1897

4. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] DAYBREAK COPY'TD. 1896 W.A.B&CO.

NEW SWEET PEAS. DAYBREAK.--The first novelty of his own that Mr. Hutchins, the noted sweet pea specialist, has offered, and is the best original sort he has been at work on. In color it has a white ground and on the reverse of the standard is a crimson scarlet cloud, which shows through in the fine veins and network, giving to the center of the front of the standard a fine crimson-scarlet watered effect, the outer margins being white. The wings are slightly flaked with crimson. Per pkt. 10c. ODDITY.--Has a peculiar irregularity of form in the flowers; the standards are inclined to curl considerably. Another distinct feature is that the stems are unusually heavy and strong; they generally bear four flowers on each. In color the flowers are a pale carmine edged with bright rose, giving it the appearance somewhat of a red-edged variety. It is a remarkably strong grower, and with its heavy stem, curly standard, and peculiar coloring, with a sort of netted surface, is certainly attractive. Per pkt. 10c. CUPID.--A most unique floral novelty; indeed a superb novelty, and distinct from all other varieties. Fancy a solid area of deep green--just as green as cypress or myrtle--a carpet of plants only five inches high, spreading out from the roots so as to meet when the seed is planted two feet apart in rows; then fancy this carpet of deep, living green springing into blossom in one week, all a mass of clear waxy white sweet peas on stems four to six inches long and a hundred on a plant; all white--like a mass of snow. Indeed, so strongly contrasting with the deep green foliage that the purity of the whiteness of Cupid's flowers seem even whiter than snow itself. Per pkt. 10c.

[image] COPYRIGHTED 1896 W.A.B&CO. ODDITY

PERFECTED MIXED SWEET PEAS.--All the choicest new varieties. Per pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 25c, lb. 85c. FINE MIXED SWEET PEAS.--Per pkt. 2c, oz. 5c, 1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 40c. NEW DOUBLE SWEET PEAS.--"The Bride of Niagara."--A great novelty and one which our customers will take pleasure in cultivating. There are two or three standards, or upright parts, of a clear rose color, while the other parts are white. The duplicate or triplicate banners make it remarkably showy, and render it more durable as a cut flower. Colors pure and beautifully blended; of the sweetest fragrance. Per pkt. 15c.

STRIPED JAPANESE MAIZE. An ornamental foliaged plant of rapid growth, giving immediate effect, and one which would be attractive in any garden. It is from Japan, but appears in many respects like corn. Grows five to six feet high and has alternate foliage, the leaves being very long and two to three inches wide. The variegation does not begin to show until the fourth or fifth leaf, when the leaves become striped with broad bands of white, changing soon to narrow stripes or ribbons of alternate clear white and brightest green, occasionally showing faint tinges of pink or rose color at the edges. The leaves are waxy and gracefully recurved. Our illustration does not do it justice. Desirable for groups on the lawn, or in ribbon beds, or a back border to the lawn. Per pkt. 5c, oz. 20c.

[image] STRIPED JAPANESE MAIZE.

[image] LATANIA BORBONICA PALM.

LATANIA BORBONICA.--This is the typical palm, and is more largely used than any other. Its strong healthy habit commends it to all, and gives it a fitness for window and room culture not possessed in the same degree perhaps by any other. It is the Chinese Fan Palm from which the palm leaf fans of commerce are made. Per pkt. 10c. CHAMAEROPS EXCELSA.--From southern China and Japan. Very hardy. One of the very best palms for house culture in cool climates, forming a fine specimen, standing ill usage remarkably well. Very handsome palmate leaves. Per pkt. 10c. PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA.--A native of northern Africa. This is the palm from which the date of commerce is obtained. It is grown in some parts of California successfully from a commercial point of view. Produces fruit when about ten years old. Exceedingly beautiful for pot culture and very hardy. Per pkt. 10c. WASHINGTONIA FILIFERA.--This is one of the very best window palms, needing no petting to succeed. Stands dust and dry air, and lack of sunshine, and is very ornamental with its elegant fan-shaped leaves of a rich, dark, leathery green. Picturesquely fringed with long, thread-like filaments along the segments of the leaves. The plant is a compact grower, well adapted to pot culture, succeeding in any situation, and with any treatment that will keep a geranium alive. Pkt. 10c. A GRAND OFFER.--One packet each of the above four varieties for 25 cents; five packets of each for $1.00. We furnish plants of the Latania Palm at 25c each postpaid. Larger plants $1.00 to $5.00 each by express, not prepaid.

