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OltNAMENTAI^ GOUl^DS. 



Rapid-growing, interesting annual climbers, with ornamental foliage and biu- 

 gular shaped fruit; 15 to 20 feet. (See cut.) 



2612 Dipper, or Calabash 



2614 Hercules' Club. Club-shaped; 4 ft. lo 

 2H13 Egg-shaped. Fruit white like an egg. . 



2616 Orange=shaped [Mock Orange) 



2611 Bottle=shaped 



2622 Turk's Turban. Red striped 



2617 Pear=shaped. Striped; very showy. . . . 



2615 Luffa [Dish Reg, sponge or Bonnet Coiir 



2618 Serpent, Striped like a serpent; 5 feet 



2621 Sugar Trough 



26.30 Mixed Varieties 



2629 Imported Collection of 12 varieties... 



GREVII.LEA (Silk Oak). 



2681 Robusta. A very beautiful and 

 graceful decorative plant with fern- 

 like foliage; excellent for t.ible 

 decoration ; easily raised from 

 seed, producing good-sized plants 

 in a short time. (See cut.) Oz., 

 75 cts 10 



GYPSOPHII.A. 



Pretty free-flowering, elegant plants, suc- 

 ceeding in any garden soil. Their misty 

 white panicles of bloom are largely used 

 for mixing with other cut flowers. 



2692 Paniculata {Baby's Breath). 

 White floweis, fine for bouquets; 

 one of the favorite hardy peren- 

 nials ; 2 feel. Per oz., 30 cts. ... 



2693 Acutifolia. A strong-growing 

 hardy pierennial sort, 3 to 4 feet 

 high, with large panicles of small 

 white flowers in July 



2691 Elegans, Mixed. Hardy an- 

 nual ; fine for- cutting. Oz., 25 

 cts 



HELrENIUM (Sneeze-Wort). 



Strong-growing, hardy perennials, suc- 

 ceeding in any kind of soil, and useful in 

 any hardy border, giving an enormous crop 

 of flowers in the late summer. 



2711 Autumnale Superbum. Large 

 heads of golden-yellow flowers 

 during the late summer and fall 

 months ; 5 to 6 feel 10 



2712 Grandicephalum Striatum. 

 Individual flowers \^ inche-^ across; borne 

 orange, irregularly streaked with crimson ; 



2713 Cupreum. See Novelties, pages 9 to 16. 



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Pennisetum Rueppelianum. 



Grevillea Robusta. 



ORNAIWENTAE GRASSES 



The Ornamemal Grasses serve the double 

 purpose of rendering the mixed flower-bed or 

 border attractive during the summer, and for the 

 use of Uie spikes or panicles in a dried state in 

 winter bouquets. For large beds or groups on 

 lawns nothing gives a finer effect, and they are 

 now largely used in prominent positions in many 

 of the truest public parks, etc. The follou'ing 

 are the most popular varieties : 



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2640 ArundO Donax {Great Need). Mag- 

 nificent hardy perennial sort 10 



641 Briza flaxima {Quaking Grass). In 



/ great demand for grass bouquets 5 



^2642 Bromus Brizaeformis. A graceful 

 variety, with drooping panicles; per- 

 ennial 5 



2644 CoixLachryraae [Job's Tears). Broad, 

 corn-like leaves and hard, shining, 

 pearly seeds; annual. Per oz., 15 

 cts 5 



2646 Erianthus Ravennee {Hardy Pam- 

 pas). Perennial; exquisite plumes re- 



IQ sembling the Pampas; flowers first sea- 

 25 son if sown early 5 



2647 Eulalia Zebrina {Zebra Grass). 

 Light green, barred with creamy white. Variegation runs across 

 the foliage , IQ 



2648 — Variegata. Long, narrow, green leaves, striped with white; 



fine feathery plumes ; very ornamental 10 



2651 Gynerium Argenteum {Pampas Grass). White silvery 



plumes ; jierennial ; blooms the second season 10 



V2653 Lagurus Ovatus {Hare's Tail Grass). Beautiful small white 



heads or spikes of bloom, excellent for bouquets 5 



2654 Pennisetum Longistylum. Extremely graceful greenish- 

 white plumes; excellent for beds or dried bouquets; annual; 2 

 feet 5 



2655 — ^\lQ^^Q\\2ii\um{PurpleFotintainGrass'). Beautiful and grace- 

 ful and unequalled as an edging to a bed of Cannas or other tall 

 plants, (See cut.) 10 



2658 Stipa Pennata {Feather Grass). Perennial, beautiful, delicate 



white, feathery bloom; flowering the second season; 2 feet 5 



2669 Collection of Grasses. 12 varieties 50 



Gypsophila Paniculata. 



in large heads,; color deep 

 July and August; 3 feet. . . 



To keep a garden gay nothing excels Zinnias. See colored plate and offer, page g. 



