster of great substance: beau- tiful round flowers. Soft pink; perfectly exquisite. New Jersey — Whiite, tinted, veined and spotted. Oregon — Flowers very large and perfectly magnificent.
Orange-scented, clouded and mottled with pure white,
Pennsylvania — Pure snow-white; best of its color.
Beacon Light — Finest of the dark scarlet single sorts. Flowers large, of finest form, and borne in endless profusion summer and winter. Finest window variety. New, and olfered now for the first time,
Crackerjack — This is in every way one of the most wonderful Geraniums ever introduced. It is of our own origin and a cross between a double ivy-leaved sort and the ordinary double kind and shows charac- teristics of both. roliage somewhat like the ivy- leaved, Branches long and graceful, but not of @ trailing character, while the enormous double blos- soms are of a delicate pink color with big crimson blotches.
20c each; 3 for 55c; $2.00 per doz. SCENTED-LEAVED GERANIUMS
Mrs. Taylor A distinct variety of the scented Gera- niums with a strong rose fragrance, and large deep scarlet flowers of the Hybrid Perpetual class, Com- bines free-flowering qualities with fragrant foliage. Very useful for summer cut flowers, and as a pot plant
for winter,
Pink Sport — A fine sport from the above and just like it in every respect except in color, which ts a charming pink—the two make a splendid combination,
Nutmeg — Small downy leaves, elegantly scented,
Rose Scented — Old, well-known sort,
Apple Scented —- Very fine.
20c each; & for 75c; $1.50 per doz.
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Abbie Schafer One of the finest bedders; splendid flowers, magnificent trusses, abundantly roduced throughout the entire season; semi-dwarf, short-
jointed grower; the color is a soft pleasing crimson- scarlet.
Electre —A brilliant shade of clear wallflower-violet.
General Grant — Brilliant scarlet. Favorite for bedding.
Helen Michael — Clear, light, brilliant searlet.
Louis Maindron — Flowers of a brilliant madder-red, large white center, forming a most brilliant eombina- tion of colors; excellent habit of growth; immense flowers.
Mayflower — White, tinted pink. Very fine.
S. A. Nutt——- Very large truss of deep erimson-black blossoms, and elegant foliage. Highly ormamental and very beautiful. :
Double, New Life Double with scarlet and white pet- als. Very odd and showy.
Double, Mrs, White—Pure white thickly spotted crimson.
Pink Pearl This is a seedling of our prdduction and by all odds the very finest double-pink Geranium yet seen. In fact, in vigor, blooming qualities, size and color, it is the finest Geranium im cultivation to-day. For bedding it is the freest and finest grower on all soils and under all conditions, and the most marvel- ous Dhoomer. No less than two hundred elusters of bloom have been counted at one time on one plant. Trusses large, florets very large of, the Bruant type, and color that soft exquisite shade of pink seen only in Enchantress Carnation. Greatest of bedding sorts on account of its wonderful growing qualities. f
White Pearl — Except in color this is like Pink Pearl, and is the grandest double white Geranium in cultiva- tion. The two make a beautiful combination.
White Swan — Very floriferous. An ‘@xtra fine pot Ger- anium covered with large trusses of snow-white flow- ers that are very double and perfeet. Finest white.
25c each; 3 for 60c; $2.25 per doz.
* Ivies
Ivy, German—A rapid growing trailing vine with an abundance of splendid foliage, Always beautiful.
Ivy, Kenilworth (nsurpassed for bracket - suspended pots or baskets. A rapid grower, the long, graceful vines clothed with abundant small leaves .and a proe- fusion of violet tinted white blossoms, Most'beautitul.
Ivy, English — Well known hardy vine, fine also! for
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This new Dwarf Justicia is really a much finer plant than our engraving suggests. Everyone knows the tall, lanky, straggling habit of the old Justicia Rosea. This new sort, which is now grown so extensively by Parisian florists, begins to bloom when the plant has only three or four leaves, and is never out of flower afterward. If pinched back occasionally it makes a very dwarf, stocky plant, frequently covered with twenty to thirty large pink flower-heads, lasting a long time. The foliage is also more persistent and highly ornamental, being heavy in texture and very velvety. lt is the plant for every- body to grow in quantity. lt was lately shown at the National Horticultural Society’s exhibition at Paris, and at Ghent, a plant with fifty- flower spikes received well- merited awards. 30c each; $ for 75c.
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Well known and highly prized pot plants.
Trophy — Large double purple with scarlet sepals. 20c.
Trailing Queen —A lovely drooping habit, displaying a mass of beautiful foliage and large flowers of rosy- scarlet and violet-purple color. Flowers borne in clus- ters, buds long and graceful. 20c¢ each.
Storm King— The double white, perpetual blooming weeping Fuchsia. Its graceful, weeping habit, and its superlatively beautiful flowers, more freely borne than those of any other sort. make the most valuable ble of Fuchsias. Jt is always in bloom, often as many as two hundred buds and blossoms on a plant at once. The branches droop most gracefully, and the blossoms are frequently as large as teacups. The buds, for two weeks before they expand, are balls of glowing scar- let-crimson. When expanded the enormous double flowers are almost pure white, capped by a calyx of glowing scarlet. 40c each; 3 for $1.00.
Linum Tigrinum
This is a beautiful pot-plant and one that flowers in mid-winter, at holiday time. It is very charming and profuse. Flowers large, two to three inches across, and of a most beautiful shade of bright glowing yellow. One of the very best of pot plants. 20¢€ each; 3 for 50¢c.
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Shower of Gold |,
As a plant for late win- z~ ter-blooming and early - spring-blooming (especial- <4 ly for Easter), it is almost ~ without an equal. Flowers, * golden-yellow, very fra- grant, and borne in Jarge, | drooping racemes and in /% such quantity as to almost 4S hide leaf and branch — |\g®& most truly a “Shower of Gold.” It is one of the: easiest plants to grow we | ever saw, and is absolutely |f sure to bloom profusely in jaye any window. As a plant ‘¥ for rare beauty, delightful '§
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and shou adorn every |Kqaiyg ee eee home. 20c; 3 for 50c. 3geeaie: ————— Peyeeines
Double Pomegranate
Handsome plant, with-attractive foliage and large double blossoms like a Camellia. The blossoms are wax-like, and the color remarkably clear and_ vivid scarlet. When in bloom, which is nearly all the time, it is one of the most attractive of all flowering plants, its great double rosette blossoms showing to great ad- vantage. 40¢€ each; 3 for $1.00.
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Double ae cea Hibiscus
Where can we find a more striking plant than this with
its glossy leaves and huge flaming flowers of satin-like
texture? Summer or winter, it is always budding and
blooming. Pots of Hibiscus are extra fine for piazza or hbaleony, and for bedding out in summer,
Peachblow — This is one of the finest plant novelties of- fered in recent years. The flowers are double, and from four to filve inches in diameter; of a charming, rich, clear pink color, with small deep crimson center; an entirely new and most beautiful shade,
-Very large double orange-vyellow.
Auriantica Makes
a ine contrast with Peachblow and Minneatus. Minneatus——-As gorgeous and fine as the best Paeony and Tully as large. Bush blooms when but a foot high. Blossoms a burning crimson; very double. Cooperi Most exquisite foliage, being variegated ereen, White, pink and red. A highly ornamental plant.
Fine plants, 25c each; 4 for 85c.
HELIOTROPE
Impatiens Oliveri
A large-growing Impatiens, with immense blossoms, that look like an orchid in shape and color; a delicate lavender tinted pink Good as a window plant, and alse as a bedding plant, but as a pot plant it is at its best, blooming freely all times of the year. Both flower and foliage very attracitve. 25c each.
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A lovely mossy plant, with long trailing stems covered
with plumy, feathery foliage of the freshest, loveliest green imaginable. Fine for aquariumis: _GPows nicely also in water tubs or ornamental pools, and:is much ad- mired when grown in hanging pots baskets of 1. It is one of the most charming trailing @nd- drooping plants, and furnishes an abundance 6f the ?most lovely foliage for bouquets. lt grows so rapidly that it can be cut with the greatest freedom. 15c each; 3 for 30¢; 12 for $1.00,
Nepeta Glechoma
This new Nepeta is hardy, fragrant’ and pretty, its leaves finely bordered with white. @ne of the prettiest things in the world to carpet graves, a& it roots wherever it touches the ground and forms an impenetrable network of vines through which weeds and grasses cannot creep. It will grow in any kind of soil, in sun or shade, hot or cold location, and is ever a mass of green and white, re- freshing to the eye. Unsurpassed for vases, hanging pots or baskets, 15c each; 3 for 30c; 12 for $1.00.
New Heliotrope, E. Dennison
The fnest known Heliotrope with ‘immensé*pahiclés of bloom, often nearly or quite a foot wide * Equally fine for pot culture and for the garden.
20c each; 3 for 50c, |
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_ A beautiful new plant of trailing or creeping habit, be- ing best adapted for hanging pots or baskets. lt has beautiful heart-shaped leaves and branches freely, grow- mg in most fine symmetrical form. It is in bloom all the time, the pendulous blooms appearing at the axils of the leaves and are bell-shaped, pure white, and about the size, form and color of Lily-of-the-Valley. As a specimen pot or basket flower to be suspended in the window it is the finest thing of the sort we have ever seen. . Grows very rapidly and makes a lovely plant in a Short times 45c each; 3 for 40c.° .
