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New Chrysanthemum with Beautiful Variegated 



Foliage. 



This beautiful new variety is a sport from one of the old varieties of which I 

 lost the name. The foliage is handsomely variegated with creamy yellow ; theleaves 

 sometimes are all light, at other times half green and half yellow, while others are 

 distinctly marked with yellow spots. The flowers are very large and double and in 

 color are a yellowish white ; it has very broad petals and double to the centre. It is 

 a very handsome and showy variety in the garden, and exceedingly beautiful under 

 glass. 50 cts. each. 



New Giant Flowered Heliotropes. 



Efforts to improve the heliotrope have been persistently made by experts all 

 over the world for a number of years, and at last these efforts have been successful ; 

 realization has surpassed the most ardent expectation. One can scarcely recognize 

 the old garden favorite in its new glorified form. The size ofthefoliage and its quality 

 is doubled ; the habit of the plant is made compact and bushy instead of being- 

 scraggy and sprawling; the size of the flowers is magnified beyond belief, specimen 

 heads measuring ten to fifteen inches across ; the color is better. Price 25 cts. each, 

 5 for $1.00. 



Himalaya Fairy Grass. 



A rare Eulalia from the Himalaya mountains, which bears the most charming 

 golden-yellow plume, that keeps for years, and are invaluable for dried bouquets. 

 For full description see Australian Seed Novelties. Plants 25 cts. to 50 cts. each. 



BEAUTIFUL IRIS WITH VARIEGATED FOLIAGE. 



A very charming plant, beautiful for pots or the garden ; it grows about fifteen 

 inches high, leaves an inch in width, variegated green and white, one-half being 

 green, the other half a lovely cream-white; the foliage does not die down or become 

 discolored, but keeps its brightness all the year; the flowers are very beautiful. 

 25 cts. each. 



NEW DWARF JUSTICIA VELUTINA. 



An elegant new plant for pot culture and bedding, begins to bloom when only 

 a few inches high, and continues bearing its beautiful feathery plumes of lovely pink 

 flowers the whole season, and when taken indoors will bloom all winter, too ; quite 

 scarce as yet. 20 cts. each. 



JUSTICIA FLAVA. (Novelty '97.) Similar to "Velutina," but bright golden 

 flowers. A very handsome and valuable plant for florists. 20 cts. each. 



PHYSALIS FRANCHETTI. 



"Chinese Lantern Plant." 



A beautiful novelty introduced from Japan. A gigantic species of the Winter 

 Cherry ; the plant is of sturdy habit, and grows about li/ 2 feet high ; the calyx of the 

 flower is at first green, changing to pure sulphur-yellow, then to bright yellow, then 

 orange, and last of all brilliant orange-scarlet; the long peduncle changes in like 

 manner through shades of yellow to bright scarlet; these changes of color, pale and 

 dark green, sulphur, ochre, orange and scarlet are most striking; the scarlet balloon- 

 like calyxes hang on the stems for months; the fruit is said to be very valuable for 

 household use. 25 cts. each. 



GRAND NEW HARDY WHITE PINK. 



Her Majesty. The finest white pink yet seen, and the most marvelous novelty of 

 years ; has immense flowers, as large as a carnation. Wonderfully free blooming: 

 stout, erect stems ; invaluable for cutting ; hardy. 20 cts. each. 



RUDBECKIA FULGIDA. 



This is decidedly the brightest and most showy among the hardy plants in cul- 

 tivation, and of the easiest culture possible. It will thrive in any situation, prefer- 

 ring a sunny exposure. The plant is compact and bushy, producing numerous stems 

 with hundreds of heads of flowers, the rays of the flowers being a dazzling orange- 

 yellow, while the disk is of a deep rich velvety maroon-brown. This combination 

 of color makes it one of the most striking objects in a flower garden. 25 cts. each. 



