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Miss Ella V. Baines, The Woman Florist, Springfield, Ohio. 



LINUM TRIGYNUM. 



A plant of great beauty, producing in the greatest profusion 

 Very large and showy blossoms of a bright yellow color. It is 

 ]Mt>bably the freest Winter blooming plant we have. 8c each. 



WEEPING LANTANA. 



A New Weeping Plant of Great Beauty. One of the 



grandest basket plants grown. The plant ha9 a most graceful, 

 drooping habit, grows very rapidly and blooms continually 

 Summer and Winter, producing large clusters of flowers of the 

 most delicate lilac or rosy pink, foliage a beautiful dark green. 

 A single plant on August 1st, this past Summer, had five hun- 

 dred and ninety clusters of flowers on it. The same plant De- 

 cember 1st had three hundred and fifty clusters of flowers on, 

 which proves it one of the most persistent bloomers, and does 

 equally well Winter and Summer. I know nothing of recent 

 introduction that is so easily grown. Strong plants, 10 

 cents each; three for £5 cents. 



MANETTIA BICOLOR. 



The most wonderful new vine or plant that has yet been pro- 

 duced. It blooms in Winter as well as Summer. It is both a 

 rapid and beautiful climber. The flowers are from an inch to 

 an inch and a half in length, of a most intense bright scarlet, 

 shading into flame, tipped with the deepest golden yellow, and 

 covered with a thick scarlet moss. The blossoms remain on the 

 plants for weeks before falling. Has our highest commendation. 

 Bend to us and get the genuine. Pine plants, 10c each. 



OLEA FRAGRANS, or TEA OLIVE. 



One of the most desirable flowering shrubs of Southern gar- 

 dens, and also a favorite house plant in the North. Has deep, 

 green foliage similar to the Camellia. The white flowers, 

 although small, are produced in great profusion, and emit the 

 Enost pleasing fragrance. It has been well said that each indi- 

 vidual bloom has more sweetness than the most fragrant Lily. 

 The blooming period begins in the Fall and lasts for several 

 months. It is of easy culture, and especially desirable as a 

 Window plant. 35 cents each. 



OXALIS, ORTGIESIL 



Upright Oxalis, or Star of Bethlehem. — Few new 



plants will give better satisfaction than this, as it is a perpetual 

 bloomer in every sense of the word. It is full of bloom every 

 day in the year, when grown in a pot of good soil and with 

 ordinary care. It grows as freely as a Geranium in any situa- 

 tion. It is a shrubby plant, like a Geranium or Fuchsia without 

 buds, in which respect it differs from other Oxalis. It grows 

 twelve to eighteen inches in height, branching freely, and 

 loaded at all times with clusters of bright golden, star-shaped 

 flowers, which do not close at night like other Oxalis. Beauti- 

 ful as the flowers are, it is still a splendid plant without them, 

 on account of its highly ornamental foliage. The leaves are 

 three lobed, dark, olive green above, and a beautiful, shining 

 metallic crimson purple underneath, and wine-colored stems. 

 This makes a truly novel plant, as well as a very beautiful one, 

 and it is surprising to see what attention it will attract. 10 

 cents each. 



OTAHEITE ORANGE. 



This valuable and dis- 

 tinct variety of the Or- 

 ange family is a dwarf, 

 compact grower, with 

 glossy, deep green foli- 

 age, which has a decided 

 odor of the Orange trees 

 of Florida, and is exceed- 

 ingly flonferous, pro- 

 ducing a wonderful pro- 

 fusion of pure white 

 flowers of the most de- 

 licious fragrance. Iden- 

 tical with the much 

 sought for blooms of 

 Southern Orange groves. 

 Otaheite fruits immedi- 

 ately after flowering, 

 bearing fruit about one- 

 half the size of the ordi- 

 nary Orange, retaining 

 in a marked degree its 

 sweetness. This unique 

 Orange cannot be 

 equaled as a Winter- 

 blooming pot plant for 

 house culture. Requires 

 but little sunlight, and flowers and fruits when but twelve to 

 fifteen inches high. As a pot plant this lovely Dwarf Orange is 

 one of the most novel and beautiful that can be grown. With 

 a couple of plants of it you can have an abundance of the far- 

 femed delicate and fragrant Orange blossoms. We have grown 

 a large slock of clean, vigorous plants that will bloom and fruit 

 at once, of this beautiful Orange, and commend it to our friends 

 as a novelty of sterling worth and merit. Good plants, 10 

 Cents each; large, strong plants, to bloom and bear 

 profusely at once, !45 to 40 cents each, according to 

 Size. 