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D.SS .@ Manettia Vine _ In the house it can be trained all around a window, and it will be a solid wreath of bloom summer and win- ter; in the open ground, during summer it will grow ten ' feet, - branching freely and covering a large space of | trellis, arbor or wall,.showing at all times thousands of _ bright blossoms.’ The flowers are one and one-half to _ two inches long, and of the most intense fiery scarlet, _ Shading off to a bright. yellow tip. They are also cov- _ ered with a scarlet moss or hairy substance, which adds - much to their beauty, and each flower keeps perfect for we Sa Se No plane Ee easier to grove and it te Ss oom most pr dD Reach: 3 for foe. t profusely at all time. 15c
if r Py = = : , Mahernia or Honey Bell A iQVely_ cand -free-blooming pot plant producing in &teat numbers exquisite, bell-shaped ens of etileeae yellow. But ifs- fragrance!) It is impossible to describe its delightful sweet scent. A most lovely and favorite Plant m all respects. 20c each: 3 for 50e,
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Mexican Primrose
It is in flower at all times of the year, a good specimen showing most of the time from ten to thirty large saucer-
shaped blossoms about three inches across. The superb colors, combined with airy grace and beautiful form, go to make a flower which is perfection itself. AS a win- dow plant it combines. great hardiness and ease of culture with unsurpassed beauty. and delicate loveliness and profusion of bloom. - Bright deep pink, veined with scar- let, and with a light-center. Introduced by us in 1892, and has since been named Oenothera Childsi by Dr. Bailey, Who speaks highly of it. 20c each; 3 for 50¢c.
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Double Marguerite, Mrs. F. Sander
This superb double variety has created a sensation. During the cool months of the late autumn and winter it throws a small percentage of single flowers along with the doubles, but during spring and summer fully ninety per cent are perfectly double. 20c each; 3 for 50c.
Euphorbia Jacquiniflora
As a winter bloomer this plant has no superior. No matter how small a plant may be, it is bound. to be full of bloom all winter long. Color intense crimson-scarlet and blossoms are produced so profusely as to complete- ly wreathe every branch in brilliancy. Flowers keep perfect two months before fading. 20c each; 3 for 50c.
Double Nasturtium
Large double blossoms, yellow blotched crimson, are borne in profusion at all times of year. As a pot plant
it is a dwarf, compact grower of bushy habit. In the garden it will climb to a certain extent. It is a very desirable plant in every way. 20c each; 3 for 50c.
138 join Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
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\ Lemon that can be as easily grown in pots as a Ger- anium and which produces fruit weighing from one to three pounds each. These enormous fruits are borne on plants one to two feet high, growing in five- or six-inch pots. it is everbearing and its fruit is delicious for lemonade and culinary purposes. It makes a beautiful specimen plant for the house. Has large, deep green leaves and pure, waxy-like flowers that are fragrant as Orange blossoms. Will thrive in any good soil; either indoors or out. 25c¢ each; 3 for 60c. Extra large, 40c.
New Otaheite Lemon
A superb novelty in the form of a very dwarf Lemon for pot culture, which corresponds in all respects to the
Otaheite Orange. Blooms freely even when only’ six inches high and bears an abundance of beautiful little lemons which are as handsome as the blossoms. A splendid companion plant to the beautiful Otaheite Orange. 70c each
New Double-Flowered Orange
For sweetness, for purity and for exquisite loveliness the Urange blossom has held undisputed sway for ages. is a double Orange blossom superior to a single? Yes, aS much so as a double Rose is superior to a single Rose, and this is the first introduction of a Double- Fiowered Orange. A plant of dwarf, bushy growth, suit- able for pots, put in Orange sections it is the most beautiful Nowering tree rol the garden ever seen. Flowers as large as a silver half-dollar. full, double and of much greater fragrance than the single. Blooms pro- fusel as a sma plant in pots, like the Otaheite, but aiways growing larg and it bears fruit, too. One of the most important velties we ever brought out. Price-— Fine one-year plants, 60c each. Three-year
plants, $1.00 each.
Olea Fragrans (Fragrant Olive)
This is the sweetest flower that blooms, belong- ing to the Olive family and is & perpetual bloomer, never Without flowers,
either sumuner winter, though the plant may not
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be a foot in height. The Nhowers are small, creamy white, and borne in clus- ters. Each individual blos- som, though no larger than the head of a shawl pin has more sweetness than the largest and most fragrant Lily. Its fra-
grance is also delicate and Charming, really the finest
of all flowers, and you cannot pass a plant with out noticing it. Succeeds Well anywhere. 40c.
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An extra fine pot plant with glossy leaves, the true fragrant Orange blooms and abundant little bright oranges that will hang on the little bush like balls of gold for six months after they are ripe. They will bloom and fruit in a two-inch pot; and we have seen a plant in a common window that was but fifteen inches high and had twenty-five oranges on it. With good sunlight they are never out of fruit from one year’s end to another. The fruit is very sweet and handsome. Could we have but one plant in our window it would be an Otaheite Orange. In beauty, grace and fragrance there is nothing like the delicate, leafy sprays of bloom, so exquisite, dainty, lovely and adorable. Fine plants for blooming and fruiting at once. 25c each, Extra large, 40c¢ each.
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A ball of tightly folded leaflets, dry. and dead. Drop it in a bowl -of water and ina short time there is a great, loose, expanded rosette of fine fern-like leaves, both odd and beautiful. This can be repeated many times, the plant curling tightly together when dry, expanding when soaked. 1i0c each; 3 for 25c.
Phoenix Roebelini
A Superb New Palm
|The newest and in every respect the finest and the most beautiful Palm grown, with the most graceful and beautiful foliage, and it is the most easily grown of all Palms, and just the one that will sucseed in any window. Nothing. can surpass it aS a decorative plant. Finest Paim for outdoor culture in the Southern or Pacific States. The whole world has gone wild over it. We have the only large stock of it in America. Five-year- old plants, $2.50.
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grayish green leaves, that droop and curve in the most - graceful manner. 20c each; 3 for 50c.
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peated@-and the long, tubular blossoms are nk-eolor so unusually beautiful as to ~- Blooms all winter long, and highly A flower and foliage. Of easiest culture ~ 80c each; 3 for 50¢.
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Not strictly a Cactus, but resembles one in habit and appearance. Thick, succulent stems and star-shaped, spotted maroon, brown and yellow blossoms, very odd and striking. Flowers throughout the year. The flowers are thick and leathery, resembling the skin of a reptile. It is exceedingly attractive. 25c each.
Baby Rubber Plant (Ficus)
This makes a beautiful pot plant, growing two to
three feet high with the beautiful waxy green leaves Which make the old Rubber Plant so It branches freely and is highly orna- 80c each.
(but smaller) highly prized. mental.
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Plant (Hoya)
Years ago the Wax Plant was a great favorite as a window climber or pot plant. It is so rare that it is seldom seen nowadays. Bears superb clusters of cream tinted wax-like blossoms 25¢ each.
New White Buddiea
A new pure white (Buddlea Asiatica) which is very beautiful indeed. Its clusters of bloom are even larger and finer than the above variety, but it is feared the plant is not quite hardy in the open ground here, though it will be a little farther South. It is a glorious pot plant for winter blooming. 20c each; 3 for 50c
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Salvia Greigi, Rosy Scarlet
\lthough this is a hard-wooded Shrub, it grows but little, if any, larger than Saivia Splendens, about two feet, branching freely, and hardly ever out of bloom. It stands alike the cold winters and hot dry summers of Kansas, and the severe cold of New England. It is perfectly hardy in all parts of the United States, and a graet drought and heat resister. It is a native of the cold, dry arid mountains of Texas. Instead of a long tubular flower like other Salvias, the flower of Greig! is short with a wide-spreading face that is of the soft- est, sweetest rosy scarlet color ever seen. A soft rest- ff! brillianey instead. of the harsh glare of the bedding scarlet Salvias. dn addition to being a perpetual bloom- ing small shrub for the garden, it makes a most superb pot plant, blooming profusely, especially during winter. In fact, valuable as it is for the open ground, we are inclined to think it still more useful and beautiful as a pot plant. It flowers at once from small cutting plants, and has an agreeably fragrant foliage somewhat like the Lemon Verbena. 25c each; 5 for 81.00.
Salvia Greigi, Snow White
This is a pure white form of Salvia Greigi (no dif ference except in color which we are introducing this year for the first, It is the greatest plant novelty for 1016. Good plants, 25c each: 5 for 81.00
One each of the 2 for 40c.
The Plumed Salvia
See page 16 of Novelties, This is the finest of all
varieties of Salvia Splendens. 20c each; 3 for 50c. / » The Blue Salvia
This new Blue Salvia is a splendid flower for late summer and fall in the garden, but it is better yet for ots where it blooms freely all the fall and early winter. ‘lowers of a most exquisite Amethyst-blue, tipped white, one of the rarest and most pleasing colors in any flower
A free grower. 25c each.
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
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Pelargoniums
Here are three very odd and beautiful Pelargoniums which are not often seen. 3
Clorinda — This Pelargonium is rare and quite unknown, although exceedingly fine. Foliage rich, deep, healthy green and very fragrant when crushed in the hand: Flowers large, bright, rosy cerise. One of the most delightful pot plants we have. 30¢.
Marion — The same plant bears flowers of different ecol- ors. One cluster of bloom will be white marked with crimson, While another will. be fine rose marked purple, or some other combination. It is very fine. — 20c.
Pansy Cluster A very profuse bloomer in spring and summer. The flowers are like good sized Pansies in large clusters and show to wonderful advantage, being of beautiful tinted white with large dark velvety blotches making them very conspicuous. Itis a robust,
hardy, free-growing pot plant sure t0 give satisfaction. 30c each; 2
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Few plants equal this in beauty and general good qual- ities. lt has a most beautiful fern-like foliage and blooms perpetually every day in the year, its blossoms being the shape and nearly the size of Sweet Peas, and borne in great clusters of twenty to forty. These clus- _ ters appear at the axils of the leaves, and a single branch _ shows many clusters of bloom at all times. The plant is a free and rapid grower, beginning to bloom in three or four weeks from cuttings, and continuing for years. : It is easier to grow and manage than a Geranium, thriv- _ Ing in any soil and in any window, and is a superb bed- ding plant for the garden in summer.- ~ Pure White — Large, milky-white; exquisite. ' Beep Red — Fine, dark-red, with large white blotches. _ Pink—New and fine. _—_,
“— Price, 25c each; the 3 for 60c.
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A. = pS Ss e © Vinea Variegata A lovely trailing vine with variegated leaves and large sky-blue blossoms which are borne profusely during winter. it makes a pretty pot or basket plant. the beau- tiful flowers appearing all winter. The foliage is bright green and pure white, the white predominating. It is an exquisite plant. 15c¢ each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.00.
Tradescantia Splendid trailing foliage plants of .quick and easy growth that harmonize with Ferns.
