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



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ABUTILON. 



Oestrum Parqui, or Night-Blooming Jasmine. 



These beautiful shrubs are cultivated for the delicate fra- 

 jrrance of their elegant flowers, which are borne in clusters. It is 

 of easy culture. 



Oestrum, Parqui. — This well-known and highly-prized plant, 

 blooming nearly all the year, is a native of Chili. An excel- 

 lent garden plant, growing rapidly. Foliage long and of a 

 deep green color. Produces its richly fragrant flowers at 

 every joint. Sweet only at night. It is also well adapted to 

 house and window culture. Price, 10 cents each. 



The Old-Time Favorite, Stephanotis Floribunda. 



Always scarce. This is without doubt the rarest of all hard- 

 wood vines. It makes a rapid growth, and bears large clus- 

 ters of deliciously fragrant white flowers. Nothing can com- 

 pare with it for either the beauty of bloom or for its exquis- 

 ite fragrance. I have procured a good stock of it, and offer it 

 very cheap. It is never offered at less than 75 cents or a dol- 

 lar. My price, only 20 cents. 



GENISTA CANARIENSIS. (Fountain of Gold.) 



This beautiful plant well deserves the great popularity it has 

 gained in the past two years. The drooping branches are cover- 

 ed with delicate, sage-green foliage, and every twig is tipped 

 with a long raceme of exquisite, pea-shaped blossoms of a pure 

 canary color, almost hiding the foliage, and suggesting the 

 name, "Fountain of Gold." A fine companion for Swainsonia 

 Alba. Price, 20 cents each. 



CHINESE MATRIMONY VINE. 



Plant it this Fall. It is ha* '■" everywhere. A vine for perma- 

 nent effect for shading r.x.uny 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 late in the Fall. Price, 10 cents each, or three 

 for 25 cents. 



CHINESE BELL FLOWER OR 

 FLOWERING MAPLE 



The Abutilons we offer are perpetual bloomers, aud we wish 

 all our friends to order a few Abutilons and see how fine they 

 •are. They are not the old tall-growing varieties that never 

 bloom. Price, 10 cents each, 



SPECIAL OFFER. The Seven 

 New Abutilons for 50 cents. 



Bobert George.-^-A free and continuous bloomer. Flowers are 

 broad, their large, over-lapping petals incurved, color orange, 

 veined with crimson. 



Shower of Gold. — A beautiful, dwarf -growing variety, the whole 

 plant being covered with a profusion of beautiful golden- 

 yellow blossoms. 



Thompsouii 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 de- 

 lightfully variegated. 



Splendens.— A beautiful velvety-crimson. 



Scarlet Gem. — A rich, bright scarlet. 



Eclipse.— This is an elegant foliage plant, and one of the pretti- 

 est we know. It is new, and the flowers, which are produced 

 in profusion, set the plant off to good advantage. 



New ADutilon, Souvenir de Bonne.— This is a charming plant. 

 The body ot 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. 



HYDRANGEAS. 



SPECIAL OFFER— The Six Hydrangeas, good plants, 

 for 50 Cents. 



New Hydrangea, Stella Fimbriata.— This is the only double Hy- 

 drangea in existence. The individual flowers are perfectly 

 double and resemble in shape small rosettes, a beautiful pink 

 peach in color, very floriferous; flowers of the largest size. 

 It is certainly a charming plant. Price, 10 cents each. 



New Hydrangea, Red-Branched. — (Rami's Pictus.) A valuable ad- 

 dition to the list of Hydrangeas, with dark red branches that 

 brighten to a clear crimson color as they near the flower 

 trusses. The plant is of robust habit, and produces freely 

 immense heads of deep rose-colored flowers. A novelty of 

 sterling merit that is sure to become very popular. This is 

 by all odds the prettiest Hydrangea. Price, 8 cents each. 



Hydrangea, Otaksa. — A bright, rosy-pink, flowers always perfect, 

 and lasting, when in bloom, three to four months. Try it. 

 Price, 8 cer>ts each. 



Thomas Hogg. — A pure white variety, with trusses of flowers 

 measuring fifteen inches in diameter. The plants, when full 

 grown, attain a height and width of six feet. Perfectly 

 hardy. One of the finest plants for cemeteries. Price, 8 

 cents each. 



