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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



NEW COMPACT FKENCH MARIGOLD. 



MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. 



Dwarf-growing plants of great beauty, well suited fcr hanging 

 baskets and the edgings of flower beds, and for covering rock -work. 



h;hp. 



Tricolor — Mixed colors, y 2 foot 5 



niriULUS— rionkey Flower. 



Beautiful free blooming plants, suitable for vases or hanging 

 baskets, luxuriating in damp, shady situations. HHP. 



Cupreus — Beautiful orange and crimson 10 



Hybridus— Choice mixed. From the finest sorts. Our strain of 



this is unexcelled in beauty and color and size of flowers 10 



Moschatus (Musk plant) — Yellow foliage and flowers having a de- 

 lightful musk scent, y 2 foot , 5 



Musk Scented — This very attractive plant grows to the height of 

 from 15 to 18 inches, and produces large yellow flowers, beauti- 

 fully marked with dark crimson spots. There is a very dark 



marking in the center of the foliage. It is musk scented 10 



Tigrinus— An exceedingly beautiful blotched and spotted hybrid, 

 rivaling the Calceolaria in the variety of its bright colors 5 



MIMOSA— (Sensitive Plant). 



A very interesting and curious plaut, its leaves closing if touched 

 or shaken. H H A. 

 Pudica 5 



MINA LOB AT A. 



A handsome climbing plant, bearing continuously clusters of flow- 

 ers, at first bright red, changing through orange yellow to yel- 

 lowish white. Sow the seed in March in the house and trans- 

 plant to open ground in June. TA 10 



nonoRDicA. 



Curious trailing plants, with ornamental foliage and odd-shaped 

 fruit. H H A. 



Balsaniina (Balsam Apple) 5 



Charatina (Balsam Tear)— 10 feet 5 



Involucrata — Fruit yellow, changing to red IT) 



riUKIA SCABRELA. 



Handsome half-hardy annual climber with pretty yellow flowers, 

 which develop into orange and scarlet fruits. H HA 10 



MARIGOLD. 



Very effective plants for bedding, producing an abundance 

 of flowers throughout the season. H H A. 



African Marigold. 



African — Mixed, selected from the finest double flowers; 



very beautiful 5 



Orange — Very double 5 



[fjSjtij^C^ Lemon — Very double 5 



\ El Dorado — A large flowering variety, 

 i producing abundantly flowers varying 

 in color from pale yellow to deep or- 

 ange 5 



Nugget of Gold— Very double, golden 

 yellow 5 



Fistulosa Lutea — Small finely quilled 

 lemon colored flowers 5 



Fistulosa Golden— Small finely quilled 

 golden flowers. 5 



French Marigold. 



Gold Striped — Magnificent stripes of 

 brown on deep gold ; very double, 1% 



feet 5 



^^^IPr Dwarf, Gold Striped— 1 foot 5 



New Compact, Gold striped — A strain 

 of this fine annual hitherto unequaled, 

 each plant forming a handsome bouquet 

 in itself 5 



Imported collection of 10 French sorts 50 



^5^^' ' Imported collection of 6 African sorts 30 



MIMt'I.lls HYBRID! S 



