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AZALEA INDICA. 
One of the most gorgeous blooming families, together with 
So the showiest 
of all green- 
house plants. 
The colors of 
the flower 
vary from the 
purest white 
to the deepesi 
crimson in 
untold varia- 
The 
soil should 
always be 
¢)packed hard 
/ when trans- 
planted. Suc- 
cess depends, 
however, on 
the degree of 
moisture in 
the atmos- 
phere in 
which they 
lives Wie 
have a num- 
ber of the 
best flower- 
ing sorts that 
will flower 
finely at once, 
both double 
and single-flowered, in any color desired... The plants we offer 
are magnificent specimens. They will be in bloom about the 
holidays. An elegant present for Christmas, Price, three-year- 
old plants, that have from forty to sixty blooms at blooming sea- 
son, 75 cents each. 
ABUTILON—Chinese Bell Flower, or Flowering Maple 
The Abutilons I offer are perpetual bloomers, and I wish 
all my friends to order afew Abutilons and see how fine they 
are. They are not the old tall-growing varieties that never 
bloom. Price, 10 cents each, except where noted. 
Robert Geurge.—A free and continuous bloomer. Flowers are 
broad, their large, overlapping petals incurved, color orange, 
veined with crimson. 
Shower of Gold.—A beautiful, dwarf-growing variety, the whole 
plant being covered with a profusion oe beautiful golden- 
vellow blossoms, Price. 15 cents each. 
Vhompsonii Plena —New. Has perfectly double flowers that re- 
semble in form a double Hollyhock Color a rich, deep or. 
ange, shaded and streaked with crimson. The foliage is 
delightfully variegated. Price, 15 cents each. 
Splendens.—A beautiful velvety-crimson, 
Scarlet Gem —A rich, bright scarlet. . 
Eclinse.—This is an elegant foliage plant, and one of the pret- 
tiest we know, It is new, and the flowers, which are pro- 
duced in profusion, set the plant off to good advantage. 
New Abutilon, Souvenir de Bonne.—This is a charming plant. 
The body of the leaf is a deep, rich green, bordered and 
edged with purest white. It is a lovely plant to go with 
Palms or other decorative plants. Price, 20 cents each. 
SPECIAL OFFER—The seven new Abutilons for 60 cents. 
PHLOX—Hardy Perennial, 
The new French varieties all carry very fine, disunct, pure 
colors,in great trusses, many of them beautifully shaded and 
marked with very distinct, clear, bright eyes. They require no 
care but dividing and resetting every second year. ‘Their vigor- 
ous growth and freedom of bloom make them very useful plants, 
while they are unexcelled in beautv, The improvement made in 
this beautiful class of plants is perhaps more marked than in any 
other section of the hardy, herbaceous family. Instead of the 
thin flowers, which were limited to lilac and white colo s, we 
now have gorgeous flowers combining all the different tints of 
rose, carmine, red and purple, to say nothing of the pure whites 
and salmon, with their distincteyes. Perfectly hardy everywhere. 
No farther 
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AZALEA INDICA, 
Price, 10 cents each; the set of seven for 60 cents. 
discount on this offer. 
Phlox, Cross of Honor.—A beautiful light rose color, striped 
pure white. An excellent flower. 
Flora McNab.—Pure white and free, 
Lothair.—A brilliant salmon rose. 
Princess de Furstenburg.— While, with carmine eye. 
Sir E. Landseer.—Brilliant, dark crimson. Large, fine flower 
Stansted Rival.—hRose-pink. dark crimson rays, 
Triumph de Twickle.—A rosy magenta. 
CHINESE MATRIMONY VINE. 
Plantit this Fall. Itis hardy everywhere. A vine for perma- 
nent effect for shading a sunny window, covering an arbor or 
veranda, and for perfect hardiness cannot be excelled. Pale 
purple flowers and scarlet berries are constantly appearing from 
early Spring till latein the Fall, Price, 15 cents each; ortwo 
for 25 cents; or five for so cents, 
Miss Ella V. Baines, The Woman Florist, Springfield, Otis, 
SANSEVERIA ZEALANICA, 
A New Decorative Plant of Great Beauty and Value. 
This is a very beautiful plant, splendidly adapted for tae dec- 
oration of drawing-rooms and halls, as it stands drouth and dust 
with impunity, and requires scarcely any water. The leaves 
grow to a length of three to four feet, and are beautifully striped 
crosswise with broad,white variegations on a dark green ground, 
The flowers are numerous and composed of long, narrow petals, 
which recurve gracefully and are of a creamy-white color. 
Price, fine plants, 10 cents each; large, strong plants, 20 cts.each, 
CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS, (Umbrella Plant. ) 
This is a plant of the easiest culture, and a large specimen isas 
handsome as a Palm for decoration. It makes a handsome pot 
plant, It will grow luxuriantly in water, and is, therefore, in 
dispensable for aquariums or fountains, Try it. Price, 10 cents 
each; three for 25 cents. 
OTAHEITE ORANGE, or Chinese Dwarf. 
This is not a new plant, but one that deserves to be more gene 
erally known and cultivated than itis. Ithas the same deep- 
reen, fragrant foliage as the Sweet Orange, butis of decided 
feeare bushy growth. Plartsonly one yearold, and notover 
ten to fifteen inches high, produce their delicious blossoms, which 
are succeeded by fruit. Nothing can be more ornamental and 
attractive ina collection of pot plants than one of these minute 
Orange trees, with half a dozen or more of their bright-colored 
fruits on, which get to be about one-third or one-half the size of 
the regular oranges. Plants are of the easiestculture. Price, 
fine plants, 10 cents each; larger plants, 20 cents each, 
CACTI. 
Cactus, Queen of Night.—Decidedly the grandest flowering plant 
in cultivation. Imagine a dozen flowers unfolding with the 
setting sun their hundreds of white, wax-like petals, encire 
cled by a wreath of gold,incontinual motion! Imagine such 
a flower three feet in circumference, perfuming the sur- 
rounding air with the most delicious fragrance known! Does 
it not deserve its royal title? It grows and blooms with the 
greatest ease, requires absolutely no care, living for months 
without water, increasing in value yearly. We have the 
genuine variety, the only one with fragrant flowers tweive 
to twenty inches across, and can furnish one-year-old plants, 
by mail, for 15cents each; two for 25 cents. 
Lobster Cactus.— This is without doubt one of the finest of Win- 
ter-blooming plants. Itis of the very easiest culture, and 
the lovely pink blooms completely hide the plant. Nothing 
finer. Price, 10 cents each. 
HYDRANGEA, THOMAS HOGG. ’ 
Hydrangea, Thomas Hogg.—Pure white flowers, the trusses of 
flowers measuring ten inchesin diameter. Price, 10 cts. each, 
Hydrangea, Otaksa.— Bright rosy-pink. Piice, 10 cents each. 
New Hydrangea, Red-Branched.—(Ramis Pictus.) A valuable 
addition to the list of Hydrangeas, with dark red branches 
that brighten to a clear crimson color as they near the flow- 
ertrusses. The plantis of robust habit and produces freely 
immense heads onkicen rose-colored flowers. A novelty of 
sterling merit that is sure to become very popular. Thisis 
by all odds the prettiest Hydrangea. Price, 10 cents each. 
Special Offer.—These three fine sorts, strong plants, for 20 cts. 
