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



"SuivProof " Collection of 



— BEDDING COLEUS. 



Price, postpaid by mail, 5 cents each : twenty-five for $1.00. 

 By express, at purchaser's expense, thirty-five fine sets for 

 $1.00. In targe quantities for bedding in colors, $2.50 per 

 one hundred, by express at purchasers expense. 



Autumn Glow. — Has all the beautiful tints of Autumn leaves. 



Brouze Uueen. — A deep bronze, with a fine yellow edge. 



■ Hark Bird. — Very dark, with reddish cast. 



Butterfly, — A crimson-bronze, old gold and green. 



Bizarre — Crimson center, edged with green and gold. 



Beauty. — A crimson bronze, with green edge. 



Chicago Bedder- — Green and go' d. An excellent bedder. 



Dora Clapp — Crimson center, with bronze and green edge. 



Empress of India. — Crimson, with a golden edge, 



Fire Brand. — A fine bedder. Dark crimson, shaded garnet. 



Fire Crest. — The foliage is a bright carmine-crimson shade, the 



edge is slightly marked with golden-yellow, 

 Qolden Bedder. — Deep golden-yellow. A fine bedder. 

 Uolden Yerschafeltii- — This ranks first in the yellow varieties- 

 Hero. — A deep.jet black. 

 Hiawatha. — Bronze and yellow, spotted. 

 Progress. — A beautifully mottled red, green and bronze, 

 Ketta Kirkpatrick. — A bright green, with large, deep, yellow 



center. 

 Setting 1 Sun. — Crimson, with brightest golden edge. 

 Versehafeltii. — A rich, velvety-crimson. The best bedder. 

 Xeddo. — The color is a deep golden-yellow, splotched with a 



bright green. 



And thirty others of the most elegant sorts saved from ten 

 thousand seedlings. Nothing to compare to them. If selection 

 is left to me, I make no discrimination, because they are all new, 

 but all go at the same price. 



CLUSTER OF COLEUS. 



ROYAL PURPLE. Strobilanthes Dyerianus. 



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ROYAL PURPLE. 



In offering this beautiful plant for the first time, I do so with 

 great pleasure, as all who possess it have a floral beauty to be 

 proud of. The leaves are quite tropical in size, overlaid with a 

 rosy-purple cast, reminding one of changeable silk, the young 

 foliage being very intense in color, while the older leaves as- 

 sume a pale green, with occasional blotches of white, with a pale 

 tint of the rose color showing. Xew and valuable. It is also 

 beautiful in bloom with its Gloxinia-like flowers. Price, 20 

 centg each. 



SMILAX. 



For rising as a green with cut flowers it has no equal, its hard 

 texture enabling it to keep for several days without wilting af- 

 ter being cut. It is also fine as a parlor or window plant. Price, 

 6 cents each; six for 25 cents. 



OTAHEITE ORANGE, 



OTAHEITE ORANGE. 



This valuable and distinct variety of the Orange family is a 

 dwarf, compact grower, with glossy, deep green foliage, which 

 has a decided odor of the Orange trees of Florida, and is exceed- 

 ingly floriferous, producing a wonderful profusion of pure white 

 flowers of the most delicious fragrance, identical with the much 

 sought for b'ooms of Southern Orange groves. Otaheite fruits 

 immediately after flowering, bearing frut about one-half the 

 size of the ordinary Orange, retaining in a maiked degree its 

 sweetness. This unique Orange cannot be equalled as a Winter 

 blooming pot plant for house culture. Requires but little sun- 

 light, and flowers and fruits when but twelve to fifteen inches 

 high. As a pot plant this lovely dwarf Oranee 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-famed delicate 

 and fragrant Orange blossoms. I have grown a large stock of 

 clean, vigorous plants that will bloom and fruit at once, of this 

 beautiful Orange, and commend it to my friends as a novelty of 

 sterling worth and merit. Prir«. ertod plants, 10 cents each; 

 large, strong plants, 1o bloom and bear profnselj at once, 25 to 

 40 cents each, according to site. 