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 of the brightest sulphur yellow. The flowers are borne upon long, erect stems, excellent for cutting. The plant is twelve to fifteen inches high, of compact, bushy growth, and most abundant bloomers. Per pkt. 10c.

NEW WHITE BRANCHING ASTER. One of the best floral novelties and one which every flower lover should try. The flowers are borne on very long stems and are pure white, of extraordinary size, being four inches or more in diameter. The petals are broad, long, and many of them more or less twisted or curled in such a manner as to give the blooms the appearance of large loose and graceful chrysanthemums. The plant is a strong grower and its tendency to form numerous branches is very marked. Pkt. 10c.

ELEGANT PALMS. These have for centuries been considered exclusively for the rich, the plants usually selling at $3.00 to $100.00 each, and in some cases fine plants of the rarer sorts have brought as high as $1,500.00 each. It is now known, however, that they are easily grown from seed, and we have secured a large lot of nice fresh seed for our customers so that we can furnish it at such a low price that everyone could supply themselves with these beautiful and elegant plants. Directions for growing printed on the packet.

[image] GOLDEN BALL ASTER.

IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 5.

[image] PEERLESS MIXED BALSAMS.

PEERLESS MIXED BALSAMS. Several European and American specialists have been devoting much of their time during the past few years to improving this popular flower, until now we have a plant which is worthy a place in any garden, and will prove satisfactory to the most fastidious. The flowers are of the most perfect camelia-flowered and rose-flowered types, intensely double. The plants are of ideal, symmetrical shape, fairly loaded with flowers and a continuous bloomer, sometimes 500 magnificent large blooms on a plant at once. Pkt. 10c.

MADAM GUNTHER'S HYBRID NASTURTIUMS. For richness and variety of colors these new hybrids have no equals among nasturtiums. The foliage is mostly dark, contrasts very effectively with the flowers. They are climbers and are free and continuous bloomers. Color of flowers is most gorgeous, ranging from white through all shades of pink, red, carmine, crimson, salmon, golden yellow to the deepest brown and maroon--nearly black--all striped, shaded and blotched in an indiscribable [indescribable] mannner [manner]. Per pkt. 10c.

[image] COPYRIGHTED 1892 BY W.A.B & CO. MADAM GUNTHER'S HYBRIDS.--NASTURTIUM.

AMERICAN BANNER LARKSPUR. The handsomest flower in the entire cataloguee [catalogue]. 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. Pkt. 10c, 3 for 25.

[image] FAIRY ROSE.

BEGONIA ERFORDIA. A little beauty as well as a most distinct novelty. It is a most profuse bloomer from early summer until late autumn; even a light frost will not hurt it. The color of the flower is a lovely soft pink throughout. The leaves and leaf stalk are of a coppery bronze of a rich shade. Per pkt. 15c, 2 pkts. for 25c.

[image] AMERICAN BANNER LARKSPUR.

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. 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, flaking, 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.

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. They are easily grown from seed and produce handsome, symmetrical plants, very effective on lawns or in the flower garden. 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.

FAIRY ROSES. These little beauties are very easily grown from seed. The roses are only about an inch across, usually very double, but occasionally semi-double, and seldom single; they are borne in large clusters and are of many colors. What is most remarkable these Fairy roses grow only 10 to 15 inches high and commence blooming in a few weeks after the seed is sown, and continue year after year in uninterrupted profusion from May until frost. They also make nice pot plants for winter blooming. Pkt. 15c.

MOTHLY [MONTHLY] TEA ROSES. Double mixed colors. Blooms the second year. Pkt. 10c.

[image] GLOBE OF GOLD SUNFLOWER.

6. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] VERNON BEGONIA.

FLOWER PLANTS. A specialty with us and we are devoting a large space to the growing of flower plants exclusively for the mail trade, as they require special culture for this purpose, and must be hardy as well as strong, vigorous and healthy. Our system of packing is so very complete that plants arrive in almost as perfect a condition after traveling many hundreds of miles as they were when packed. At prices named we send the plants postpaid. Orders for plants must amount to at least 50c. We will furnish plants amounting to $1.10 for $1.00, $2.25 for $2.00, $6.00 for $5.00.

