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Currie Brothers' Horticultural Guide. 



NEW COMPACT FRENCH MARIGOLD 



MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. 



Dwarf-gowing plants of great beauty, well suited for hanging bas- 

 kets and the edgings of flower beds, and for covering rock-work 

 HH P. 

 Tricolor — Mixed colors, J^foot 5 



MIMULUS— Monkey Flower. 



Beautiful free-blooming plants suitable for vases or hanging bas- 

 kets, luxuriating in damp, shady situations. H H P. 



Cupreus — Beautiful orange and crimson 10 



Hybridus— Choice mixed. From the finest sorts. Our strain of this 



is unexcelled in beauty and color and size of flowers 10 



Moschatus— (Musk Plant)— Yellow, foliage and flowers having a 



delightful musk scent, }4 foot 5 



Musk Scented— This very attractive plant grows to the height of 

 from 15 to 18 inches, and produces large yellow flowers, beauti- 

 fully marked with dark crimson spots. There is a very dark 



marking in the center of the foliage. It is musk scented 10 



Tigrinus— An exceedingly beautiful blotclied and spotted hybrid, 

 rivaling the Calceolaria in the variety of its bright colors 5 



MIMOSA— (Sensitive Plant.) 



A very interesting and curious plant, its leaves closing if touched 

 or shaken, H H A. 

 Pudica 5 



MINA LOBATA. 



A handsome climbing plant, bearing continuously clusters of flow- 

 ers, at first bright red, changing tlirough orange yellow to yel- 

 lowisli white. Sow the seed in Marcli in the house and trans- 

 plant to open ground in June. T A 10 



MOMORDICA. 



Curious trailing plants, with ornamental foliage and odd-shaped 

 fruit. HHA. 



Ualsainina (Balsam Apple) 5 



Charatina (Balsam Pear), 10 feet 5 



Involucrata— Fruit yellow, changing to red 16 



MUKIA SCABRELA. 



Handsome half-hardy annual climber with pretty yellow flowers, 

 which develop into orange and scarlet fruits. HHA 10 



MARIGOLD. 



Very effective plants for bedding, producing an abundance 

 of flowers throughout the season. HHA. 



African Marigold. 



African— Mixed, selected from the finest double flowers; very 

 beautifril 5 



Orange— Very double 5 ii 



Lemon " " 5 



El Dorado— A large flowering variety, pro- 

 ducing abundantly flowers varying in 

 color from pale yellow to deep orange. 5 ' 



Nugget of Gold— Very double, golden 

 yellow 5 



Fistulosa Lutea— Small finely quilled 

 lemon-colored flowers 5 



Fistulosa Golden— Small finely quilled 

 golden flowers 5 



French Marigold. 



Gold Striped— Magnificent stripes of 

 brown on deep gold; very double, IH 

 feet 5 



Dwarf, Gold Striped— 1 foot 5 



New, Compact, Gold Striped— A strain 

 of this tine annual hitherto imequaled, 

 each plant forming a handsome bouquet 

 in itself 5 



Imported collection of lo French sorts.. ....50 



Imported collection of e African sorts 30 