JTew Hydrangea, Monstrosa.— This is by far the best of all Hy- 

 drangeas, the flower being almost double in size of the older 

 varieties, and its free-blooming qualities are unequaled by 

 any plant I know of. The color is at first a deep, rich pink, 

 gradually changing to almost a snow-white. Blooms nave 

 been measured fifteen inches in length by ten inches through. 

 It is indeed an enormous and beautiful flower. Price, 15 

 cents each. 



{Hydrangeas — Continued.) 



New Japanese Hydrangea, Paniculata Grandiflora.— A new, very 

 striking and elegant hardy flowering shrub, suitable for 

 lawns, recently introduced from Japan. The flowers are pure 

 white, afterwards changing to pink, and are borne in im- 

 mense pyramidal trusses more than a foot long and nearly as 

 much in diameter. It blooms in mid-Summer, and remains 

 in bloom two or three months. Creates a great sensation 

 wherever seen. Is scarce and difficult to obtain. The plant 

 is of a bushy and compact growth, attains a height of three 

 to four feet. Perfectly hardy. Price, young^ plants, 15 cents 

 each; extra strong, two-year-old plants, for immediate effect, 

 35 cents each. 



PHLOX Hardy Perennial. 

 (Plant in the Fall.) 



The new French varieties all carry very fine, distinct 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 beauty. 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 colors, we 

 now have gorgeous flowers combining all the different tints of 

 rose, carmine, red and purple, to say nothing of pure whites and 

 salmon, with their distinct eyes. Perfectly hardy everywhere. 



Price, 10 cents each; the entire set of seven for 50 

 cents. No further 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. — White, with carmine eye. 

 Sir E. Landgeer. — Brilliant, dark crimson. Large, fine flower. 

 Stansted Rival. — Rose-pink, dark crimson rays. 

 Triumph de Twickle. — A rosy magenta. 



SANSEVERIA ZEALANICA. 

 A New Decorative Plant of Great Beauty and Value. 



This is a very beautiful plant, splendidly adapted for the deco- 

 ration 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 

 cross-wise with broad white variegations on a dark-green 

 ground. The flowers are numerous and composed of long, nar- 

 row petals, which recurve gracefully, and are of a creamy- white 

 color. Price, fine plants, 10 cents each; large, strong plants, 20 

 cents each. 



OTAHEITE ORANGE, or CHINESE DWARF. 



This is not a new plant, but one that deserves to be more gen- 

 erally known and cultivated than it is. It has the same deep- 

 green, fragrant foliage as the Sweet Orange, but is of decided 

 dwarf, bushy growth. Plants only one year old, and not over 

 ten to fifteen inches high, produce their delicious blossoms, 

 which are succeeded by fruit. Nothing can be more ornamental 

 and attractive in a collection of pot plants than one of these mi- 

 nute 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 easiest culture. 

 Price, fine plants, 10 cents each; large plants, 20 cents each. Fine, 

 extra large plants, 30 cents. 



LEMON OF SICILY. 



Dwarf. — This is as much of a wonder as the dwarf Orange. 

 It bears the largest Lemons of any variety in cultivation, A sin- 

 gle fruit often weighs two or three pounds. A handsome com- 

 panion for the dwarf Orange, as it b-ars fruit when quite small. 

 The flowers are as fragrant as the Orange blossoms. Price, ig 

 cents each; large, strong plants, 40 cents each. 



CYPERUS ALTERNAFOLIUS— Umbrella Plant. 



This is a plant of the easiest culture, and a large specimen is 

 as handsome as a Palm for decoration. It makes a handsome 

 pot plant. It will grow luxuriantly in water, and is, therefore, 

 indispensable for aquariums or fountains. Try it. Price, 10 

 cents each; three for 25 cents. 



LEMON VERBENA— Aloysia Citriodora. 



Foliage delightfully fragrant. To simply brush against it is 

 enough to scent an entire room with its delicious odor. Planted 

 out of doors it grows into a fine, large clump, and it can be taken 

 up in the Fall and wintered over in the cellar. Price, 10 cents 

 each; three for 25 cents. 



ALYSSUM— Double White. 



The trusses are enormous, measuring at times one inch in 

 diameter and five inches long. The flowers are perfectly double 

 and of delightful fragrance. Price, 10 cents each; three for 25 

 cents. 