BEGONIAS. VERNON.--Of unusual value for bedding, as it will stand the hot summer sun. Comes into flower in June and continues to make a most striking effect in beds or borders throughout the entire summer. The flowers are of a brilliant, deep red color; the foliage is very abundant, stiff and glossy, and of a fine, green color, spotted and margined with bronze purple. It thrives everywhere and is equally good as a winter bloomer. It makes fine, stocky plants, which are covered all winter with the beautiful crimson flowers, and so easily cared for that everyone should have it. See cut. Each 15c. LOUIS ERDODY.--This interesting and curiously handsome new variety of the Rex family has a distinct form and peculiar leaves, unique and striking. Each 35c. METALICA.--This elegant variety has very large, glossy leaves shaded with green, crimson and olive, with a peculiar metalic [metallic] lustre over all; flowers a clear pink, shaded white; a grand pot plant. Each 10c. RUBRA.--One of the finest, a constant bloomer; color scarlet rose. Each 10c. REX.--A magnificent class of house plants, remarkable for the variety and beautiful markings of the foliage. Each 25c. ARGENTEA GUTTATA.--It has purple bronze leaves, oblong in shape, with silvery markings, and is in every way a most beautiful begonia. White flowers. Splendid for house culture. Each 15c. SEMPER FLORENS GIGANTEA ROSEA.--A superb variety, strong, upright growth; fine, large flowers of clear, cardinal red, and the bud only exceeded in beauty by the open flower. Each 25c.

UMBRELLA PLANT. (Cyperus.) An ornamental and very striking plant as shown by the cut. It throws up slender, round stems from two to three feet high, surmounted at the top by a whorl of flat, ribbon-like leaves, diverging horizontally, giving the plant a very curious appearance. This curious effect is still further heightened when the odd, golden-green, tassel-like flowers appear on the top of the whorls, as shown in the cut. It is a splendid decorative plant, being as ornamental as a Palm or Fern, and above all, it is as easily grown as the commonest weed. As it will thrive in shade as well as sun it is an excellent plant for the dining-room table; or as a water plant in very moist spots or even in shallow water. When treated as a pot plant it should have an abundance of water. Nice plants, 15c each.

SWAINSONIA. We bring prominently before flower lovers this distinct climbing plant for house culture and protected spots in the garden. The Swainsonia belongs to the Leguminosae, and is a native of Australia. The habit of growth is extremely graceful, and the vines, trained up at the side of a window or on a trellis, present a lovely sight of light-green, feathery foliage, and a splendid profusion of pure white sprays of fairy-winged flowers, somewhat resembling Sweet Peas in form. Easily grown, and under favorable conditions it is almost a perpetual bloomer. There is certainly no climbing vine for house or conservatory culture to-day that is more desirable than this fine, new plant. Strong plants, by mail, 15 cents each; 4 for 50 cents.

[image] UMBRELLA PLANT.

CLIMBING METEOR ROSE. This new rose might, from its rich red color, almost be called a "Perpetual Blooming Climbing General Jacqueminot." It is a rose which will make 10 to 15 feet growth in a season and blooms almost constantly. Buds exquisite; flowers large, beautifully shaped, and of that rich, dark, velvety crimson color seen only in the Jacqueminot. A fine rose for summer blooming, as it makes a large growth and is loaded with glorious blossoms. Each 25c.

SNOW QUEEN PETUNIA. An extra choice new double white variety which for profuse flowering qualities is unsurpassed and for keeping has no equal. Plant grows about two feet high and often has 200 to 300 flowers on at a time and blooms throughout the season. Flower is of medium size, scolloped, pure snow white and of great substance. Desirable both for out door bedding and winter blooming in the house. Each 10c.

Hanging Basket Collection. We have selected six of the best, most suitable and easily grown varieties of plants, which, when arranged in a hanging basket will make a beautiful effect and at all times be a most ornamental basket. ABUTILON, Eclipse.--Of trailing habit, with beautiful foliage. Flowers bright yellow with crimson throat. Each 15c. BEGONIA Rex.--Each 25c. FUCHSIA, Trailing Queen.--Of a drooping habit. Flowers borne in clusters. Each 15c. VINCA, Major.--Leaves handsomely varigated [variegated]. Flowers bright blue and very showy. Each 10c. SWORD FERN.--Very popular. Each 25c. WANDERING JEW, Varigated [Variegated].--Each 10c. THE ENTIRE COLLECTION FOR 75 CTS.

