70 TuHeroposia B. SHEPHERD COMPANY. 
Pretty Maid. Small single flowers, about 1 inch in diameter, in beauti- 
ful airy sprays; color is delicate blush, resembling fruit blossoms. A little 
beauty. 
Baby Bunting. The sweetest variety of all. Flowers ars snowy- 
white. semi-double, with yellow stamen; 1 inch across. 
Little Bopeep. Single flowers, charmingly colored; white center: 
outer part of petals pink; beautiful yellow stamens: measures 144 inches 
across. 
Tommy Tucker. A _ lovely semidouble pink variety. Flowers are 
144 inches across. Lovely. 
Jack Horner. A pale pink flower, scarcely an inch across; single. 
Very dainty and sweet. They are a great delight toe children. 
20e each, set of six for $1.00. 
RUDEBECKIA. “Golden Glow.” Splendid, hardy, perennial 
plant that dies down in the autumn, coming up early in the spring. Long 
stems, 5 to 8 feet high, bearing numerous splendid double, yellow flowers, 
resembling refined double sunflowers. Very decorative in the garden and 
especially fine forgroups. 10c¢ to 25c each: 75c to $1.50 dozen. 
RUSSELLIA Juncea. “Scariet Fountain Plant.” Brush-like 
foliage ; covered with handsome scarlet flowers, always in bloom; drooping 
habit ; fine for baskets or vases. 10¢ to 25¢ each. . . 
STREPTOSOLEN Jamesoni. A plant for brilliant show; and 
always in bloom. No garden should be without it. At first the flowers 
are orange-red, changing to yellow with age, so that there are two or three 
shades of color on the plant at the same time. It grows very rapidly, and 
in the course of two or three years attains the height of 10 to12 feet and 25 
to 50 feet in circumference, and covered from base to top with great bunches 
of splendid flowers. Affine pot plant. 10c¢ to 25c each. 
The South American Tomato Tree. 
SOLANUM Betaceum. A fine ornamental tree or shrub; is a 
native of South America. It bears fruit from seed the second season. A 
young plant set out in the spring grows 6 feet high and comes into bear- 
ing by Xmas. The foliage is large and handsome, the branches spread- 
ing. The fruit hangs in clusters below the foliage, the size of a large 
egg, a beautiful orange-salmon color when ripe. It has a delicious sub- 
acid taste, slightly resembling the tomato. Is delicious raw, served with 
sugar and cream, or cooked as sauce, and for jam-or jelly is very fine. 
It will keep for weeks, owing toa very tough skin and the solid nature of 
the fruit. It is so handsome that it would sell readily at sight, and if shipped 
east, during the holidays, would be immensely. popular. In Ceylon and 
India it is extensively grown, andis knownas the *“‘Poor Man’s Fruit.” 
It ig a showy piant for house and conservatory, and a most beautiful plant 
in the garden; will not stand frost. Plants. 15¢, 25c and 50c each. Spe- 
¢ial wates on quantity. Seeds, 10c pkt. 
