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48. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] AUSTRALIAN STAR FLOWER.

FLORAL NOVELTIES
All flower lovers will want to try some of these "Gems of the Floral Kingdom" this year as our list contains many varieties which are specially desirable and of surpassing beauty. Most of them are very easily grown and we are sure that they will give satisfaction. Why not beautify your garden this year with some of these floral gems.

AUSTRALIAN STAR FLOWER.
(Cephalipterum Drummondi.)--A half hardy annual lately discovered in West Central Australia and never before offered. This surpassingly unique and beautiful plant grows readily from seed in any ordinary garden soil, preferring a rather sandy one. Blooms early in the season and continues in bloom for a long time. The fragrant flowers are of a peculiarly pleasing rosy crimson shade, sometimes approaching pure white, are produced in large graceful clusters which when cut will retain their form and color in perfection permanently, no other flower in any way equaling it in grace and keeping qualities. Full grown plants are about one foot high and the same across. Sow early in the open ground, or may be started early in the house and transplanted. Pkt. 10c.

MAMMOTH HELIOTROPE.
Everyone likes Heliotrope as it is one of the handsomest and most fragrant of all flowers. Desirable for growing in pots in the house the year around but far better bloomers when bedded out in the summer. This wondeful [wonderful] new strain produces immense heads or panicles of bloom in a very short time from seed and flowers abundantly in the garden all summer or will bloom the year around in pots, while the colors range from indigo-black through all shades of blue to almost pure white, and some with red tints, others with large white eye. In fragrance they seem to surpass the ordinary sorts. A packet of this seed will furnish a bed of flowers for your garden or lawn and give you great handfuls of the delicious blossoms all summer. Pkt. (about 100 seeds) 10c. Plants 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.

CLIMBING MAIDEN HAIR FERN
We know that we are doing our customers a favor by advising them to grow this fine climber which has been known under the name of Adlumia Cirrhosa. Everyone who has seen it growing on our place has admired it, and its striking resemblance to the foliage of the Malden Hair Fern has often been mentioned. Is a hardy, biennial climber, growing readily from seed; foliage feathery, dainty and picturesque. Blooms second year; pink and white flowers. Plant in cool, moist place. Pkt. 10c.

[image] NEW MAMMOTH FLOWERING HELIOTROPE

[image] MEXICAN BURNING BUSH.

MEXICAN BURNING BUSH.
This we consider one of the most ornamental border or hedge plants which has ever been brought out and it is sure to attract great attention. It is known botanically as Kochia Scoparia. It grows quickly from seed sown in the open ground. The plants are always of the rounded or globe-like form shown in our illustration. The plants branch freely, and the stems are clothed with slender light green leaves. Early in the fall the ends of the shoots are thickly set with small, bright scarlet flowers, the bushy plants resembling balls of fire. The plants are equally showy planted singly to show the round, ball-like form on all sides or grown in continuous rows. Per pkt. 10c.

[image] CELOSIA SPICATA.

CELOSIA SPICATA.
A wonderful new variety of Celosia and far different from any ever before seen. It is a handsome annual, forming upright, well branched pyramids about 2½ feet in height, and producing at the summit of each branch spikes of flowers of a bright rose color when opening, changing to silvery white; fine for the garden or growing in pots. Packet 15c.

ARCTOTIS GRANDIS.
One of the finest floral novelties of the season. It is a remarkably handsome annual which forms much-branched bushes 2 to 3 feet high, the foliage is soft and downy and of a whitish color; its flowers, borne on long stems, rising well above the foliage, are large and showy; the ray florets pure white on the upper surface, embellished with a narrow yellow zone at their base; the reverse of petals pale lilac-blue; the disc is light blue with slightly projecting white stamens; altogether a lovely flower. Pkt. 10c.

CHRISTMAS PEPPER.
For several years we have made a specialty of this Pepper at our greenhouses where we have grown several thousands in a season. They are ready for the market in October and November, lasting until Christmas, and the plants have sold like the proverbial "hot cakes." The plants grow about 12 to 15 inches high and are covered with bright, showy little fruit, which are at the same time, in various stages of growth, green, yellow, orange, pink, purple and shining scarlet. Of the easiest culture and a plant which every one will succeed with. We sell the plants at Christmas time at 50 cts. to $1.00 each. Small plants in the spring 10 cts. each. Seed per pkt. 10c.

[image] ARCTOTIS GRANDIS--THE AFRICAN LILAC DAISY.

OUR PANSY SEED IS UNSURPASSED--SEE LIST OF BEST VARIETIES ON PAGE 64.