Tradescantia Variegata— A new Wandering Jew. Leaves are white and green, very beautiful. Also produces a lot of white flowers
Tradescantia Multicolor — Large beautiful leaves of bronze and silver; highly ornamental and @ rapid grower, producing a splendid effect in a short time.
15c each; the 2 for 25c; $1.00 per dozen
. a & & Streptosolen Amabilis Magnifica This is not only in bloom every day of the year, but
it is full of bloom all the time. How a plant can support such a wealth of flowers day after day, week after Week, month -after month, and year after year is @ mystery. One of the easiest pot or window plants to grow. It flowers from the time the plant leaves the cutting bed, no matter how small. Flowers large and of a rich dark blue color20c each; 3 for 50¢c; 7 for $1
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Sweet Violets The following are the four best Violets.
Alaska —A grand new sort well adapted to garden cul- ture, being hardy and robust, and producing in spring great masses of enormous double flowers of a deep blue-blag¢k color and powerful fragrance.
Maria Louise — Lovely large double blue.
California Single — Superb long stemmed single blos- soms of the richest color and fragrance
20c each; the 3 for 50c; $1.30 per dozen
142 John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
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Obconica or Monarch Primrose
rhese are new large-flowering Obconica-Sinensis Hy- brids of various colors, as large and fine as Primula- Sinensis. Colors, pink, violet, blush, rose, lilac, white, etc. Very charming flowers, being borne in large trusses, and at all times of the year in great profusion. They bloom very quickly from seed, and the large showy blossoms are borne constantly for a year, and when we realize that these flowers are as large as P. Sinensis, and almost as varied in color, their great value is at once ipparent Plants very vigorous and as easily grown as a vUeraniul
Seed — All colors mixed, 15c per packet. Plants Mixed Fine healthy stock, ready to bloom. 20c Big Crimson ‘he largest and highest eolored Prim-
Very showy crimson. 25c each.
Primula Malacoides
New Large-Flowering E: \ noveltv o last year. . ® profuse with hundreds Sanseveria Zealanica raceful lower stems
hearing apraved clusters of .;,., mere is Searcely a decorative plant that is more’ strik- rE i : ing in foliage and habit than this,. and certainly none
etay. —— Ba other that will stand as much downfight neglect and ‘Wn as a pol_plant. Thig | Dardship. It will crow in a dark hall, cool bedroom, OF ‘.e a r eo stand on the mantel in a heated room. It will stand gas
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ee wnt sete luced it water, yet remaining as thrifty as eyer. Erect, rigid, in ul winter lone in *SW0rd-like leaves, thick and fesh¥, dark green with
onderful 1 te te clouded bars of white In May or June it sends up long An 4 . “ = ies 2 plumy spikes of soft feathery Whiteness. Just = Je ey aay plant for sunless windows or halls, where nothing else ~ rae Gian White “ty : will grow, 20c each; 8 for 50¢. ~ il if : : rg : : if ‘ \ New Giant Violet-Rose \ . iD @ ‘ Pe lovels ack : vio : he let-rose ' ve large “ and |] rus 1 . Plants $2.00 per Liked b , doz . : : b Seed Mixed Bot colors rs > ; ; e Fs s/ 4, Fy eS Plants | : : loom in
PRIMULAMALACOIDES $02", bx). months. Pkt,
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Shamrock, True Irish The stock Is + ne and thor- oughly acclimated, having been erown here several vears. A very beautiful pot plant with dark chocolate and green foliage. Each stem with three to five leaves, like FPour-leaf Clover. A lovely folia : ise each: 3 for 30c.
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New Puc rhlooming Pelargoniums
These new Pelargoniums are considered by many Surely they are ile greatest novelty in window plants that have been introduced in twenty years. Habit, strong, com- With the strongest constitution and great wealth of beautiful, luxuriant foliage.
~The plants are perpetual in blooming habit, espe- cially from March to September. They are like the largest specimen plants of the most exquisite Azaleas, with flowers equally large, the petals beautifully curved Two plants im five-inch pots produced, respectively, from April to 139 and 126 trusses of magnificent blooms, five or six immense flowers to each truss.
No. plant “isi easier to grow in any window or garden. fan respect it is as much superior to the old sorts as it is larger ‘and more magnificent in flower and foliage. _ Flowers: freely” all summer bedded out.
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Easter Greet ing— Brilliant rose, cet of “the five large petals being marked with a large brown-black spot in the center. The spot being bordered with scarlet daintily penciled with crimson. ‘The combination is very striking. The florets are very large, from two and one- quarter to three and one- quarter. inches in di- ameter and are very durable either on the plant or when cut. 35c¢ each.
Easter Morn —A sport from the above and just like it except in color, which is a light lavender-pink, the large brown- black blotches being beautifully penciled, feathered and flushed brilliant scarlet. Blooms con- tinually and is a very rich color. 30¢ each.
Easter — A new sport with bright carmine_ blossoms showing large velvety blotches. Has all Feud qualities of above two sorts for pots or bedding. 45c.
Easter Star — Large reddish scarlet flowers with regular black blotches. Toned with purplish carmine. Very
effective. Robust and free. 50c.
All 4 sorts for $1.60.
All these 4 varieties are equally beautiful and valuable and all alike except in color.
144 John Lewis Childs, Inc., Flora] Park, N. Y.
Rose Winter Gem
The Greatest Pot Bloomer of all Fine Roses ine of the greatest Rose novelties in years, ne both to its beauty and unparalleled bioom-
ing qualities. It is a Tea Rose ol remarkably strong and vigorous growth and a prodigious
bloomer all the year. It flowers all the time, par- ticularly during the winter, hence its name. The blossoms are borne on long, graceful stems, are of large size and a lovely crimson-pink color.
Buds perfectly exquisite and the open flower full
and double. It is the strongest, hardiest, most
vicorous and rapid growing Tea Rose in cultiva- tion. One plant of it will produce more good
Roses’in the year than twelve plants of any other
Tea Rose grown. This is saying a good deal, but
it is true. The plant will bloom continually and
nothing but killing it outright will check it. The blossoms are singularly beautiful in shape, color and poise, and most delicately scented. More fracrant than any other Tea Rose. It is so strong and vigorous that it never mildews, and is @ rapid grower, blooming at once from small cut- tines. The greatest Rose for amateurs and one that will positively bloom prodigiously in any vindow at all times of the year. Strong, well
established plants. 25¢ each; 3 for 60c.
Very striking and satisfactory pot or bedding Roses for general cultivation.
Crimson Baby Rambler — This Rose ts a Gwarf ever- blooming Crimson Rambler, bearing great clusters of bright crimson double blossoms all the year round just as Crimson Rambler does in Juné. It is really valuable
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Hybrid Perpetuals ought to be very ex- fensively grown. The flowers are of very great Size and beauty, produced mm. great profusion in ce, spring, and to a consider- able extent all summer. Their tall, erect es eee habit fits them for ornamental hedges, eee si « 2 Center of large Rose beds, or clumps of « ., Shpubbery... They furnish us with deep, rich glowing = Stores ae pend in a9 other section of the family,
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_~ €lio — Flesh-pink, shaded rosy peach.
~ mous Roses for color, 3. B. Clark — Intense, deep scarlet, - biaekish-crimson: growth upright,
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== Black Prince — Large, double, crimson-black. Very dark. 3 _ Bati_of Snow — Double and perfect, blooming at inter. Beas ae = Vals throughout the season. Snowy white.
_ ‘Hugh Dickson — Brilliant crimson, shaded searlet; good : size and fine form; petals smooth, slightly cupped and ; -Teflexed; free-flowering and vigorous in growth; very - highly perfumed.
- _ @eneral Jacqueminot — Large velvety flowers of the = : ‘most intense maroon-scarlet, each Set in a cluster of ~~ iss Pi¢Begreen.jeaves. Blooms repeatedly through the
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~—~——s Best Hardy Roses
“ote SUPERB TWO-YEAR-OLD POT GROWN STOCK.
‘a pot, small Rose plant is passed. __ Strong two-year stock, ready. to grow and bloom. No Wailing a year All the following
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Teg. Roses . Hybrid
Tea Roses
These combine the best qualities of both the Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals, of which they are a cross, giving us the fine coloring and large size of the Hybrid Perpetuals ‘with the everblooming character of the Teas, Hadley —A deep velvety crimson, retaining its brilliancy
at all seasons of the year. It is a strong, rapid grower,
and the flowers are borne on long, stiff stems. ‘
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria — Extra large, finely formed
-flowers, borne singly on strong, upright stems; very deep, full and sweet: color pure white, shading to lemon; a free-bloomer. One of the finest Roses.
Mad. Seg Weber — Color a rosy salmon, a unique shade. The buds are long and pointed, opening into enormous blooms, deepening in color until fully expanded. The texture of the flower is very thick and heavy. :
My Maryland — One of the finest Anierican introductions. The plant is of. strong, vigorous growth. Extremely free flowering; of perfect form. Color, glowing in- tense pink, which lightens up beautifully as the flower expands. Strongly and celightfully fragrant.
Mad. Jenny Gillemot — A vigorous Hybrid Tea with fine deep green foliage. The buds are long and pointed; rich nankeen-yellow changing to saffron-yellow as the flowers develop.
Sunburet — This stands head and .shoulders above all others of its color. . The color is orange-copper or golden-orange and _ golden-yellow; edge of petals lighter; all intense shades, extremely brilliant in effect.
Wellesley — A beautiful shade of pink, the outside of the petals being very bright in color, with silvery reverse. - Fine in the field.
The Moss Rose is the aec- knowledged queen of. all wz»! Roses. The moss-covered “4@\ stems and buds show off 3\\ the delicate loveliness of iN the blossom to great ad- «isdoem vantage. They are perfectly \\“4 hardy in any location, and ips should be found in every 24% garden. a f Henry Martin—Fine rose. Crested Moss — Fine crim-
son, beautifully massed. White Bath—Pure white. 50c each; the 3 for $1.25.
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lovely crimson-scarlet pillar Rose a favorite place.
