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which hang down in graceful droops, 6 to 12 inches long, almost covering the entire 

 plant, and making a perfect sheet of blue. The seeds should have hot water poured 

 over them and allowed to soak over night before planting. These plants will both 

 stand intense heat, and several degrees of frost. 



Boronia Negastigma. A charming annual, growing from 2 to 3 feet high; it 

 forms a beautiful round plant, and gives flowers of a pretty purple color having the 

 most exquisite fragrance; it is esteemed the best of all the 9000 odd indigenous Aus- 

 tralian plants for its fragrance; Acres of it are grown around the colonial cities for 

 the sale of the plants in pots and for cut flowers. My correspondent writes me that 

 it has been the fashion in the flower world there for two or three seasons. 25c pkt. 



Tecoma Smithii. This beautiful Tecoma has been offered in the east already, 

 but is as yet rare. It makes a beautiful pot plant, but in Australia it grows to the 

 height of 15 or 20 feet in a few years, and is always in bloom. It has beautiful cut 

 foliage, fine for bouquets; the flowers are 2 inches long, a rich lemon yellow shading 

 to dark orange. 10 cts pkt. 



Genista Monosperma or "Cape Bloom." The flowers are white and sweet 

 scented; they come out along the tendril like drooping leaves or twigs, and hang so 

 gracefully as to suggest a bridal veil; the plant has no foliage, like other Genistas, 

 but is something in the style of Russelia Juncea, with long round slender branches 

 completely covered with lovely white flowers. 15 cts. pkt. 



Rosella Plant. A very pretty species of Hibiscus. The calyx of the flower is 

 used for making jams and jellies and imparting a lovely scarlet color to other jams 

 and jellies. A very interesting handsome and useful plant. 15 cts. 



Himalaya Fairy Grass. This charming grass was brought from the Him- 

 alaya to Australia by my correspondent, who visited India in 1894. A bunch of the 

 grass was brought in from a distant valley by some of the natives and he was so 

 charmed with it that he secured the seed. It is called by the English children 

 Himalaya Fairy Grass, and is lovely for dried bouquets. 25 cts. pkt. 



ROSE SEEDS. 



A RARE MIXTURE. 



"The Queen of the Garden." Try a package of this splendid mixture and 

 grow your own roses from seed. Every new rose that is offered is grown from seed, 

 or occasional sports. You do not have to wait forever to know what your seeds are 

 going to bring forth, for a tea rose is so anxious to bloom that it will often put out 

 buds when only a few inches high; the buds should be pinched off until it attains 

 some size, and has strength to give to flowers. The mixture that I offer is saved 

 from a splendid collection of the very best roses of many classes, and the butterflies 

 and bees have busied themselves all season fertilizing the flowers, and no one knows 

 what lovely roses may result from their labors. 10 cts. pkt. Extra large pkt. 25 cts. 

 75 cts. per oz. 



The Dawson Rose. A pretty Rambler. A charming rambling rose, hav- 

 ing clusters of lovely semi-double pink flowers with a white centre; they grow in long 

 wreaths and are perfectly exquisite. 10 cts. pkt. 



Little Midget or Baby Roses. Dainty little roses, dwarf and climbing, 

 single and semi-double, in shades of pink, cream white, and white; very fragrant. 

 10 cts. pkt. 



Wichuriana or "Memorial Rose". A pure white single rose, about \]/ 2 inches 

 across, with yellow stamens, delightfully fragrant; the foliage is small and shining, 

 very handsome; is a wonderful grower, and will run over the ground or trail on ver- 

 andas in perfect festoons; the shoots grow 30 or 40 feet in a season; when covered 

 with its snowy white flowers it is "a sight to behold". 10 cts. pkt 



Single Cherokee. The true variety. One of the most esthetic and beautiful 

 of all roses; large, wide open, snow T y white, single flowers, 5 inches across, with 

 yellow stamens; handsome, shining foliage. 10 cts. pkt. 



Rosa Rugosa, Alba and Rosea. The wrinkled Rose of Japan, with handsome 

 crinkled foliage, and large single flowers, white and red. 10 cts. each. 60 cts. doz. 



One package of each variety 50 cts. Soak seeds 24 hours before planting. 



