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SWAINSONA. 



PI,tJMBAGO. 



Capensis. Color light blue; very 

 free-flowering. 



— Alba. Color creamy-white. 



Coccinea 3uperba. Producing long 

 racemes of flowers, and of a bright 

 satiny-carmine color. They remain 

 in bloom a long time, and are very 

 shov^fy and brilliant. 



15 cts. each; f 1.50 per doz. Set of 3 

 varieties, 40 Cts. 



Kliyncliosperiuuni. 



Jasminoides {May lay an Jasmine). 

 A climbing plant which succeeds 

 admirably in the conservatory or 

 window garden ; grown as a pot- 

 plant and trained on a trellis, it pro- 

 duces during the spring months in 

 great abundance delicate pure-white 

 flowers of entrancing perfume. 

 Strong plants, 15 cts. each; large 

 specimens in 6-inch pots, 75 cts each. 



RUSSELIA. 



Lemoinel multif lora. A useful bas- 

 ket or vase plant, of graceful, droop- 

 ing habit, and producing freely 

 bright coral-red tubular flowers. 10 

 Cts. each ; $1.00 per doz. 



Too well known to require any descrijition. One of the most valuable 

 plants for bouquets, wreatlis, festoons and decorations. 10 cts. each; $1.00 

 per doz.; $6.00 per 100. 



SOI.ANUMS. 



Jasminoides Grandiflorum. A beautiful plant, which inclines to a 

 trailing or climbing habit, but can be pinched hack to a bush form. 

 Flowers star-shnped, borne in enormous clusters often a fuot across. 

 Color pure white, with a violet tinge on back of petals ; a fine bloomer, 

 both summer and winter. 



Seaforthianum Azureum ( The Blue Solanum). A pretty climbing 

 S|iecies of tlie same habit of growth as the above, but with large clusters 

 of blue flowers, which are succeeded by scarlet berries. 



15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. One of each for 25 cts. 



STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA. 



One of the most charming hothouse climbers, growing rapidly, with long, 

 glossy, deep-green foliage, and producing clusters of pure while, deliciously 

 Irngrant flowers. Strong plants, in 6-inch pots, $1.00 each. 



V' STIGMAPHYEI.OIV CILIATU3I. 



'.Brazilian Golden, or Orcliid Vine.) 



One of the prettiest tender climbing plants in cultivation, with large 



yellow butterfly-like flowers resembling 

 that showy orchid Otuidium vari- 

 cosuvi. The flowers are produced 

 very freely during the entire summer 

 niiinths. It is especially adapted for 

 training o\erthe pillars or on the wall 

 of a conservatory, but will do equally 

 well in the open air, and should be 

 planted extensively. 25 cts. each; 

 $2.50 per doz. 



SIVAINSONA. 



/ Galegifolia Alba. A most desirable 

 everblooming plant, with pure white 

 flowers produced in sprays of from 

 12 to 20 flowers each, the individual 

 blooms resembling a Sweet Pea. Its 

 easy culture, growing in almost any 

 light position, its freedom of bloom, 

 and the grace and beauty of the 

 flower and plant, make it popular. 

 Rosea. A pink-flowered variety; 



very pretty. 

 15 cts. each; 2 for 25 cts.; $150 per 

 doz. 



NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



We offer a fine lot of both tender 

 and hardy sons, all fully described 

 on pages 103 to 112. 



Solanum Seaforthianum Azureum. 



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SANSEVIERA ZELANICA. 



An elegant variegated plant, especially adapted for house decoration, the thick, 

 leathery leaves standing the heat and dust of the house with impunity. 15 cts. each ; 

 4 for 50 cts. 



SCHISMATOGLOTTIS. 



Picta. A handsome decorative plant, somewhat on the style of growth of the 

 Dieffenbachias, but more vigorous; foliage deep green, with greyish-white markings. 

 50 cts. each. 



' SENECIO SCANDENS (Parlor, or German .ivy). 



This well-known tender climber is indispensable as a vase, basket or window-box 

 plant in the summer, and the best vine for the window garden at all seasons. 10 cts. 

 each ; $1 00 per doz. 



SKIMMIA JAPOXICA. 



An evergreen shrub with dark, glossy green foliage, and bearing panicles of white 

 flowers, followed by showy bright red berries, which remain on the plant the greater 

 part of the year. A most useful plant for the cool greenhouse, or may be grown in 

 open ground south of the Potomac. Strong plants, 75 cts. each. 



For Salvia (Scarlet Sage) and other Bedding Plants see page 123 