Wichmoss — Stems and buds envere e Blue Rambler A violet-blue seedling from Crimson red with eautirur
moss, and bright, shining, green leaves of the Wiechur- Rambler. This is a distinct novelty in the Rose jana type. A strong-growing sort making shoots five world. The fNowers appear in large clusters, after the to eight feet in length, covered with moss, like the manner of the Crimson Rambler. Upon first opening Moss Rose bud. Flowers two to. three inches wide the color is partly bluish-red and turning soon to a Sweet-scented, rosy white, tinted carmine-rose under- steel bine. he color is best described by saving that neath, in clusters of six to fifteen flowers. It is a. true it resembles that of early violets. climbing Moss Rose and very beautiful.
PRICE — Vigorous two-year-old fleld-grown plants, 35c each; 3 for $1.00; $3.00 per dozen: the 9 for $2.75 Green plants from pots, 20c each; 3 for 50e; the 9 for $1.50; or, $1.75 per dozen.
The Grandest Hardy FI ing Shrub Nothing can take the place of Shrubbery for the lawn, for hedges and specimen clumps. any situation, are beautiful all summer, producing some of the choicest out-door blossoms. fered is a select one, inclading only the very finest and most desirable new or rare and choice sorts.
PRICE — Ail Srubs, 25c each; 3 for 60c; 7 for $1.30; or, $2.00 per dozen Large Specimens, 40c each; 3 for $1.00; $3.50 per dozen.
Azalea Amoena — A lovely hardy evergreen Azalea with beautiful foliage, and fine compact bushy growth. In May or June the plants are densely covered with rich violet-red blossoms, which are exceedingly showy. Every leaf and twig is hidden by the quantity of flowers.
Azalea, Snowbank — Finest of ali New Hardy Shrubs. This Azalea is perfectly hardy in the open ground any- “where, blooms profusely, the flowers being pure white, of the same size and general appearance as the well-known greenhouse variety (Indica). As a hardy flowering shrub it is most superb.
Azalea, Amoena Superba — This is as hardy as an oak and. the most profusely flowering shrub ever seen, its Mass of burning color making a great effect. Color intense deep crimson. We can recommend it as a shrub that will give great satisfaction. Blooms pro- fusely when plants are very small.
Althea — A fine tall-growing shrub, that once planted is good for a lifetime. Blooms when but a slip of a plant, but eventually reaches the size of a small tree. Always a symmetrical upright grower, well clothed
: with a dark green foliage, and bears every year, with- + F out dail, a profusion of large, showy, double flowers that closely resemble Hollyhocks in shape and colors, : . but often larger in size. They bloom from midsum- ; --mer, until frost,.at a time when few other shrubs are s in bloom. Fine for cemetery planting or for growing > » upon the lawn. We have several different colors.
Sweet: Shrub, or Caiycanthus Florida— Long a favorite
_imm gardens. The purplish flowers have an exquisite ~ pineapple fragrance of which one never tires, and @ spray of them will perfume a-whole room. Can not ; be omitted from any lawn or garden. Golden Privet — A most ornamental hedge or pot plant. It is like the common Privet except the leaves are ~ ‘golden yellow, or variegated green and yellow. It is - * "hardy and robust and as its leaves remain on all winter it is doubly“useful and gives fine color effects. As @ pot plant, or specimen for the lawn it is also fine and surpasses all other golden-leaved plants.
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Buddlea, Butterfly Shrub — Clusters of large. sweet- seented flowers, measuring twelve to eighteen inches in length, closely resembling a Lilac in color and gen- eral appearance, but continues to bloom all summer in great profusion and until after the first frost. It is a vigorous growing, hardy shrub, and when better known is certain to become as popular as the hardy Hydrangea for shrubberies. Without doubt the best
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Deutzia Lemoinei — One of the greatest recent novelties in flowering shrubs. It makes a low compact bush which in June is loaded down with large, round, snow- ball-like clusters of pure white flowers. We know of nothing more beautiful for the garden, yet it has the added merit of being a grand pot plant for winter blooming. It is not too large for a pot and blossoms very finely at any time during winter. It is becoming very popular for Easter.
Deutzia Srendia Magnifica—A shrub of phenomenal beauty and unlike any other Deutzia. Stems large, bronze-green, middle-sized leaves, pointed and finely toothed. Numberless flowers in the form of crowded panicles, round, opening in large, full, double blos- soms. It blooms freely in May.
Deutzia Elegantissima — Flowers borne on long branches or stems, straight and slender, carrying each fifteen lo eighteen round blooms, well open, and of a beauti- ful pink color. This distinct shrub has a long flower- ing period and is one of the most beautiful.
Forsythia, or Golden Bell — Very early in the spring, while yet leafless, the Golden Bell hangs out its rows of drooping, bright golden bells. The leaves that come later are of a dark, almost myrtle green, turning early in fall to a rich bronzy-purple, and remaining long on the bush in that condition,
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Hydrangea Panicuiata — Generally considered the most valuable and ornamental shrub in existence. Bushy and robust, every branch tipped in midsummer with an immense close panicle of flat snow-Wwhite flowers of gigantic size. The trusses of bloom are ten to twelve inches long and nearly as thick through, last- ing for two or three months, turning pinkish toward the last. No other shrub makes such a show on the lawn or is So universally admired. Grand for cemetery use, and always blooms finely the first summer.
Hydrangea Snowball — This might be called a perpetual blooming Hydrangea Paniculata Grandiflora. It is cer- tainly superior to that grand old sort, in that it begins blooming in May or June and continues in great pro- fusion until frost, while the old variety only begins to bloom in August and September. The flowers of the Snowball Hydrangea are pure snow-white, the clusters almost as round as a ball and large as 3 man’s Hat.
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Spirea Anthony Waterer—A perpetual bloomer, and suitable either for garden or pots. It is of dwarf habit, Nowering profusely when only a few inches in height, and at all times and seasons. The flowers are of a lovely dark crimson-red color, borne in dense clusters, and have a peculiar feathery appearance which is beautiful.
Spirea Froebeli — A glorious new Spirea surpassing An-
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- size and the flowers are produced in greatest abun- dance during May and June, but it blooms to some ex- tent ali summer and fall. The abundance of flowers ‘is marvelous, the shrub being literally smothered with the profusion of its large, pure, rose-like blossoms of powerful and unexcelled fragrance. Hardy and ro- bust im any situation. Finest new shrub in many years.
Wolfberry, or Snowberry — Of dwarf, low-branching habit; forming a dense globular bush with the fine glaucous foliage.and pink blossoms. Its special beauty however is-in its great crop of beautiful, round, snow- white sense which last well into the winter. Very
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Red Wolfberry — Exactly like the above, except berries are red and-highly attractive.
Weigelia Eva Rathke — A grand new Everblooming Wei- gelia, producing great quantities of blooms all the sea- son, in magnificent clusters on the terminal branches. Color, deep, rich blood-red, “the finest color yet seen among Weigelias. A very valuable novelty and the finest all around flowering shrub.
Weigelia Avalanche —A new Weigelia with gigantic snow-white blossoms in immense panicles. A good piant im bloom; is almost like a snow-bank, so white and sO numerous are the blossoms. Best new Shrub in a long time. 1t makes a beautiful combination planted with Eva Rathke.
Weigelia Rosea Variegata — Leaves light green heavily variegated with a creamy-yellow, making a charming effect, but when its myriads of long, tubular, rose- colored blossoms are out, bending every branch to the ground, we see one of the most magnificent flowers in cultivation. Do not miss it.
Weigelia *Rosea Gigantea — Immense rose color. perb Shrub in’ every respect.
Pree oF ALL SHRUBS — All Shrubs 25c each; 3 for 60c; 7 for $1.30; or, $2.00 per dozen. Larger speci- mens, 40c each; 3 for $1.00; $3.50 per dozen, prepaid.
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Price — Any 5 for $3.50; or, 12 for $7.00 By express at buyer’s expense
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Japanese Tree Lilac This wonderful new Lilac from Japan grows to a ne syrometrical tree thirty feet high, yet blooms well vhen only a shrub like other Lilacs. The flowers are re white, and borne in immense clusters often more length. One may easily imagine the rantic elusters of bloom may have on a but when the tree has attained its full growth bears these grand compound clusters indred, it must be seen to be appreciated. It tly hardy and a vigorous grower anywhere. other Lilacs have faded. Trees Be express at
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Sinensis — Immense violet-blue blossoms.
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This is per- fectly grand, the clusters of bloom being like Eee drooping bouquets of violets. Makes a fine bu as well as climber. 20c each; 3 for 50c. Everblooming — This Wistaria will ache bloom all summer. It is also of remarkably clean healthy foli- age, and a very rapid and graceful grower. Its clean foliage and numerous. slender branches, droop- ing, add greatly to the charm of the blossoms. These are produced in horizontal or upright clusters, many clusters appearing on each branch in close proximity to each other. The vine is a rapid grower, reaching fifteen to twenty feet in a season. Flowers blue, and Tongs Be aaely. even on small plants. 40c¢ each; 3 or .00.
Ampelopsis Veitchi
The best wall climber. Clings tightly by suckers thrown out along the stems to brick, stone, ete., and 1s a wall of-living green the summer through, turning in autumn to a flaming crimson, when it is fairly gorgeous. It stands the dust and dry air of cities admirably. Noth- ing else can_take its place. 15c each; 5 for 50c; 12 for $1,00.
Clematis Paniculata :
Clean, thrifty, robust growing vine, of graecéful habit with attractive glossy green foliage, and covered in August and September with a sheet of clustered snow- white bloom of the most delightful fragrance. No other vine so completely covers itself with flowers. An arbor er portico over which this Clematis is trained is a wall of white for the time being, and what makes it the more striking is that nearly al! other vines have ceased bloom- ing at the time, 25c each; 3 for 60¢: 12 for $2.00.
NEW CLEMATIS, INA
This new. Clematis has heavy dark green foliage and flowers which are about two inches in diameter, twenty to fifty of them appearing in a cluster. Color, white shaded to lilac-blue o1 edges of petals and are produced on long stiff stems which grow from each joint. These are about six inches apart on the vine, and maké a won- derfully beautiful wreath of flowers, -It begins bloom- ing in August. The plants are perfectly hardy in all parts of the countr) rhe very best new vine In many years. 25c each; 3 for 60c; 12 for $2.00.
