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GERANIUMS. 



DOUBLE: Bruanti, splendid vermillion red. Bed of Gold, rich golden or- 

 ange. Field of Gold, fine orange salmon. Crimson Velvet, dark velvety 

 crimson. La Favorite, pure snowy white. Hary Hill, lovely pink. S. A. 

 Nutt, fine crimson. White Swan, pure white. Heteranthe, or double 

 Gen. Grant, bright scarlet. Had. Hoste, white shaded salmon pink. 

 Ten cents each; $1 per dozen; cuttings, 3 for 10 cts.; 25 cts per dozen. 



SINGLE: Souvenir de Mirande. The greatest novelty in new Geraniums that 

 has appeared for a number of years. It has round florets, upper, petals cream 

 white, with a distinct rosy pink border, lower petals salmon red, streaked with 

 pure white. It is extremely free flowering, and produces fine trusses of its mag- 

 nificent blooms. Aristocrat, the darkest red imaginable. Queen of the Belgians, 

 pure white. La Vestale, snowy white. Poet Nationale, exquisite shaded pink. Arc= 

 en=ciel, a beautiful blending of scarlet, rose and orange. Blanche Moulais, 

 salmon, edged and bordered white. Dazzler, dazzling scarlet, with a fine white 

 eye; beautiful. Dazzler Improved, seedling from Dazzler; flowers more bril- 

 liant, larger; most beautifully formed. Pink Pearl, perfect pearly pink, round 

 florets. The Raymond, glowing scarlet; trusses perfectly round, like a big 

 firy ball. Hrs. E. G. Hill, splendid pink. 



Ten cents each; $i per dozen; cuttings, 3 for 10 cts.; 25 cts. per dozen. 



TRICOLOR: Happy Thought, a tri-color Geranium with very dark green foliage, 

 having a light, creamy, almost white center, with a dark band about the light 

 zone; flowers bright scarlet. 10 cts. each. /Trs. Pollock, a magnificent variety; 

 the green leaf disc overlaid with a beautiful bronze-red zone; center and edge 

 golden yellow. 15 cts. Sunset, a charming golden tri-color. 15 cts. Glen 

 Eyre Beauty, leaf variegated white, pink and green, with black shadings. 15 

 cts. each; cuttings, 2 for 10 cts.; 40 cts. per dozen. 



SILVER LEAVED: Mountain of Snow, the center of the leaf is bright green, the 

 outer margin broadly marked with silvery- white; flowers bright scarlet. 15 cts. 

 Freak of Nature, creamy white, edged and blotched dark green. 15 cts. Had. 

 Salleroi, very fine for massing and bordering; a thrifty, healthy grower, rarely 

 over 6 inches in height; leaves very small, of a peculiar clear green, edged with 

 pure white. 10 cts.; 60 cts. a dozen. Mrs. Parker, leaves edged with silvery- 

 white, flowers semi-double; an exquisite shade of deep rosy pink; new color in 

 silver leaved Geraniums; a gem. 15 cts. each; cuttings, 2 for 10 cts. 



GOLDEN BRONZE: Admirable bedding plants, attaining the brightest colors dur- 

 ing the heat of summer; the foliage equally beautiful. "California," golden yel- 

 low leaf with a zone of brown and red; brilliant crimson trusses of flowers. 10 cts. 

 each. Marshal Mcriahon, golden yellow foliage with a dark chocolate zone. 

 10 cts each. Exquisite, large chocolate zone, large golden-yellow center, edges 

 variegated, flowers salmon, tipped white. 10 cts. Fanny, golden-yellow foliage, 

 with bright red zone; large trusses of charming peach colored blossoms. Extra. 

 15 cts.; cuttings, 5 cts. "Cloth of Gold," broad golden-yellow margin, with a 

 central disc of green, dwarf and free; one of the best. 15 cts. ; cuttings, 3 for 10 

 cts.; 30 cts. per dozen; all sorts. 



DOUBLE IVY LEAVED: These are the grandest of all house plants, or for baskets or 

 vases in the open air. They can be trained in one season on a trellis from two to 

 six feet high and wide, and can be grown to droop as desired, being covered from 

 January to October with a profusion of large trusses of double flowers. New Ivy Ge- 

 ranium "Roi deWurtemburg," semi-double, bright scarlet 20c. Nocuttings. Sou 

 deChas. Turner, deep pink, feathered with maroon on the upper petals; flowers 

 iy z inches across; splendid. 15 and 25 cents each. Joan of Arc, the flowers are 

 perfectly double, white as snow, and literally cover the plant when in full bloom. 

 10 cts. La Rosiere, immense trusses of large well formed flowers of a rich, sal- 

 mon pink color. 10 cts. Abel Carriere, currant red. Mme. Thibaut, very 



