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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



Primula. 



A very popular genus of plants, unsurpassed 



for parlor and conservatory decoration, and for 



supplying cut 



flowersin 



winter. 



Chine s'e, 

 Double White 

 — Each,25cts. 



Chinese, 

 Single— All 

 colors, v e r v 

 b e a utiful, 

 each, 25 cts. 



bconica 

 Grandiflora— 

 One of the 

 An excellent 



most popular plants ever introduced, 

 house plant, blooms continually, supplving great quan- 

 tities, of pretty, delicate-looking flowers, admirable for 

 cutting. Color white with a slight tinge of lilac. Each 

 15 cts. 



New Double Golden Rudbeckia, 



"GOLDEN GLOW." 



The Rudbeckias are without exception very attrac- 

 tive and useful plants in the herbaceous border, but 

 this recent introduction far surpasses them all. The 

 plant grows six to seven feet in height, is strong and 

 self-supporting, and bears long, strong stemmed, very 

 large and very double golden-yellow flowers in great 

 profusion, admirably adapted for cutting purposes. 

 The flowering season extends through several weeks of 

 mid-siimrner, we have great pleasure in recommend- 

 ing this novelty to our customers. Price, each, 35 cts. 



KCDBECKIA — GOLDEN GLOW. 



Phrynium Variegatum. 



A most interesting and highly or- 

 namental greenhouse plant of very 

 easy culture. The roots are tuberous 

 and the plant is therefore very easily 

 propagated by division. The leaves 

 are beautifully variegated, creamy 

 white and green. Price, each, 25 cts. 



PHYSALIS FRANCHETI. 



Giant Winter Cherry. 



(Physalis Franclieti.) 



We fear the brief description, which lack of space 

 necessitates, may utterly fail to convey to our read- 

 ers even a remote idea of the beauty ot this remark- 

 able plant. In Japan the red, cherry-like fruit is 

 used in cookery much as ve do the Tomato, to 

 which it is nearly related; but it is as a decorative 

 plant that it deserves to be most prized by us. The 

 fruit which comes to maturity in winter is enclosed 

 in a large inflated calyx, which at first is green, but 

 rapidly expands and changes to sulphur yellow, 

 then to bright yellow, next orange, and, finally, to 

 brilliant orange-scarlet, in which condition it lasts, 

 particularly when cut, for months. Says the Lon- 

 don "Garden:" "As seen in the sunlight or by 

 lamplight the inflated calyces are most brilliant, 

 and being translucent they look exactly like minia- 

 ture fairy lamps or diminutive Chinese lanterns as 

 seen amid their own soft green leaves or as tastefully 

 arranged along with other suitable green foliage.'' 

 The plant is of easy culture, in the garden, house or 

 conservatory. Price, each, 25 cts.: per doz., S'2.50. 



PHRYNIUM VARIEGATUM. 



SALVIA LE PRESIDENT. 



Salvia Le President. 



A new dwarf Salvia, just the thing we have been 

 looking for, and only needs to be seen to be ad- 

 mired. The habit of the plant is dwarf, bushy and 

 compact; flowers a very bright, velvety -scarlet, and 

 produced in great abundance, making a perfect 

 mass of color. A more useful and attractive bed- 

 ding plant it would be difficult to find. 



Price, each, 15 cts.; per doz., §1.50. 



Sanseveria Zealanica. 



In many respects this is a most remarkable plant. 

 It is highly ornamental and very easily grown. Few 

 plants equal it for house culture. Nothing but posi- 

 tive neglect can injure it. Gas, dust, heat, cold, 

 drought or overwatering, through them all it seems 

 to flourish. It is equalby at home in the full light, 

 or in the shady corner. The leaves are thick and 

 fleshy, dark green in color, beautifully marked with 

 bars of creamy white. 



Price, each, 20 cts. to 50 cts. 





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SAJ*SKYLKIA ZEALANICA. 



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