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JOHN SAUL’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
established. When in bloom bring them into the conservatory or drawing room. After the 
plants have done blooming dry gradually off, by withholding water from their roots; after- — 
wards remove them to a warm, dry place. 
The following are superlatively beautiful : 
Those marked thus (e) have erect flowers. 
(e) Duc Decazes. A splendid flower; white 
ground, beautifully maculated with lilac 
macenta. 
(e) Cinderella. Pure white with pink band, 
most beautiful. 
Ernst Banary. Dark lavender, mottled with 
white, a beautiful flower. 
Henry Husson. White, with a lavender lip, 
a large showy flower, beautiful. 
(e) Boule de Neige. Pure snowy white, fine 
form, an abundant bloomer. 
Duchess of Teck. Large drooping flowers of 
a rich magenta, shaded with maroon; the 
ground color is lighter at the edges of the 
lobes. 
Excelsior. Horizontal, with lower side lobes 
of corolla enlarged; deep glowing crim- 
son, a very robust free flowering variety. 
(e) Lisere D’Argent. Intensely bright crim- 
son scarlet, distinctly margined with pure 
white; light throat beautifully spotted and 
freckled with curmine. 
Madame Hatti. Fine scarlet flower, throat 
deep red shaded with purple, slightly 
blotched with white, margin rosy scarlet. 
*(e) Matador. Very dark reddish crimson, 
neatly bordered with white; very rich and 
showy. 
Scarlet Gem. Crimson scarlet, extra fine. 
Miss Hannah de Rothschild. Large white, 
tinted with purple; throat purple shaded 
mauve, lower part creamy white. 
(e) Mrs. Haines. Splendid erect flower, throat 
purplish violet, bordered with vermiliun 
scarlet, with deep margin of rose color. 
Prince Arthur. A large deep purple flower, 
the two upper lobes and margin light 
purple. 
Prince Leopold. Throat purplish violet, 
scarlet margin shaded with pink. 
The Hon. Mrs. York. Creamy white throat, 
bordered with mauve, with a margin of 
rich pink. 
Mogul. Tube dotted with red, purple crim- 
son limb, very clear at the border. 
(e) Princess Royal. Tube and edges white, 
throat mottled with dark blue, fine. 
Theresa Saul. White, with crimson lips, fine. 
Quadricolor. Rose, flaked with white, super- 
cochineal spots; throat lilac. 
Sauvis. Color white, with millions of tender 
rose colored dots, 
Byron. White ground, the margin of the 
limb is amaranth festooned with purple. 
(e) Gethe. Erect flower, vermilion rose with 
almost black throat and white bottom. 
Schiller. Erect flower, fiery cherry sprinkled 
with violet, very large flower. 
Price 25 cts. each; $2.50 per dozen. 
*NEW GLOXINIAS.—(Class 2.) 
Agnes M. Saul, (Saul.) Light crimson scar- 
let, fine large flower, very fine. 
Artevelde. Flowers enormous, velvety vio- 
let, edge of the throat blackish purple. 
(e) Ami Thibaut. Creamy white covered 
with spots all over, feigning frosty ara- 
besques, 
Alphonse Karr. 
cochineal. 
Bradamante. Very large flower, pure white 
tube, light rose lobes bordered with rich 
rose and blotched with white. 
B. S. Williams. Flowers very squat, very 
intense fiery vermilion. 
(e) Clemence Delahaye, white tinted with 
flesh color, lobes marked with cerise and 
margined with rose. 
(e) Clio. Crimson lobes, mouth shaded vio- 
let, throat freckled. 
(e) Cornelei, Dark violet, lobes striped and 
spotted, and margined with white. 
(e) Cardinal de Richelieu. Creamy yellow 
throat spotted with purple and ornated 
with arich violet and large velvety crim- 
son. 
Throat yellow, limb rich 
(e) Conquest. Lobes of corolla, bright peach 
margined with white; throat light: pink 
and spotted, very distinct. 
(e) Albo-Marginata Myriostigma. White 
spotted with carmine, and bordered with 
pure white. 
Cecile d’Elchingen, bright crimson bordered 
with rose, a very large and fine flower. 
(e) Boule de Feu, a fine large flower of the 
most intense and brilliant red color. 
Francis Saul, (Saul.) Blue, with a deep 
purple throat, a large finely formed flower. 
Gloria Mundi. Enormous flowers, velvety 
lake rose. 
Feu Eternal. 
Harry Veitch. Violet, throat lavender. 
(e) Henri Fléche, magnificent flower, of fine 
form; color magenta, brilliantly shaded 
with red at the mouth; edges of the lobes ~ 
widely bordered with snowy white. 
Livingston, Rich velvety amaranth crim- 
son, shaded with soft purplish violet and 
margined with rosy lilac; white creamy 
throat shaded with rose at the mouth; a 
splendid flower. 
