. Compliments of the season. Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. The Sweet Alyssum has pretty little white flowers useful for making up in all kinds of small bouquets; and its fragrance, while sufficiently pro- nounced, is very deli- cate, reminding one of the peculiar aroma of the hay field. It grows freely from seed, eithei under glass oi in the open ground and makes a pretty border. The Alyssum is one of the very best plants for a basket or pot. Alyssum, Sweet, hardy annual; flowers small and sweet, in clusters: one foot _ 5 Benthami compactum, a new d
. Compliments of the season. Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. The Sweet Alyssum has pretty little white flowers useful for making up in all kinds of small bouquets; and its fragrance, while sufficiently pro- nounced, is very deli- cate, reminding one of the peculiar aroma of the hay field. It grows freely from seed, eithei under glass oi in the open ground and makes a pretty border. The Alyssum is one of the very best plants for a basket or pot. Alyssum, Sweet, hardy annual; flowers small and sweet, in clusters: one foot _ 5 Benthami compactum, a new dwarf, compact variety, not over six inches in height, bearing its pure white fragrant flowers in greatest profusion during the entire summer 10 Wierczbeckii, hardy perennial, yellow; one foot 5 AG-ROSTEMMA. The annual Agrostemmas, or more properly Viscarias, are free bloom- ers, make desirable beds, and are useful for cutting. They have the best appearance when grown in masses. Sow seed in the bed where they are to bloom, thinning out the plants where they are evidently too close. The flowers resemble single Pinks. Plants twelve inches in height. Agrostemma, /New Scarlet, bright 5 <2oeli 'Rosa, deep rose color _ ._ 5 elegans pi eta, center dark crimson, white margin 5 cardinalis, bright red 5 Mixed varieties, _ 5 A/N AGALLIS. The genus Anagallis is remarkable for the beauty of its flowers, and is very desirable for small beds, edgings, baskets, etc. The plants do not usually exceed six inches in height, and when set in beds, thickly cover the ground with a constant profusion of flowers. Anagallis grandiflora superba, mixed colors 5 AG A Mexican flower, of a brush - like appearance, desirable in the garden, and prized by florists be- cause it bears a great many flowers, keeps in bloom a long time, and is, therefore, desirable for boquet making, for which purpose we have but few better flowers. It is well to start the seed under glass, and transplant. The Ageratums a
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