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Per plant. 

 Na3gelioides Lilacina. This surprising novelty may be considered as a 

 type of perfection both for the form as well as for the distinctive 

 character of the flowers, which are of a beautiful clear lilac with 

 white throat, charmingly spotted and speckled with citron, lilac and 

 yellow. A profuse bloomer, very attractive 50 



TYDJEjA.—A Section of Achimenes, 



The group of Tydaea includes the late autumn and winter flowering varieties, 

 producing a long and brilliant succession of bloom, and include the most florid 

 colors found in the other sections, of pure rose, amaranth, rosy crimson, scar- 

 let, cerise, rose, orange-tinted scarlet, and white shaded with rose, elegantly 

 spotted or barred in nearly the whole section. 



Per plant. 

 Belzebuth. Flowers crimson, covered all over with black spots, like the 



skin of a leopard $0 40 



Agar. White suffused with carmine and dotted with bright chamoy 30 



Display. Tube is a bright carmine, the lobes are pink, reticulated with 

 crimson ; the mouth is a rich carmine and the throat white, blotched 



orange 30 



Gigantea. Majestic growth, flowers vermilion and golden yellow 30 



Junon. Tube purple red, limb scarlet, with reddish dots 30 



Lady Digby. Brilliant crimson, beautifully spotted 30 



Robert le Diable. The largest flower; ground color dark vermilion, 

 covered with large jets, black fantastic figures of the most astonish- 

 ing features 30 



"Wonder. Magnificent; flowers, which are of a dazzling bright orange 



vermilion, veined with black, are produced in majestic spikes 30 



Compacta Fioribunda. Flowers very compact, smooth and of a velvety 



cherry red with parallel markings of bright amaranth 30 



Uranie. Very large flower, finely striped with scarlet upon a lilac 



ground, orifice deep straw yellow 30 



Alba Kermesina. White ground, shaded with a bright rose and beauti- 

 fully marked with crimson , 30 



Sape. Fiery vermilion, centre golden yellow striped and dotted with 



crimson 30 



Thalie. Large well-formed flower, tube vermilion, limb lemon yellow 



with large vermilion spots and flakes 30 



Price per dozen, $3.00. 



]!^JEGELIA. 



Cerise d'Or. Exterior cherry red, interior golden yellow, covered with 



cherry red spots, color quite new 30 



Cinnaberina rosea. Beautiful clear vermilion, tube almo>t transparent, 

 interior carnation, marbled with white, throat citron yellow, speckled 

 with gold 30 



Madame Van Houtte. Magnificent terminal racemes, very branching, 



tube bright rose, lips white, striped and sprinkled with carmine 30 



Mad. Paul Boulez. Beautiful pale pink, speckled with amaranth, golden 



yellow throat, spotted with deep scarlet 30 



Sceptre cerise. Very bright vermilion cherry, covered with golden yel- 

 low spots, magnificent branching pyramids of flowers forming splen- 

 did specimens 30 



Fulgida Van Houttei. Its sparkling vermilion, its snow-white interior, 

 covered with distinct balls of vermilion, make this plant an object of 

 great beauty 30 



Sceptre Brilliant. Flowers of a brilliant vermilion and a shading of the 



most beautiful shiny lilac 30 



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