. 29th annual catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Des Moines Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CROWN OF PERFECTION.—The flow- ers averaging six inches in circumference, are densely double and are produced in perfect succession during the whole sum- mer. Colors from purest satiny white to red shades so deep and intensely brilliant that the eye can scarcely penetrate their velvety depths, soft pinks and flesh tints more dainty than brush could lay; and a large proportion of flowers hieroglyphi- cally marked wr
. 29th annual catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Des Moines Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CROWN OF PERFECTION.—The flow- ers averaging six inches in circumference, are densely double and are produced in perfect succession during the whole sum- mer. Colors from purest satiny white to red shades so deep and intensely brilliant that the eye can scarcely penetrate their velvety depths, soft pinks and flesh tints more dainty than brush could lay; and a large proportion of flowers hieroglyphi- cally marked writh various hues. Pkt. 8c. MOURNING PINK—A magnificent new variety, with very double large flowers of a very dark mahogany, almost black, each petal edged with a clear cut margin of pure white. Pkt. 5c. SALMON QUEEN—Its flowers are of a very distinct and perfectly new tint in this class, being of the most brilliant salmon color imaginable. Pkt. 10c HEDDEWIGI—Finest selected single mixed. One of the most showy of the pink family. Pkt. 5c. DOUBLE DIADEM PINK.—Superb large double flower. Hiero- glyphically marked, like the original Chinese pinks, in the middle down to base of each petal: magnificent in color and variety. Pkt. 7c CHINENSIS. (Double Chinese Pink.)—Finest double mixed. Pkt, 3c. LANCINATUS -Double fringed, mixed. Pkt. 5c. IMPERIALIS- - Double imperial pink. Pkt. 5c. MIXED VARIETIES AND 5c. MOURNING NEW TOM THUMB DAHLIA. DAHLIA. The dahlia is well known, but few are aware that if the seed is sown early in the spring they will bloom the first year. NEW TOM THUMB.—Very pretty little plants, only twelve to fifteen inches high, of a bushy habit or growth, and they come into flower very early. Scarcely three months after sowing the seed the plants will be fully developed and covered with showy, pretty flowers. The range of color is something unusual; in many of the flowers the ground is white, with regular sones of magenta, crimson, purple,
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