Tueroposta B. SHEPHERD COMPANY’S CATALOGUE 43 
The “Mother Goose” Set of Baby Roses. 
Mistress Mary. This variety has the largest flowers. The color is a delicate blush, shaded 
darker at the edge of petals. Sprays quite large. Flowers single 1'g inches across. 
Pretty Maid. Small single flowers, about one inch in diameter, in beautiful airy sprays; 
color is delicate blush, resembling fruit blossoms. A little beauty. 
Baby Bunting. The sweetest variety of all. Flowers are snowy white, semi-double, with 
yellow stamens; one inch across. 
Little Bo-peep. Single flowers, charmingly colored; white center; outer part of petals 
pink; beautiful yellow stamens; measure 114 inches across. 
Tommy Tucker. A lovely semi-double pink variety. Flowers are 14 inches across.. 
Jack Horner. A pale pink flower, scarcely an inch across; single. Very dainty and 
sweet. They are a great delight to children. 
20c each, set of six for $1.00. 
RUDEBECKIA Golden Glow. Splendid, hardy, perennial plant that dies down in the 
autumn, coming up early in the spring. Long stems, 5 to 8 inches high, bearing numerous 
splendid double yellow flowers, resembling refined double sunflowers. Very decorative in the 
garden and especially fine for groups. 10c to 25c each; 75c¢ to $1.50 doz. 
RUSSELLIA Juncea. Scarlet Fountain Plant. Large brush-like foliage; covered 
with handsome scarlet flowers, always in bloom; drooping habit; fine for baskets or vases. 
10c to 25c each. 
Elegantissima. A vast improvement of the old Russelia. The habit is droop- 
ing, the slender branches and leaves completely hidden by hundreds of the vivid 
scarlet tubular flowers. It is so floriferous that tiny cuttings show more flowers than leaves. 
It is one of the finest and best new plants ever introduced and one that will give satisfaction to 
everyone. 
Lemoinei Multiflora. The primary stems are strong and grassy. The flower panicles are 
extremely long, and covered with tassels of flowers one over the other. Color a grand eoral red. 
It is well named ‘‘The Many Flowered.’’ 15¢ each. 
STREPTOSOLEN Jamesoni. A plant for brilliant show and always in bloom. No 
garden should be without it. At first the flowers are orange-red, changing to yellow with age, 
so that there are two or three shades of color on the plant at the same time. It grows very rap- 
idly, and in the course of two or three years attains the height of 10 to 12 feet and 25 to 30 feet 
in circumference, and covered from base to top with great bunches of splendid flowers. A fine 
pot plant. 10c to 25c each. 
SOLANUM Betaceum or Tomato Tree. A fine ornamental tree: a native of South Amer- 
ica. It bears fruit from seed the second season. A young plant set out in the spring grows 6 
feet high and comes into bearing by Xmas. The foliage is large and handsome, the branches 
spreading. The fruit hangs in clusters below the foliage, the size of a large egg, a beautiful 
orange-salmon color when ripe. It has a pleasing sub acid taste. Is delicious raw. served with 
sugar and cream, or cooked as sauce, and for jam or jelly is very fine. It will keep for weeks, 
owing to a very tough skin and the solid nature of the fruit. It is ashowy plant for honse and 
conservatory, and a most beautiful plant in the garden; will not stand frost. Plants, 15c, 25c 
and 50c¢ each. : 
SANSEVIERA Zeylanica or Zebra Plant. Ifa plant is wanted to grow any where, in or out 
of thesun to stand drought, dust and heat, and always look fresh and healthy, order one of there 
Sansevieras. They are beautiful plants, splendidly adapted for the decoration of rooms and halls, 
for the center of vases baskets etc., as they stand all inanner of abuse (except freezing and over- 
watering) with impunity, even preserving their cheerful look when you have forgotten to water 
them for a month. 
Guineensis. This is also known by some as the Alligator Lily. Leaves grow to a length 
of 3or 4 feet, and are beautifully striped and variegated crosswise with white on a very dark 
green ground. Native of India, where it is knownas Murva. Small plants 15c; larger ones 25c 
and 50c. 
TRADESCANTIA Multicolor, Its prettily striped leaves show every tint of silver, bronze- 
gold, pinkish-crimson, rose and gray, in their markings. An extra fine basket plant. 10c each. 
