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[image] AMERICAN BANNER LARKSPUR.

Don't Fail to Try These
SUPERB FLORAL NOVELTIES.
We want every one of our customers to try the seven grand floral novelties illustrated on our colored plate, and have therefore put our price extremely low on them. They are all of the easiest culture, sure to do well with ordinary treatment, and produce an abundance of most beautiful flowers. We have thousands of farmer customers who purchase only farm seeds from us every year, and we especially desire that you remember your wife and children when sending your order this year, and include one of these collections for them. It costs but little, and we assure you they would enjoy it greatly. Flower lovers everywhere cannot fail to be pleased with them.

American Banner Larkspur.
Our colored illustration does not do justice to this, the handsomest flower in the entire catalogue, and in fact it is impossible for art to portray it in any satisfactory manner. The accompanying illustration presents a single stem, showing how loaded the plants are with flowers. The name American Banner was given it because it is the only flower we know of which combines the national colors, red, white and blue, in each flower. Plants grow to a height of about two feet, of good, regular shape, with delicate, fern-like foliage, a vigorous grower, and is not injured by dry weather. The plants are fairly loaded with long spikes of double striped and blotched flowers, having the various shades of pink, carmine, dark-blue, purple and white, delicately and beautifully blended, sometimes four or five shades on a single floret. The flowers are produced in the greatest profusion, making it one of the finest annuals in cultivation. The flowers can be dried by hanging them with the head downwards in a dark closet, and will retain their colors and keep for winter bouquets as well as any everlasting. It is really the most extraordinary novelty ever offered to the flower lovers of the country. Per pkt., 15c; 4 pkts. for 50c; 10 for $1.00.

New Fancy Flowering Giant Petunias.
This is the most costly and scarce seed we have, and the cost of production is so great that the crop is actually worth more than the same weight of gold. It is unquestionably the finest and most thorough selection of Petunias in existence. They are of enormous size (4 to 5 inches across), and exquisitely ruffled and fringed, but their great merits lie in the tremendous varieties of colors, markings, veinings, blotchings and stripings, in the most grotesque and beautiful combinations; some with charming deep throats of yellow, white, black, green or maroon, running off into intricate veins. Some of the colors are rich and gorgeous and others of lovely delicate shades. In order to fully introduce this magnificent class of Petunias, we make the price very low. Per pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c; 7 pkts., $1.

Perfected Mixed Sweet Peas.
Each year Sweet Peas are becoming more popular, and there is good reason to believe that it is the coming flower of the future. The improvements made during the past few years are greater than in any other flower in the entire list, until we have them now to about as near perfection as they can well be brought. We have therefore named this superb strain the Perfected Mixed, and are sure our customers will be more than pleased with them. They are of the most graceful form, charming color, exquisite fragrance and simple loveliness. The mixture contains all the most choice new varieties, as well as some of the best of the old favorites. One secret in successful Sweet Pea culture is to plant early and deep, not less than four inches. Don't fail to try them this year. Per pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; 1/4 lb., 65c.

[image] INTERNATIONAL MIXED PANSIES.

International Mixed Pansies.
In almost every country in the world there are Pansy specialists, notably those of Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland. Each have their idea of perfection. This mixture consists of a grand assortment from the world's leading growers, and we have gone to great pains to secure them for our customers. Here will be found the beautiful German Pansies, with their rich, soft, velvety colors; the lovely striped and mottled pansies from Belgium, which contrast so strongly with all others; the face pansies of England, in which one can almost see the human face, because of their peculiar spottings; the self colors of Switzerland, which are attractive because of their pure coloring; the fancy show pansies of Scotland, of bright contrasting colors and rare spotting, flakeing, feathering and edging; the mammoth pansies of France, which have been grown to the enormous size of four inches in diameter, and are decidedly showy; and also the many choice American strains, which are mainly made up by selecting and crossing the foreign sorts. If you like pansies you must have the International Mixture. Per pkt., 25c; 3 pkts. for 50c; 7 for $1.00.

Crown of Perfection Pinks.
A great improvement in the garden pinks. The flowers are immense, averaging six inches in circumference, are densely double, and are produced in perfect succession during the whole summer and autumn in such numbers as fairly to crowd each other for room. There is a wonderful diversity of colors, from purest satiny white to red shades so deep and intensely brilliant that the eye can scarcely penetrate their velvety depths; soft pinks and flesh tints more dainty than brush could lay; and a large proportion of flowers hieroglyphically marked with various hues, the delicate tints and deep tones mingling in exquisite contrast.
They succeeded with everybody and everywhere. Seeds sown in the open ground in early spring will produce blooming plants by early summer, each plant forming a compact little bush about one foot high by a foot across; where bedded in quantities the effect is gorgeous in the highest degree. Per pkt.,10c.

COLLECTION.
One packet each of the seven charming floral novelties described above for only 60 cents.

Diamond Flower.
A dainty little annual with tufts of tiny foliage, and beautiful little white and violet-blue flowers that bloom within a month from the time seed is sown. It will grow in the open ground, over rock-work, or in pots, never exceeding three inches in height, and rarely two. The tiny flowers have a glistening sheen that has given them their name of Diamond Flower, and being surrounded by a wreath of bright green foliage, they show to a wonderful advantage. For pot culture in winter it is just superb. Sprinkle a few seeds in a small pot or saucer, or in pots where other plants are growing, and within a month you will have the most charming mat of foliage and flowers--covering the surface of the soil like moss--that you ever saw. In the fall the self-sown seed will come up and bloom profusely from October until the ground freezes, and begins again early in the spring. Per pkt., 10c.

Imperial Nasturtiums.
If 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, intensely bright and beautiful flowers, borne profusely the whole season, not troubled by insects, and standing dry weather well. Our Imperial Nasturtiums consist of about twenty of the best dwarf varieties, selected from both American and foreign growers. When planted in beds will produce a most gorgeous display of beautiful flowers of all shades of color. Per pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.

A BIG $15.00 INVESTMENT.
Seventy-five lbs. (five bushels), Central Park Mixed Lawn Grass Seed, which is sufficient for an acre, and a 14-inch Columbia Lawn Mower for only $15.00. It will add $500 to the value of any farm to have a nice lawn around the house.

THE WESTERN GARDEN
Is full of valuable information each month on gardening and floriculture. It will be sent for one year free to any purchaser of Seeds or other goods to the amount of $1.00 or more when no other premium or discount is given. The Western Garden is a monthly paper, well illustrated. Ask for it.

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