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10 SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] GOLDEN BALL ASTER.

GOLDEN BALL ASTER.
The long sought novelty- a yellow aster- has finally been produced and will be warmly welcomed by all flower lovers. The form of the double flower is a perfect ball; the quills are close together and at the brightest sulphur yellow, not a mere indication of the color as in former efforts. The border petals are broad and of a lighter tint, seeming to enclose the flower like an old-fashioned bouquet paper.
The flowers are borne upon long, erect stems, excellent for cutting. As shown in the illustration, the plants, twelve to fifteen inches high, are of compact, bushy growth, and most abundant bloomers. Per pkt. 15c, 2 pkts for 25c.

[image] BLUETS.

BLUETS, OR '" QUAKER LILY."
One of the prettiest little wild flowers in central Pennsylvania, but very little known away from there. As soon as spring sets in it opens its bright little flowers and continues bloommg profusely until the middle of June, the plants fairly carpeting the ground and presenting a perfect mass of bloom. The flowers are bell-shaped, color light blue with a yellow center. Does better in half shady positions. It grows readily from seed, blooms the first season and is quite hardy, Per pkt. 10c.

NEW MAMMOTH HELIOTROPE.
A few years ago there was very little heliotrope seed sold, but during the past
five years our trade on it has nearly doubled every year as our customers learn
how easily plants are grown from seed, and from a single packet a large number of
strong, healthy plants are produced which would cost ten to twenty-five cents each at the florists. No matter If you have never grown heliotropes before, you should not fall to try this superb new variety. It is a strong grower, the plants covering a space two to three feet square and producing a constant succession of immense heads of flowers, some of the heads containing as high as 8,000 flowers. In color it varies from almost a pure white to the most deep dark blue. Start seed early in the house and they will be unsurpassed as a garden plant all summer, and of great value as a pot plant at all times of the year. Very desirable for cut flower purposes. Per pkt. 15c.

[image. NEW DOUBLE PINK "FIREBALL"]

FIREBALL DIANTHUS.
An exceedingly dwarf and compact growing pink, only growing ten to fifteen inches high. The flowers are perfectly double, and color a rich, velvety blood red. The plants are symmetrical in form, and begin to flower shortly after seeds are up, and continue to bloom profusely all summer and fall, only ceasing when overtaken by severe frost. Effective for garden bedding or pot culture, and as a cut flower. No flower garden is complete without the China or Indian pinks, and for the handsomest of all the different varieties you must plant the Fireball, without doubt the showiest of all. Per pkt. 10c.

MAMMOTH PERFECTION COSMOS
The glory of the autumn garden. The flowers are double the size of the old large flowering Cosmos, measuring 12 to 15 inchs in circumference; the petals are broader and overlapping, forming a perfectly round flower deeply ribbed and of splendid substance. For cutting for bouquets and vases this is one of the finest flowers grown, lasting in water two weeks; the long stems and feathery foliage lend themselves to graceful arrangements. This new mammoth strain of cosmos is the glory of the autumn garden. The plants, 5 to 6 feet high, of symmetrical pyramidal form, are one mass of feathery, emerald-green foliage, studded with mammoth flowers of white, pink or crimson, enlivening the garden long after more tender flowers have succumbed to early frost. If grown in pots and housed by the end of September they will flower all winter. Per pkt. 10c

GLOBE OF GOLD SUNFLOWER.
A dwarf, well branched plant growing only about three feet high, and each of its
numerous branches carrying a medium sized, densely double, globe shaped flower of rich deep golden yellow color, being veritable globes of gold. The most densely double of any sunflower. Plants are easily grown from seed and produce handsome, symmetrical plants, very effective on lawns or in the flower garden. Per pkt. 10c.

FREESIA GRANDIFLORA.
This new variety grows from 12 to 15 inches high, with very large spikes of flowers
Which are double the size of the ordinary variety. The bulbs are larger, the growth,
more vigorous, and it is altogether a great improvement. The flowers are white with
yellow centers, pale yellow with orange centers, cream and white tinted with lavender or brown. Choice mixed, per pkt. 10c.

GAY AND FESTIVE NASTURTIUM.
A new and greatly improved strain of dwarf nasturtiums from California, showing a
most charming combination of colors. Flowers unusually large and very beautiful.
Every flower lover should plant a bed of them this year. Thirty distinct varieties mixed, Per pkt. 10c.

SALMON QUEEN DIANTHUS.
This new variety represents a beautiful acquisition to the annual pinks. Its flowers
are of a very distinct and perfectly new tint in this class, being of the most brilliant salmon color imaginable, changing into a salmony rose when fading. That this variety is distinct from all others is easily proved by the seeds, which are white or yellowish white, while those of all other annual pinks are dark brown or black. The flowers are well formed and nicely fringed; the plants attain a height of 10 to 12 inches. Seventy-five to eighty per cent of the seedlings will come true from seed. Per pkt., 10C.

[image] GLOBE OF GOLD SUNFLOWER.