CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



SALPIGLOSSIS. 



Large Flowered — Very pretty autumn-blooming plants, with funnel-shaped flowers, beauti- 

 fully veined and marbled. H. H. A. l%foot. Finest Mixed 5 



SANVITALIA. 



Procumbens, fl. pi. — Very pretty dwarf-growing and free-blooming plants. Flowers double, 

 bright golden-yellow, produced in great abundance. % foot. H. A 5 



SCABIOSA— Mourning Bride or Sweet Scabious. 



Very desirable plants, producing very pretty flowers of many colors in great profusion. 

 Good for cutting for vases, etc. H. A. 



Dwarf Double— Flowers very double and globular 5 



1 Leviathan Mixed — Large and beautiful flowers, being double clear through to the center of 

 the flower. Excellent for cutting 10 



SCHIZANTHUS. 



Butterfly Flower— Few 



plants are more at- 

 tractive than these 

 when well grown, 

 whether in pots or iu 

 the border. They are 

 of a branching,elegant 

 habit, well covered 

 with peculiar-shaped 

 (lowers. H. H. A. 

 Mixed — Best varieties.., . 



SEDUM. 



Coeruleum (Stone Crop) 

 —A pretty little plant, 

 good for rock-work, 

 etc. H. P. % foot. ...10 



SENSITIVE PLANT. 



<See Mimosa) r> 



SILENE. 

 Pendula Compacta 



(Catch-fly) — Beautiful 

 free-flowering plants, 

 very attractive for 

 rock-work. etc. H. 

 A. Mixed— All colors... 5 



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STOCKS OR GILLIFLOWERS. 



Oneof themostpopular of our summer— and fall— flowering an- 

 nuals. Sown in heat in the early spring, and afterwards in the open 

 ground as soon as nice weather has set in, a continuation of bloom 

 can be had all season. They are of delightful fragrance, and are 

 much used as cut flowers. Our strains of stocks are all that can be 

 desired. H. H. A. 



Large Flowering Dwarf 10-Week Stocks. 



Of dwarf habit, with large spikes of very large, double flowers. 



Canary-Yellow 10 



SUNFLOWER "STELLA. 



SMILAX. 



riyrslphylluni Asparagoides— There is no climbing plant in 

 cultivation that surpasses this in the graceful beauty of its 

 foliage. It^oan be used either to climb or to droop, as re- 

 quired li 



Blood-Red 10 



Dark Violet 10 



Light Blue 10 



Rose 10 



Collection of 8 colors 60 



PERPETUAL GIANT. 



Carmine w 



Chamois 10 



White 10 



Double Mixed 10 



(Cut-and-Come-Again Stock.) 



This is a valuable Stock for cutting, branching out as fast as cut, and every shoot bears 

 a cluster of flowers, which are finely shaped and very fragrant. 



Pure White 10 | Mixed 10 



Qiant Perfection, Pure White — A large, double variety ]0 



Qiant Perfection, nixed lo 



Snowflake — A splendid dwarf-growingvariety,with very large, pure white flowers; very early. 10 

 Victoria, Pure White — Of robust habif^, producing a profusion of pure white, very double 



flowers, coming into bloom very early in the season and continuing until hard frost 



sets in 10 



Victoria, Dark Blood=red — Of pyramidal shape. The plant forms a perfect bouquet, the 



striking deep bluod-red flowers contrasting grandly with its deep green foliage 10 



Wallflower=leaved— Smooth, dark, shining leaves, mixed colors 10 



Large Flowering Dwarf Pyramidal— Mixed 10 



Double Dwarf German, Ten Weeks — Mixed 5 



STOCKS— Intermediate. 



Valuable on account of their flowering late in autumn, or as pot plants tor early spring 

 blooming, for which purpose the seeds should be sown in July or August. 

 Early Autumn Plowering, nixed— Commences flowering in the autumn, and if removed to 



the house will bloom during the winter. H. H. A 10 



Emperor, Finest nixed— H. H. B 10 | Brompton, Finest Mixed— H. H. B 10 



SUNFLOWER-Heiianthus. 



SINGLE VARIETIES. 

 Primrose Colored— A new variety with luxuriant silvery-white foliage; flowers large and of 



a soft Primrose yellow , 5 



nacrophyllus Qiganteus — A large-growing variety of pyramidal form 5 



nammoth Kussian —Single ; the largest of all Sunflowers, specimens often measuring 18 inches 



in diameter 5 



Nanus FoliusVariegatus— The foliage variegated, green and white; dwarf 5 



Oscar Wilde — Flownrs measure from 3 to 5inchesin diameter; color, orange with black center 5 

 niniature — Dwarf and branching, producing an abundance of very small flowers, about 2 



inches in diamt^ter; color, orange, with black center 5 



Sulphur Qem — Branching, flowers sulphur-yellow with black center 5 



"Stella" (N-w Cut-and-Come-Again Sunflower.) — This new Sunflower, on accountof its long- 

 stemmed flowers, which are so useful for cutting, should become a general favorite. It 

 grows to a height of 3 to 4feetandbearsvery freely large, well-formed flowers of the purest 

 golden yellow with black disc. The Individual flowers are from 2V2 to 3 inches across... 10 



DOUBLE VARIETIES. 



Californicus — Extra large, double, 5 feet 5 



Qlobosus Pistulosis — Flowers very large and globular, of a bright rich saffron color, 6 ft.. .. 5 



Oculatis Virldis— Densely double with green center 5 



Peruvianus— Double; orange; striped black 5 