OLEANDERS. 



These old-fashioned shrubs are becoming immenselv popular 

 again. I am growing and selling them by the thousands. 

 No plant makes more handsome specimens m tubs for the ve- 

 randa or yard. Can be wintered in the cellar. I have three 

 colors to offer. 10 cents each. 



Oleander, Rosea. — Has double pink flowers. The old 

 favorite. Very sweet. 



Lilian Henderson. — Has double white flowers of the larg- 

 est size. Fragrant like the old double Pink. Scarce. 



Lutea.— Has double primrose yellow flowers of a lovelv 

 shade; also fragrant. 



New EvetvBlooming 



BABY PRIMROSE. r< 



This is the freest blooming plant ^ 

 I know of, blooming continu- 

 ously throughout the entire sea- 

 son. Plants in very small pots 

 have from fifteen to twenty sprays 

 of lovely light pink flowers on 

 stems ten to twelve inches high at 

 one time, and plants in four-inch 

 pots often have from twenty-five 

 to fifty at one time, lasting in 

 bloom fully four weeks without 

 fading, and continually sending 

 new sprays all over the plant, 

 making it one of the most desira- 

 ble plants for the house ever in- 

 troduced. It is a very rapid grow- 

 er and the easiest grown of all the 

 Primrose family. Very desirable. 

 10 cents each. 



Baby Primrose. 



CHINESE PRIMROSE, 



In White, Fink and Crimson. Few house plants afford 

 better satisfaction than this. It requires to be kept cool, anorth 

 window suiting it best. Care should be taken in watering it 

 that no water gets on the buds, as it causes them to decay. In 

 the Summer they can be turned out into a shady border." The 

 plants I offer are fine, and the colors will please. I have 

 them in white, pink and crimson. 10 cents each. 



PRIMULA OBCONICA 



Always In Bloom. This 

 is a charming plant for Win- 

 ter. In fact, 1 know of 

 none that is better adapted 

 to house culture than this 

 one. It is not susceptible to 

 changes of temperature that 

 most plants are subject to. 

 It bears its elegant panicles 

 and sprays of bloom of a del- 

 icate pink and white in the 

 greatest profusion. It is 

 certainly elegant. 10 cents 

 each. 



PITTOSPORUM 

 TOBIRA. 



An elegant hard-wooded 

 shrub. Hardy in the South. 

 Makes handsome specimens, 

 growing into a small tree in 

 a few years. It bears small, 

 white flowers in large bracts, 

 or heads, which are so deli- 

 cious in fragrance as to remind one of Orange blossoms. Fine 

 plants, 15 cents each; strong, large plants, £5c each. 



PHRYNIUM VARIEGATUM. 



It is impossible to convey, by description or cut, anything like 

 a correct idea of the great beauty of this new ornamental foliage 

 plant. Its habit of growth is almost precisely like the Canna, 

 and it grows from a tuber, which may be wintered dry — like a 

 Gladiolus — if desired, or it may be kept growing the year round 

 as a pot plant. The Canna-like shoots grow from a foot or eight- 

 een inches to three feet high, and the leaves, which are 

 spreading blades of oblong, lanceolate form, are from six to ten 

 inches long and two to five inches broad. They are bright, pale 

 green, beautifully variegated with pure white and rich cream, 

 the variegations being extremely diversified; indeed, in our 

 beds of thousands of the plants it is almost impossible to find 

 two leaves exactly alike. In some leaves the whole area is pure 

 white or rich cream color, in others only one-third or one-half, 

 in others again it is reduced to a few stripes or faint lines — and 

 all of these variegations in one plant. It is very free-growing, 

 and one of the most ornamental plants imaginable, either for 

 pot culture or for bedding out. It is a grand plant to border 

 Canna beds with, standing the full force of the sun's rays. In- 

 deed, the fiercer the sunshine the more perfect are the variega- 

 tions of the leaves. The variegations grow constantly better 

 and more varied as the plants grow older and larger. It Is 

 managed with the most perfect ease, and is absolutely sure to 

 delight all who grow it. Fine plants, 15 cents each. 



Primula Obcotiica. 



