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peter Henderson's plant catalogue. 



King of Violets. 

 [For description see page 61.] 



BASKET PLANTS. 



The plants named in the list which follows are well adapted for filling, hanging, 

 or other styles of baskets or vases. They are all plants of easy growth, and of a drooping 

 or creeping habit, and are valued as much for striking variegation or colorings of foliage 

 as for flowering. 



Achyrantlies Lindenii, compact habit, leaves 



dark crimson and carmine. 

 Alter nantlier as, in four distinct sorts. 

 Ampelopsis tricolor and Veitchi. 

 Artemisia stellaris, foliage of a silvery gray 



hue. 

 Balms, Gold and Silver. 

 Cala&iums, twenty-four sorts, 50 cents each. 

 Cissus discolor, leaves silver gray, shaded 



with purple. 

 Cerastium iomentosum, white silvery foliage. 

 Centaurea gymnocarpa, one of the finest ©f 



leaf plants, with silver white foliage, 50 



cents. 

 Coleiis, upwards of fifteen sorts, golden 



and variegated. 

 Coronillaglaaca, yellow, pea-shaped flowers. 

 Coccoloba platyclada, curious, flat atems. 



Draccenas, red and green, fine plants, 50 

 cents. 



Echeveria glauca. 



German Ivy. 



Genista tinctora, yellow, pea-shaped flowers. 



Ferns, six sorts. 



Fittopnia Argentea and Gigantea. 



Gnaphalium lanatum, leaves downy white, 

 with a creeping habit. 



Ivys, of sorts. 



Lobelias, six distinct sorts. 



Lycopodium (Mosses), four varieties, very 

 fine plants. 



Lysimachia nummularia (Money-wort) trail- 

 ing style of growth, flowers yellow. 



Linaria cymbalaria variegata, a beautiful 

 marked variety of Ivy-leaved Toad-Flax. 



Maurandias, two varieties. 



