THEopusia B. SHEPHERD COMPANY’S CATALOGUE 4] 
LIBONIA Floribunda. Beautiful dwarf shrub of compact growth, covered most of the year 
with pretty scarlet and yellow tubular flowers. Fine for driveways, for single specimens, and 
for pot plants. 10c to 25c each. 
NEW MAR GUERITE Mme. Gaelbert. A splendid new Marguerite with very broad petals. 
Surpasses all others in size and snowy whiteness. 10c to 25c each. 
POINSETTIAS. 
Pulcherrima. A large plant of Poinsettia in full bloom is one of the most gorgeous and 
stately objects of the California garden at Xmas time. It grows almost the size ofa tree 
and the ends of the branches are crowned with floral bracts, of the most intense bright red, all 
sizes from 5 to 18 inches across, they are in great demand for Xmas decorations. They make 
fine pot plants, the beautiful bracts keeping fresh and bright for several weeks and are just in 
time for the holidays. 15c, 25c and 50c each. 
Double Poinsettia Rosette. This splendid variety comes into bloom just as the single one 
is waning. The magnificent flower heads consist of aninside row of long floral bracts and a 
closely gathered rosette-like center of lanceolate bracts 4 or 5 inches long. The color is a deep, 
rich brilliant red, and the effect at a distance is like rich velvet. It is strikingly beautiful. 
Poinsettia heads will keep for sometime if the stems are dipped in boiling water immediately 
after they are cut. 25c to 50c¢ each. 
PLUMBAGO Capensis. A beautiful shrub with lovely light blue flowers, always in bloom. 
It grows 10 to 12 feet high in California, forming immense plants, and should be cut back occa- 
sionally to induce new growth. 1ac, 25c to $1.00 each. 
Capensis Alba. Like the above except the flowers are snowy white. Always a mass of 
bloom. 15c to 25c. 
ROSES. | 
Mrs, Shepherd’s New Climbing Rose, “Oriole.” 
This brilliant new climbing rose is a seedling from the dainty old rose, La Jonquille. It has 
the fine color of the Richardson rose, without any of its faults. The foliage is glossy, 
the stems of the plant are very clean and smooth and the thorns inconspicious. Its 
habit of growth is spreading, so it can be grown to magnificent proportions in the open, or 
trained to veranda or trellis. The flowers are a clear beautiful rich orange color, the buds and 
half open flowers exquisitely formed; they fade to lighter yellow, then straw color, and later to 
cream white, giving several shades on the plant at one time. They are borne on long pliable, 
stems 15 to 20 inches in length, and have the true tea fragrance. Oriole is never without flowers 
though it blooms most profusely from February till June. It is a great addition to the list of 
climbers and cannot fail to be in great demand wherever it is seen, on account of beautiful and 
unusual colur, and its many other attractive qualities. Stock sold out for the present, orders 
booked in succession for delivery May 1st 1906. Small plants 50c to $1.00. 
Catherine Mermet. A splendid pink. 
Maman Cochet. Rich coral pink, large. A beautiful and ideal rose. 
Madame Lambard, Color a beautiful shade of rosy-bronze, changing to salmon, shaded 
with carmine, buds a deep rosy crimson. 
The Bride Fine creamy-white, sometimes slightly tinted with rose. Blooms constantly 
and profusely. 
Gloire de Margottin. <A dazzling red; one of the brightest colored roses in cultivation. 
La France. One of the loyeliest of all roses Buds and flowers a grand pink. 
Perle des Jardins. <A most beautiful deep yeilow. Perfectly double and deliciously sweet. 
Sunset. One of the most fragrant and beautiful roses in cultivation. Color rich cop- 
pery-yellow, clouded with dark, ruddy crimson. 
Marie Van Houtte. A beautiful straw color, outer petals edged with bright rose. Flowers 
large and very fragrant. 
Gloire Lyonaise. A cross between a teaand a hybrid perpetual. It sends up thornless 
canes six feet high, surmounted by superb cream-white, double flowers, having very large 
petals. Handsome leathery foliage, free from disease. If cut back branches freely. Beautiful 
in bud and full bloom, always long stemmed. 
Liberty. A superb, rich red rose, to which no description can do justice. 
Bridesmaid. Brilliant pink. Flowers very large, full perfect shape, fragrant and a constant 
bloomer. 25c to 50c each; $2.50 to $4.00 doz. 
