. Choice flower seeds. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. NEW CALIFORNIA GIANT COSMOS. This new strain of California Giant Cosmos, which I offered for the first time last year, has received many warm praises. It is raised by Mrs. Shepherd, who has developed the finest Cosmos in the world. The blossoms are extra large and surprisingly beautiful, measuring sometimes five inches across, in white, pink, mauve and crimson shades. The petals are plain in some flowers, in others fringed and beautifully overlapping. Worth raising for its fine, graceful, feathery foliage alone, and one should keep
. Choice flower seeds. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. NEW CALIFORNIA GIANT COSMOS. This new strain of California Giant Cosmos, which I offered for the first time last year, has received many warm praises. It is raised by Mrs. Shepherd, who has developed the finest Cosmos in the world. The blossoms are extra large and surprisingly beautiful, measuring sometimes five inches across, in white, pink, mauve and crimson shades. The petals are plain in some flowers, in others fringed and beautifully overlapping. Worth raising for its fine, graceful, feathery foliage alone, and one should keep a plant or two just to use for green. I offer this splendid Cosmos in separate or mixed colors. Annual. 4 to 8 ft. Mixed. Pkt., 6 cts Giant Red, White and Pink. Separate colors, each, per pkt., 6ctS. CYPRESS VINE. The Cypress Vine is a beautiful climber, with delicate, feathery, dark green foliage, which for two or three months will be dotted over with bright, velvety, little star-shaped, scarlet or white flowers. It is pretty to train over an old stump or over rock work, and if planted in a rich soil will grow to a height of twenty feet. Perennial. Mixed. Pkt., 3 cts. Princeton, 111., Oct. 14, 1897.— "My cosmos from your seed is the handsomest I ever saw, very large ; Mrs. H. C. Keed. Excelsior, Minn., Oct. 26,1897.— "The Giant Cosmos at this date is feet tall and has a wealth of bloom, the blossoms measuring about i inches in diameter. CypressVine. COSMOS HYBRIDUS. The "; A beautiful white Cosmos. Pkt., 3 cts. Mixed Cosmos. A fine mixture of the old varieties. Pkt., 3 cts. Mankato, Minn., Oct. 21, 1897.—"I have had untold satisfaction from all my flowers I got from you. I have given over 200 bouquets to the sick from them, the Public Hospital receiving the greater share. Mrs. Geo. A. Habbis. CALIFORNIA GIANT COSMOS. Marguerite Cosmos. One of the prettiest and daintiest varieties imaginable; the flowers meas
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