Honeysuckles
The dear old Honeysuckle is never out of place, at the rich man’s mansion the poor man’s cottage. For a cheap, hardy, robust, yet lovely vine, it is a standby, Honeysuckle, Golden Leaved ——Innumerable sprays of
the most perfect little leaves that are covered with a
network of gold and green, often marked with pink
also. Nothing finer to combine with corsage bouquets, while for trimming floral baskets they are great,
Blossoms pure white. 15¢ each; $1.25 per, dozen. Honeysuckle, Halliana — The best white monthly Honey-
suckle, with dark green foliare, which keéps fresh and green nearly all winter, and beautiful clusters of sweet-scented flowers that open, a snowswhite snd turn a pale yellow These flowers are produced, in profusion from early spring to late fall. 145¢ each; £1.95 per dozen
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Choice and Rare Fruits
The Fruit Garden is an indispensable part of any rural home. It is a delight, a satisfaction, a convenience, a profit, and a source of the most beautiful and delicious food supply any family can have. Beginning with the Strawberry in May, the supply is never exhausted until the last winter apples are used in May or June.
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Grows as high as fourteen feet. Bears as much as 2,694 berries on one plant. Largest size, sweetest quality, longest in
bearing, most profitable for market and the best for home use.
This remarkable new sort throws up canes as high as fourteen feet, 8,220 quarts of fruit to the acre and as Many as 2,694 berries on a Single bush; $743.00 worth of berries has QS been sold from a single acre in one season. Really a marvel. There is no bush Blackberry that can equal this in productiveness, quality of fruit, hardiness and vigor of growth. It is so very far ahead of all the many garden varieties in cultivation to-day that it is really in a class by itself, especially in size and pro- ductiveness. People who have tried Blowers’ Giant will grow no other Blackberry. The experiment stations say it Outranks all others, and there is no doubt about it.
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Blowers’ Giant is so much better than any other Garden Blackberry of the bush form that we offer no other sort.
Price — Extra strong select plants, 5 for 50c; 12 for $1.00; 100 for $6.00.
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' il ‘nm Fruits. Grows twenty to : Beal abundantly when one ' t quarts have been picked from ae ' Cannot be injured by cold or ul Vines perpetual like a Grape ' ’ e 4 ste and the very sweet- i f i reens it is also val- e and beautiful ne clusters of large : ; ’ yi vhat it mea to have a vine that will ' ind sh ob els | cious Blackberries ira iS VO f i have only to plant 1 fi we } can er arbors, trellises 1 make eautiful bowers over walks i up r to the Himalaya Berry, : ’ r the Mammoth Climbing Black it liscarded em all for this. Good ' ill verber! hard healthier, a ' Diggs py bieger and better fruit ' ; ce : ta three yeal for the ; ind it decice yeetest and most deli if il] 7 ; week! | ' We have had e | ' der observation for : ears | : ilread : ed its W a thou ind ifferent place ail the ¢ nti 2 exactly vhat is claimed f in evel particular and more too, t has been called st : ' W rwo-year transplanted | each ror UC; ) To! 81.75; 100 | _¥ rh . be ’ to lit ext summer The Austin Dews berries \ inning Blackberry which trail ground on iow supports and produce masse ' irge, wus cious fruit as black as jet and almost a wee , This is the finest Dewberry grown. 2 50c; 12 for 81.00; 100 for 88.00.
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white, but so transparent that the séeds, which are usually small may be seen in the ripe berries. Clus- ters large, berries large, early, sweet, tender and melting throughout. No garden complete without this grand White Black- berry. It is a most delic- iously sweet and prolific sort, and succeeds finely anywhere. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.50
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A hardy outdoor grape, equal in quality to any hot- house variety. itis a cross between a Catawba and Con- eord, and is one of the very finest grapes grown. Sur- passing in tenderness of pulp, luscious flavor and aroma with great sweeimess and juiciness. Rich sparkling wine- red. Buneh large and compact. Berry medium to large and nearly round. Season early: a little in ad- vance of Concord. Skin thin and tough. Berry adheres firmly to bunch. A superior shipper and keeper. Ex- empt from bot black-rot and brown-rot, and ail other Giseases. Vine of extreme vigor—a stronger grower than the Concord and iron-clad hardihood. A heavy annual yielder.. Foliage free from mildew.
Two-Year Vines — 40c each; $4.00 per dozen.
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In the Pieree Giant we have found what: we have long been looking for, a Grape of distinct and superior qualities. A’ strong growing vine, enormous foliage and great bunches of berries, that are of unheard of size. It is so hardy and such a free. easy and luxuriant grower that we predict it will speedily take first place with all lovers of the Grape. Fruit extra large, color of Black Hamburg, with a quality equal to any hot- aouse variety. Pulp exceedingly tender and meiting and cf superb flavor. Skin tough, berries never bursting or cracking or drop- ping off. In this respect it is a wonderful keeper and shipper, and in appearance as fine as hot-house varieties. Keeps perfectly in- to January. For fine quality as a home or market Grape it is the best sort we- know. Leaves do not mildew and vines do not over-
bear. Never needs thinning to get best re- sults; this is a most important quality. Bunches do not overcrowd, either. <A vine
will set only so much fruit as-it can develop to perfection. We have planted large vine- yards for fruit crops: which we expect will net double the price of other Grapes.
Vigorous one-year Vines, 50c¢ each; $5.00 per dozen.
The Three Best Standard Grapes
The following are the very best of all standard Grapes and represent three colors, white, red, and purple.
Niagara— This is the- finest white Grape grown. Berry and bunches, large, sweet, pulpy and fine flavored.
Brighton —A large, beautiful, red Grape of most exquisite flavor.
~ Worden — Immense size, rich purple eolor and superb
quality. No purple or black variety better. PRICE of these 3 Grapes, 25c each; the 3 for 60c; $2.0€ per doz.
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NEW GRAPE CACO New Rochester Peach
A remarkable new Peach which bears heavily when very young. One may expect fruit the second year from small trees. Trees compact, bushy, very vigorous and hardy and bear enormously. Has stood sixteen degrees below zero and produced a full crop. Fruit large, yellow and red free-stone;: flesh yellow. very highly flavored; stone very small. To eat out of hand or canned it can- not be equalled as a table delieaey. For the small. gar- den where one has room for only a few trees this Is the most desirable of all Peaches to plant. Everybody should have one or two.
PRICE — By Parcel Post. prepaid, 40c each; 3 for $1.00;
12 for $3.50.
Choice Strawberries
Of all fruits known to cultivation, conceded to be the most luscious, and is a universal fa- vorite; yet it is not grown by one-half the people who might grow it just as well as not. It is but a few hours work to plant a Strawberry bed and care for it during the year, and no work can possibly yield 4 better re- turn Strawberries bought in the market are not to be ‘compared with the luscious ruby beauties, fresh and ripe. from the vines.
Campbell Early — This is heralded as the greatest new berry in many years. Absolutely the earliest variety grown, with large size, fine color and high quality, a rare combination indeed in an early sort. Also a big vielder, and a fine, robust grower on all soils and in all
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locations. Not a good point missing. 60c per doz.; $4.00 per 100. ee Dr. Burrill —Another néw Strawberry of remarkable merit. As a cropper it undoubtedly stands first, way ihead of any other sort. A fine grower, with large ries of superb quality and color. \ mid-season rt, yet it stays in bearing longer than any variety
ve know Doz., 60c; 100, $4.00. Late Jersey Giant — The latest of all Strawberries and
the ivgest and best late variety. The berries are of nense size—truly mammoth—heart-shaped and ex- ceeptionally. uniform, smooth surface and glossy, bright
lame color, Which color remains unchanged until they decay; texture solid and meaty—dquality mild, | sweet with flavor and aroma of the wild berry onounced, Blossoms appear late, are very large, strongly staminate and are held above the fo- Plants of large proportions with large rather reen leaves held upright on stiff stems. The berrie ire produced in clusters of six to a dozen, are usin eld rom the earth on remarkably large, trons tall The yield enormous, Dozen, vt . 100 LO! $3.0 .
Early Jersey Giant The berries are large, brilliant cariet-¢ m ical With pointed tips, colors all ove : ' las a delight aroma and a rich, mild,
W ! trawl Na I ! large green caps, hence exces | how ind attractive blossoms large and taminate plant | trongel rrowel ind 1 heavy 4 elder. It me of the largest and best the very 4 early varieties. v0C per doz.; $83.50 per 100 ‘a .
Charles I. Ripens a week earlier than anv other early \S : sort and i enormous! productive . ling more | quarts of large line-looking be ‘ than any other early variety It + a ' ne gxrowel ind a strong fertilizer Berrt ire large, regular | ’ m and of finest color and quality. 0c per dozer 00 per 100; 825.00 per 1000,
Rewas.ico —A highly colored, large and the color penetrates through and through: it is very productive, and in size is unlforimiyv large: in shape it is as perfect and uniform as if turned out of amold. In plant-growth it is one of the healthiest on the farm, making plenty of healthy, strong plants, with an abundance of vigorous, healthy, dark green foliage. In quality it is rich, with an aromatic fay i per dozen: 100 for &28.90
cardinal-red berry,
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
Big Joe — This is a new variety of great size and merit. it has been fruited in this section two seasons, and it has shown such vigorous growth and such wonderful! productiveness of large, handsome berries that bring top prices in market that everbody who has seen it is wanting plants. In size it is probably larger than any other sort, while for beauty of fruit and vigor of plant it cannot be excelled. 60c per dozen; $4.00 per 100.
SPECIAL OFFER — These 7 Strawberries are the best grown, We will send 6 plants of each for $1.85: 12 of each for $3.00; 100 of each for $18.00.
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Japan Walnut
This valuable new nut from Japan is just coming into
market. The trees bear when very small, and bear abundantly, the nuts being produced in large clusters of iifteen or twenty. The shell is much thinner than the Black Walnut, and the meat sweeter and more delicious, With a flavor like Butternut, but less oily and much su- perior, The tree is a vigorous, rapid grower, and highly ornamental, having large crops when very young and small. One of the most valuable trees for any place. ive each; 3 for $1.00; 7 for $2.00. Larger size, 3 to i feet, 60cC each; 2 for $1.00.