INDIA RUBBER TREE. The large, shining, green leaves endure the dry air of a living room as well or better than any other plant, this is why everybody likes it. Each 60c.

PALMS. These most grand and elegant plants should be more largely grown. We can furnish plants of any of the varieties described on page 4, at 25c each, by mail postpaid. Larger plants at 50c to $5.00 each by express. We will furnish free to our customers who desire it a circular on the care of palms. They are of most easy culture if you know their wants, and the circular describes splendid methods for their culture.

20 Beautiful Everblooming PLANTS PREPAID FOR $1.00

That every flower lover in America may afford a collection of greenhouse plants we have grown these 20 kinds in large quantities so that we might afford to send this large number for the very low price. They are all choice plants suitable either for house culture or outdoor vases or bedding. They are not little slips, but good plants which we are sure will please you. Please remember that they are all to be our selection of varieties; we cannot allow you to select at this price. Many of these plants are choice high priced sorts, of which we have a surplus at the time order is filled. 20 for $1.00.

[image] SWAINSONIA.

IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 7.

[image] CARNATIONS.--1, Silver Spray 2, American Flag.

CARNATION. Fragrant flowers are always sought after, and the rich, spicy ordor [odor] of the carnation, combined with various colors and handsome form, leaves but little to be desired. They are very easily grown and bloom freely. SILVER SPRAY.--A grand, pure white, early and free-flowering carnation of healthy, vigorous growth; makes fine bushy plants, and bears an abundance of flowers on long stems; never bursts; petals, finely fringed and very fragrant; an excellent variety, and best of all for general use. Each 15c. AMERICAN FLAG.--An immense, strong, vigorous grower and profuse bloomer. Very fragrant. The color is distinct from any other variety, being distinctly and regularly striped vivid scarlet and pure white, giving it a most novel and striking effect. Each 15c. PRESIDENT GARFIELD.--Deep red, fine large flowers of great substance. A very good variety. Each 10c. TIDAL WAVE.--Flowers very large and perfect in form; color bright rosy pink, changing to a beautiful soft pink with salmon shading when flowers are fully expanded. Excellent variety for pot culture. Each 10c. GOLD FINCH.--A beautiful, new, golden yellow carnation, with not a particle of stripe or foreign color; full and double; free, vigorous and healthy grower and continuous bloomer. Produces a great number of flowers. Each 15c. WM. SCOTT.--Rich pink, shaded salmon, large sized finely fringed flowers. Each 15c.

SANSEVERIA. ZELANICA.--A singular plant, eminently adapted for decorative purposes in parlors, etc. Dark green, beautifully striped crosswise with white. Flowers white. Each 25c.

SWORD FERN. One of the most popular sorts. Splendid for pots, vases or hanging baskets, but especially desirable grown in the wire hanging baskets, in which they thrive well and make wonderfully ornamental plants. Each 25c.

TRIFOLIATE ORANGE. The most hardy of the orange family, aud [and] will stand our northern climate with a little protection, and is also desirable for pot culture. It is dwarf, of a low shrubby growth, with beautiful, trifoliate, glossy green leaves, and an abundance of large, white, sweet scented blossoms, borne almost continually. The fruit is small and bright orange red in color. A plant of great beauty. Each, 25c.

SOLANUM JASMINOIDES GRANDIFLORUM. This beautiful plant is of trailing or climbing habit, but if desired can be cut back to a bush form. It has star-shaped flowers, borne in large clusters or panicles frequently a foot across. They are in color a pure white with violet tinge on the back; equally a good bloomer in summer and winter, and is wonderfully effective when planted to cover a low wall or trellis, showing hundreds of fine panicles of bloom. Each 15c.

PARROT'S FEATHER. An aquatic hanging plant is a novelty indeed, and we have it to perfection in this dainty little jewel. Its long trailing stems are clothed with whorls of the most exquisite foliage, as finely cut as the leaves of the Cypress Vine, and much more delicate. Planted in a water-tight hanging basket, will trail finely. Each 15c.

