DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. oa 
: ECHEVERIA. 
These pretty plants are similar to the House- Leek, but much more ornamental. 
Secunda Glauca. Leaves of a beautiful glaucus, flowers yellow and scarlet. 
30 cents each. . 
Metallica. Very large, shell-like leaves, of a beautiful metalic lilachue. 30 cts. 
Sanguinea. Leaves of a deep bright color, fine. 30 cents each. 
HYDRANGEAS. 
H. Imperatrice Eugenie. A remarkably pretty and distinct variety of the old 
favorite, H. Japonica. Outer petals white, the centre ones rose color, 
both passing into a light blue. 380 cents each. 
H. Otaska. A very beautiful plant from Japan, giving large clusters of bluish 
pink flowers in great abundance through the season, the flowers are very 
persistent, a splendid plant and most probably perfectly hardy. 40 cents. 
H. Paniculata grandiflora. Highly ornamental shrub with enormously large 
dénse flower heads, opening pure white, and tinted with rose in their 
mature bloom, blooms profusely during the summer months, and is per- 
fectly hardy. 50 cents each. 
H. Stellata flore pleno. A magnfiicent new double Hydrangea from Japan. It 
was greatly admired at the London (England) Flower Shows the past 
summer, where it was exhibited in great beauty. $1.00 each. 
Involucrata vera, (new.) A fine hardy species. 78 cents each. 
Japonica Lindleyii. 50 cents each 
Japonica Macrocephala. 50 cents each. 
Acuminata, (new.) Fine, 75 cents each, 
Thunbergi flora percis, (new.) $1.00 each. 
AUCUBAS. 
Aucuba Japonica Mascula. 75 cents each. 
elegans. 75 cents each. 
picta. 75 cents each. 
femena Vera. 75 cents each. 
longifolia. 75 cents each. 
grandis. 75 cents each. 
Marginata. 75 cents each. 
Media lutea picta. 75 cents each. 
bicolor—two-colored (mas.) 75 cents each. 
sulphurea. 75 cents each. 
latimaculata (Fem.) 75 cents each. 
macrophylla (F.) large-leaved. 75 cents each. 
Himalaica. 75 cents each. 
The beauty of the old favorite A. Japonica is well known., The foliage of 
many of the above surpass it in marking; others are again of a beautiful shining 
green, possessing among the above the different sexes—berries, which are of a 
bright scarlet and very ornamental, are produced in profusion. Here, witha 
little protection, and south of us, they are quite hardy. 
CLEMATIS. 
Among the most beautiful of climbing plants are the Clematis—whether 
trained over lattice work, on pillars or trailing on the ground. There can now 
be found among them great variety of color, all are profuse bloomers, 
Clematis. 1. Princess of Wales. Large flowers of a deep rich violet purple, 
with red bars down the centre of each petal, a beautiful variety, 
60 cents each. . 
2. Rubella. Flowers of a rich velvety claret, the deepest colored of 
any Clematis, generally has six petals to each flower. 60 cents, 
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