New Floral Guide— Spring, 1901 



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Datura Double Yellow. 



AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS, Blue Lily of the Palace.-There is 

 no finer plant than this for outdoor decoration ; planted in large pots or 

 tubs on the lawn or piazza. It is also a splendid ornament for house and 

 conservatory in Winter. Pkt. Gets. 



AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII, Japan or Boston Ivy.— This is the best and 

 most beautiful Hardy Climbing Vine for covering the walls of houses, 

 Churches, Schools, etc. It is entirely hardy, grows rapidly, and clings 

 firmly to the walls without other support. The foliage is lovely green 

 in Summer, but changes in Autumn to bright crimson, making a grand 

 display of rich and charming colors. Grows easily from seed. Pkt. 6 cts. 



HARDY ALPINE ASTER.— These pretty perennial Asters grow very 

 easily, are entirely hardy, and bloom on from year to year, much ad- 

 mired for beds and borders. Pkt. 6 cts. 



NEW DOUBLE YELLOW DATURA, an elegant novelty tested last 

 year, and much admired, makes a fine bushy plant, about two feet high, 

 covered all over with beautiful, large yellow double trumpet-shaped 

 flowers, vei-y handsome and showy. Seed grows easily and plants soon 

 begin to bloom. Pkt. 6 cts. 



DATURA CORNUCOPIA (Horn of Plenty.) -A large spreading plant, 

 three to four feet high and nearly as broad, bearing large thick leaves 

 and immense trumpet-shaped flowers, seven or eight long and four to 

 six inches across. Each flower is formed of three distinct trumpet flowers 

 one within the other. The color is waxy-white, richly marbled with 

 purple. Seed grows easily and plants bloom continuously all the season. 

 Very fragrant. Pkt. 6 cts. 



DATURA (Angel's Trumpet or Sweet Nightingale.^— Large branching 

 plants, growing three to four feet high, producing handsome double and 

 single trumpet-shaped blossoms, white, blue, yellow and purple, of ex- 

 quisite fragrance. They bloom finely from seed sown in the open ground 

 the first season, and the roots can be kept over Winter when desired, the 

 same as Dahlias. Pkt. 3 cts. 



DIAMOND FLOWER.— A lovely little annual from Portugal, quickly 

 covering the ground with beautiful moss-like foliage fi'om which the 

 flowers will glisten like diamonds within a month from the time seedis 

 sown. Klegant for pots and window gardens, and when bedded will 

 bloom all Winter, regardless of ice and snow. Pkt. 6 cts. 



EUPHORBIA HETEROPHYLLA, (Mexican Fire Plant or Fire on the 



Mountain. ) Makes fine, bushy plants, two to three feet high ; leaves 

 are at first entirely green, but change about Midsummer to brilliant 

 carmine, orange and crimson, presenting a mass of gorgeous colors 

 which are very beautiful and always attract wonder and admiration. 

 Pkt. 4 cts. 



MARVEL OF PERU, (MirabilHs.)— A well-known handsome plant; 

 the colors are very brilliant and of great variety; the flowers open in 

 the afternoon, and are sometimes called " Four o'clock; " grow very 

 easily and are among our most brilliant and showy Annuals. 

 Pkt. 3 cts. 



NEW HIBISCUS— Crimson Eye.— A splendid plant, grows three to 

 four feet high, branching freely and bearing immense cup-shaped 

 flowers, each one six to eight inches across. Color, pure, satiny white, 

 with deep rose centre; entirely hardy. Pkt. 6 cts. 



Diamond Flower. 



ICE PLANT ( Mesembryanthemum)— A handsome plant for hang- 

 ing baskets, vases, rock -work, etc.; leaves and stems appear as 

 though covered with icy crystals, which glisten in the sunlight. 

 Pkt. 3 cts. 



Chrysanthemums 



^"^ CHRYSANTHEMUM (PERENNIAL.) 



CHRYSANTHEMUM,(-Perennial)— Many flower-lovers have learned 

 that the finest Chrysanthemums are easily raised from seed, and 

 bloom splendidly the first season. Our seed is saved from the finest 

 Hybrid Japanese, Chinese and ostrich plume varieties, and may be 

 expected to produce grand double flowers of exquisite forms and 

 color, and perhaps some valuable new varieties, as this is the kind 

 of seed which produces new varieties. It germinates easily and 

 will soon commence to bloom. Pkt. 6 cts., 3 pkts. for 15 cts. 

 CHRYSANTHEMUM, (Inodorum Plenissimum.)— A perennial, but 

 blooms abundantly the first year from seed, each plant bearing 

 hundreds of perfectly double, snow-white flowers ; fine for cutting; 

 continues to bloom all through the season. Pkt. 5 cts. 

 FRENCH MARGUERITES OR ANNUAL CHRYSANTHEMUMS 

 are entirely different from the Japanese sorts; twelve to eighteen 

 inches high; bright, showy flowers; very handsome. Pkt. 3 cts. 

 STEVIA SERRATA.— A well known, very pretty and desirable 

 plant for pots and bedding; pure white, star-shaped flowers and 

 fragrant leaves; fine for cutting. Pkt. 4 cts. 

 Ja^GREVILLEA ROBUSTA, SILK OAK OR FERN LEAF TREE— 

 ^ Resembles a lovely Fern or Palm, with deeply cut leaves, but grows 

 Chrysanthemums. quickly and easily ; the young leaves are bronze green, and are 



ornamented with soft feathery tassels, like fine raw silk ; very handsome for conservatory or window. Seed, 6 cts. pkt. 



