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GENERAL COLLECTION of TENDER PL ANTS- Continued 



Coleus — Concluded 



DUNERIA — Grandest Coleus of recent year: has a deep velvety 

 texture. Color crirnson, maroon center; beautifully scalloped 

 edge of light red,; a fine showy bedder. 



EMPRESS OF INDIA — Bronze-red, golden-yellow edge. 



FIREBRAND — Brilliant dark red; extra. 



FIRECREST — Carmine-crimson, bordered scarlet. 



GOLD BOUND — Dark maroon with blotches of a darker shading; 

 yellow border. 



HERO — Very dark, almost iet black. 



JOSEPH'S COAT — An intermingling of many colors. 



MAY LEVERING — Spotted and striped with maroon, green, red 

 and yellow. 



QUEEN OF THE WEST — Creamy-white and oxide-green, mar- 

 gin bright yellow. 



QUEEN VICTORIA— Yellow and bronzy-red. 



RED CLOUD — Dark red of royal hue. 



S ENS ATION — Crimson-maroon, center bright red. 



SETTING SUN — Velvety red, bordered golden-yellow. 



SPOTTED GEM— Spotted yellow, green and red. 



VERSCHAFFELTI — A rich velvety crimson. 



YELLOW BIRD— Clear bright yellow. 



Crepe Myrtle 



A real southern plant, not hardy north of Baltimore, but should 

 be in every yard in the South. Our friends go wild over this mag- 

 nificent plant with its profusion of pink bloom and lustrous green 

 foliage. It will attract attention in any landscape. 25 cents 

 each; 3 for 65 cents; 12 for $2.00. 



Cuphea Platy centra 



(Cigar Plant.) Each, 15 cents; 3 for 40 cents; 12 for $1.40. 



Cyperus Alternifolius 



(The Umbrella Plant) — A handsome pot plant, useful in 

 vases, etc. 20 cents each; 3 for 50 cents; 12 for $1.80. 



Euonymus 



EUONYMUS JAPONICA — Japan Euonymus is of dense up- 

 right habit with very rich glossy leaves holding their brilliancy 

 throughout the season — the mature plants having numerous 

 clusters of tiny whitish-green flowers during May and followed 

 in the fall witn crimson berries, which are very effective against 

 the dark leaves. It can be trained into formal shapes as speci- 

 men plants, or used as foundation or hedge planting — it is 

 extremely effective. Price, 25 cents each; 3 for 65 cents; 

 12 for $2.00. 



Fuchsias, or Ladies Eardrops 



Price, 20 cents each; 3 for 50 cents; 12 for $1.80. 



BLACK PRINCE — This is, without question, the very finest 

 Fuchsia grown for the amateur to cultivate. It makes a shapely 

 busrt, is robust in g_rowth, free from disease and insects, and is 

 probably the freest in blooming. We have seen specimen plants 

 six feet in height and four feet across loaded with thousands of 

 bright buds and Dlossoms of a beautiful waxy carmine or pink 

 color. Certainly a plant of easy culture. 



ERNEST RENAN — White sepais, reddish-blue corolla. 



LITTLE BEAUTY — Red sepals, sky-blue corolla, so free as to 

 almost hide the plant. 



LORD BYRON — Red sepals, corolla of the richest royal purple, 

 so free in flower as to almost hide the plant, 



MADAME VAN DER STRASS— This is the best of the double 

 white corollaed Fuchsias. ? 



SPECIOSA — Habit erect and compact, presenting a decidedly neat 

 and attractive appearance as a pot plant, the fine star-shaped 

 flowers produced in profusion, and begin when plants, are quite 

 young. The flowers are three inches or more in length; tube 

 and sepals bright rose, corolla brilliant carmine; it blooms 

 quite freely. 



TENOR — Red sepals, double purple corolla. 



Genista 



CANARIENSIS (Gold Flower)— Golden-yellow flowers. 

 cents each; 3 for 95 cents; 12 f ir $3.50. 



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Heliotrope 



FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE— A splendid lavender shade 

 "The variety grown in our grandmothers' garden." 10 cents, 

 each; 3 for 25 cents; 12 for 80 cents. 



Chinese Hibiscus 



25 cents each; 3 for 65 cents; 12 for $2.00. We have large 

 plants of Hibiscus ready to bloom, fcr 50 cents each. 

 These arc handsome plants. 



AURANTIACUS — Large and double, with orange-colored flowers. 



CARMINIATUS PERFECTUS— Full, round flowers of perfect 

 shape and of a rich, soft, carmine-rose, with a deep crimson eye; 

 fully six inches in diameter. 



DOUBLE CRIMSON — This grand variety has immense flowers 

 of the richest crimson; combined with glossy foliage, renders 

 it best of all. 



GRANDIFLORUS — Rich, glossy, cut-leaved foliage, literally 

 covering the plant with scarlet-crimson flowers. 



SINENSIS GIGANTEA— This is a plant for house cultivation 

 during winter or summer, or for planting outside during summer. 

 It blooms at all times of the year. The plants branch freely 

 and flower profusely, commencing to bloom when not more than 

 a foot high. As a specimen plant for large pois it has an equal 

 only in the Brugmansia. Its flowers are of enormous size, often 

 eight to ten inches across, opening flat, and of such vivid crim- 

 son-scarlet color that tney can be seen from a long distance 

 like a flaming torch. They can be wintered in the cellar or pit 

 with perfect safety, and if one does, not care to grow them all 

 winter, one should have one or two for summer display. 



SUBVIOLACEOUS— Flowers of enormous size, beautiful car- 

 mine, tinted with violet. Probably the largest flower of the 

 Hibiscus family, and an unusually free bloomer. We take 

 pleasure in recommending this fine plant. 



VERSICOLOR — A variety combining in its flowers all the colors 

 of the whole family, being handsomely striped crimson, buff, 

 rose arid white. Flowers eight inches in diameter. 



New Pink Hibiscus, Peachblow 



(A sport from the Double Red Hibiscus Rosea Sinensis.) 



The flowers are double and from 4 to 5 inches in diameter, of a 

 charming, rich, clear pink, with small deep crimson centers. 

 It is one of the freest-flowering plant novelties recently offered. 

 The color is an entirely new and beautiful shade, and it blooms 

 abundantly and continuously during the summer and fall months. 

 Large plants two and three years old make a magnificent show. 

 It will give general satisfaction to those who grow it either in 

 pots or planted out in the garden. _ It blooms well in the winter in 

 the greenhouse or in any sunny window. Price, 35 cents each; 

 3 for 95 cents; 12 for $3.50; strong, fine plants, 60 cents each. 



