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



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GERANIUMS 



THAT ARE ESPECIALLY SUITABLE 

 FOR WINTER BLOOMING, X X X 



These Ten Best Double Geraniums for 75 Cents. 



Alpine Beauty.— In this we have the finest double white Gera- 

 nium ever introduced, and unlike other double white Gera- 

 niums, it is suitable for pot culture, and flowers as profusely 

 as the best single varieties. It is a dwarf, compact-growing 

 variety, with handsome foliage of a light and healthy green. 

 The perfect double flowers are unsurpassed for cut flowers. 

 They are borne in large trusses and are spotless snowy- 

 white, retaining their pure 

 whiteness even in the heat of 

 Summer. 



Beauty Poitevine. — Very large, 

 double flowers, in immense 

 trusses. Color brilliant sal- 

 mon. 



New Geranium, Brnant.— S e m i - 

 double. The leafage is round 

 and nicely zoned, having a 

 greater texture and substance 

 than even the most vigorous of 

 the old type. Color of the 

 flower a light vermilion-red of 

 a most pleasing shade. The 

 flowers are absolutely perfect 

 in shape, contour and make-up, 

 trusses exceptionally large, 

 and borne in immense spheri- 

 cal balls, often measuring 

 eight inches in diameter. It 

 does finely in the open ground, 

 and is perfectly reliable as a 

 bedding Geranium of the high- 

 est merit. It makes a com- 

 pact, dense growth, and has 

 all the qualities that go to 

 make the perfect bedder that it is. Fine also in pots. 



Leviathan. — Enormous sized flowers, round, in the shape of 

 rosettes. Color a bright orange-red, reverse of petals silvery. 

 Very fine. Semi-double flowers. 



Crimson Velvet. — This is the darkest and richest Geranium 

 grown. It is very bright, dark, deep, rich velvety-maroon. 



NEW DOUBLE WHITE GERANIUM, ALPINE BEAUTY. 



very dark and rich, and at the same time very bright. Sim- 

 ply superb. 

 Fire Brand. — Color dazzling flame scarlet, fine, prominent truss, 

 flowers large and of great substance. An excellent bedder 

 and pot plant. 

 Gloire de France. — Large, round florets of waxy appearance, 

 colors carmine and white, with carmine center, each petal 

 delicately tinged with carmine. 

 An excellent pot variety, to 

 which its habit is finely suited. 

 It is one of the prettiest Gera- 

 niums we have. This is the 

 most beautiful of all parti- 

 colored Geraniums which ap- 

 pear so bewitching to the eye. 

 The very brightest color im- 

 aginable. 

 Sir Walter Scott.— Color a beauti- 

 ful vinous rose, with distinct 

 white center. This variety 

 produces fine individual flor- 

 ets, and combined with its other- 

 good qualities, makes it a valu- 

 able Geranium. This variety- 

 supersedes Sergeant Bobillett.. 

 being a much finer Geranium. 

 Gertrude.— Color of the flower a. 

 clear, bright salmon, with cen- 

 ter and outer edges touched 

 with white, and with soft 

 shadings of carmine, velvety 

 in texture. 

 Centaur. — The new mammoth Cen- 

 taur double Geranium is the- 

 best large-flowering double pink Geranium in cultivation. 

 Any one seeing a specimen truss cannot fail to become 

 enthusiastic over it, pronouncing it the largest and finest 

 Geranium in cultivation. The new Centaur is remarkable for 

 its stout, robust growth, and for its immense trusses of 

 bloons. 



These Ten Best Single Geraniums for 75 Cents. 



Marguerite de Layres. — A grand single white, plants a mass of 

 white bloom, trusses of the grandest size, florets extra large 

 and of the purest white. The plant is robust. Grand for 

 pots or bedding. It is by far the best single white. 



Blanche Moulae. — A grand bedding variety of much merit. The 

 flowers are large, salmon, beautifully bordered with white. 

 A Geranium of rare beauty. 



SINGLE GERANIUM. 



Lansdown. — A soft, deep scarlet, florets large and round, and ' 

 formed into large trusses, borne with the greatest freedom. 

 An ideal bedder, producing a mass of soft, brilliant color, 

 well above the foliage, which is a light, bright green. 



M. Noury. — A most pleasing lavender-rose color, very chaste and 

 beautiful, with distinct marking of white at center of flower. 

 Dwarf, and so free in bloom as to literally cover the plant. 



Madame Alfred Mame. — A magnificent bedding variety. The 

 trusses are of extraordinary size, the florets Dy actual meas- 

 urement being two and one-half inches long by two inches 

 wide, of almost Pansy form. The color is a soft sub-scarlet, 

 lower petals shading to salmon in the center, which is deeply 

 veined crimson. This variety has been universally admired 

 by all who have seen it in flower. A variety that will prob- 

 ably never be equaled. 



Mrs. E. G. Hill. — A most distinct and pleasing shade of salmon, 

 with light shading at the center. The shading at the center 

 is variable, however. Trusses are very large and composed 

 of an immense number of florets. 



Souvenir de Mirande.— The greatest novelty in new Geraniums 

 that has appeared for a number of years is undoubtedly 

 Souvenir de Mirande. It is entirely distinct from any other 

 variety known, and is quite different from the usual marked 

 varieties that have from time to time made their appearance. 

 It has round florets, upper petals creamy-white, with a dis- 

 tinct rosy-pink border, lower petals salmon-rose, streaked 

 pure lilac. It is extremely free-flowering, and produces fine 

 trusses of its magnificent blooms. 



Beauty of Richmond. — Intense orange-scarlet, very dazzling, 

 with large white eye, flower perfectly circular and of im- 

 mense size, foliage lightly zoned. A seedling from Beauty 

 of Kent. Extremely free. 



Monsieur Poinsignon.— The color is bright aurora-rose, shaded 

 salmon, with a white eye. Large trusses of splendid-shaped 

 flowers. 



Protee. — Flowers are very large and freely produced in immense ; 

 trusses. Color silvery-lilac, white shading:, changing to sil- 

 very-pink. A splendid sort. 



GREAT BARGAUSr-THE TWO FZNB SETS OF aBRANIUMS FXXRi$L25i. 



