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DOUBLE PORTULACA. 



Chinese Primroses. 



We were awarded the bluest premium at 

 the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 

 1893, on Chinese Primroses. 



The "Chinese Primrose" is a great favorite 

 for the house or conservatory. The foliage is 

 pretty and attractive, and the flowers 1% to 2 

 inches across, borne in clusters of from 26 to 50, 

 of perfectly charming colors and borne all 

 through the winter and spring. One of our best 

 pot plants. (See cut.) 



Single Fringed Varieties. 



White Pkt. 25 



Carmine. Yellow eye 25 



Scarlet Sulphur eye 25 



Striped 25 



Bed 25 



Spotted. White and crimson 25 



Alba Mag-nifica. The finest pure white ; 

 flowers 2!^ inches across 35 



Mixed Large Flowering', Fringed — 25 



Fern-leaved, Mixed. Foliage long and Fern- 

 like 25 



Fine Single Mixed Colors {not fringed) . . 15 



Double Fringed Varieties. 



Double Red Pkt. 50 



Double White 60 



Double Mixed Sorts 60 



Cristata Nana. A dwarf, semi-double variety, 

 snow-white flowers ; very profuse 25 



Other Greenhouse Primroses. 



Obconica. Flowers pale lilac, borne in umbels 

 on long stems ; delicately fragrant ; in pots it 

 will flower continuously for the greater por- 

 tion of the year ; plant dwarf and compact, 6 

 to 12 inches high Pkt. 10 



Floribunda. Foliage deep green, stems of 

 both leaves and flowers red, making a charm- 

 ing contrast to the whorls of bright yellow 

 flowers borne during the autumn and winter 

 months 25 



PYRETHRUIl. 



Valuable hardy border plants, throwing up 

 numerous stems about 2 feet high, each sur- 

 mounted with large flowers, 3 or 4 inches across, 

 of bright colors, such as rose, flesh, pink, white, 

 crimson, etc. They remain in bloom along time. 



Single Large Flowering 1 Hybrids, Mixed 



Double Large Flowering Hybrids, Mixed 



Boseum ("Persian Insect Powder Plant"). Eose color, 1>£ ft... 

 Cinerariasfolium (' ' Dalmatian Insect Powder Plant "). IX ft. 



^l-PO^TUliflCA.-I^ 



Brilliant dwarf annuals, only 6 inches high, luxuriat- 

 ing in warm situations, and blooming profusely from 

 early summer to autumn. For low beds and masses of 

 color, from spring until frost, they are indispensable ; 

 colors range through innumerable shades of red, yellow, 

 pink, striped, white, etc. 



Single Mixed Colors. (Per oz., 40c.) Pkt. 5 



Double Portulaca. 



These make perfectly gorgeous masses of color . the 

 flowers of the double sorts remain open all day. (See cut.) 

 Large Flowering, Yellow Striped Crimson.. 15 



Rose Striped Carmine 15 



White 15 



Scarlet 15 Orange 15 



Sulphur 15 Furple 15 



Rose Color 15 



Double Mixed. (Per % oz., $1.00.) 10 



Imported collection of 6 separate double, sorts, 60 cts. 



m PRIMROSES.* 



Hardy Varieties. 



Beautiful low-growing, early spring-flowering plants, 



fine for rockeries, borders, pot culture, etc.; the flowers 



are borne in umbels or clusters on stalks about 4 to 6 



inches high. Cowslip and English Primroses are perfectly 



hardy, but the other varieties should be protected or grown 



during the winter in frames. 



Cowslip, Mixed Colors ("Primula veris"). The 

 well-known favorite English Cowslip, flowering early 

 in spring, X f t Pkt. 5 



Auricula, Fine Mixed (" Primula auricula "). Um- 

 bels of fragrant flowers, of many rich colors, y z ft. 

 (See cut.) 10 



Polyanthus, Mixed ("Primula elatior"). Early 

 blooming for spring flower beds or pot culture ; the 

 large umbels of flowers are borne on stalks 8 inches 

 tall 5 



Polyanthus, Duplex, Mixed Colors ("Hose in 

 Hose"). One flower sitting in another 15 



Japanese Primrose ("Primula Japonica"). One of 

 the most beautiful. Flowers, 1 inch across, of shades 

 of crimson, maroon, lilac, pink, white, etc., on stems 

 1 to 2 feet high. Mixed colors 10 



English Primrose ("Primula vulgaris"). The old 

 favorite common yellow Primrose, now so popular 

 and fashionable in England 10 



Siberian Primrose ("Primula cortusoides"). Deep 

 rose ; beautiful and free-flowering 10 



Rose-colored Alpine Primrose ("Primula rosea"). 

 A perfect gem. It throws up spikes, sometimes as 

 many as 12 to a plant, 4 to 6 inches high, in the spring, 

 each spike surmounted with heads of from 6 to 10 

 large blossoms, 1 inch across, of a charming bright 

 rosy carmine with yellow eye 25 



Sieboldii. Splendid lor either garden or pot culture, 

 throwing up flower stalks 8 to 12 inches high, 

 surmounted with large clusters of flowers 1 to 2 

 inches across ; color, soft, pretty rose, with white eye. 

 It is a very distinct, beautiful and free-blooming 

 plant; will require protection in the Northern States, 

 or it can be grown in cold frames 25 



CHINESE PRIMROSE. 



.Pkt. 10 



25 



10 



10 



YELLOW LEAVED SORTS. 



Dwarf growing plants, extensively used for ribbon and carpet bedding; foliage of bright 

 yellow. These are usually grown as annuals although they are perennials. 



Aureum. (Golden Feather.) Yellow foliage, % ft Pkt. 6 



Selaginoides. Handsome fern-like yellow foliage, >£ ft 10 



^RICINUS^ 



(Castor-Oil Plant.) 



Large luxuriant, rapid-growing foliage annuals, with palm-like leaves ; much used for 

 subtropical effects on the lawn, or for centres of beds of foliage plants. 

 Cambogiensis. Leaves bronzy maroon, with red veins ; stems black. (See cut.) Pkt. 10 

 Borboniensis. 15 ft. Immense foliage.. 5 Obermanii. 8 ft. Light red foliage.. 5 



Gibsonii. 6 ft. Dark purplish red foliage and stems 5 



Communis. Green foliage. 6 ft 5 



Finest Mixed Varieties , 5 



Zanzibarensis. Their gigantic leaves, 2 to 2>£ feet across, and the great size of the plants, 

 surpass any other Bicinus. We offer four varieties in mixture ; one will produce 

 light grean leaves with whitish ribs ; another, coppery brown leaves, changing to dark 

 green with red ribs— stems brown ; another, brownish purple leaves, changing to dark 

 green with reddish stems ; another with bronze leaves, with reddish ribs and glaucous 



brown stems. Price, the four varieties just described, in mixture , 15 



Imported collection of 8 separate Ricinus, 30 cts. 



RICINUS CAMBOGIENSIS. 



