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Per plant. 



*Mrs. Baker. White, with dark carmine ribbon, a large and beautiful 



flower, free bloomer 75 



*Mrs. Moore. The flowers are from eight to nine inches across. The 

 sepals, six in number, are white, showing, in the young state, a 

 slight mauve shade along the bar ^ 75 



*Neptune. Flower immense, color pale lilac, a lovely flower 1 00 



*Purpurea Elegans. Flowers large, fine form ; color deep violet purple, 

 well contrasted by its light colored filaments and pinkish brown 

 anthers '. ~ 1 00 



•Eeine Blanche. A lovely white flower, delicately margined, with sepals, 



fringed 1 00 



*Yesta. The flowers are five inches across, and consisting of eight or more 

 spreading sepals, of a dead white color, with a creamy tinge over the 

 centre bar 1 00 



♦Victoria. A distinct and handsome variety, flowers large, composed of 



five and six petals well formed, color deep reddish mauve 50 



Class II. 



The following varieties flower in spring and early summer, from the old or 



ripened wood of the previous year's growth, have been raised from Patens : 



Per plant. 



Albert Victor. A thick velvety texture, flowers large deep lavender, with 



brown ribs down the centre petal $0 40 



Excelsior. Flowers of large size, finely shaped and occasionally double, 

 the outer petals resembling the guard-peials of a Hollyhock, and well 

 arranged Anemone centre ; color rich deep mauve 75 



Fair Rosamond. The flower is fully six inches across, and consists of 

 eight sepals. White with a bluish cast, having a light wine red bar 

 up the centre of each sepal. Flowers very fragrant, and are abun- 

 dant through June and July 75 



Fortune!. A very fine species from Japan, flowers double, white and 



fragrant 40 



Florida Standishii. One of the most beautiful flowers, of a kind of violet 



blue, with crimson and carmine shining through it 40 



John Gould Veitch. A magnificent "Double Blue Clematis." It is a 

 profuse bloomer, the flowers being very double, of a large size, (four 

 inches in diameter,) and of a beautiful light blue 50 



Lady Londsborough. A robust constitution, producing its elegant flowers 

 in great abundance : color a delicate silver}' lavender with a white 

 stripe down the centre of each petal '. 50 



Lucie Lemoine. Fine double white, the flowers are composed of 75 to 90 

 petals. In the first period of its flowering the blooms are semi-cir- 

 cular in shape, resembling a gigantic double white Zinnia... 50 



Miss Bateman. A magnificent plant of both gr(jwth and flower ; the 

 blooms are large, of good shape and pure white, banded with creamy 

 white down the centre of each petal 40 



Montana. Flowers pure white early in spring 50 



Stella. Very showy The flowers are of a light violet or deep mauve, 



with a distinct bar in the centre of each sepal of a reddish plum color. 75 



JVEW CLEMATIS. 



♦Countess of Lovelace. This fine variety is remarkably vigorous. The 

 flowers are most distinct, having large obovate lanceolate accuminate 

 sepals of a bluish lilac, forming a guard to the flowers, like the guar.i- 

 petals of a Hollyhock, within which is a rosette of smaller sepal-like 

 bodies, which are of a deep bluish lilac to the base, forming a full 

 double flower 1 50 



