PRIMULA OBCONICA, 
Always in Bloom. 
This is a charming plant for Winter. In fact,I 
know of none that is better adapted to home cul- 
turethanthisone. Itis not susceptible tochanges 
of temperature that most plants are subject to. 
It bears its elegant panicles and sprays of bloom 
of a delicate pink and white in the greatest pro- 
fusion. Itiscertainly elegant. 10 cents each. 
NEW EVER-BLOOMING BABY 
PRIMROSE, 
This is the freest-blooming plant I know of, 
blooming continuously throughout the entire sea- 
son. Plants in very small pots have from fifteen 
to twenty sprays of lovely light pink flowers on 
stems ten to twelve inches high at one time, and 
plants in four-inch pots often have from twenty- 
five to fifty at one time, lasting in bloom fully 
four weeks without fading, and continnally send- 
ing new sprays all over the plant, making it one 
of the most desirable plants for the house ever 
introduced. It is a very rapid grower and the 
easiest grown of all the Primrose family. Wery 
desirable. 10 cents each. 
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border. The plants 
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the colors are sure 
to please. I have 
them in white, pink and crimson. 10 cents each. 
MEXICAN PRIMROSE. 
This plant is strictly a perpetual bloomer. In flower at all sea- 
sons of the year, a good specimen showing always from ten to 
thirty large saucer-shaped blossoms, about three inches across, 
Rosea.—A splendid variety, with handsome pink blossoms. 
Entirely hardy. 10 cents each. 
HYDRANGEAS, 
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HYDRANGEA, PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA. 
Japatiese Hydratigea, Patticulata Gratidiflora.—A very 
striking and elegant hardy Howering shrub, suitable for 
lawns. Introduced from Japan. The flowers are pure white, 
afterwards changing to pink, and are borne in immense pyr- 
amidal trusses more than a footlong ani nearly as much in 
diameter. It blooms in mid-Summer, and rema u.inb wm 
PRIMULA OBCONICA,. 
two or three months. It creates a great sensation wherever 
seen. The plantisof bushy and compact growth, attains a 
height of three to four feet. Perfectly hardy in all parts of the 
country. Needs no protection Fine young plants. 25 cents 
each; extra strong, two-year-old plants for immediate effect. 
50 cents each. 
New Hydratigea, Monstrosa.—This is by far the best of all 
Hydrangeas, the flower being almost double in size of the 
older varieties, and its free-blooming qualities are unequaled 
by any plant I know of. The color is at first a deep, rich 
pink. gradually changing to almost a snow-white. Blooms 
have been measured fifteen inches in length by ten inches 
through. Itis indeed an enormous and beautiful flower. 16 
cents each. Seu 
New Hydrangea, Stella Fimbriata.—This is the only double 
ydrangea in existence. The individual flowers are per- 
fectly double,and resemble in shape small rosettes, a beau- 
tiful peach-pink in color, very floriferous, flowers of the larg- 
est size. Itiscertainly a charming plant, 15 cents each, 
New Hydraticea, Red-branched.—(Ramis Pictus.) A valua- 
ble addition to the list of Hydrangeas, with dark red branch- 
es that brighten to a clear crimson color as they near the 
flower trusses. The plant is of robust habit, ‘and produces 
freely immense heads of deep, rose-colored flowers. 10 
cents each. 
Thomas Hogg.—A pure white variety, with trusses of flowers’ 
measuring fifteen inches in diameter. The plants, when full 
grown, attain a height and width of six feet. Perfectly 
hardy. One of the finest plants for cemeteries. 10 cents 
each. 
Otaksa.—A bright, rosy-pink, flowers always erfect, and last- 
ing, when in bloom, three or four months. ry it. 10 cents 
each. 
Hortensis.—The old favorite variety. Pink flowers, changing 
to blue in soils containing iron. 10 cents each. 
SPECIAL OFFER. The seven Hydrangeas, good plants, 
for 60 cents. 
THE BEAUTIFUL IRIS, KAEMPFERI. 
Perfectly hardy. The newer varieties of this King of Iris, re- 
cently introduced from Japan, are marvels of beauty and stateli- 
ness. Think of a plant sending up to the height of three feet a 
dozen flower spikes, each spike bearing from two to four enor- 
mous blossoms eight to ten inches across, and of the most deli- 
cate and beautiful colors, markings and-combinations. Think of 
a bed of colors—white, indigo, violet, lavender, mauve, sky blue, 
royal purple, blush, yellow, etc. Your imagination can conceive 
of alee grander, and when you see them you will realize they 
are infinitely more grand and beautiful than your imagination 
could portray, Such are these new Iris Kempferi, the king of 
hardy perennial plants. Named varieties, my selection, 20 cents 
each; three distinct varieties for 60 cents. L 
