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"Mad. De Lesseps." Beautiful foliage, and handsome large light pink flowers. 

 15 to 25 cts. 



Springtime. A seedling from Pink Rubra. The young growth is very dark 

 olive ^reen, spotted with silver and lined with purplish-red. The older leaves 

 are light green with a transparent white edge. The flowers are very numerous, 

 of medium size, greenish white, tinged with pink. It is a very pretty and inter- 

 esting plant. 15 to 25 cts. 



Foliosa. A very pretty variety, with small foliage resembling Hybrida Multiflora, 

 but much prettier; the leaves being daintily crinkled at the edges. Small droop- 

 ing pink flowers. 10 and 25 cts each. 



Snow Maiden. An exquisite new Begonia of the Sernperflorens type, with 

 beautiful, clear waxen-green stems and foliage, and perfect snow-white flowers. 

 It grows about i feet high; is always in bloom, and is invaluable as a pot plant 

 or for cut flowers. It is very easily grown, and so very pure and beautiful that 

 I recommend it to florists and amateurs. 10 and 20 cts. each. 



Tuberous. Every one can grow tuberous Begonias, and they are so cheap that 

 they are within the reach of all purses. There is no plant that gives so much 

 gorgeous and elegant beauty for little money and little care. The flowers come 

 in every conceivable shade of red, from the most delicate blush, through shades 

 of pink, salmon, terracotta, scarlet, crimson, to almost maroon-red; from the 

 palest straw color, through all yellows and shades of orange. Pure white, also, 

 and white variously tinged, bewildering and fascinating to behold. The foliage 

 is very beautiful; the flowers very large. Dry bulbs. 20 cts. each. Assorted 

 colors, $1.50 per doz. 



CARNATIONS. 



"THE DIVINE FLOWER." 



Beautiful New Carnation, Anna H. Shaw. Offered for the first time. This fine new 

 Carnation is named for one of the noble women of America, and in its strength, 

 beauty and sweetness presents much that is shown in her life and character. It 

 is one of the most perfectly healthy and satisfactory Carnations I have ever 

 grown. Of rapid growth. In a very short time it forms large, strong plants, full 

 of buds and blossoms, on long stems; the flowers are of medium size, and of 

 perfect form, never bursting; the color is of lovely cream white, occasionally 

 tinged in the center with delicate blush; the petals are very daintily toothed on 

 the edges, but not fringed; it has a very delightful fragrance, spicy and sweet; it 

 is a perpetual bloomer and is especially valuable in winter. No one can fail to 

 be delighted with it. Small plants 25 cts.; $2.50 per doz. Large plants 50 cts.; 

 $4.00 per doz. 



New Carnation, Claret. This new Carnation is a rich claret color, a new shade 

 that is quite charming; it is very pretty in form and does not bast. 20 cts. each. 



Four Beauties, New Inajeside Carnations. 



Offered for the first time this Season. 



Almalika, or Mystic Shrine. A lovely flower with very large round crinkled 

 petals, soft pink at the base, shading to a delicate flesh color at the edges, deeply 

 fringed, so much so as to give a veil-like appearance to the entire flower. Delic- 

 iously fragrant. 



Shell. A finely formed, deeply fringed flower. Color a beautiful shell pink. Ex- 

 quisite. 



La Naige. Large snowy white flower, full round petals, delicately toothed at edges. 



Very beautiful. 

 Africanus. A fine dusky crimson, of perfect form, elegantly fringed. 

 The above have long stems, are fine bloomers, very fragrant, and do not burst their 



calyx. 25 cts. each for small plants. The four for 80 cts. 



