ASPAKAGUS SPRE.^GERI. 



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Asparagus Sprengeri. 



WHEN introduced, at a high price, a little over a year ago, this 

 plant was received with some hesitation as to its desirability, 

 but after on'y a limited trial it has come forward with such 

 prominence that the supply will be inadequate to the demand for some 

 time to come. Not only is it useful for cutting in sprays for cut-flower 

 work, but grown in suspended pots it makes one of the prettiest decora- 

 tive house plants we know of. It is really handsomest seen drooping 

 gracefully from a pot or basket. Sprays from four to five feet long, of a 

 bright green feathery foliage, and as it will withstand dry atmosphere 

 and grow well ia shade or sunlight it is decidedly the most useful and 

 suitable parlor plant. The flowers are white and very fragrant, follow- 

 ed by bright red berries. Mr. H H. Battles, the well-known floral art- 

 ist, says: ''Grow all you possibly can of it; it's a grand thing." It is not 

 only a plant that will be used extensively by florists for cut-flower work, 

 but it is decidedly a useful and decorative parlor, table and window 

 plant. It is hardier than any other Asparagus, can even be grown in 

 open ground, and under good treatment will r^ake specimens four to five 

 feet across in one year — plants which have sold at $5. We have so much 

 faith in it that we are growing 10,000 plants of it now. 



Price, strong plants, 15 cents each; two for 25 cents. 



BOSTON F£RN. 



(Nephrolepis Exaltata Bostoniensis.) 



THIS grar.d new Fern has become the most popular decorative plant of the 

 year. In and around Boston no other plant is so extensively -used for 

 table or window decoration as this graceful Fern. It is one of the very 

 few plants that will thrive under ordinary house care; it grows and improves 

 in size; where most all other Ferns go back. The fronds droop and arch gracefully 

 over the edge of a pot or basket, and as it is a very rapid grower it is not long 

 beiore they reach the floor from an ordinary parlor table. The color is a rich 

 green, which contrasts beautlfiflly with all other window or pot plants. It 

 thiives well in a shady position, but must never be allowed to get too dry, and 

 frequent showerings of the foliage by means of a plant syringe or a watering 

 can are essential. To give an idea of the magnificent proportions of this Fern 

 it may be stated that a single-specimen plant, exhibited at the recent American 

 Institute Fair in Madison Square Garden, New York, measured ten feet in 

 diameter, some of the fronds being over four feet in length. 



Price, large plants with fronds 11-2 feet long, 15 cents each; two 

 for 25 cents. 



ONE PLANT EACH OP ASPARAGUS AND BOSTON FERN, 25 CENTS. 



Stephanotis Floribunda, 



BOSTON TURN. 



STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA. 



This is a rare plant indeed, that all should grow. It bears 

 large clusters of pure white flowers 

 that are as fragrant as a jRsmine. 

 Nothingsweeterorfiner. Price, 15 

 cents each; large, fine plants, 

 three feet high, for 40 cents. 



New Asparagus 



Plumosus Nanus, 



This graceful climhing plant has 

 to a great extent taken the place of 

 the once popular Smilax in all tine 

 decoration s. It possesses the advan- 

 tage of being much more graceful — 

 its foli age being finer than that of the 

 most delicate Fern, and will last for 

 weeks after being cu f , the whole 

 plant being of a bright, cheerful 

 green. It is an excel 1 en t house plant, 

 succeeding under almost anv con- 

 ditions. Price, 15 cents each. 