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Fall or Everbearing Strawberries
These large fruited berries differ from other Straw- berries only in that they blossom and fruit continuously from June till November. The fall crop is large and may be made much heavier if the blossoms are Kept picked off up to August. Parties in this State are now growing these varieties, and shipping crates of berries as late as November and receiving enormous prices. Young plants set out this spring will produce a good crop of berries next fall, and the runners they make will fruit freely from spring until fall, of next year, producing berries in such numbers as to be almost beyond belief. They re- quire nothing special in the way of cultivation. Any conditions that will produce a good crop of ordinary garden Strawberries will suit these fall or everbearers. All have perfect flowers. By all means plant a few of these wonderful berries.
“Superb — Plants fine growers. with vigorous healthy foli- age. Berries are very large, glossy, regular shape and beautiful color. _One of the very best all around va- rieties. Our tests show that Superb is in every re- spect much the finest of all the older Everbearing sorts. Progressive-is extra fine and wonderfully good, and Ideal may prove better, but from present knowl- edge Superb is by far the best sort, and the one we would plant. We have grown an immense stock of it SO we can Offer it cheaply. 50c per dozen; $3.50
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Progressive — A wonderful new fall bearer, which is probably. the heaviest cropper of them all. lt has fruited finely with us from spring-set plants. The , Introducer says of it: ‘“We have had it on trial for _ two seasons.- The berries are just about the size and color of the’ Dunlap and produce good paying crops in the fall of both first and second years. During the Past Season we removed the blossoms once in May from plants that had been set the year before and these plants began fruiting in July and lasted until snow came. he amount of fruit that we picked from 500 plants set in the spring was almost beyond com- prehension.” 50¢ per dozen; $3.50 per 100.
_ 42 plants each of Superb and Progressive for 85c;
ae : 400 each for $6.00.
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This belongs to the Raspberry family, is @ strong, vigorous grower, attaining a height of four to six feet, and is perfectly hardy in all positions without protec- tion. The fruit is borne in large Clusters, often seventy- five to one hundred berries in a bunch. These berries are from the time of formation and bloom, until they ripen, enclosed in a “burr’’ which is formed by the calyx. When ripe the “burr” opens, exhibiting a large berry of. the brightest, light, glossy scarlet or sherry-wine color. The ‘burrs’? and stems are covered with heavy reddish moss, like a Moss Rose bud, giving the plant a most unique and beautiful appearance. The flavor of the fruit is entirely different from any other berry, being very sprightly; sweet and juicy, free from all insects. Fine for cooking in any form, canning or preserving.
PRICE — 20c each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.50.
156 John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y.
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. e wvew Everbearing Raspberries All very fine. St. Regis is now the most popular of all Raspberries. St. Regis — It is one of the earliest of all red Raspber-
ries, beginning to ripen in June just as the Strawberry crop is waning It is wonderfully prolific, the first or main cre») being far greater than that of any other red
variety known. It gives a crop of fruit all summer md autumn, fruiting on the old canes in generous quantities until late in August. By this date berries begin to ripen up on the young, i. e., current year’s canes, Which continue to produce berries in increasing lumbers until late autumn. These berries are a bright crimson, of large size and surpassing quality, rich, sugary, with full Raspberry flavor. As a shipper
it is unexcelled. The canes are of stocky, strong krowth with a great abundance of dark green leathery eaves that never scald nor sunburn. It succeeds up-
m all soils, whether light and sandy or cold heavy clay. St. Regis is of pure American blood and iron- clad hardiness: the canes endure severest cold unin-
ired and are wonderfully prolific.
3 for 25c; 7 for 500; 12 for 80c; 100 for $5.00. Four Great Raspberries
Mnese sorts are marvels in size and productiveness, The King — Berries large, tify Stron sturdy
brilliant red and very beau- grower and a great cropper. It
ripens its enormous crop very quickly and is fine for market as the berries hold their brilliant colo: a long Lime.
Giant Cardinal Hardy and grorous, often erowineg eight to ten feet in a sea and standing any degree r+¥ t and a th It | propagated by tips, and its productivens iS Most astonishing We know of no variety that can compare with it The berries are
large, dark red, firm as to texture, with an agreeable, pure, rich flavor, which is brought to its highest Navor when canned or cooked, The most prolifie of any sort known, the fruit fairly hanging in masses. A row or hedge of it is a Sight to behold
Giant Farmer A Black Cap of great ize and value, It is one-fourth larger than any other cap variety, thick meated, firm, and luscious in quality It {8 truly 4 fit companion for Giant Cardinal Like it, it isa wonderful cropper and may be relied pon for a splendid crop every year,
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Golden Queen — This is a sport from the Cuthbert and is exactly like that excellent berry in all respects, ex- cept that its color when ripe is a fine, Tich golden- yellow. It is of high quality, pulpy, juicy and delicate to the taste. No garden should be without it on ac- count of its beautiful color and high flavor.
Above 4 sorts, 75c per doz.; $5.00 per 100; 412 each
of the 4 for $2.50.
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VALUE. | The Most Convenient to Use and Fi the ~Surest of All Insect Killers. a ‘= It is with great pleasure that we offer this, the great- ~ est of. all compounds for destroying insects of every _ xing and. description. It is a paste, a teaspoonful of _which is dissolved in a pint of warm water (or a table- spoonful — in a quart of water). With this water the = ‘infested plants are sprayed, washed, syringed or sprin- a. led. it kills every insect with whith it comes in con- ae t, on the spot; also, their eggs and larve. Those Which escape its touch die afterwards, by feeding upon the plant which has been syringed. Though so de- structive to ‘all insect life, it is non-poisonous and _ harmless to vegetation when diluted as directed. lt _ dissolves quickly and readily in cold water. It is a a ‘great discovery and is absolutely sure death to every form of insect life at touch. Price, in twelve-ounce
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Walker’ Ss Bicclaer Plant FE ood
‘ ‘THE ESSENCE OF PLANT LIFE
It is an odorless preparation, combining in a concentrated and soluble form every ele- ment required in plants and flowers to produce vigorous growth and a_ profusion of flowers and fruit. Wonder- ful results are obtained after one or two applications. it is immediately soluble’ in water, and available to plant life from the moment used.
Walker’s Excelsior Plant
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will mature plants from two to three weeks earlier. Where = ~ the plant food has been used ms and wire worms rarely liv e. Sold
pel nize! oY oz. net.$ .15 = Be OZ. NCbwae.....--.- 250 5 ID. net
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® Rose Bug Exterminator ay. be diluted with from fifteen to sixty t is a. scientific prev ention that is le destructive Rose Bug, and an occa- Swill keep all kinds of out-door plants of insects. ‘ een. 8 02. can, 50c; 1 = can,
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P awder and Bellows, Combined
By. in Bellows; $1.00 size, in Cans
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Warncke Cutworm Food
This is sure death to cutworms that are often so annoying and disastrous.
It is Simple and Easy to Use. It consists of a ma- terial that is more delicious and is much more preferred by the CUTWORM than the plants themselves. It is sprinkled on the ground around the plant, just as it is found in the package. For plants started from seed, it is applied as soon as the first plants break ground; for plants started in a seed bed, it is applied just after setting, such as Tomatoes, Cabbage, Egg Plants, Cauli- flower, Tobacco and Flowers. 12 02z., trial package, 40c; 2% 1b. ie ray $1.00, postpaid.
APHINE. A _ concentrated liquid readily soluble in water, and will destroy green, black, white fly, thrips, mealy bug, red spider, and soft seales. It can be ap- . plied to tender foliage and is an excellent cleanser for decorative stock. It can be-used as a spray, dip or washing solution in the house and in the garden. An excellent remedy to keep your flowers, vegetables and - fruits free from insect pests. Used at an average strength of one part Aphine to thirty parts water. Prices postpaid, %-pint, 50¢; Quart, $1.25; gallon, $3.50. ~
VERMINE. A germicide for all soil vermin. It can be used on house plants and in the garden and is ap- plied at the strength of one part to four hundred parts water by thoroughly soaking the ground. It will pro- tect your plant against the ravages under the soil. Prices postpaid, 4%-pint, 50c; quart, $1.25; gallon, $4.00.
HAMMOND’S SLUG SHOT. Used from ocean to ocean. A light, composite, fine powder, easily distributed either by duster, bellows, or in water by spraying. Thorough- ly reliable in killing Currant Worms, Potato Bugs, Cab- bage Worms, Chicken Lice, Slugs, Sow Bugs, etc., and it is also strongly impregnated with fungicides. Prices 12 oz. can, 30c; 5 Ib. bag, $1.00, postpaid. 125 Ib. keg, by freight at buyer’ S expense, $8. 00.
HAMMOND’S GRAPE DUST. A readily diffusible light-weight powder, Fungicide, very efficient in de- stroying mildews and in preventing blights in green - houses or in the open; also destroying the Aphis anki Black Fly. Price, 12 0z. can, 30¢; 5 Ib bag, $1.00, post- paid. 100 Ib. keg, by freight at buyer’s expense, "87 .00,
Twentieth Century Ad justable — Weeder
The large size will do all the hoe and | weeder work in the cornfield, vegetable garden, flower garden, and around shrubbery; small size useful for florists, gardeners and for all persons having care of small plants. It is possible to cut the weeds and stir the surface around and close up to the plants much easier, much quicker and much better than in any other way, with any other weeder or hoe.
Removes the weed without disturbing the plant. Especially valuable around all small plants.
It will pay for itself in one day in the time saved. lt is so light a child can use it without tiring.
Weight, only twenty ounces.
Prices, Postpaid: Small size, 30c; Large size. 75c.
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THE LENOX ATOMIZER With this new atomizer a fine spray may be thrown under, over, or upon the foliage of any plant or shrub,
thoroughly drenching the same and removing dust and insects. Clear water or any kind of liquid Insecticide or Poison may be applied with it. It is not only the
most effective, convenient and durable, but the cheapest of all atomizers. It is available for house plants, gar- den plants, vegetables, shrubs, small trees, fruits, etc. For sprinkling clothes it is worth its weight in gold.
