NEW FLORAL GUIDE—SPRING 1898. 97 
New Salvia Splendens 
‘¢ DROOPING SPIKES.”’ 
A splendid new large-flowering Salvia 
(Scarlet Sage); bears three times as many 
flowers as the ordinary Salvia Splendens, the 
flower spikes being so heavily laden they droop 
gracefully with their own weight. It is exceed- 
ingly handsome and desirable for lawn or garden, 
whether planted singly or in groups with other 
flowers. The flowers are intense dazzling 
scarlet, and are borne in endless profusion until 
late in the Fall—one of the most beautiful Au- 
tumn-blooming flowers you can have. Pkt. 
75 seeds 8 cts. 
Salvia Splendens, the old large-flowering 
kind, pkt. 4c. 
New Salvia Splendens. 
“ Drooping Spikes.” 
New Petunia 
“Snow Ball” 
We take pleasure in recommending this 
beautiful ‘Snow Ball’’ Petunia. The illus- 
tration is a reproduction from photograph 
showing its dwarf bushy habit and abundance 
of bloom. The flowers are pure snow white, 
of good shape and size, sweet scented and 
lasting. Itstands heat and drought well and 
has few equals among pure white flowers; for 
beds and borders should be extensively 
planted. Sure to please. Pkt. 8 cts. 
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New Marguerite 
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GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA. 
The Giants of California Dwarf Marguerite Car- 
nations are a splendid new strain, bearing flowers of 
Giant size, full regular form—many beautiful colors 
and delicious fragrance. The plants are of dwarf, 
bushy growth, very free flowering and easy to grow, 
and as they bloom as quick as other Marguerite Carnations, 
they are a most desirable novelty. Pkt. 50 seeds 8 cts. 
New Lobelia, Bedding Queen 
This beautiful New Lobelia is well named Bedding Queen, as it isa 
real treasure for Beds and Borders. The habit of this plant is dwarf and 
compact, forming handsome little bushes which are entirely covered with large, 
deep, purple flowers, each one having a clear, white eye ; continues covered with 
flowers all summer and fall, and is undoubtedly the best of all Lobelias, and a Giants of S! 
charming plant for carpet beds, borders and pots. New andextra fine. Pkt. 10 cts. California. is 
