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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



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BARTONIA. 



Showy plants, with large, golden flowers, which expand in the hot sun, and 

 ;i re exceedingly brilliant. The foliage is gray and thistle-like in appearance. 

 They require considarable water. Sow seed in open ground where it is intended 

 to flower. HA. 

 .\urea — Golden yellow, 2 feet n 



Aurea Nana— Dwarf, golden yellow 5 



t BRACHYCOME. 



-■ ; A very pretty dwarf-growing plant, covered all summer with a profusion of 

 ", Cineraria-like blossom. H H A. 



Iljeridifolia (Swan River Daisy)— Blue and white, >2 'oot 5 



SNOW BALL ASTER. 



"Snowball," or Princess White — An excellent new dwarf White Aster, 

 producing an abundance of flowers, semi-spherical in form, composed of 

 short very thickly set imbricated petals, a single plant often developing 

 as many as thirty flowers 15 



Keld's German Quilled — Flowers double; the petals have the appear- 

 ance of quills or tub&s; height from 1}^ to 2 feet; finest mixed colors 10 



inPORTED COLLECTION OF ASTERS. 



Dwrarf Chrysanthemum — Flowered in 6 separate colors 40 



Dwarf Victoria — In 6 separate colors 40 



Pseony- Flowered Perfection — In 10 separate colors 65 



Hedgehog — In 6 separate colors 40 



Reid's German Milled — In 6 separate colors 40 



Corcardeau, or Crown — In G separate colors 40 



AMPELOPSIS. 



-"Japanese Creeper," or "Boston 

 A beautiful, hardv climber 10 



Veitchii - 



Ivy." 



AUBRETIA. 



AURICULA. 



Dwarf, but ornamental trailing plants suit- 

 able for rock work or edging. H P. 



©eltoidea— Pink 10 



AURICULA. 



Of this beautiful little plant we have a very 

 fine strain of English-saved seed. The flowers, 

 which resemble the Primrose somewhat, are of 

 various shades of crimson, yellow, maroon, etc. P. 

 Extra choice mixed 25 



ASPERULA— Woodruff. 



A pretty little plant, with beautiful flowers ; sweet scented. 



Azurea Setosa— Blue, 1 ft. H A 5 



Odorata— (Sweet Woodrufl')— When dried has a delightful odor, which is 



imparted to clothing if put in a wardrobe with them. H P. 9 inches 10 



BACHELOR'S BUTTON— Centurea, Cyanus. 



A perfectly hardy border plant, succeeding finely in any common garden 

 soil, but the flowers are more brilliant if grown in gravelly ground. Under 

 cultivation it is really a handsomer flower, sporting into varieties of white 

 purple, pink, particolored, etc. ; 2 to 3 feet high. H A. 



Centaurea, Cyanus, fl. pi— Double flowered Corn Bottle, mixed colors.. 10 

 Cyanus— Single, mi.Ked. Per o;;., 25c 5 



BALSAM— Lady's Slipper. 



Our customers will be much pleased with all the strains of Balsam that we< 

 offer. They cannot be'surpassed either in doubleness or in the great variety of 

 colors which they represent. T A. 



Camellia Flowered- Finest double, mixed colors, '< feet 10 



Camellia Flowered, Spotted — German, double, spotted with white; 



mi.xed colors 10 



Camellia Flowered, AVhite — Extra choice, double 10 



Camellia Flowered — Collection 6 colors, each in separate package 50 



Kose Flowered— Fine rosy pink IC 



Bright scarlet 10 I Pure white.. IC 



Deep blood-red 10 j Collection of 12 varieties 85 



White tinted rose 10 ! Mixed colors 10 



Double Red S 



Double "White 



Double L,ilac 5 



Double Peach Blossom J 



Double .Solferina— Beautifully striped scarlet and lilac on white ground. 1( 

 Double Blixed — Per ounze, 40c f 



BALLOON VINE— Cardiospermum. 



A curious climbing plant, worthy of attention. H H A. 

 Cardiospermum Halicacabum — White, 5 feet «l 



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