MANETTA. BICOLOR.--Possesses many real points of merit. Succeeds well when bedded out, as it grows rapidly and blooms freely all summer. It is especially adapted to winter blooming in the house. A constant bloomer. Color vivid crimson scarlet, tipped with golden yellow. Each 10c; extra large plants 25c.

[image] TRIFOLIATE ORANGE.

FUCHSIAS. These, when in full bloom, are the most graceful of all cultivated plants. MRS. E. G. HILL.--The most perfect and beautiful double white fuchsia ever raised. The short tubes and sepals are a bright, rich, reddish crimson color, corolla extra larg, full and double; flower of the largest size; is of robust, upright growth, compact and very symmetrical. Each 15c.

[image] SANSEVERIA.

BLACK PRINCE.--Tube and sepals bright waxy carmine, sepals large and broad with pale green tips; large, open, pale pink corolla. They are easily grown in tree form. Each 10c. PHENOMENAL.--Very large flowered sort; sepals bright scarlet with rich violet purple corolla, very double, flaked with red. Each 10c. STORM KING.--Of enormous size. The sepals are glowing scarlet crimson, while the large double corolla is of delicate waxy whiteness, elegantly penciled with deep, bright crimson. Each 15c. SPECIOSA.--Sepals blush, corolla carmine. Each 10c. LITTLE BEAUTY.--A charming variety and the freest flowering of all Fuchsias. It begins to bloom when only two or three inches high and continues to flower the year round. Flowers of good size. Tube sepals bright red, corolla deep purple. Each 15c.

WATER HYACINTH. One of the most remarkable, curious and beautiful plants we have ever grown. Instead of growing in soil it floats in the water, which it is enabled to do by means of its curiously inflated leaf stalks, which resemble bladders or balloons, fllled with air. A large mass of feathery blue roots grow downward, their ends entering into the soil. It forms a lovely rosette of its curious, shining green leaves, and throws up spikes of the most exquisite flowers imaginable, resembling in form a spike of hyacinth bloom, but as beautiful as many of the choicest and most costly orchids. Each flower is as large or larger than a silver dollar; color a beautiful, soft lilac rose, sparkling as if covered with diamond dust. The upper petal, which is the largest, has a large metallic blue blotch, and in the center of that a small, deep, golden yellow spot. Each 15c.

FUCHSIAS. TRAILING QUEEN. Of beautiful trailing habit, fine for hanging baskets. Each 15c.

[image] SWORD FERN.

8. IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA.

[image] SOUVENIR DE MIRANDE.

DOUBLE GERANIUMS. Remarkable.--As will be seen by our illustration, the habit of growth is dwarf and compact, making this variety one of the most desirable for pot culture. Has perfect trusses of miniature rosebud florets, which are wonderfully attractive and pleasing. The color is the brightest possible scarlet crimson; the substance most lasting. It is entirely unique, afterwards opening to a very handsome bright flower. Of hardy, vigorous, healthy habit of growth. Each 15c. Bruanti.--Fine double bedding geranium. The leafage is round, nicely zoned, having great texture and substance. The color of the flower is light vermilion red; trusses exceptionally large and borne in immense spherical balls often eight inches in diameter. Each 15c. S. A. Nutt.--A very fine, dark, deep, rich, velvety maroon; an excellent bedder and a perfect pot plant. Mrs. E. G. Hill.--A most distinct and pleasing shade of salmon with light shading at the center. Marvel.--Very large, dark, velvety scarlet. A glowing color. Leon Say.--Large bold trusses of dark vermillion-red. Darkest of any geranium. Fine for bedding. Gold Finder.--A rich, golden, orange scarlet, its large trusses opening freely, the habit being as free and robust as that of any other variety. Yellowest of all geraniums. Glorie de France.--A grand variety; flowers large and double; center distinct; dark salmon with large border of rosy white. Harriet Thorpe.--Delicate blush, shaded with pearl pink; trusses large and well shaped. La Favorite.--This is the best double white geranium ever introduced; a strong grower and profuse bloomer; trusses very large, flowers beautifully formed and of the purest snowy white; plant is of close, compact habit, and remarkably free flowering. Any of above sorts 10c each, $1.00 per doz.

