. Spring catalogue : 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. New Heliotrope Hollyhock—Allegheny NEW HELIOTROPES Four of Bruant's Grand New "Giant-Flowered" Varieties. The Full Set of Four for 50 Cents Mauve, passing to CID—Semi-dwarf and very robust; panicles very large, and the florets of the very largest size yet obtained, lilac and tender rose, with clear white eye. A remarkably fine novelty. Price, 15c each. LE POITEVINE—Eno
. Spring catalogue : 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Saint Louis Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. New Heliotrope Hollyhock—Allegheny NEW HELIOTROPES Four of Bruant's Grand New "Giant-Flowered" Varieties. The Full Set of Four for 50 Cents Mauve, passing to CID—Semi-dwarf and very robust; panicles very large, and the florets of the very largest size yet obtained, lilac and tender rose, with clear white eye. A remarkably fine novelty. Price, 15c each. LE POITEVINE—Enormous florets compose the very large truss of bloom; color, mauve violet and azure, with shadings of rose; a robust, semi-dwarf grower; very free and continuous in bloom. Price, 15c each. CZAR—A very dwarf-growing variety, with black stems and enormous panicles of dark velvety violet bloom; very rich in color and of the "Giant type" in bloom. Price, 15c each. CZARINA—A fine companion for the above A little taller grower; deep indigo blue, with white eye; enormous trusses of the "Giant ; Price, 15c each. HOLLYHOCK ALLEGHENY—NEW FRINGED MAMMOTH This grand new flower is a decided improvement in more than one particular over the old-fashioned variety you see growing at every fence corner. Its first point of merit is the fine, transparent, fringed Chrysanthemum-shaped flowers, which look as if they were made up of crushed silk; so fine are these flowers in texture that one would never suspect that they were related to the clumsy old- style Hollyhock. While the common Hollyhock flowers rarely exceed three inches across, with our new fringed, clear-colored Hollyhock it is different, as they are seldom less than five inches, and the most of them over five, and as large as seven inches across. Through years of breeding and selection, a Hollyhock which can stand our winters and bloom continually through the hottest weather of sum- mer has been produce
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