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HARDY DOUBLE PRIMROSES. 



Primula Vulgaris. 



In the rage for novelties, these lovely old garden favorites have heen over- 

 looked; there are no flowers which give a greater charm to the flower garden in 

 spring, from their great beaut}'' and delicious fragrance, and are quite hardy. 

 The following are all fine and distinct : 



Double White. Beautiful double white. 30 cents each. 



Cream White. Creamy white, fine. 50 cents each. 

 Sulphur Yellow. 50 cents each. 

 Lilac. Lilac, fine. 40 cents each. 

 Purple. Crimson purple. GO cents each. 

 .."With several other colors. 50 to 75 cents each. 

 Polyanthus. Many beautiful varieties. 25 to 50 cents each. 



Hose-in-Hose. Very pretty semi-double flowers, several colors. 

 50 cents each. 



*PKIMULA AUKICULJSFLOPvA. 



This is one of the finest additions of spring flowers ever sent out, and w r ill 

 eventually become extensively grown, for its habit of growth is in every way 

 like the ordinary yellow, producing abundance of flowers of a beautiful dark 

 maroon crimson, with a distinct greenish yellow eye. $1 each. 



GESNERIAS. 



These are all bulbous-rooted plants which bloom magnificently during the 

 winter months. 



Exoniensis. A magnificent winter flowering plant; the color of the flower is 

 an intense orange scarlet, the leaf is of a dark velvety texture, studded with 

 minute red hairs like plush. Nothing can be more brilliant than the mass 

 of bloom. 75 cents each. 



Eefulgens. Another superb winter flowering plant ; color of flower between 

 vermilion and amaranth, a charming plant, producing magnificent flowers. 

 75 cents each. 



Splendidissima. Color crimson, with yellow tube, spotted, very beautiful, 

 velvet-like foliage, very fine. 50 cents each. 



Jasminiflora. A tall growing species, flowers of the purest white, freely pro- 

 duced, beautiful. 50 cents each. 



Topeinatis Carolina?. A very pretty plant, allied to Gesneria. 50 cents each. 



EUCOnOMA. 



The sections of Eucodonia and Na?gelia are typed in habit by the well known 

 Gesneria zebrina, in its exceedingly picturesquely tinted leaves, the flowers being 

 produced on large terminal cone-shaped racemes in drooping funnel-shaped 

 flower-tubes of rich violet and bright rose, with pretty dotted centres. 



Nasgelioides. Elowers in large spikes, color violet, changing to velvety crim- 

 son, orifice of the centre of the throat bright yellow, spotted 

 with crimson. 50 cents each. 

 Diamantina. Very fine foliage, short peduncles terminated by 

 large flowers of purplish violet, very striking. 50 cents each. 



TYD2EA — A Section of Achimenes. 



The group of Tyda?a includes the late autumn and winter flowering varieties, 

 producing a long and brilliant succession of bloom, the blossoms varying from 

 small funnel-shaped tubes to large salver-shaped circular lobes, from one to two 



