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\ .XAFRAGA SARMENTOSA. A beautiful 
basket plant sometimes called “The moth- 
er of Thousands” on account of the rapid- 
ity with which it increases. Beautiful for 
baskets. 10c¢; $1 doz. 
SWAINSONIA Alba. Finely divided foli- 
age and long spikes of snow white pea- 
shaped blossoms; invaluable for cut flow- 
ers and most ornamental in the garden; 
fine for conservatory. 20e. 
STOKESIA CYANUS. <A most beautiful 
new perennial plant. A single lavender 
colored Aster, perpetual bloomer resembl- 
ing an immense corn flower: perfectly 
hardy. 15c each; $1.50 doz. 
STREPTOSOLEN Jamesoni. A plant for 
show and always in bloom. No garden 
should be without it. At first the flowers 
are orange-red, changing to yellow with 
age, so that there are two or three shades 
of color on the plant at the same time. 
It grows very rapidly, and in the course 
of two or three years attains the height 
of 10 to 12 feet and 25 to 30 feet in cir- 
cumference, and covered from base to 
top with great bunches of splendid flow- 
ers. A fine pet plant. 15c. 
SOLANUM Betaceum or Tomato Tree. A 
fine ornamental tree; a native of South 
America. It bears fruit from seed the 
second season. A young plant set out in 
the spring grows 6 feet high and comes 
into bearing by Xmas. The foliage is 
large and handsome, the branches spread- 
ing. The fruit hangs in clusters below 
the foliage, the size of a large egg, a beau- 
tiful orange-salmon color when ripe. It 
has a pleasing sub-acid taste; is delicious 
raw, served with sugar and cream, or 
cooked as sauce, and for jam or jelly is 
very fine. It will keep for weeks, owing 
to a very tough skin and the solid nature 
of the fruit. A most beautiful plant in the 
garden; will not stand frost. Plants 25c. 
TRADESCANTIA Multicolor. Its pretty 
striped leaves show every tint-of silver, 
bronze-gold, pinkish-crimson, rose and 
gray in their markings An extra fine 
basket plant. 10c each; $1 per doz. 
Tecoma Velutina 
TECOMA Velutina. It is a most showy and 
valuable flowering shrub; far superior to 
Tecoma Smithii, in that it blooms when 
only 12 inches high from seed. The flow- 
ers are larger and a more beautiful color, 
while the plant is never out of bloom. 
The flowers are like beautiful Alamandas; 
large, gloxinia-like, pure golden-yellow; in 
great splendid spikes or clusters. It grows 
into a good-sized small tree in California. 
Halt hardy; easily grown from seed. 25¢ 
each. 
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