California Flowers, Plants, Seeds, Bulbs, Etc. 37 



^Novelties. 

 (left and Rare Plants ai]d j>eed$. 



HBUTILONS. 



Though the Abutilon is everywhere grown, its beauty is not half appreciated in 

 California. Few people are aware that it is easily grown from seed and blooms when 

 only twelve inches high, continuing thenceforth to bear blossoms all the time. The 

 flowers are very handsome for bouquets, if deprived of some of their foliage. For 

 corsage bouquets they are charming and keep fresh a long time. I give below a list. of 0**s ^t^j 

 seedling Abutilons which I feel confident will be admired. 



^\ ©ream of ITair ^butilons. Ow^M^. 

 s J~~- A TENNYSONIAN SET-SEEDLINGS OF 1892. X 



g Guinevere — " Her beauty, grace and power worked on them like a charm." 



A large, spreading flower, with broad, overlapping petals ; color a lovely shade 

 ^ of light peach-pink, veined with deep rose ; base of petals deep rose ; of graceful 

 _ f habit and very beautiful. 



J Sir Lanceolot — " I wanted warmth and color, which I found in Lanceolot." 



A rich, strong, magnificent flower, deep, dark, crushed strawberry shade, veined 

 maroon. A bold, striking variety, distinct and unique. 



r~Elaine — " To doubt her fairness were to want an eye." 



| A dainty dwarf variety ; flowers white with a shining luster ; very flaring, ex- 



* quisitely pretty. 



r+^Lady Pysche— " Comely, too, by all that's fair." 

 1 A strong growing variety, with rich green foliage, dark veined ; flowers large, 



, light pink, with dark pink veining ; very airy and graceful. 



y Enid — " Is it not a sweet surprise ?" 



A cunning dwarf with medium-sized flowers of a clear, satiny pink, cordate 

 foliage ; very pretty. 



V"[Lady Clara — " The daughter of a hundred earls." 



Flowers of a charming salmon-pink, very full and flaring, prettily crinkled; 

 » foliage cordate, accumlate, light green; a beauty. 



^""jClaribel — "Where Claribel low-lieth, the breezes pause and die." 



A very dwarf variety, foliage slender and long ; flowers old-gold, shaped like 

 bells ; throat and stamens red ; stamens droop below the flower, like the clapper 

 i of a bell ; very distinct and pretty. 



--^"^Maud — " Oh, if she knew it, to know her beauty might half undo it." 



i A dwarf variety, flowers of an exquisite light shaded salmon, petals over-lapping 



\ and full ; pretty foliage. 



