62 Mrs. Pheodosia Id. Shepherd’s Annual Catalogue. 
HELIOTROPE—Albert Deleaux—One of the most beautiful varieties 
in cultivation. The fohage is yellow marked with green. It bears very large 
flowers of a rich, deep, purple color. 10 to 25 ets. each. 
Other sorts, hght and dark. 10 to 25 cts. each. : 
IMPATIENS, SULTANA, HYBRIDA—Charming plants for pots or for 
shaded places outside. Always in bloom and always very bright and attrac, 
tive. Three sorts. 10 to 25 cis. » 
AURUSTINUS GRANDIFLORA—A great improvement on the old 
variety, with flowers pure white and double the size of the ordinary laurus- 
tinus. Ready in April. 15 to 25 cts. each. 
LAURUSTINUS—Old variety. 10 to 25 cts. each. 
LAGUSTA OVATA—Fine shrub with spikes of fine, dainty feathery 
flowers, that bloom in early spring and summer; white. 25 to 50 ets. 
LINUM FLAVIUM—A lovely perpetual blooming vellow fiax, that is sure 
to please everyone. 10 to 25 cts. each. 
LILAC—Three sorts. 10 to 25 cts. each. 
PHORMIUM TENAX, or Variegated New Zealand Flax—aA grand decora- 
tive plant, of most stately habit. The leaves are two to four inches broad. 
They have dark-red edges and are beautifully striped, yellow and bluish-green. 
They are showy pot plants, ranking with palms and dracenas, and make a 
grand clump on a lawn. 40c., 75e., $1.25 each. 
PHORMIUM TENAX VAR, or New Zealand Flax—Like the above except 
the leaves are plain blue-green, edged red. 20c., 25c., 50c., $1 each. 
PANSIES—‘“‘ The Highland” —Very beautiful, rare colors. 35 ets. per 
doz. 
GIANT TRIMARDEAU—The largest of all pansies, though the colors are 
not as varied as some other strains. 25 cts. per doz. 
POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA—A splendid-ornamental winter-bloom- 
ing plant, with splendid large fine scarlet bracts at the ends of the branches, 
surrounding the inconspicuous flowers. 15 and 25 ets. each. 
DOUBLE POINSETTIA—A fine variety that forms splendid scarlet heads, 
with centers hke a great rosette; very beautiful. This variety is always searce. 
Plants ready June Ist. 35 and 50 cts. each. 
PITTSOSPORUM TOBIRA VARIEGATA—Fine shrub with foliage varie- 
gated green and white, and pretty sweet-scented white flowers. 25 ets. each. 
PLUMBAGO CAPENSIS—A beautiful shrub, with lovely ight blue flow- 
ers, always in bloom. It grows ten or twelve feet high in California, forming 
immense plants, and should be cut back accordingly, to induce new growth. 
15 to 25 cts. each. 
P. CAPENSIS ALBA—Like the above, but pure snowy white. 15 to 25 
cts each. 
RUSSELIA JUNCEA—This graceful plant is sometimes called the “ Sear- 
let Fountain Plant.” It is of slender habit, with very numerous long, grass- 
like branches without leaves, which are completely covered most of the year 
with elegant, waxy, bright scarlet Howers in auxiliary corymbs. The branches 
rise from the center, and droop outward in all directions, and the flowers look 
like scarlet drops of wax all over the plant. It grows quite large, is very 
effective: also pretty for hanging baskets. 25 cts. 
STREPTOSOLEN JAMESONII—A new plant from Central America, simi- 
lar in growth to the Browallias, the leaves being deep green, of a very compact, 
