New floral guide / Conard & Jones Company.

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THE CONARD & JONES COMPANY, WEST GROVE, PA.
N^Jik^ Giant Hybrids
New Giant Heliotropes.
THKSK beautiful Giant Heliotropes are among
the sweetest and loveliest flowers we know,
and should have a place in every garden. They
are very easily raised, the plants grow about
two feet high and bear enormous clusters of exquisitely fragrant flowers fully twice as large as the
old kinds and so delightfully sweet that they perfume a whole neighborhood. The colors range
from  pure white through all shades of violet and
fnirple to dark indigo blue. Seed should be started
ndoors and transplanted when weather is settled.
Packet, 6 cts.; 3 packets for 15 cts.
Two New Black Foliage Heliotropes,
Egypt and Midnight.
Very curious aud interesting, the stems are as black
as ink and the foliage so dark as to be almost black.,
EGYPT—Grows  round and bushy, with very dark
foliage  and rich  purple  flowers, variegated with
white, highly unique.    Packet 10 cts.
MIDNIGHT—Grows   in   fine   tree-like   form   with
lustrous foliage resembling thick crepe, fine bluish CONARD'S
purple flowers, very handsome.    Packet 10 cts. nw^ft   £F
HELIOTROPE—A universal favorite on account of £t^l„-T    . 5fi^w
its delightful fragrance and constant bloom, equally GROW SkH<X BLOOJl
desirable for bedding in Summer and house culture
in "Winter.     Grows easily from seed and blooms
continuously.    Very sweet.    Packet 4 cts.
New Heliotrope, Lemolnes Giant Hybrids.
LOBELIA CRYSTAL PALACE GEM-Grows dwarf and
compact, rich deep blue flowers. Splendid for edging and
borders.    Packet 4 cts.
LOBELIAS—The Lobelias are charming little plants of
regular, compact form, thickly covered with pretty blue
and white flowers. The plants grow six io eight inches
high, and bloom in four weeks from sowing the seed.
Excellent for edging, window boxes, vases, etc. Finest
varieties mixed.    Packet 3 cts.
LEMON VERBENA—Well known and highly prized for
its delicious fragrance ; you will find it grows easily from
seed sown in the open ground, and is excellent for pot
culture.    Packet 4 cts.
NICOTIANA AFFINIS—A large, handsome, branching
plant, two to three feet high, producing a profusion of
beautiful pure white, star-shaped flowers on long terminal tubes ; very handsome and attractive, and so exceeds
ingly fragrant they perfume the whole neighborhood.
Packet 4 cts.
DOUBLE DAHLIAS—It is well known that the finest Dahlias are grown from seed sown in the Spring, and give as good
or better satisfaction as those grown from roots.    Our seed is saved from the finest double named varieties, and will give
a great variety of  handsome colors and a large proportion of  large, perfectly shaped
flowers fully equal to the named kinds.    Seed started in the house and set out the last of
May will be in bloom as soon as plants from roots, and will produce as many fine flowers.
Our seed is extensively planted and gives excellent satisfaction.    Finest double mixed.
Packet 6 cts.
NEW STRIPED SINGLE DAHLIAS-Beautiful \a,rge single flowers, many of them four
inches across, and displaying a wonderful variety of bright rich colors, beautifully striped,
flaked, mottled and dotted in
the most charming manner.
Packet 6 cts.
NEW DWARF TOM THUMB
DAHLIA—Elegant little plants,
growing only twelve or fifteen
inches high, and covered with
bloom in less than three months
after seed is sown; continues
to bloom till cold weather.
Flowers very pretty and attractive, white, yellow and rose,
banded and variegated in the
most unusual way. New and,
very desirable.   Packet 6 cts.
New Dwarf Marigold, Legion of Honor.
Recommended as the prettiest Marigold ever introduced ; grows
dwarf and compact, the dark green fern-like foliage making a
fine background for the bright golden star-like flowers, which are
borne so profusely. The flowers are of medium size, rich, golden-
yellow, broadly marked with dark crimson brown; blooms
abundantly from July until cut down by frost. It is so pretty and
so easily raised from seed that every one should give it a trial.
Packet i cts,
MARIGOLD, (French Double Dwarf)—Low, compact, showy
plant, with fine, double flowers of rich and beautiful colors;
always make a fine display; much used for borders, edgings,
etc. Packet 3 cts.
MARIGOLD, ELDORADO—Grows large and bushy; an immense bloomer, a single plant sometimes having from fifty to
seventy-five flowers in full bloom at one time; the flowers are
from three to four inches in diameter and perfectly double, they
include four different shades, primrose, lemon, golden yellow,
and deep glowing orange.   Packet 3 cU.
Lobelias.
Double Dahlias.