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Miss Ella V. Baines, The "Woman Florist, Springfield, Ohio. 



THE BEAUTIFUL IXIAS. 



DHEIxias produce their beautiful flowers in spikes and are of the most dazzling and brilliant colors, and sure 

 to attract great attention. It is only a few years that they have been grown in this country to any ex- 

 tent, but in that time, like the Freesia, they have become very popular. For pot culture in the house thev 

 . give great satisfaction, being of easy culture and free bloomers. Half a dozen bulbs can be planted in a. 

 five-inch pot, and the display will be mag- 

 nificent. For open ground culture give them Winter 

 protection with leaves or straw. They are very cheap, 

 and all lovers of odd and beautiful flowers should 

 certainly add them to their collec- 

 tion. The sorts I offer are new 

 and very fine. Price, good plants, 

 3 cents each; six for 15 cents; 25 

 cents per dozen. 



Allium Neapolitanum, 



Allium Neapolitanum and Tri- 

 tilea Unifolia are a splendid com- 

 U1AS ' bination for corsage bouquets. 



This plant has graceful leaves from eight inches to a 

 foot long, of the darkest green, forming a very cheer- 

 ful mass. Each plant bears from one to three scapes, 

 or trusses of flowers, which are pure white, about one- 

 fourth of an inch in diameter. Many of the trusses 

 bear over one hundred flowers each. Price, 3 cents 

 each; 30 cents per dozen. 



Freesia Refracta Alba. 



No description can do adequate justice to this beauti- 

 ful plant. The flowers are two inches long and about 

 the same in width, shaped like miniature Gladioli, and 

 borne in clusters of six to ten on depressed horizontal 

 scapes. The body of the flower is pure white, with 

 lower segments spotted lemon-yellow. The perfume is 

 most delicious, being a mixture of Mignonette, Violet 

 and Japanese, and one plant is sufficient to perfume a 

 large room, without the overbearing perfume of Hya- 

 cinths or Tuberoses. The plant has tooth-shaped bulbs 

 and flat, spreading leaves. Its cultivation is of the sim- 

 plest, requiring only to be potted in October, to be 

 watered sparingly at first, placed in a sunny window 

 and watered more as growth progresses. When, out of 

 flower, store in some place and repot at proper season in fresh soil 

 for another year's growth. Price, 3 cents each; six fine bulbs for 15 

 cents; twelve for 25 cents. 



- -» OXAXrlS.^- 



These varieties of Oxalis aie all Winter-blooming. They mak» 

 the most beautiful hanging pots and baskets,producing a mass of flow- 

 ers all Winter, which in brilliant and beautiful colors are truly charm- 

 ing. Winter-blooming Oxalis are always sure to please. Plant five 

 or six bulbs in a six-inch pot. They commence growth immediately 

 after planting. Our mixture embraces pink, white, yellow, red, etc. 

 Price, for a mixture of all colors, 3 cents each; 30 cents per dozen. 

 Oxalis Cernna Flora Plena. — The double flowered yellow Oxalis. 



Very desirable. Price, 5 cents each, six for 25 cents. freesia refracta alba. 



BERMUDA 

 BUTTERCUP OXALIS, 



An unrivaled Winter- 

 Flowering Pot Plant. 



This is one of the finest Winter-flow- 

 ering plants for pot culture that I have 

 ever seen. It is such a strong, luxuriant 

 grower that one bulb will be sufficient 

 for a six or eight-inch pot. Place in a 

 dark, cool position for a few weeks to- 

 root thoroughly, and remove to a sunny 

 situation in the window or conservatory, 

 in a temperature of about sixty degrees 

 Fahrenheit, and the great profusion of 

 bloom produced in uninterrupted abund- 

 ance for weeks will astonish and delight 

 you. Flowers of the purest bright but- 

 tercup yellow. Well grown plants have 

 produced as high as seventy flower 

 stems at one time, and over one thou- 

 sand flowers in one season. The flow- 

 ers, and frequently the leaves, fold up at 

 night and open again the next morning, 

 but when grown in a partially shaded 

 situation the flowers remain open all 

 the time. Properly treated, the plants 

 will flower in six weeks from the time 

 the bulbs are planted. I do not claim 

 the Bermuda Buttercup Oxalis to be 

 strictly a new plant, but a greatly im- 

 proved selection from Oxalis Ceruna, 

 •»ro\vn in the congenial soil and climate 

 of Bermuda until the bulbs have at- 

 tained great strength, producing bulbs, 

 plants and flowers larger and more lux- 

 uriant in all parts than the type. Excels 

 all bulbous plants in profusion of 

 bloom. It is graceful, and delights 

 all who see it. Price,6 cents each; 60 

 cents per dozen. 



Oxalis, A) A) A) 

 Bermuda Buttercup. 



