. Park's floral guide for 1899. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. Showy and Beautiful Packet 3 cents, 4 packets 10 cents. There are few more satisfactory annuals for either pots or beds than the Plume-flowered and Coxcomb-flowered Celosias when well grown from a fine strain of seeds. A warm, sunny place, and a rich, well-stirred soil de- velops immense plumes or combs, and these are a never-tailing source of admiration, either in garden or window. The seeds I offer of both sections are first-class, saved only from the finest large
. Park's floral guide for 1899. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. Showy and Beautiful Packet 3 cents, 4 packets 10 cents. There are few more satisfactory annuals for either pots or beds than the Plume-flowered and Coxcomb-flowered Celosias when well grown from a fine strain of seeds. A warm, sunny place, and a rich, well-stirred soil de- velops immense plumes or combs, and these are a never-tailing source of admiration, either in garden or window. The seeds I offer of both sections are first-class, saved only from the finest large blooms, and will surely please. FINE COXCOMB-FLOWERED VARIETIES. Celosia cristata, Orange, Rose and Scarlet, each. 5 Crimson, Pnrple and Amaranth, each 5 Sulphur and Violet, each 5 Glasgow Prize, crimson, Empress, purple, each 5 Nana, dwarf, beautiful o Japonica, scarlet • 5 Variegata, yellow and red, beautiful 5 The above mixed 5 COXCOMB-FLOWERED CELOSIA. NEW PLUME-FLOWERED VARIETIES. Kermesina, crimson 5 I Violacea, reddish violet Triomphe de'l Exposition, rich crimson 5 Purple, Rose and White, each Aurea, bright golden yellow 5 | Plume-rlowered, mixed, 4 packets 10 cents, per packet Complete mixture of Plume-flowered and Coxcomb-flowered varieties, 4 packets 10 cents, one packet New Fringed Chrysanthemums. Fine mixed, per packet 3 cents, 4 packets Here is a novelty in annual Chrysanthemums—one those who try it. The plants are as thrifty, and as easi] from seeds as those of the older varieties, while the as large, quite as double, of many showy colors, I and what is more the petals are deeply and beau- I tifully fringed. This superb characteristic was I developed and fixed as a distinguishing feature by Mr. Ch. Laurens; an enthusiastic florist of Ger- { many, who has given the annual Chrysanthemum i special attention. The plants of this new sort are sure and constant-blooming either in pots or beds. | They grow a foot high, are compact and bushy, i and become a mass of ri
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