Descriptive Catalogue. 25 



JVEW AGBBATVMS. 



Per plant. 

 John Douglas. A pretty dwarf compact habit, admirable for bedding, 



flowers large, color azure Ijlue ; a very fine variety 25 



Blanche—" Xew White." This is a really white Ageratum, which will 



be useful for bedding out and winter flowering 25 



NEW BUL ALIAS. 



Japonica Zebrina. The variegation is this lovely grass in across the leaf 

 instead of longitudinally. It grows from 4 ^o 5 feet in height, is a 

 most strikingly gracefuf plant. Its flower spikes are equally beauti- 

 ful and valuable as E. Japonica 50 cts. to 1 00 



Japonica Variegata. Leaf long, variegated. The flower stems are from 

 3 to 4 feet high, very reed-like, and produce loose panicles of flowers; 

 these panicles are hairy and erect until dried, when they become ele- 

 gantly curled, closely resembling Ich-dien feathers 25 



TAMP AS GRASSES, — Gyneriwtn Argenteum, 



Per. plant. 



Argenteum. The well-known Pampas Grass, with long graceful foliage, 



which gives forth in autumn its beautiful silvery plumes 25 



*Argenteum Album Variegata. White variegated JPampas Grass. This 

 beautiful grass has all the grace and elegance of G. Argenieum, and 

 flowering quite as freely ; add to this its graceful foliage striped with 

 silvery white 50 cts to 1 00 



♦Argenteum Aurea Variegata. Gold variegated Pampas Grass. Another 

 beautiful variety, similar in its graceful habit to the last, but in this 

 the foliage is striped with a deep yellow; a charming variety. .50 to 1 00 



♦Argenteum Carmineum Eendatleri. This new Gynerium is a really 

 majestic and very beautiful plant. The panicles, measuring more 

 than 2 feet in length, are of a bright carmine rose color ; if kept dry 

 in winter, they gradually assume a light violet tint. The habit of 

 this new Gynerium is magnificent 1 00 



♦Argenteum Elegans Xiveo-vittatis. Another very elegant Pampas 



Grass, handsomely variegated 1 00 



♦Argenteum Koseum Variegated. Foliage finely variegated with stripes 



of rose " 1 00 



♦Gynerium Jubatum. This new variety of Pampas Grass from Chim- 

 borazo, is the earliest flowering of the family, and very free. This 

 early flowering will mako this fine variety intermediate between the 

 Arundo Conspicua and the ordinary Pampas Grass 1 00 



JSEW VARIETIES OF HIBISCUS BOS A 

 SI]^ENSIS. 



♦Collerii, (new.) A remarkably distinct variety. The general habit of 

 the plant correspond with those of the type, but the flowers are of 

 a butf-yellow, with a crimson scarlet base, and are particularly hand- 

 some ". 1 00 



Cruentus. The flowers are of a moderate size, compact and double, of 

 a remarkably rich crimson red, and having a strikinglv showy char- 

 acter *. 25 to 40 



Carminatus perfectus. It has very large flowers, nearly 5 inches across, 

 with broad and slightly undulated petals, of a rich soft carmine rose, 

 with a deep crimson eye 25 to 40 



