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HARDENBEEGIA Alba. This beautiful plant, though not new, is still 

 rare. It has handsome foliage and exquisite white flowers. It blooms from Jan- 

 uary to the last of March. The flowers appear at the axils of the leaves, and the 

 entire plant is covered with spikes of small, round, snowy white, pea- shaped 

 blossoms. The stems are very slender, and the spikes of bloom are from 3 to 5 

 inches long. It is our loveliest white winter-blooming shrub, and would be in- 

 valuable in the East for cut flowers. The seeds are slow to germinate, and should 

 be soaked for twenty-four hours in water with a few drops of camphor added, 

 which is said to hasten the germination of seeds. Pkt 15c. 



HUCHERIA Saiig'uinea. A charming new plant, that forms a low-grow- 

 ing rosette of pretty leaves, surmounted by slender stems crowned with a number 

 of lovely, airy, coral flowers. Beautiful for bouquets. Pkt 10c. 



HIBISCUS Dennesonia Rosea. A handsome shrubby variety that 

 grows readily from seed. The flowers are large and single; at first, pure white, 

 changing with age to pale pink. Pkt 10c. 



Rosella. This is the celebrated wild fruit of Queensland, Australia. After 

 the blossoms have fallen, the fleshy scarlet seed -pods are gathered and made into 

 delicious jams, jellies, sauces, pies, tarts, etc. The fruit is also dried for winter 

 use. The flavor of the jam is the nearest approach to red currant of anything 

 else, and. hardly distinguishable from it except that the consistency is different 

 and the color brighter. It has a delightful acid flavor. It does splendidly in 

 California. Pkt 10c 



LOVELY IPOMOEAS IN VARIETIES. 



"Heavenly Blue." A beautiful annual morning glory. The flow- 

 ers are in large airy clusters, and are of that indescribable heavenly blue so rarely 

 seen in flowers The throat is yellow inside, spreading softly into blue; the 

 flowers measure 4^ to 5 inches across, and about ten o'clock in the morning no 

 lovelier sight can be imagined than this lovely vine, the great profusion of flow- 

 ers almost rendering the foliage invisible. Every one who sees it for the first 

 time is filled with delight at its beauty, exclaiming: "That is the loveliest thing 

 I ever saw." In order to enjoy the beauty of this plant as early in the season as 

 possible, success depends on cultivating the seedlings in the following manner: 

 Having been potted off singly in small thumb pots, in light, sandy soil, and being 

 well rooted through (pot-bound), they ought to be shifted to large pots, using, of 

 course, the same light soil. In these pots the plants must remain until they show 

 their flower-buds, hardening them off in the meantime; once they show these, the 

 plants may be planted out in the open ground, but also in light, sandy soil, where 

 they will continue to produce their flowers freely. If the plants are cultivated in 

 very rich soil, they will attain enormous dimensions and produce a luxuriant foli- 

 age, but hardly any flowers until very late. Pkt 10c. 



JLiearii. "Blue Dawn" flower. The flowers are of the most intense violet-blue, 

 with reddish purple rays, and are 6 inches across; there is nothing of its color 

 that exceeds in richness the flowers of "Ipomoea Learii." Pkt 10c 



White Tassel. "Double Morning Glory." This might be called an "All- 

 Day Glory," as it remains open during the entire day. It is white, very double 

 and fringed, with delicate purple marks in the center of the flower. 

 Pkt 10c. 



Imperial Japanese. A bewitching new class of morning glories from 

 Japan. Pkt 10c. 



KEjNTNEDYA Nigricans. A splendid climber from Australia. Its rapid 

 growth and wonderful hardiness should give it a place wherever a good thick 

 impenetrable evergreen screen is wanted. It will cover a screen 20 feet high in 

 two or three yaars if well watered. The flowers are quite inconspicuous, being 



