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Asiers. New Hedge-hog or Crown, 



1636 Light Violet. With white centre, extra double 25 



1637 Truffaut's Paeony-flowered French Asters. These are unsurpassed for size, 



beauty, and general effect, and too well known to need a description. Collection of 

 ten splendid varieties i-5 



1638 New Large-flowered Dwarf German. A new and highly improved variety, 



growing only eight inches high, and very branching, with large double flowers, finely 

 imbricated 10 



1639 New Paeony-flowered la Superbe. This is the largest Paeony : flpwered Aster ; 



height two feet, with magnificent flowers, five inches in diameter ; brilliant rose color . 10 



1640 Boltze's New Miniature Bouquet. Of pyramidal growth, eight inches in height, 



constant in habit, extremely pretty, and very free blooming ; mixed colors . . . 10 



1641 Paeony-flowered Globe. Snow white ; new and fine 10 



1642 Aubrietia Graeca. An admirable little spring-bloomer ; can be strongly recommended 



as a most desirable plant, either for borders or beds, in early spring, blooming for 

 several weeks in succession 50 



1643 Bartonia Nuda. This is a perfect gem : it grows two to three feet high, and is literally 



covered with its large white flowers of the most delicate texture, surpassing even the 

 finest lace-work. The flowers are two and a half inches in diameter, and produced 

 in great abundance all the season. A perfectly hardy perennial. Per packet . . .25 



1644 Begonia Pearcei (Veitch). A beautiful species introduced from South America, with 



large bright yellow flowers borne on slender stems, well above the leaves, the upper 

 sides of which are of a dark velvety green, traversed by pale, straw-colored veins, 

 while the under side is of a dull red. Greenhouse plant . . .50 



1645 Bryonopsis, Erythrocarpa. Splendid climber, with beautiful scarlet fruits marbled 



with white. Annual ^ 25 



1646 Blitum Capitatum. Scarlet-fruited strawberry blite 05 



1647 Bisnaja Major. A very handsome hardy annual, growing about two and a half feet 



high, with deep-green, finely cut foliage, and dense umbels of white flowers, elegantly 

 disposed, producing a grand effect in groups or masses 25 



1648 Bocconia Japonica (B. Yokuhonta,}. This noble plant, recently introduced from Japan, 



and not yet in the trade, has been an object of unusual admiration in the German 

 gardens. Allied to the fine Bocconia Cordata, it surpasses this in point of beauty, of 

 robust, free growth, habit of plant, size, shape, coloring of leaves, and showiness of 

 flower-spikes. It is perfectly hardy, requiring no protection in winter ; of luxuriant 

 growth, forming a bush five to six feet in height, which is decorated, from the month 

 of August, by beautiful pyramidal spikes of flowers, two to three feet or more in 

 length. The beautiful, deeply serrated leaves, in the way of oak-leaves, are large, of 

 an obtuse, cordate form, of a sombre green above, glaucous below. As a single object 

 on the lawn, or grouped together, its effect is exquisite. It is a grand acquisition. 

 (See our engraving of the plant.) . . .50 



1649 Calliopsis Diversifolia. A very pretty dwarf, hardy plant about a foot high, covered 



with golden-yellow flowers, which have a reddish-brown centre, and slightly marbled 

 margin. Perennial . .25 



1650 Callirhoe Involucrata. A trailing hardy perennial of great beauty ; from the Rocky 



Mountains. In bloom from May to September. The flowers rise singly, on stems 

 six to ten inches high, and vary in color from bright rose to the deepest crimson. In 

 size and color resembles the Portulacas. Per packet 25 



1651 Calceolaria New-spotted. Saved from a superb collection of new-spotted sorts . .50 



1652 Pinnata. Yellow; half-hardy annual, i \ feet 10 



1653 Campanula Attica. A charming Grecian annual, forming compact plants about one .10 



foot in diameter, covered with deep-blue bell-shaped flowers ; well suited to sunny 

 exposures ................ 10 



1654 Rhomboidea Soldanelliflora Plena. A beautiful novelty. The petals of the 



handsome, pale azure-blue double flowers, are finely cut or fringed, and the blossoms 



are borne on graceful, drooping, slender branches. Perennial .... .25 



1655 Medium, Flore Roseo. Pink flowering Canterbury Bell. A new and very fine 



variety, with bright pink flowers ; a real novelty in color of this favorite and popular 

 flower, and considered a most valuable introduction . ... .25 



1656 Leutweini. Beautiful azure-blue flowers, size of the Canterbury Bell. Hardy pe- 

 rennial. Flowers the first year from seed 26 



1657 Canna Bihorelli. A new dwarf variety with large dark-red leaves and large dark-red 



flowers 50 



1658 Nigricans. One of the most showy and attractive of the Cannas, excelling in 



the rich tints of its stem and leaves either of the others, and more nearly approaching 

 the rich deep coloring of the Dracaena, having that dark bronzy metallic lustre pe- 

 culiar to many of the tropical ornamental-leaved plants. Its growth is rapid, its 

 aspect stately, and attaining the height of eight feet, terminated with spikes of scarlet 

 flowers, is a superb object. (See engraving) 25 



1659 Celosia Pyramidafis Nana Aurantica. Annual ; from Cochin-China ; erect, from fifteen 



to eighteen inches ; leaves oval, acuminated, bright green : trusses of flower-spikes 

 pyramidal of a brilliant buff yellow. Fine novelty for forming masses which will 

 contrast beautifully with the following 25 



1660 Pyramidalis versicolor. Annual; from Cochin-China; two to three feet high, 



bushy from the bottom, with oval acuminated leaves of red brown; all the spikes ter- 

 minated by bright carmine trusses before opening, passing gradually to violet car- 

 mine .25 



