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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



COLEUS. 



Popular Bedding Varieties. 



The following varieties have proved themselves 

 specially useful for massing in beds or borders, where 

 it is desirable to produce a striking effect with solid 

 colors. 



Crown Jewel — Beautiful velvety maroon. 



Her Majesty — Golden bronze. 



Golden Bedder— Best yellow. 



John Goode— Greenish yellow. 



Yerschaffeltii — Maroon; a general favorite. 



Progress— Green Ground, mottled with brown 

 isb spots. 



Paroquet — Yellow ground, mottled with 

 crimson. 



Price, each, 10 cts., per dozen, $1.00. Our 

 selection, per 100, $6.00; customers' selection, 

 per 100, $7.00. 



Fancy Coleus for Pot Culture. 



Of these we have a large collection of 

 very fine varieties, beautiful] v marked with 

 almost all the hues of the rainbow. They 

 have been carefully selected out of all 

 the leading sorts of recent introduction. 

 Following are a few of the leading sorts: 



Autumn Leaves — Velvety maroon, 

 spotted with pink and yellow, edge bright 

 green. 



Juno — Yellow and greeu, striped and marked 

 with crimson. 



Mars — Chrome Yellow, mottled with crimson. 



Sirins — Leaves pointed, center bright Ver- 

 million, with chocolate zone on violet ground. 



Rhea — Green, blotched with crimson, edge 

 with yellow. 



Shah of Persia— Yellow, edged with green. 

 Uranus — Greenish yellow, surrounded | by a band of red. 

 Tenus — Velvety, blotched with vermilion, carmine and buff. 

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



SPECIAL.— The set of Fancy Coleus, eight 

 varieties, one plant of each for 50 cts. 



CYCLAriEN PERSICUn— Giganteum. 



For conservatory or parlor culture the Cyclamen has few 

 equals. All lovers of plants are familiar with it, and all admire 

 it. It is, as we have repeatedly said, perhaps the most popular 

 plant in cultivation to-day. No trouble attends its culture. It 

 succeeds equally well in the greenhouse and parlor window, 

 producing freely its charming blossoms. Price, large plants in 

 bud or bloom, each, $1.00 to $2. Small plants, also sure to 

 bloom, each, 25 cts. to 50 cts. 



COB/EA SCANDENS. 



This handsome and rapid growing climbing plant is con- 

 sidered to-day almost indispensable for decorative purposes. 

 It is very useful for shading verandas, or bowers, or for cover- 

 ing unsightly fences and such like. Price, each, 25 cts. 



CLERODENDRON BALFOURI. 



A climber of great beauty. The flowers, which are of bright 

 scarlet, are encased by a bag-like calyx of pure white ; the 

 trusses or pannicles of flowers are upwards of 6 inches in width, 

 and when trained upon trellises and hanging down, have a 

 rich and elegant appearance; continually in bloom. Each, 15 

 cts. to $1.00. 



CYCLAMEN. 



CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS— Umbrella Plant.", 



For house culture we really cannot recommend this plant 

 too highly. No description is necessary as already it is so uni- 

 versally well known, but we simply wish to call attention to 

 some of its qualifications perhaps not generally known. No 

 other plant is so easily managed. All it is particular about is 

 plenty of water. It is most at home in an aquarium, although 

 it is an excellent pot plant, even if only kept moderately 

 moist. But to have it in perfection, set the pot in a saucer, or 

 better still, in a jardinier kept filled with water. Any tem- 

 perature usual in a house suits it. Stood in a window of any 

 exposure it is allright, but it seems to succeed best in a shady 

 place. Even in the middle or corner of a rather dark room, it 

 is quite at home. When age begins to turn the leaves yellow, 

 these should be cut off close down to the pot, and very soon new 

 leaves will spring up, and the plant will renew its beauty. 

 Price, each, 10 cts; large plants, 25 to 50 cts. 



CYTISUS RACEMOSUS. 



This is one of the most popular and most useful decorative 

 plants in cultivation. It is equally at home in the conservatory 

 and parlor. Towards spring it begins to bloom, and continues 

 for several weeks to produce in great quantities its racemes of 

 bright yellow, sweet-scented flowers. In appearance it is almost 

 identical with the Scottish broom of which the poets have so 

 often written. It is especially useful at Easter. Price, each, 

 25 cts. to $1.00. 



CROTONS. . 



A beautiful genus of variegated greenhouse plants, the 

 varied markings of which are very handsome. Our collection 

 embraces all the leading and distinct varieties in cultivation. 

 Price, each, 25 to 50 cts. Specimen plants, 12 to 24 inches high, 

 each, $1.00 to $3.00. 



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 Price. 



