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ELLA V. BAINES, THE WOMAN FLORIST, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO ; 33 
GENERAL COLLECTION of TENDER PLANTS-=--Concluded 
Pilea 
(Artillery Plant.) It is very desirable for filling in hanging 
baskets, window boxes, vases, etc. It also makes a graceful plant 
as a single specimen. It has graceful frond-like leaves; flowers 
small and produce a snapping sound when water is thrown on 
the foliage. Price, 15 cents each; two for 25 cents. 
Plumbago Capensis 
A well known favorite; valuable because it produces large 
pases of beautiful light blue flowers. 15 cents each; $1.50 per 
ozen. 
Chinese Primrose 
These are grand winter-blooming plants. We have three colors, 
White, Pink and Red. 25 cents each. 
Baby Primrose ‘‘Malacoides’’ 
(New Everblooming.) This is the freest-blooming plant we 
know of, blooming continuously during the entire season. Plants 
in very smal] pots have from fifteen to twenty sprays of beautiful 
light pink flowers on stems ten to twelve inches high at one time. 
20 cents each. 
Primula Obconica 
plant. Fine for pot culture. We have white, 
0 cents each; three for 50 cents. 
Free-bloomin 
pink and red. 
Ruellia Mokoyana 
This is a charming indoor plant for culture in pots or may be 
used in vases and baskets; of bushy spreading habit and finely 
marked leaves, which are beautiful olive-green, delicately veined 
with silver and rich purple underneath. A neat and handsome 
plant, always bright and pretty. The flowers are exceedingly 
beautiful, trumpet shaped, and of a rosy-lavender color, almost 
covering the plant in their great profusion. 20 cents each; three 
for 50 cents. 
Brilliant Salvias 
The Most Attractive of All Bedding Plants. 
These are unsurpassed for brilliancy of color. A bed or border 
of Salvia Splendens will attract more attention than any other 
bedding plant. 
MRS. PAGE (A Splendid New Dwarf Salvia)—The grandest 
addition to our list of bedding plants. It forms a compact bush, 
completely covered with rich scarlet flowers. 10 cents each; 
$1.00 per dozen. 
SALVIA LE PRESIDENT—Rich scarlet. Fine bedder. 10 cents 
each; $1.00 per dozen. 
SALVIA SCARLET SPLENDENS—Another grand addition to 
our list of bedding plants. It forms a compact bush, completely 
covered with rich scarlet flowers. 10 cents each; $1.00 per 
dozen. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS AL&A—Identical with Splendens, only 
white flower. 10 cents each; $1.00 per dozen. 
Vase Plants 
A fine assortment. 20 cents each; $2.00 per dozen. 
Sanseviera Zeylonica, Zebra Plant 
si A beautiful plant, specially 
: adapted for the decoration of 
drawing rooms and halls, as it 
stands dust and drought with im- 
punity and requires scarcely any 
water. The leaves are beautifully 
striped crosswise, with broad white 
variegations on a green ground. 
It is a rare and beautiful plant, 
which should be abundantly grown 
for positions out of the reach of 
sunshine, where other plants will 
not thrive. It can be placed in 
any position in any room and do 
well. It has singular beauty for 
decorative purposes which other 
plants do not possess, and it is 
useful both in winter and summer. 
For vases and baskets it is a fine 
center piece, and grows splendidly 
out of doors during summer. Fine 
plants, 25 cents. 
Zebra Plant 
Saxifraga Sarmentosa 
(Also known as Beefsteak Plant and Strawberry Geranium) 
Of low habit. Leaves nearly round, and striped freely with silvery 
bands. Blooms white, and borne in spikes. Adapted for hanging 
baskets and vases. 15 cents each; $1.50 per dozen. 
Tritoma Pfitzeri 
(Red Hot Poker.) An improved upstanding type of perfect 
form; brilliant scarlet, the opened lower petals merely Pee timmed 
with orange. Rush-like foliage supports smooth, thick flower 
stalks a yard long, with a single fiery cone at the top. July-Sep- 
tember. Must be carefully protected or else carried dormant in 
dry sand in the cool cellar during winter. 40 cents each; three 
for $1.00. 
Mammoth Flowering Verbenas 
FOR BEDDING 
The Verbena is one of the prettiest and most popular of all 
flowering plants suitable for forming beds on the lawn. Com- 
mences to flower and spread from the first day the plant is set 
until late in autumn, every day becoming better and hand- 
somer. Colors range through all the different shades of scarlet 
purple, crimson, pink, white, etc. 10 cents each; $1.00 per dozen. 
Violets 
PRINCESS OF WALES—This is the best of the Single Violets. 
True Violet-blue; fine for cutting. 15 cents each. 
LADY HUME CAMPBELL—One of the best of the double 
purple violets; better than Marie Louise. 15 cents each; 
$10.00 per hundred by express at your expense. i 
SWANLEY WHITE—Double white flowers in great profusion. 
15 cents each; $10.00 per hundred at your expense. 
TENDER VINES AND CLIMBERS 
These make a rapid growth and bloom throughout the summer; are very showy. 
The Wonderful Giant Moonflower, IPOMEA MAXIMA— 
._ A Giant in Growth and Flower and Wonderfully Fragrant. 
This grand new Moonflower is a decided improvement over the 
old well-known variety Ipomea Grandiflora. The flowers are 
more than twice the size of the old variety, oftentimes measur- 
ing from six to seven and one-half inches across, and are pro- 
duced in such wonderful profusion that they completely cover 
the vine with a veil of glistening white. Fine plants, 20 cents 
each. 
New Moonflower, HEAVENLY BLUc—This makes a splendid 
companion plant to the White Moonflower. It is equally rapid 
in growth, and a much freer blooming variety than the white 
one. The blooms come in clusters of five to twelve, and at 
times almost hide the vines. The flowers are the most heavenly 
. blue, with reddish-purple rays, and six inches across. Nothing 
ds more beautiful. 20 cents, 
ANTIGNON LEPTOPUS, or the ‘‘Queen’s Wreath’’—Pro- 
duces rose-colored flowers in racemes two feet long; beautiful. 
20 cents. Y 
BOUGAINVILLEA SANDERIANA—The Chinese Paper Plant. 
Lovely clear lavender flowers. 35 cents. 
PARLOR IVY—A rapid-growing plant, well adapted for training 
in the parlor. Leaves glossy green and flowers yellow, in clus- 
ters. 12 cents each. 
MADEIRA VINE—White flowers; 
cents each; three for 25 cents. 
SMILAX—A lovely house vine. 10 cents. 
TRADESCANTIA, or WANDERING JEW—Fine for baskets. 
Two distinct kinds. 15 cents each. 
VINCA MAJOR VARIEGATA—Fine for baskets and vases; 
green and white foliage. 20 cents; large, strong plants, 
50 cents. = ; z 
exquisitely fragrant. 10 
