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



Otaheite Orange 



GENERAL COLLECTION OF TENDER PLANTS— Concluded 



Ruellia Mokoyana 



This is the 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 profusion. 20 cents each; 3 for 

 55 cents; 12 for. $2.00. 



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. 



AMERICA (A Splendid New Dwarf Salvia)— The grandest ad- 

 dition to our list of bedding plants. It forms a compact bush, 

 completely covered with rich scarlet flowers. 15 cents each, 3 

 for 41 cents, 12 for $1.45. 



SALVIA SCARLET SPLENDENS— Another grand addition to 

 our list of bedding plants. It forms a compact bush, completely 

 covered with rich scarlet flowers. 15 cents each, 3 for 41 

 cents, 12 for $1.45. i 



SALVIA SPLENDENS ALBA— Identical with Splendens, only 

 white flower. 20 cents each, 3 for 55 cents, 12 for $2.00. 



SALVIA ST. LOUIS— Flower spikes are longer, brilliant red. and 

 more double, resembling immense Hyacinth flowers. 15 cents 



W each, 3 for 41 cents, 12 for $1 .45. 



SALVIA-ZURICH— Dwarf-Red, a splendid bloomer. 15 cents 

 each, 3 for 41 cents, 12 for $1.45. 



Mammoth Flowering Verbenas 



FOR BEDDING. 



The Verbena is one of the prettiest and most popular of all flow- 

 ering plants suitable for forming beds on the lawn. Commences to 

 flower and spread from the first day the plant is set until late in 

 autumn, every day becoming better and handsomer. Colors range 

 through all the different shade of scarlet purple, crimson-pink, 

 white, etc. 15 cents each, 3 for 41 cents, 12 for $1.45. 



Sanseviera Zeylanica, Zebra Plant 



A beautiful plant, specially adapted for the decoration of drawing 

 rooms and halls, as it stands dust and drought with impunity and 

 requires scarcely any water. The leaves are beautifully striped 

 crosswise, with broad white variegations and 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 each, 3 for 71 

 cents, 12 for $2.65. 



Saxifraga Sarmentosa 



(Also known as Beefsteak Plantand 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. 20 cents each, 3 for 55 cents, 12 

 for $2.00. 



This valuable and distinct variety of the Orange family is a 

 dwarf, compact grower, with glossy, deep green foliage, which has 

 a decided odor of the Orange trees of Florida, and is exceedingly 

 floriferous, producing a wonderful profusion of pure white flowers 

 of the most delicate fragrance. Otaheite fruit immediately after 

 flowering, bearing fruit about one-half the size of the ordinary 

 Orange, retaining in a marked degree its sweetness. The unique 

 Orange cannot be equaled as a winter-blooming pot plant for house 

 culture. Requires but little sunlight, and flowers and fruits when 

 but twelve to fifteen inches high. With a couple of plants of it 

 you can have an abundance of the far-famed and delicate Orange 

 blossoms. We have grown a large stock of clean, vigorous plants 

 that will bloom and fruit at once. Good plants, 20 cents each; 

 3 for 55 cents; large! Strong plants, 50 cents and 75 cents, 

 according to size, / 



Pansies 



Tn the South.ffall is the time to plant Pansies for best results. 

 Our Pansies are the best the world produces. They combine the 

 choicest large-flowered sorts, both of European and American 

 growers. It has been our aim to make this the finest strain of this 

 favorite flower in existence. 50 cents per dozen; $3.50 per 

 hundred. 



Peperomia Muscosa 



OR WATERMELON BEGONIA. 



This is also known as the Silver-leaved Begonia. Here is a most 

 beautiful plant for pot culture; easy to grow and thrives any- 

 where; leaves deep olive-green, distinctly marked with silvery- 

 white. Thick and waxy-like leaves distinctly variegated white 

 and green, and have the appearance of being powdered with 

 frosted silver. 30 cents each ; 3 for 85 cents. 



Petunias 



15 cents each ; three for 41 cents; twelve for $1.45. 



Single Petunia — Rosy Mom. 

 Single Petunia — Ruffled Giants.] 



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; 3 for 41 cents; 12 for $1.45. 



Plumbago Capensis 



A well-known favorite, valuable because it produces large trusses 

 of beautiful light blue flowers. 20 cents each; 3 for 55 cents; 

 12 for $2.00. 



Chinese Primrose 



No collection of winter-blooming plants is complete without 

 some of these grand flowers. With the advent of the new colors 

 and improved strains the giant flowers with their ruffled edges 

 are beautiful. They love the cool room in winter, which makes 

 them desirable. These are grand winter-blooming plants. We 

 have three colors; white, pink and red. 25 cents each; 3 for 71 

 cents; 12 for $2.65. 



Baby Primrose "Malacoides" 



(New Everblooming.) This is the freest-blooming plant we 

 know of, blooming continuously during the entire season. Plants 

 in very small 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; 3 for 55 cents; 12 for $2.00. 



Primula Obconica 



ALWAYS IN BLOOM. 



Free-blooming plant. This is a charming plant for winter — in 

 fact, we know of none that is better adapted to house culture than 

 this one. It is not susceptible to changes of temperature that 

 most plants are subject to. It bears its. elegant panicles and 

 sprays of bloom in the greatest profusion. It is certainly elegant. 

 Pine for pot culture. We have whits, pink and red. 20 Hints 

 •■•hi 3 far B8 MnUl 12 for $2.00. 



Tritoma Pfitzeri 



(TORCH LILY) 



(Red Hot Poker) — An improved upstanding type of perfect 

 form; brilliant scarlet, the opened lower petals merely being rimmed 

 with orange. Rush-like foliage supports smooth thick flower 

 stalks a yard long, with a single fieri' cone at the top. July-Sep- 

 tember. Must be carefully protected or else carried dormant in 

 dry sand in the cool cellar during winter. 35 cents each, 3 for 

 $1.00, 12 for $3.85. 



Violets 



20 cents each, 3 for 55 cents, 12 for $2.00; $12.00 per hundred 

 by Express, at Your Expense. 



NEW IMPERIAL OR PARMA VIOLET— This is, without 

 question, the largest, richest colored and most highly perfumed 

 of all the single flowering Violets. It blooms very freely, liter- 



F ally bending the plant with its lovely blue flowers of the largest 

 size. Its blossoming season is longer than any other Violet. 



PRINCESS OF WALES — This is the best of the single Violets. 

 True violet-blue; fine for cutting. 



SWANUEY WHITE— Double whit* flow»« in great profusion. 



