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TWO EXQUISITE CLIMBERS. 



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TTE-W^ BUTTERFLY PEA. Pkt., 15o. 



IPOM>EA "HEAVENLY BLUE." 



1665. This wonderful new annual climber 

 originated from seeds of Mina Lobata which 

 grew near Ipomaea Leari. All summer hum- 

 ming birds flitted back and forth between the 

 two. That season, the fall of 1888, the latter 

 gave no seeds, the former but few which were 

 planted in the spring. Among the seedlings 

 appeared these, with large cordage, light green 

 leaves, smooth and firm in texture, with reddish 

 brown vine, and stems like Mina Lobata, but 

 ■with flowers shaped like I. Leari. Color, an out- 

 and-out sky blue, the lovely blue so rarely seen in 

 flowers, resembling Salvia Patens but "lighter; 

 centre of flower shaded lighter, delicately rayed 

 withaglow of yellow deep in the throat. In the 

 morning about nine o'clock no lovelier sight can 

 be imagined than this climber, which is com- 

 pletely covered with bloom, so much so as to 

 almost cover the foliage. Undoubtedly the hum- 

 «ning birds were match-makers and this beautiful 

 hybrid the result. It is a rampant grower, and 

 blooms till very late fall. Will do well in the con- 

 servatory as well as outside. Every one who 

 sees it, with its cloud of airy blossoms, mea.suring 

 four to four and one-half inches across, exclaims: 

 " That is the loveliest thing 1 ever saw ; i 

 must have it." Plant very early in the spring 

 in the house to insure quick bloom. Pkt,, 15c ■ 

 2pkts., 23c. 



NEW FORGET-ME-NOT. 



2104. ROSE VICTORIA. (Myosotis alpes- 

 Iris Victoria rosea). The flowers of this new variety 

 are of a lovelj' rose color, with the characteristic 

 central double bloom, as well as in habit and 

 frrowth of the well-known blue Victoria. Pkt 

 15c. 



" CENTROSEMA GRANDIFLORA." 



" Look at Me." 

 Something Absolutely New. 



695. Many old and neglected plants are really valuable, 

 and prove eminently satisfactory, but, after all, it cannot be 

 denied that one which is absolutely new to cultivation, and 

 at the same time is one of the very best in actual merit, is 

 decidedly most desirable. 



Just such a plant is Centrosema Grandiflora. I have had 

 the pleasure of watching its growth and development during 

 the last few seasons. It is a hardy perennial vine of rare and 

 exquisite beauty, which blooms early in June from .seed 

 sown in April, and bears in the greatest profusion inverted 

 pea shaped flowers, from one and a half to two and a half 

 inches in diameter, and ranging in color from a rosy violet 

 to a reddish purple, with a broad feathered white marking 

 through the centre, while the large buds and back of the 

 flowers are pure white, making it appear as if one plant bore 

 many different colored flowers at one time. Occasionally 

 plants produce pure white flowers, while others are broadly 

 margined with a white feathering. The flowers are produced 

 in the greatest abundance, sometimes six to eightinaoluster. 



The stem and foliage are very graceful, and of a delight- 

 ful odor. 



It is well adapted for every garden purpose, and especially 

 as a climber, running six to eight feet in a season. It will 

 bloom until frost, and if potted will no doubt flower freely 

 in the house. 



One of its most attractive features is the way in which 

 the flowers look up at you in the face. Every imaginative 

 person sees faces in the pansy, and this is even more sugges- 

 tive in Centrosema. Thei-efore, "Look at Me," would not 

 be a bad name for it. Pkt., 15c.; 2 pkts., 25c. 



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'^ OF THESE TWO EXQUISITE CLIMBERS, ^ 



^ "NEW BUTTERFLY PEA" and "IPOM^ A ^ 



^ HEAVENLY BLUE," FOR 25 CTS. ^ 



NEW IPOM^EA HEAVENLY BLUE. Pkt., 15c. 



