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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa 17

Ferns.

Most highly prized of all decorative
house plants. Their graceful beauty
lends itself perfectly to any situation; becoming
more popular every year.

[image: Boston Fern.]

Boston Fern. -- This is a wonderfully healthy,
rapid growing and graceful house plant. In great
demand everywhere; many people buy it in preference
to the finest Palms or Rubber Plants.
Thrives in all rooms; gas or furnace heat do not
seem to injure it. Of easy culture and its swordlike
fronds, on large specimens, attain a length of
5 to 6 feet, produced in a bewildering mass, arching,
curving and interlacing. Each 15c. Large
plants 25c and 50c.

Pierson Fern -- Ostrich Plume. -- Finest plant novelty i
ntroduced for many years; resembles the
Boston Fern, but is indescribably more beautiful.
Fronds grow broad and heavy, increasing in beauty
as they develop. Each 25c, postpaid. Specimen
plants $1.00, by express at purchaser's expense.

Elegantissima Fern. -- This is a "sport," or improved
variety of the preceding; grows only half
as tall, is more compact and the fronds are nearly
twice as wide. Scarce. Each 35c.

Anna Foster Fern. -- A beautiful new variety of the
Boston Fern, having broad fronds and the petals are
finely cut or divided into little leaflets, thus giving
the plant a most beautiful and graceful effect.
Each 20c.

Maiden Hair Fern. -- Very popular; the most graceful of
all for cut flower work. Each 15c.

Moss Fern. -- (Selagnellia or Lycopodium.) -- Has delicate
lace-like foliage. Fine for fern dishes and always beautiful. Each 10c.

Small Ferns. -- We have many varieties of dwarf-growing ferns perfectly adapted for growth in fern
pans and ornamental ferneries; make an ideal table decoration. A carefully-selected set of SIX ferns 50c.

NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE. -- World-famous, deliciously fragrant flowers about which poets have
sung and over which tourists in its native land (Chili), have gone into ecstasies, and yet how few,
comparatively, in our own country have ever seen it. It is a plant of strong, shrubby growth with
handsome, glossy foliage and bears an immense number of
small star-shaped flowers. One plant on our place had at one
time fully 3,000 flowers and you can well imagine that it
was a grand sight. The delightful fragrance is dispensed only
at night and this makes the flowers of great value for ladies'
wear. It is specially adapted to house and window culture.
Each 15c, 3 for 40c.

[Image: The Beautiful Frond of Elegantissima Fern.]

Everblooming Cape Jasmine. -- This grand novelty resembles
the above, but it blossoms all the year round, while the other
variety blooms in the spring only. Flowers are large and
double with pure white wax-like petals, and delicious fragrance.
Excellent window plant; easiest culture. Each 25c,
3 for 60c.

[image: Night Blooming Jasmine.]

LEMON
VERBENA
-- A universal favorite
for its fragrant
leaves
which retain
their odor
for years,
when dried
Each 10c.

LOBELIA --
Handsome
trailing
plants, profuse
bloomers;
elegant
for baskets,
vases and
borders. Ea.
10c.

MAURANDIA --
Graceful
climbers for
window or
conservatories,
or open
ground in
summer; admirable to hang from vases, cover stumps
and low trellises, flowering freely. Each 10c.

MANETTABICOLOR. -- One of the handsomest little
vines in existence. Is easily and quickly grown, blooms
continuously, and is well adapted for hanging baskets,
pot culture, vases or bedding. Flower is brilliant scarlet,
tipped with clear, golden yellow; blooms profusely,
both outdoors and in the house. Each 10c.