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LOTUS Pelyorensis, or "Coral Gem." A lovely new plant with fine, silvery foliage 

 as dainty and graceful as can be imagined. It is a sweet thing at all times, so light 

 and airy is its habit; but when adorned with its bright coral-red flowers, two 

 inches in length, it is indescribably lovely. 15 cts. 



LOBELIA. Golden foliage and lovely blue flowers; the contrast is charming. 10 to 20 

 cts. each. 



Other sorts 10 and 15 cts. each; 75 cts. to $1.25 per dozen. 



LIBONIA "Floribuiida." Beautiful dwarf shrub, of compact growth, covered most 

 of the year with pretty scarlet and yellow tubular flowers. Fine for drive ways, for 

 single specimens, or for pot plants. 10 to 25 cts. each. 



Lopezia Rosea. Free-growing, red-flowering plants, blooming constantly from 

 November to April. 10 cts. each. 



Alba. Same as above; white flowering. 10 cts. each. 



Maranta Zebrina. A house plant of unsurpassed beauty; foliage a dark velvety 

 green, with black stripe. 25 to 50 cts. 

 Several other new sorts of dwarfer growth, at 50 cts. 



Marguerites. White and yellow. 10 to 20 cts. each. 



PILEA Arborea. (Artillery Plant). A pretty little plant of drooping habit, resem- 

 bling the lern; it is a fine basket plant. 



Grandis. Until it comes to flower you would never suspect that it belongs to the same 

 family as the "artillery plant." It makes a most graceful plant, with large leaves 

 of golden green color. 10 cts. each. 



PRIMULA Chinensis. This is the most thankful of all the plants we cultivate for 

 the winter flowers, and the most worthy to be recommended for winter gardening. 

 One plant will yield several hundred flowers, one of the most valuable and beautifhl 

 plants in cultivation. 

 Single varieties pink, white and kermesina. 15, 25 to 40 cts. 



PETUNIAS. Choice hybrid varieties, double and single, very beautiful. Plants 

 single, from 2% inch pots $1.25 per dozen; double. $2.00 per doz. 



POINSETTIA Pulcherrima. A splendid ornamental winter-blooming plant, with 

 splendid, large, fine scarlet bracts at the ends of the branches, surrounding the 

 inconspicuous flowers. 15 to 25 cts. each. 



Double Flowering. The bracts of this new kind are gathered into clusters, which fill 

 up the center. It is strikingly gorgeous, of a most brilliant and vivid scarlet color. 

 50 cts. 



PLUMBAGO Capensis. A beautiful shrub, with lovely light blue flowers, always in 

 bloom. It grows ten or twelve feet high in California, forming immense plants, 

 and should be cut back occasionally to induce new growth. 15 to 25 cts. each. 



Capensis Alba. Like the above, but pure snowy white. 15 to 25 cts. each. 



STREPTOSOLEN Jamesonii. From Central America, similar in growth to the 

 Browallias, the leaves being deep green, of a very compact, bushy habit, flower- 

 ing very profusely in numerous trusses, the flowers of bright orange, changing to 

 a deep cinnabar-red. It commences to flower early in March, and continues 

 quite full throughout the year. One of our most effective and showy plants. 

 15 and 25 cts. each. 



STROBILANTHES Dyerianus. This plant will undoubtedly become universally 

 popular, on account of its brilliant and exquisite coloring, its extraordinarily 

 easy growth and usefulness as a decorative plant. It surpasses the finest coleus, 

 begonias or bertolonias in the exquisite coloring: of the leaves, besides which the 

 long racemes of lovely violet blossoms, with which the plant is covered in mid- 

 winter, greatly enhance its value, beauty and usefulness. The undulation on the 

 surface of the foliage is furnished with a bluish metallic hue, shading into light 

 rose, with a light green margin. It will prove a valuable acquisition, both as a 

 bedding and decorative plant. 15 to 25 cts. 



STEVIA Variegata. One of the most effective silver variegated foliage plants, 

 contrasting well with any other plant. 10 to 25 cts. each. 



