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Iowa Seed Company, 16 ... Des Moines, Iowa.

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[Image: Grevillea, or Silk Oak.]

[Image: Bryophyllum]

[Image: Double Nasturtium.]

[Image: Baby Primrose.]

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Grevillea, or Silk Oak.
One of the quickest growing of ornamental house plants. It is easy to manage, grows rapidly and is pretty in all its stages of growth. With its long, drooping, silky foliage, it reminds one of a palm or fern. The young growths are of a light bronze color, the tops being covered with a soft down, closely resembling raw silk. Each 15c.

Araucaria Excelsa.
This beautiful plant resembles the pine somewhat in appearance, though much finer in texture, and is particularly adapted to table decoration. It is most unique in appearance. Its deep green feathery foliage arranged in whorls, rising one above the other at regular distances makes it a plant of rare value for house or conservatory decoration. Must be sent by express, too large to mail. Each $1.00, $2.00, and $3.00.

Golden Leaved Honeysuckle.
A remarkably pretty little vine bearing a great number of sprays of the most perfect little leaves that are covered with a net-work of gold and green, often marked with pink also. The gold deepens at the tip of the sprays and there is nothing finer to combine with corsage bouquets, while for trimming floral baskets they are the finest thing we know of. A strong grower with white blossoms. A unique vine. Each 10c.

Bryophyllum. (Sprouting Leaf.)
One of the most curious plants it has ever been our privilege to grow. The leaves are thick and heavy. When cut and placed in moist soil little plants start from the notches in them, and make very strong plants in a very short time. When in bloom it presents a very odd and interesting appearance; first, long, green, red-striped pods are formed, through this breaks a pointed tube of a dull red shade. The blooms are produced in great profusion. Each 15c.

Countless Louise Erdody Begonia.
This variety is sometimes called "Snail Begonia" on account of the peculiar formation of the leaves. The form is exceedingly odd and unique. The striking peculiarity which distinguishes it from all other Begonias consists in the fact that the two lobes at the base of the leaf do not grow side by side, but one of them winds in a spiral like way until in a full grown leaf there are four of these twists lying on top of the leaf nearly two inches high. The leaf has a metallic lustre, dark silvery in the center shading into coppery rose toward the margin, which is broadly and evenly edged with the same hue, but darker and more brilliant. Very curious. Each 25c.

New Variegated Myrtle.
Every one knows and loves the old fashioned Myrtle with its dark green leaves and vine forming a carpet. It has always been a favorite for cemetery planting and its bright blue flowers peek up to say "good morning" to the passerby. This charming new variety has the same characteristics, but the foliage is beautifully variegated with pure white, thus making it very showy and "taking." It is the plant of plants for cemetery use, and bound to be a favorite. A decided novelty, for which, if they had it, eastern florists would doubtless ask 50c, but we have propagated a good stock and offer plants at 15 cts. each, doz. $1.25.

Double Nasturtium.
Did you ever see one? Very few people have, but we have a fine lot of them this year and are offering them at a low price. It is a most charming novelty which is really difficult to properly describe. The flowers are large and fully double like a Camelia or Rose which gives them a very different appearance from any others. They have a rich spicy fragrance and are of a rich dark orange crimson with shading of deep mahogany red. It is not a "freak" with a few small insignificant flowers, but a really good double flower, 2 to 2 1/2 inches across, which will instantly attract the attention of every one who sees them. Plant is a strong vigorous grower of climbing habit, and fine for trellises, window boxes, vases, etc. It is a constant bloomer all summer and fall, and if taken in the house is an excellent winter bloomer also. Never produces seed. Our cut was made from a flower left on the plant out doors very late in the season and does not do justice to it as the flower is usually so double that the petals lay flat and overlap each other. Each 15c, 4 for 50c.

Chenille Plant.--(Acalypha Sanderii.)
A most striking ornamental plant. It is a native of the South Sea Islands, of rapid growth and blooms continuously. The plant is of branching habit, healthy foliage and the flower spikes which appear in pairs from the axils of the leaves, grow from two to three feet in length. They are of bright crimson color, drooping and mixing among the green foliage with charming effect. It will be extensively used as a pot plant. You will find it a most unique and sensational bedding plant on the lawn or borders. Do not plant too close together or too near others or its striking effect will be lessened. Can be lifted in the fall and will make a fine show in the house during the winter. We offer strong, well established plants at 25c each, 5 for $1.00.

The Baby Primrose.--(Primula Forbesi.)
It is a wonderfully free-blooming plant, commencing to flower as soon as born. It forms a dense rosette of somewhat fleshy leaves, from which spring the flowering stems, twelve, fifteen and even twenty inches tall, supporting three tiers of whorls of dainty flowers of a delicate rosy-lilac, with eye of pale gold. The flowers are not more than a half an inch in diameter, but they are produced in such great abundance that a few plants present a dense mass of bloom from September until June. As a pot plant it cannot be surpassed, as it is a vigorous grower and thrives either in shade or sunshine. Each 10c.

Aureole Geranium.
Mad. Bruant. -- A fancy flowered sort, remarkable colors, quite distinct and almost startling in effect, no other variety equaling it for bedding. Plant is loaded with blooms and each floret is large, center being white, beautifully veined with carmine lake, radiating into handsome aureole, each petal being bordered with bright solferino. A fine pot plant and constant bloomer. Ea. 15c.

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[Image: Araucaria.]

[Image: Louise Erdody Begonia.]

[Image: Chenille Plant.]

[Image: Aureole Geranium.]