Descriptive Catalogue. 25 



JVEW TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS.— Double 



Flowered. 



Each. 



-Glorie de Nancy. A magnificent variety, with large very double beau- 

 tifully colored carmine flowers. The plant is of erect growth and 

 very floriferous • 5 00 



*Balsaminaeflora. An exceedingly beautiful full double flower like a 



double Balsam, color orange red, fine floriferous habit 3 00 



*Leomeini. The flowers of this beautiful plant are like a double Ane- 

 mone, of an orange vermilion, very fine 2 50 



^Salmonea plena. Flowers of a pleasing shade of deep rosy salmon, fine 



habit and profuse bloomer, very distinct, fine 2 50 



Th? above four double varieties are recent importations, and will not be 

 readv till Ma v. 



BEGONIA GLAUCOPHYLLA SCANDENS.— Climbing Begonia. 



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 BEGONIA COCCINEA. 



A beautiful climbing species, admirable for hanging baskets : free grower 

 and profuse bloomer 



A very beautiful species of shrubby or bush-like growth, forming a grand 

 plant for the greenhouse or window, a free bloomer, color bright 

 scarlet, a fine plant "<0 



1XORAS. 



Amabilis. Of vigorous and compact habit, deep orange salmon, well 

 formed flowers, borne in large trusses, which are produced in great 



profusion 1 00 



*Colei. A cross between I. Coccinea and /. A Iba, having the strong free 

 robust habit and large foliage of the former, and the pure white 



flowers of the latter 1 00 



*Williamsii. It is a free-growing plant and an abundant bloomer, producing 

 immense trusses of large flowers, of a very distinct and pleasing shade 

 of reddish salmon. It is one of the very best varieties in cultivation, 2 00 



Coccinea Superba. Deep scarlet 50 



Crocata. Kich orange red 40 



Grifiithii. Orange crimson 1 00 



These plants are exceedingly beautiful ; they require warm stove heat, 

 and Avhoever has facilities for growing tropical plants should not overlook 

 Ixoras. 



DOUBLE CHINESE PRIMROSE —Primula Sinensis plena. 



MRS. JOHN SAUL. 



This superb variety was raised in our establishment. The flowers are 

 large, pure white, petals over-lapping, beautifully serrated, of fine 

 form, robust and compact habit, profuse bloomer. Cun be safely re- 

 commended as the best double white Primula out 1 00 



The well-known horticultural writer, F. R. Elliott, Esq., of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, says of it : ''A few days since, visiting the greenhouse of Mr. Oliver 

 Alger, we saw, for the first time in bloom, the new double Chinese Prim- 

 ■ Mrs. John Saul.' It is usual for originators of new plants or fruits 

 to praise them all they will maintain, but in this case the originator, John 

 Saul, of Washington, D. C, has, in his description of this new flower, told 

 only a plain tale, when saying, 'it is the best double white primrose out.' 

 It is an abundant bloomer, with large flower.- of pure white, very doub 

 the petals over-lapping and beautifully serrated — all in all, the finest 

 variety we ever ?aw.'' 



