R. & f. FARQUHAR & CO.'S SEED CATALOGUE. 



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PENNISETUM RUPPELIANUM. 



No. 



Pkt. 



ORNAMENTAL GRASSES — Continued. 

 8525 Hrodeum Jubatum; (Squirrel=Tail Grass,) 



Bushy panicles, excellent for bouquets, annual; height 

 three feet • • ... .05 



8530 Lagurus Ovatus. (Hare's Tail Grass.) Hardy 

 annual with downy silvery-grey tufts ; useful for dried 

 flower work, one foot • . . • 05 



#532 Pennisetum Longistylum. An annual grass with 



large gracefully drooping heads, height two feet . . . .05 



8533 — Ruppelianum. This new variety during last sum- 

 mer proved itself a remarkably valuable addition to 

 our flower gardens especially for sub-tropical bedding 

 and foliage effects. The foliage is long and slender, 

 gracefully recurved and glossy deep green in color. If 

 sown in March in heat, the plants should bloom by the 

 middle of July, and the silvery plumes tinted with vio- 

 let-purple waving in the sunlight are exquisitely beauti- 

 ful, height three feet 10 



8535 Stipa Pennata. (Feather Grass.) Hardy perennial 



with silvery white, feathery plumes, height two feet . . .05 

 Zea Japonica. See No. 8265. 



PALMS, ARAUCARIA AND MUSA. 



No. Pkt. 



8540 Araucaria Excelsa. (Norfolk Island Pine). ... 20 



8545 Areca Baueri. (Seaforthia Robusta.) 20 



8550 — Lutescens .20 



8560 Chamaerops Excelsa. (Fortunei.) .10 



8565 — Humilis 10 



8570 Cocos Weddelliana 20 



8580 Kentia Belmoreana 20 



8585 — Fosteriana 20 



8595 Latania Borbonica 10 



8610 Pandanus Utiis. (Screw Pine ) 25 



8612 Phoenix Dactylifera. (Date Palm) 10 



8615 — Tenuis .10 



8617 Ptychosperma Alexandra? 20 



8620 Seaforthia Elegans 10 



MUSA ENSETE. 



8600 Musa Ensete. (Abyssinian Banana.) Of alt 



plants available to us for sub-tropical effects, this is the 

 most luxuriant. It is frequently grown about Boston 

 to a height ot twelve or fifteen feet and with leaves 

 eight or nine feet in length. Seeds sown in January or 

 February in heat produce good plants for planting out 

 of doors in June ioo seeds, J2.00 



20 



FLOWER SEEDS FOR WILD GARDENS. 



SPLENDID MIXTURES OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED BEAUTIFUL VARIETIES. 



These Mixtures contain many beautiful and interesting An- 

 nuals, furnishing a profusion of bloom from early summer until 

 frost. They are intended to produce a display without the care 

 necessary to regularly-kept flower beds. We sell annually large 

 quantities of these Seeds for beautifying the surroundings of Sea- 

 shore and Country Hotels and Residences. They not only beau- 

 tify the grounds, but afford many varieties of flowers useful to 

 cut for house decoration ; and owing to the large number of vari- 

 eties comprising the Mixture, one finds some new sort of bloom 

 almost every day, and it is most interesting to watch for them. 



DWARF WILD GARDEN FLOWER SEEDS. Half- 

 ounce packet with full directions, 15 cents ; Six for .75, 

 post-paid. 



TALL WILD GARDEN FLOWER SEEDS. Half-ounce 

 packet with full directions, 1 5 cents; Six for .75, post- 

 paid. 

 " My Wild Garden has been a source of delight ; among the 



flowers being many of very choice varieties. I gathered today, 



(Oct. \6th),a very beautiful botiquet from it." M — £ — R — , 



Cliftondale, Mass. 



