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



MANETTIA 



MANETTIA BICOLOR. 



The most wonderful new vine or plant that 

 has yet been produced. 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 be- 

 fore falling. Has my highest commendation. 

 Send to me and get the genuine. Fine 

 plants, 10 cents each. 



MADEIRA VINE. 



This is one of the most beautiful of climb- 

 ers. Grows rapidly, bearing small, white 

 blossoms that are exquisitely fragrant. Fine 

 tubers. Five cents each. 



MAHERNIA, or HONEY BELLS. 



This is a fast-growing dwarf plant that bears 

 bell-shaped yellow flowers freely, which are 

 as sweet as any flower I grow. 6 cents each. maderia vine. 



BEAUTIFUL MARGUERITE DAISIES. 



Marguerite Daisy, Madame Gailbert. — This is one of the finest new plants that 



f has ever been introduced Nothing can be imagined that is finer. All know theold 



varieties of Paris Daisies, how beautiful and much sought after for decorations of all 



kinds. This new variety blooms constantly, and will produce ten blooms to the old 



variety's one. Nothing is so airy and graceful as these blossoms of large, white petals showing a 



yellow disc. 7 cents each. 



Marguerite Daisy, Etoile de Or. — The new yellow Paris Daisy, similar to the above, but a 

 rich, golden color. The two varieties go handsomely together. 7 cents each. 



Agatha Celestis, or Celestial Daisy. — The flowers are a delicate sky blue, with a yellow 

 disc. It is certainly a charming plant. Dwarf-growing, not over a foot to eighteen inches in 

 height, and the bushes fairly swarm with its lovely blue blossoms. The cut-flower stores in the 



cities use them by the hundreds of thousands. Blooms from November to June. Very desirable. 8 cents each. The three 



Marguerites for 20 cents. 



MAGNOLIA FUSCATA, THE GREAT BANANA SHRUB.— This is a dwarf-growing, true Banana Shrub 

 It is always scarce and difficult to procure. I have succeeded in securing a fine, large stock, and offer it reasonable. April and 

 May is when it gladdens the heart with its profusion of small flowers of 

 brownish yellow color, exhaling a most exquisite fragrance, similar to a 

 ripe Banana. This is decidedly a great favorite, and with Olea Fragrans 

 makes the two very finest and most elegant of all shrubs for the South. 

 This Shrub is hardy in the South. Fine plants, 50 cents each. 



MYRTUS COMMUNIS. 



This is the sweet German Myrtle. It grows into a handsome bush, and is 

 evergreen, therefore is a fine plant for house culture. The foliage is de- 

 liciously fragrant. Every one should grow it. 10 cents each. 



Moon Flowers. 



The True Ever-blooming Moon Flower, Ipomoea GraMdiflora. — 



I have the true variety that blooms constantly. If planted out in rich ground, 

 in a situation where it has full exposure to the sun, it will attain a height 

 (if given a wire or string to twine on) of forty feet by October 15th, bloom- 

 ing abundantly the entire season. It is called " Moon flower " from its 

 rare peculiarity of blooming best at night, although it also expands its 

 flowers in dull days. The flowers are pure white, from five to six inches in 

 diameter, emitting a rich, Jasmine-like odor at night. The "Moon Flower" 

 is a tender plant, but it can easily be kept in the house over Winter. It 

 roots easily from slips, so that no attempt should be made to lift large 

 plants. Price of the true Moon Flower, 8 cents each. 



New Moon Flower, Heavenly Blue. — This makes a splendid compan- 

 ion plant to the white Moon Flower. It is equally rapid in growth and a 

 much freer blooming variety than the white one. The blooms come in 

 clusters of five to twelve, and at times almost hide the vine. The flowers 

 are the most heavenly blue, with reddish purple rays, and are six inches 

 across. Nothing is more beautiful. 8 cents each. 



MILK AND WINE LILY, or Crinum Fimbriatulura. 



" I must tell you that Milk and Wine Lily has done famous work. It has 

 developed nine fine blooms, and there are two unopened buds. We there- 

 fore gave it a free ride last Wednesday to Our chapel services. It was ad- 

 mired by everybody. There were Bostonians and people from various 

 towns to admire and enjoy it."— .Vrs. E. Adams, Mass. A grand sort, the 

 most beautiful of the Crinums. Its bulbs grow large, and its strong-grow- 

 ing foliage is erect and sword-shaped. Flowers in umbels very large and 

 showy, three to four inches in diameter, striped with white arid carmine 

 and very fragrant. Hardy in the South. See cut, page 19. Extra large 

 bulbs, 60 cents each; fine blooming bulbs, 35 cents each. 



OLEA FRAGRANS, or TEA OLIVE. 



One of the most desirable flowering shrubs of Southern gardens, 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 pro- 

 fusion, and emit the most pleasing fragrance. It has been well said that 

 each individual bloom has more sweetness than the most fragrant Lilv. 

 The blooming period begins in the Fall and lasts for several mon ' is 



of easy cuiture, and especially desirable as a window plant, 35 cents 



each. WAKGUBR1T! 



