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FLOWER SEEDS.

As this is one of our specialties, we have given it the first place in this list. The varieties have been selected with the greatest care, all being discarded except the best and most popular, and our customers will find that there is not one unworthy or undesireable variety included. Our Flower Seet is from the best and most reliable European sources, and is unsurpassed in quality.

The following general hints on the raising of flower plants from seeds, we have endeavored to give in as plain and concise a manner as possible. If there is some clay with it the colors will be brighter.

Make the surface as smooth and fine as possible; sow seet in rows covering each sort of seed in proportion to its size (a good general rule being to cover twice the diameter of the seed) and press the soil down firmly over it. Do not plant any seed when the ground is wet. Many varieties should be sown early in shallow boxes in the house, in soil consisting of equal parts of fine sand and rich mellow loam, well mixed together and sifted to remove all gravel and lumps. Sow as before directed. Covering the box with glass helps to retain the moisture and keeps the temperature more even. Be careful not to keep them too wet, and as soon as they are large enough to handle, transplant into boxes, from one to two inches apart, where they are to remain until time to transplant to permanent beds. Many think that the seed will germinate better if kept completely shaded until it comes up, and then gradually bring to the light.

We will always be glad to answer any questions from our customers, relative to the cultivation of any kinds of plants.

Beautiful Chromo Illustrations of the flowers, and complete directions for cultivation are printed on most of the packets. The common name of many varieties will be found immediately following the proper name.

ANNUALS.
Under this heading we include not only the true Annuals, that is those plants which grow from seed, blossom and die in the same season, but also some Biennials and Perennials, such as Pansies and Daises, that flower the first season, and then live on for a year or more.

The figures at the right of the column show the price of seeds per packet.

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Abronia, Umbellata - A quite handsome trailing plant, bearing clusters of sweet scented Verbena-like flowers; beautiful for baskets, vases, and bedding; color rosy lilac, with white eye 5

Adonis, Aestivalis - Plants with fine, graceful foliage and brilliant scarlet flowers. Grows well in the shade; continual bloomer 5

Ageratum - Very desirable for bouquets, blooms throughout the summer.
-Mexicanum - Flowers light blue 5
-Mixed Colors 5

Agrostemma - Attractive, free-blooming plants with flowers which resemble a single pink. They make a fine display when grown in masses.
-Mixed Colors 5

Alyssum, Sweet - A favorite flowers with every one, for bedding, bouquets, and all kinds of flower-work. Has very pretty fragrant, small white flowers, continuously in bloom throughout the summer, and can be taken up and cut back for winter blooming. Do not let the flowers go to seed on the plant as they sap the vitality, and stop the blooms 5

Amaranthus, Caudatus (Love Lies Bleeding) - Produces long drooping "chains" of very brilliant flowers, color is brighter if plants are grown in poor soil, and kept dry 5
-Tricolor (Joseph's Coat) - Foliage brilliantly marked, scarlet, yellow, and green 5
-Salicifolius (Fountain Plant) - One of the best foliage plants for center of a bed; graceful drooping habit; choice colors and shading 10
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Anagalis - Pretty for rockeries and vases, produce a profusion of rich colored flowers.
-All colors mixed 10

Antirrhinum (Snapdragon) - One of the most desirable of flowers for its great variety of color and succession of bloom.
-Tall - Mixed colors 5
-Dwarf - Mixed colors 5

Asperula - A small flwoer finely adapted for button-hole bouquets; color light blue 5

Asters - Universal favorites which stand in the first rank, for thier variety of form and color, and great profusion of flowers.
-New Rose - Mixed colors 10
-Truffant's Peony-flowered Perfection - Magnificent large flowers, many colors 15
-New Crown - Persons who saw our bed of these last year, pronounced them to be the finest colors of Asters they had ever seen. The center of each flower is pure white, with the outer petals of bright colors 15
-German Quilled - Mixed colors 5
-Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet - The foliage is sometimes completely hidden by flowers 10
-Mixed Varieties and Colors 5

Balsam - One of the most popular of all the annuals; produces gorgeous masses of beautiful flowers rivaling the Rose and Camelia in beauty. Can be stemed [stemmed] on wire and used to good advantage in bouquets. When grown on rich soil which has some clay mixed with it the flowers will be mostly very double and the colors more brilliant.
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