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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



BOUVARDIA. 



Very beautiful, winter-blooming greenhouse plants, use- 

 ful for cut flowers; can also be grown successfullv in a warm 

 sitting room. 



Alfred Neuner — Double white. 

 1 Pavidsonii — White; single. 

 Dazzler — A fine scarlet; single. 

 Pres. Garfield— Double pink. 

 Multiflora — Pink; single. 



Price, each, 10 cts., per doz., $1.00. 



BOUGAINVILLEA GLABRA. 



An excellent greenhouse climber, bearing great quanti- 

 ties of very unique and very pretty pink flowers in large 

 panicles. Price, each, 50 cts. 



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CACTUS. 



inm Truncatum (Lobster-leaved 



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in great profusion during winter. 



Epiphylliim Truneatiun (Lobster-leaved Cactus) — A 



did house plant, producing its beautiful crimson flowers 



Price, each, 15 to 25 cts. 



CANNAS. 



The Canna has long been considered an almost indispensable plant for flower garden or lawn em- 

 bellishment. But since the introduction of the new type, the flowering French varieties, a new and 

 deeper interest has been developed in these plants. We are now no longer content to grow the old 

 ones which are already superseded by the new, which combine with the splendid foliage peculiar to 

 their family flowers of such wondrous beauty as to rival those of the handsomest Gladiolus, which they 

 resemble very much in form. These flowers are produced in great clusters throughout the entire sum- 

 mer. More than that, if the plants are taken up carefully in the fall, they will bloom quite freely all 

 winter. If not wanted for house plants to bloom in winter, take up the roots after frost has cut the fo- 

 liage down, and store them in any cool place, but where frost cannot touch them. 



The following is a carefully selected list of the very best yet 

 introduced: 



Adolpli Wick — Flowers crimson. Plant dwarf and compact; 

 foliage green; an excellent variety. . 



Admiral Courbet— Flowers light yellow, speckled with 

 orange scarlet; leaves light green. 



Edouard Michel — Flowers orange, on strong, erect spikes. 

 Very desirable. 



Entile Leclere — Flowers golden yellow, mottled with 

 crimson. 



Florence Vauglian — A magnificent variety. Flowers almost 

 as large as those of Madame Crozy, golden yellow, dotted with 

 spots of bright scarlet. 



Flamboyant — Flowers crimson lake, shaded orange. 



Geoffrey St. Hillaire— Flowers bright red, foliage purplish 

 brown. 



Madame Crozy — This is unquestionably the leading one of 

 its color, and is a most remarkable plant. The foliage is large 

 and bold, bright green in color and very effective. The flowers 

 are borne on stout stems just long enough to raise the great 

 clusters well above the leaves. The individual flowers are 

 larger than the largest Gladiolus. The petals are broad and 

 firm in texture and in color are a glossy and brilliant vermillion 

 bordered with gold. 



Maurice Kivoire — A 



red, large and full. 



vigorous grower. Flowers amaranth 



M. Duterail — A strong compact grower, foliage green, 

 flowers large and well-formed, deep saffron, margin light. 



Miss Sarah Hill — A dwarf, compact grower and very pro- 

 fuse bloomer. Flowers amaranth carmine. 



Pres. Carnot— A superb variety. Flowers scarlet, as large 

 as Madame Crozy; foliage dark bronze. 



Perfection — A robust grower, foliage dark green, flowers 

 large, golden yellow, speckled with maroon. 



Premices de Nice — Foliage light green, flowers yellow, 

 large. A very fine variety. 



Robnsta — A grand variety for sub-tropical planting. K 

 usually attains a height of eight feet, sometimes as much as 

 ten feet. The foliage is very long and about eighteen incbet 

 broad, dark bronze and green. 



Price, each, 25 cts.; per doz., $2.50. 



Special Offer— This excellent set of fifteen va- 

 rieties, worth $3.75, if bought separately, we offer 

 for $2.75, one plant of each. 



CALADIUriS. 



CAHDIUM ESCOXENTITM. 



Very handsome, almost indispensable plants forsumme: 

 decoration. Culture very simple, the bulbous roots remain 

 ing dormant all winter, to start again with little or no troubb 

 the following spring. 



Esculentum — The variety so useful and so popular fo 

 subtropical beds on the lawn"; also a good vase plant. Each 

 25 cts.; per doz., $2.50. 



Fancy Sorts — An excellent assortment of the most disfl|| ra 

 tinct kinds. Each, 30 cts. ; per doz., $3.50. 



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