50ec each, postpaid.
The Transplanting Trowel
garden work we lifting or setting
the finest thine for transplanting, We are so much pleased
This tool is have ever seen. For plants or bulbs it has no equal. with it thaat we have arranged to supply customers by mail, postpaid, at 25¢ each,
them to our
The Continuous Sprayer Capacity about one quart. Tin Pump aand Galvanized or Copper Reservoir.
Will handle all solutions. Entire front removable permits syphon tube to be withdrawn for cleaning. Screw caps reinforced with thumb levers—easy to turn.
an angle for
Two spray caps, one straight, the other at
reaching under leaves. Pump cylinder treated by @ special process and is non-corrosive where it comes in contact with solution.
machine of its satisfactory.
this as the most improved only one which is entirely Price, Postpaid, $1.25.
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It's out of the hoe’s way in an instant: ready to work at a moment's notice, ¥Y mail, postpaid, 20c¢ each: 3 for 50c. (Special price to agents.
John Lewis Childs, Inc., Floral Park, me. Xy
Home Vegetable Gardening From A to Z ey ‘By ADOLPH KRUHM
The newest and most up-to-date book, ready in February, 1918. a
Fifteen years of actual experience and experiment under widely varying conditions of soil and climate stand back of every line of the nearly 300 pages of this book.
The author takes the reader itno his confidence, tells Bee. What to grow and what not, for biggest returns from every Pe square fu0t of ground. Not a scientific discussion, but 2 plain, everyday facts about every act that enters into ae gardening, from getting the ground in shape to harvesting a. the crop. 4 It differs from every other book on the subject in a being profusely illustrated -with action pictures. Every cana page is a complete chapter on one certain phase of gar- dening. Wherever practical and. possible the phase de- a. scribed is illustrated. Thirty-two of the leading classes a. ot vegetables from Asparagus to Turnips, are- pictured , in full colors. «In the color section, the amportant faets ~ . about the different vegetables are presented in a concise manneér, with reference notes where all the essential facts “s . about the cultivation of the vegetable may be.fround in , the body of the book. : Spa. 4 The book divides the vegetables into groups according . to their relative usefulness to mankind. It tells whiéh
should be grown in every garden, which are practical only for large gardens, and which must be considered luxuries in any garden. It helps the beginner to deter- mine what to grow in his garden, while the seasoned gardener will find the chapters on varieties invaluable in
helping him judge their merits for his purpose. , With gardening as a patriotic duty, millions of garden- 1 ers who started last year, will want the book to make 7
their 1918 gardens a bigger, surer success. It will prove
the greatest help to all—no matter how leng they have been at it—hbecause of its up-to-the-minute information Price, postpaid, $1.25
RAT CORN
on the subject of varieties.
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Will Exterminate Rats, Mice and Gophers in a SAFE. SANE AND SANITARY MANNER No Odors or Smells
It mummifies them. No matter where they die they simply DRY UP. Positively do not smell.
Rat Corn is a new and scientifie discovery, and with- out a doubt the greatest rat destroyer in the world; the only one that kills rats without any bad, dangerous, or disagreeable effects. A trial will convince you,
25c and $1.00 per can..,.,, 6 th. Pail, $5.00, Eypress prepaid.
Sent by mail on receipt of price. We pay postage.
Booklet, “How to Destroy Rats,”
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Paper Flower Pot
Here we offer” Flower Pots made from Naponset Waterproof Fabrics. They are very light, durable, un- breakable, cheap, and of terra-cotta color. Just the pots for growing small plants and seedlings.
Size, 2% inches, 25c per dozen: per 100, $1.00,
Size, 2% inches, 30c per dozen; per 100, $1.25.
Size, 3 inches, 35c per dozen; per 100, 31.50,
Size, 4 inches, 50c aad dozen; per 100, $2.0 Rv matl, postpaid, at
above prices.
Five . LF oe Booka
Cn cee AT 60c EACH, POSTPAID WE WILL SEND ALL 5 FOR $2.50.
aie salvation of the eleventh-hour gardener, enicwiis ou how. you ean get bloom from May through October he first of the year. (Grace Tabor.)
S Making a Garden of Perennials. WwW. C. Egan.
- Just how to have a garden without planting new seed very spring — the garden that grows better yearly.
Making a Rose Garden. H. H. Taylor. es The whole story of- preparing the beds, selecting the
post dependable varieties, and bringing them to success- ful and abundant bloom, is given concisely.
Making a Bulb Garden. Grace Tabor
is possible to have a bulb garden not only to bring first bloom of spring, but to carry this dependable stately bloom on through the. summer months.
Making the Grounds Attractive with Shrubbery. a A lot of money is wasted on shrubs that are not lanted correctly. This book tells how to save. that
mey and at the same time secure the eects £2 om your plantings, (Grace Tabor.)
A New Book on
ES, SHRUBS, VINES & HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS
410 Pages. Planting Plans. Tabular Description and
Classification of Species. Fifty-nine Full-Page llustra-
tions ‘in Tone. Authoritative Articles on Many Subjects. eR. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN- CLOTH
ular price, mailed, $2.71. Our price, $1.50, postpaid.
5 Fine 10 Cent Booklets
10c each; any 3 for 25c; the 5 for 40c UTIFUL HOME SURROUNDINGS. By. Mrs. La Mance. This charming book contains eighty pages, and is the nost comprehensive and valuable work on planting, lay- ig out and keeping in proper order the lawn and earden, everything pertaining thereto. it is worth almost weight in gold. It should be in the hands of all who love gardening. Price, 10c. JOUSE PLANTS. “By Lora S. La Mance. his ; isa thorough. treatise on House Plants and their ure. It-is a companion to “Beautiful Home Sur- rot cage and is as valuable a guide to floriculture in e house as that charming book is to floriculture in the nh air. No_one should be without at who grows win- plants. Price, 10c¢. TS. By Mrs. La Mance.
‘valuable book tells all about insects of every kind infest house and greenhouse plants, garden vege- and. flowers, shrubs, trees and fleld crops; moths, flies and other insects, which infest our homes. ry case it gives the best-known means of destroy- hem, many of the remedies being new. 10¢c.
complete treatise on the culture of Holland and ulbs, both indoors and out, by Lora S. La Mance. strated.” Those who are not thoroughly familiar with ‘ Ibs” will find this pamphiet a great help. 10¢c. OOK VEGETABLES. By Jessie Lynch. hdred and fifty-five choice recipes for cooking 1 1 the different kinds. This pamphlet is a a ight in gold to any family. lf you want les better than you ever ate before, this will low to cook them so that they will be. 10c. Grand. Tris Kaempferi
6 x 33, in eighteen colors, showing thirteen ‘the finest double Iris Kempferi in natural t is useless to attempt to describe the beauty loveliest of all floral paintings. The great flam- ‘in their loveliest tints stand out in all their
us e and: charm the eye with their matchless “Sent by mail, postpaid, for 10c; 3. for 250; arely enough ‘to pay cost of mailing.
itiful Colored Postal Cards f Floral Park for 5c.
prepared ten fine souvenir cards of Floral all of the best views of our buildings, park
, and beds of flowers, lithographed in lors. These ecards have been gotten
of our customers who may wish them
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CHILDS’ NATIVE HUMUS Prices by Freight or Express collect ~
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7 Ibs. for $1.00 Speciai Low Rates by Carload in bulk
Native Humus or Natural Soil Life
Not a Prepared or Chemical Fertilizer, But Pure Vege- |
table Humus that has been decaying and concen= trating for ages. Freshly mined and ready for use.
This is superior to manure for it is concentrated soil life. Its natural proportions of chemical plant food such as nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash and lime gives it all the adv antages of chemical fertilizers in a natural and proper proportion. It will not injure the most sensitive plant, and is absolutely odorless, clean, sterile, and utterly devoid of filth of any sort.
For PLANTS, GARDENS and LAWNS: Humus is the very best thing it is possible to use. It will absorb several times its own weight in moisture and will re- lease it gradually, thus carrying lawns, plants, sia and vegetables through periods: of drouth.
For POT PLANTS: A little Humus mixed in potting soil will show wondrous results from the start.
For FERNS it has no equal; it is their natural soii and there can be no better.
It GERMINATES SEEDS: In seed pans or seed beds a little Humus will cause seeds to germinate very quickly, more surely and more vigorously. Its natural soil life accomplishes this and starts the seedling plants off with wonderful strength.
For the VEGETABLE GARDEN: A little Humus used in the hills of corn, beans, melons, or scattered in rows of beets, carrots, onions, peppers, etc., helps wonder- fully.
For the FLOWER GARDEN: Humus can be used on any flowering plants to great advantage, giving them strength to resist drouth and disease.
For FRUITS, SHRUBS and TREES: Under the roots of shrubs, trees or fruits of any kind, Humus is the thing to use, especially at the time of planting. Later an application worked into the soil about the roots is always beneficial,
For LAWNS: Humus has wondrous effect, giving strength, vigor and color to grass as well as drouth-
A lawn where Humus has been used can always: be distinguished by its superior appearance.
