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Iowa Seed Company, 17 ... Des Moines, Iowa.

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[Image: New Abutilon "Savitzi"]

Abutilon Savitzi.
One of the most beautiful new variegated-leaved plants in existence. Its large, maple-like leaves are almost white, being blotched here and there only with clear, bright green, a most charming contrast, heightened still more by the very large, orange, bell-shaped flowers with which the plant is always covered. This is one of our best novelties, both for a pot plant in the house and for bedding out, as it retains its variegation in the hotest [hottest] sun. It is most admirably adapted as a border for Cannas, Geraniums and other taller growing plants. Each 15c, 4 for 50c.

Peachblow Hibiscus.
This is one of the finest free flowering plant novelties offered in recent years. It is a "sport" from the double red Hibiscus Rosea-Sinensis; the flowers are double and from four to five inches in diameter; of a charming, rich clear pink color, with a small deep crimson center; an entirely new and most beautiful shade. It blooms abundantly and continuously even on small plants during the entire summer and fall months; may be easily wintered in the house. Large plants, two or three years old, make a magnificent show. It will give great satisfaction to all who grow it, either in pots or planted out in the garden. It is a good winter bloomer. Each 20c.

Plumbago Capensis.
No plant in our greenhouse has caused more exclamations of delight than these beautiful heavenly blue Plumbagos. They are most excellent pot plants, flowering freely at all times of the year. South of Central Missouri they are hardy in the open ground, and make desirable garden plants. Flowers are borne in large clusters and are exceedingly beautiful in color. They are of very easy culture, growing in any situation as freely as Geraniums. In fact few pot plants can be found that will prove so easy to manage, and furnish such an abundance of exceedingly handsome flowers[.] They are of a rare shade of light azure blue. Each 10c.

Lady Larpent Plumbago.
This beautiful variety has pleased all who have planted it and it has achieved great popularity. It is unquestionably one of the most distinct and valuable hardy herbaceous plants now in cultivation. The plants are strong, upright in habit, growing to a height of twelve to fifteen inches in compact clumps, and from the middle of July until severe frost are covered with lovely rich violet blue-colored flowers, borne in close terminal heads. The foliage is finely serrated and fringing the stems. Each 10c.

[Image: Blue Beauty Geranium.]
Blue Beauty Geranium.
Great Novelty and a new Color.
Each year we import many European novelties for testing on our trial grounds and among others we received a number of new geraniums some of which were unnamed[.] We were surprised to find among the number a new color heretofore unknown in geraniums, being of a most beautiful violet or purplish crimson with a blue sheen over the surface. The flower is double and the three upper outside petals have a spot of clear vermilion near the base which makes the flower more brilliant. Out of one hundred varieties of geraniums on our place this year there was none which approached it in color. It is a vigorous grower and free bloomer even during the dryest [driest] summer weather. The blue tint shows better after flower is fully out. Each 25c.

[Image: Unique Lily of the Valley.]
Unique Lily of the Valley.
When on our annual trip among our seed growers we noticed in an out-of-the-way place a cluster of Lily of the Valley which was of most beautiful and unique appearance. The flowers were as large and fully as numerous as any other variety, while the leaves are dark green handsomely striped with broad bands of pure white. Lily of the Valley is one of the most beautiful flowers in existence and would be very popular were it not that they are in bloom for such a short time and during the balance of the year the bed is not very ornamental. This new variety makes a charming bed at all seasons of the year. Each 10c, per doz. $1.00.

Anthericum Picturatum.
One of the finest decorative plants for vases or baskets and as a pot plant it will enrich any collection. The long leaves are deep green broadly striped with pure white thus giving it a splendid effect. It is a strong, vigorous, rapid grower and bears many long spikes of small, star-like flowers which are very pretty and attractive. Sometimes small plants will be produced on these flower stems which subsist mainly on the moisture in the atmosphere and this gives the plant a peculiar and unique appearance. Each 15c.

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[Image: Peachblow Hibiscus.]
Pansies.
Our plants are strong and well grown from choice seed. All varieties mixed. Doz. 35c, 3 doz. $1.00.

Royal Exhibition Pansies.
The plants here offered are grown from our own choicest strain of seed procured from the world's greatest Pansy specialists and for size of bloom, richness of coloring and texture will be found unapproached by any other strain. Extra strong plants, wintered over from last fall, 60c per doz., 3 doz. for $1.50.

Crimson Velvet Plant.
(Gynura Aurantiaca.)
This is one of the rarest and most beautiful foliage plants in cultivation. Of very robust and branching growth, yet remains dwarf and compact. The leaves and stems are entirely covered with minute hairs, which reflect the new and beautiful shades of colors--such as orange, crimson, purple, blue, green--a veritable kaleidoscope, changing its hues with every movement of the foliage, which appears thick and long lasting. It is so strangely beautiful that flowers seem superfluous, yet they are produced in brilliant orange clusters. Desirable for pot culture, vases or bedding. Each 25c.

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