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like flowers, with large pure white sepals and bright blue petals. Plants 

 bloom nearly all the year. It is as stately and elegant as a palm, and very 

 ornamental. For groups or lines it is very effective, and makes a stately 

 ornament for courts, conservatories, and sheltered places with other 

 tropical plants. Earge plants only $5.00, $10.00 and $15.00 each. 



Augusta.. L,ike the above, but more dwarf in habit; not so massive; 

 very beautiful. $5.00 to $10.00 each. 



R-egirva. A very rare and beautiful plant. It forms large clumps 

 and makes a very showy ornament for the garden. Leaves are spade-like 

 on long, slender stems, that start from the base of the plant. The flowers 

 are borne on long stems high above the foliage from a spathe; the sepals 

 are bright orange, the petals bright blue. It is called the "Bird of Paradise 

 Plant" from the resemblance of the flowers to this brilliant bird of the 

 tropics. It forms large clumps and blooms nearly all the year. Strelitzias 

 are sent by express or freight only. 



TESTIMONIALS. 



Snake Hill, Natant, Mass. 

 Mrs. Theodosia B. Shepherd, 



Ventura, California. 

 Dear Madam: — Will you please send me a paper of your Petuna seed. 

 Those you sent me were very beautiful, large, and fine. I exhibited some 

 with other flowers at the show in Boston, and got a gratuity. * * * The 

 Cosmos are just in bloom, and I have never seen anything finer; so very 

 large and such beautiful colors. * * * The white Poppies were simply 

 dreams of grace and beauty. The pink ones were the most pure and sunny 

 rose; of immense size, and looked as if they had walked out of dreamland. 

 October 29th, 1900. Yours, etc., 



THE HONORABLE MRS. DUNCAN. 



Carrick House, Aye, Scotland. 

 Mrs. Theodosia B. Shepherd, 



Ventura; California. 

 Dear Madam — The Begonias have just arrived, and were in capital 

 condition. I hope to take them out later to Algiers. 



June 15th, 1901. Yours, etc., 



T. G. ARTHUR, 



Algate, South Australia. 

 Mrs. Theodosia B. Shepherd, 



Ventura, California. 

 Dear Madam: — You will be glad to know that we have now received all 

 the Begonias and Cacti, which you sent to Hay & Co., of Aukland, for us. 

 October 18th, 1900. Yours, etc., 



SMITH & MENEZEE. 

 And again they write: 



The Begonias we got of you via New Zealand have done very well; we 

 have sold a nice lot; thev are Atala, Beatrice, Ianthe, and Marjorie Daw. 

 November 12th, 1901." Yours, etc., 



SMITH & MENEZEL. 