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Peron 2) t.ch ears 9g Corn Rainbow ....37 Helianthus ....... 57 Morning Glory. aoe. 5. iss 9-26-27 Crepis ...........31 Helichrys’um ....: 44 Myosotis ~......: 4 Asparagus ........28 Cypress Vinet 35 Heliotrope :...13 - 45 poe pe trees s Balloon Vine ..... 30 Cyclamen ........ 37 Hesperis .........46 Neniopitia: ee Balsam .......-..29 Cynoglossum ..... $7 Hibiscus... ... 7. 44°-Nomosia ... Roeh... .. %48~-80 Dada <...:370. 38 Honeysuckle ..... 44 Nigella ......: 2°: RR ee nee 29 Daisy Shasta ..... 40 Hollyhtock .....:%. 44 Nicotiana ........ BGGKS.4 ots oso 150 -DAtOra. ei cake Se GOP”... 2 aaa 46 OEnothera ....... Sweet Willi Brachycome ......29 Delphinium ...... £0-°Hurelia -.. . sx deeae a4 PRN Are oc! 2 4k, OS 54 Thunbergia . ole Brugmansia ...... 30 Dianthus ........:39 Jewel Vine... 2232 DS 17 Verbena ...... ay ‘5: CaChl 2.02 ceca B68 DPisitaliass-. = Ss 3g Job’s Tears........41 Passifiora ........54 Vinea ..... =e ae : Calceolaria en rere a. Dimorphoteca a) 39 Kochia see 13 _ 38 Pea, Sweet J whee GF h-a 20 ole Sy oS n-0-e ae eee Calendula ....:-..36 Psenscholtzia ....43 Kudzu Vine ...... 30 Pea Perennial .... 59 Calliopsis ........ 35 Pupborbia "g9 Vantana ......... 46 Pelargonium .:.. Z WwW 24 PC ; Campanula ...... 2 Memes reStinied (eae Larkspur... .«.. .tgam 46 Perennials, ages 2 Vise st Deere Candytuft ....... 31 Everlastings ...... Lawn Grass “sae 1 Petunia ......214 - $1 : : Canary Bird Flower 35 Feverfew ........ 20% Linaria ..*. i; -ason 36. PH eA a Sapa gee 35 Forget-Me-Not .9-40 Linum .......... 45. Picose@s, 2. .xast 29% 3 GSarmpation 7. Vai: 32. ,Galllardia 3) sows 22 Vobensa ... i .ce2ees 46 PUES De nce ss. ae cheney zinnia . oe VEGETABLE SEEDS Page Page - Page : Page é SET 8d gia ik* 5 ‘wrecle SG REARUTAS | Awe cee 2c 64 GOMLd |<. ¥en ee 43 Onion ie ee = 76 ey Rice att Artichoke ........- Sac Cdilard 62. eee. 68 Heliantl: . 22772 = VE REE hs in ao cere 79 Rhubarb ate ret eS Asparagus ....... 64.-Gorn;- Pop .....2. 5} 65 Barbs -itscere i TT rh 80 g aE ae ae 62 Corn, Field...86-87 Kale ........... aie fe. | rin 68 VASO.» «ce sdens 7 Ga eas 63 Corn, Sweet ...5-65 Kohl-Rabi ........70 Peanut .........~ 80 Salsity (Oyster Ft Brussels Sprouts...61- Cress ........... 61 Lawn Grass ......-.. 1 Pea -...:.....20.78 SPiMache .5.2255 Cabbage ..... 66 - 67. Cu€umber:....68 - 69 Leek (2. oa. 77 Pepper ..........79 Squash caseeee I as ae es 64 . Dandelion) ..:,"......s. 70 Lettuce ..72 -'73 Cov.. Potato. ..... 6-7-8 Sudan Grass “4 Cauliflower ...... 70 Egg Plant ........70 Melons .4-6-74-75 Potato, Sweet ....84 mpomat Cc cat = Re es 5° dendive <0 iw 70. Millet. +c~. ene 86 Potato Seed ...... 6. - LOMA Ar we 25d Celoriee .......-- 64 Forage Plant ..... 88 Nasturtium ....... ARGON... ks go Turnip ........ .-83 es oS eee 4-64 Garden Lemon.....71 Okra ............ ie ol: 81-85 Vine Peach ..... ie > on x. ‘ Fes ee phe} = BULBS, PLANTS, SHRUBS, FRUITS, ETC. Figs Page Page Page Page oy ee. Sh eee Abutilon ........123 Cape Jessamine...127 Gladioli ..... 891096 Mina .......... 110 sanseveriat Acadanthia ......106 Carnation ...... 126 Grape “5 ¢i.5 cee 153 Montbretia (M44 Sempervire <i Acalpha ........ 124 Chlidanthus ..... 108° Grass) ue 133 Nasturtium... 137 Sh TL e+ -8l BCMUCR 4%)... -*: 115 Chrysanthemum Heliotrope ...... scr hn gla he amrock ,.....4142— Agapanthus ..... 124 117-128-129 Hemerocallis ....118 Nepeta ......... 117 Spider Lily .°... 418 Ageratum ...... 123 Cinnamon Vine ..115 Hibiscus ........ 136 Olea” ........... 138 Spirea ....122- 148 — ro Plant ....... ise Clematis ........ 150 Hone kamen lor 1 reat ha ea eee eee ps Squilleeiie iat ee ‘ LSA Ar pe O! GOLENS oon. wince en 127 orse Radish...... |, Sea ae Strawber wet B4 SPREEMEE No bse dP Na i 147 Cooperia ........108 Hyacinthus ..... Siaueneeee., . oie ee Stapelia eT ae : Amaryllis ..107-116 Crimson Creeper.127 Hybrid Berry....135 Qxalis ......... 113 Streptosolen — . ie eda .107 Crinum ...+..4108 Hydrangea ..133-148 palm .......... 139 § ee, wits cay Ampelopsis ..... 150 Cyclamen ....... 126 Impatiens ...... 136 pamsaes Foathar. 196. nee se hlenaseilgs Apios .......... 115 Cyelobothra ..... 110 Incarville 493 “pape =. 120 Swatneonis we AA ) Ps | Asparagus ...... 124 DPahiia ..... 98 t0 102 Ipomm@a ........ 112 , a 140.143 Syringa wet eee AM 5 Azalea ..... 124-147 Daphne .. 148 Iris . 4-119 Pelargonium 0- Tigridia SEE LL a : Begonia ...108-125 Day Lily (Funkias) 118 Ismene “<< v.22 Vi. 153 Tools 3... 2. ea i Bessera ......:..110 Dewberry ....... 152. Ivy. Ase poe 134 Perennials ...... 122 Ppa escantia .... Blackberry .151-152 Deutzia ........ 148 Jasmine ./......- EL . y 121 Ppiténma as mowerberry :....152 Dicentra ........ 117 Justicia. <u. cau 135 Poppy —. Tuberoses ayers Brugmansia ..... 124 Emerald Vine ....112 Lantana’........185 Pomegranate ....135 Vv : Buddlea ...139-147 Eucomis ........ 112 Lantern Plant ...118 Potato, Sweet ..,.84 Valotta ..... Cabbage ..-.-85 Euphorbia ..117-137 Lemon /..... 58 138 Primrose 118-137-142 Vinea ......... a ar 17-127 Eupatorium ..... 116 Lillies Sate ae 103 Privet ....... 1 - 147. Vidlete.; g.. 1 ee OS 110-126 Fern Lily-of-Valley ...122 Raspberry ...... 156 Walnut... Calyanthus ...... 147 130-131-132-Cov. Lily-of-Val’y P’t.137 Resurrection P’t .139 Wax Plant ...... 1 Calystemia .......115 Fertilizers ...... 157 |. LAnUm aso ee 135 Rhubarb ... 71° Welgelin a. ae Calliopsis .......116 Forget-Me-Not ..117 Lilac ..... ....e450 Roses ...144-145-146 Wineberry ..... Campanula ......124 Forsythia .......148 Madeira Vine .:.112 Rubber Plant . 4189 Wisteria». . "2-4 Caladium ...109-111 Fuchsia ........ 135 Mahernia .....:. 137 Rudbeckia ...... 122 olfberry ceuawemes .,..2%5.115. Genista .,....-. 135 Manettia Vine ...137 Ruelila ......... 139 Pes: Canna ..... 104-105 Geranium ....... 134 Marguerite ...... 137 Salvia A anthes How to Grow Vegetables How to Grow Flowers ~ All about Garden Vegetables, Frames, Hot _ _ For Garden or Windows
‘By JOHN LEWIS CHILDS Beds, Time to Sow, Transplanting Distance, In- eae MEI of concisa: comprehensive Rp
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ummer - “towers Bulbs and H A Shrubs _ are also cons idered. a THIS SATatpeus 1S PRINTED BY THE CHILDS PRESS, FLORAL PARK
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FROND OF EMERALD FLEECE
The Last Thing in the Catalogue, Least, is
Our Great Surprise Collection
MANY DOLLARS WORTH OF FINE PLANTS, BULBS AND SEEDS FOR $1.00
But Not the
We are obliged to grow and import enor- mous stocks ol all kinds of Plants and Bulbs, -generally more than is necessary, to make sure of having enough. It is our custom after the heavy spring business is over, in May, to take this surplus stock of various good things, make it into “Surprise” Col- lections and offer them to our customers, giving them four or five times the cost value. In fact, the “Surprise” is the great amount of fine things one gets for the money paid. These collections cannot be sent out until the middle of May, and will be entirely of our own selec- tion, from kinds of which we have a surplus. No collection will be made up for less than ~ One Dollar ($1.00), by mail postpaid, or One Dollar and a Half ($1.50), by express prepaid, or parcel post, and from that up to any amount the purchaser may desire. By express we can send very much more for the money than by mail. We advise our friends to invest one _ dollar or more in this collection. We guarantee
_ that they will be greatly pleased.
ONE PLANT OF NEW TRAILING FERN
New Trailing Boston Fern
This wonderful Fern, the most beautiful of all the Boston tribe, originated with us, and is a sport from the Baby or Lace Fern. It is the most superb foliage plant for a hanging pot, basket, or bracket yet seen. It has the same elegant lace-like foliage as the Baby or Lace Fern, but it grows three or four feet long, when sus- pended, presenting the most beautiful object in fluffy, graceful tresses of green imaginable.
It is a free and easy grower, succeeds well in any window. Our cut is from the photograph of the original plant, but we have much finer specimens now. These fronds were almost three feet long. Thrifty, well- rooted young plants, 75c each; 3 for $2.00.
New Boston Fern Emerald Fleece
Another remarkable new Fern which originated ‘with us and is also a sport from the Baby or Lace variety. Its fronds when in good form are not so wide, but ex- ceedingly thick and much finer cut and more moss-like than the Baby Fern or any other. In fact, the fronds are so thick and-heavy as to suggest rich deep plush or velvet. The texture reminds one also of a fleece of wool. Perfectly exquisite from every viewpoint. Thrifty plants for 60c each; 2 for $1.00.
One plant each of New Trailing and Emerald Fleece for $1.10.
Address all Orders, ete, JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Inc., Floral Park, N. Y-
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