NEW FLORAL GUIDE-SPRING 1900 



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 ' Bell Flower 



Abutilon or CWnese Bell Flower. 



AMBROSIA— A fine, hardy annual, with long, 

 spiral stems, bearing small, yellow flowers of 

 most delicious fragrance — fully equal _ to the 

 rose geranium for floral work, but a different 

 perfume. Seed may be sown early in open 

 ground. It is easily grown and needs little care. 

 Pkt. 4 cts. 



AMARANTHUS RAINBOW— Very beautiful 

 and the finest of all the Amaranths ; two to 

 three feet high : fine pyramid form, each leaf 

 two colors, half black and half green, changing 

 in August to bright scarlet rose, pink, yellow, 

 etc., making a blaze of colors which few other 

 plants can equal. Pkt. 4 cts. 



CENTROCEMA GRANDIFLORA, BUTTEK- 

 FliY PEA — An entirely new climbing vine of 

 great beauty ; begins to bloom quickly and 

 bears large clusters of pea-shaped flowers from 

 early June till cut down by frost. The flowers 

 are quite large, very fragrant and borne in 

 profusion from June until October ; the color is 

 rosy purple and creamy white, very handsome 

 and. attractive, six to eight feet high. Seed 

 should be soaked in water over night, and 

 planted early in Spring where it is to remain. 

 Pkt. 4 cts. 



ABUTILON-Chinese BeU Flower or Flowering 

 Maple, as it is sometimes called, is a beautiful 

 plant for house or window ; may be bedded out 

 m Summer and taken up in Winter ; grows 

 easily from seed, and blooms very quickly. I^ove- 

 ly bell-shape flowers, borne all the year. Colors : 

 Pink, yellow, orange red, white, etc. The 

 leaves are also beautifully mottled and variegated 

 with green, white and yellow, and are almost as 

 pretty as the flowers. It bears hard usage well 

 and always looks bright and handsome. Fine 

 mixed, pkt. 6 cts. 3 Pkts. for 15 cts. 



ACACIA FARNESIANA— A very beautiful, easily 



fjown plant that should be better known, delicate 

 ern-like foliage and charming tassel-like golden 

 yellow flowers, deliciously fragrant, should be 

 started early in-doors. Pkt. 6 cts. 



ACROCLINIUM, (Evedasting) or PINK DAISY— 



Considered one of the most beautiful everlasting 

 flowers we have ; grows one foot high ; color : 

 elegant pale pink, shading to rose ; fine for bed- 

 ding and borders, and when dried makes lovely 

 Winter bouquets. New double, mixed colors. 

 Pkt. 4 cts. 



ANCHUSA CAPENSIS or Large-flowering For- 

 get-me-not — A fine hardy annual, grows about 

 two feet high, branches freely and bears a pro- 

 fusion of lovely sky blue flowers, each with a clear 

 white eye ; blooms early and continuously all Sum- 

 mer ; fi^ne for cutting and bouquets. Pkt. 4 cts. 



AMARANTHUS GIBBOSIS— A very handsome, 

 ornamental foliage plant with long, drooping tas- 

 sels of purplish red flowers, frequently two and a 

 half feet long. Pkt. 3 cts. 



New Fragrant Candytuft, Empress* 



New Double Datura. 



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, very handsome 

 and showy. Seed grows easily and plants soon begin to 

 bloom. Pkt. 6 cts. 



DATURA CORNUCOPIA <Horn of Plenty)-A large spread- 

 ing plant, three to four feet high and nearly as broad, bear- 

 ing large thick leaves and immense trumpet-shaped flowers, 

 seven to eight inches 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 continu- 

 ously all the season. Very fragrant. Pkt. 6 cts. 



NEW FRAGRANT CANDYTUFT, EMPRESS-The Candy- 

 tuft is well known as one of the prettiest and most useful 

 annuals. The Empress is the newest ana best variety ; 

 bears large heads of pure white, fragrant flowers all through 

 the season. Pkt. 6 cts. 



CANDYTUFT, White— Pkt. 4 cts. ; oz. 20 cts. 



CANDYTUFT, White, Purple and Crirosoo Mixed -Plrt. 



^ cts.; 02,20 cts. 