SINGLE GERANIUMS. Souvenir de Mirande.--The finest geranium of late introduction, and the greatest novelty that has appeared in years. Entirely distinct from any other variety known. It has nicely formed, round florets; upper petals cream white, with distinct salmon rose border; lower petals salmon rose, streaked with pure white; very free flowering and produces fine trusses of its magnificent blooms. The large engraving shows its peculiar stripings. Bridal Wreath.--Similar to Souvenir de Miranda, but colors opposite, being a pink body color with white edge. Jealousy.--Large orange yellow. La Vestal.--The best single white. Peach Blossom--The color of a peach blossom exactly. Mrs. A. Blanc.--Apricot red, veined darker, with center of vinous rose. Mad. Du Lac.--Beautiful bright rose, upper petals blotched pure white. Large trusses of fine shaped single flowers. New Life.--The flowers are vivid scarlet, irregularly striped with salmon and white like a carnation; truss good, very free flowering; sports, sometimes, no two flowers alike, very attractive and popular. Any of above sorts 10c each, $1.00 per doz. The Wonder.--The flowers are the most intense, dazzling scarlet, and are borne in great trusses of enormous size, measuring from 18 to 20 inches in circumference, with single florets measuring 7 inches in circumference. The foliage is fine and rich in color, and in strong contrast to the brilliant scarlet flowers. Each 15c.

[image] A NATURAL SIZE FLORET REMARKABLE GERANIUM

PANSY GERANIUM. This variety, though not new, is one of great merit. The flowers are of medium size, and have a white throat. Each petal is shaded toward the center with a rich lavender pink and a dark maroon blotch in the center. This should be in every collection of plants as it is very handsome and will attract much attention. Each 25c.

IVY LEAVED GERANIUMS. Charles Turner.--Handsomest of any Ivy Geranium. The flowers are very double, full and perfect in form; color rich, deep pink. Each 15c. Jean de Arch.--Very large and finest white in existence. Each 10c. P. Crozy.--A hybrid between the Zonales and Ivies. The color is soft, bright scarlet with veinings of maroon. Habit of plant very dwarf and compact, and one of the most prolific flowering sorts in existence. Each 15c.

CHRYSANTHEMUM. These are now, and deservedly, the most fashionable of all autumn flowers. Louis Boehmer.--The splendid new Pink Ostrich Plume Chrysanthemum. Grand flowers, splendid globular form; petals broad and lasting and thickly covered with fine, downy hairs so much admired; color deep, rich pink; solid and fine. Plant strong and vigorous. Each 15c. Eiderdown.--Large, perfectly double, incurved, snow white, late Japanese variety, covered with glandular hairs; habit perfect, stems stiff and erect. Each 15c. V. H. Hailock.--A rosy pearl of a marked waxy texture. The rosy color deepens toward the center. The flower is six inches in diameter, petals convex, rounded downwards half their length from the center, changing to a beautiful curved form. Center a slightly twisted incurve. Yellow Queen.--The finest very early variety ever introduced, having been cut in fine condition on the 10th of October. Very large clear, bright yellow with extra stout stem and foliage. It also develops its flowers to perfection in open air without protection. Challenge.--A large, perfect globe of the brightest gold, depth and width being equal; a very strong stem and good foliage. This is a magnificent new sort which will delight all flower lovers. Plants are fairly loaded with flowers. Kiota.--Soft, clear, incurving yellow; full in the center, 6 to 7 inches in diameter and nearly as deep. Constellation.--Nearest to a true pink yet introduced. Good sized flowers with straight petals. Joanna.--One of the very finest bronze to date. Extra large, beautiful, half globular form, with incurved, shapely petals of solid build; carries flowers erect on stiff stem; heavy deep green foliage, well up to flower; late. The Bard.--Extremely double, reflexed variety of medium size. Color a rich crimson, with outer edges of petals tinged with gold. Vigorous grower. Ivory.--Flower a perfect ball of purest white, very double and of immense size, some being 6 inches in diameter. Jessica.--A most beautiful, clear, pure white, with very long petals. A large flower of splendid shape. Plant a vigorous grower; early and profuse bloomer. Any of the above varieties, each, 10c. 15 Chrysanthemums, our choice of varieties, $1.00.

[image] LOUIS BOEHMER CHRYSANTHEMUM.