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MARANTA. 



Valuable decorative hothouse plants, remarkable for the rich- 

 ness and beauty of their varied foliage. 



Each. 



Amabilis $0 50 



Bachemiana 50 



Bambusafolia 50 



Bella 25 



Chantrieri 50 



Gouletti . . 75 



Goveniana. . .... 25 



Iconifera 50 



Insignis 50 



25 

 50 

 75 

 50 

 00 



Each 



Mosella $1 



flusaica 



Oppenheimiana 



Rosea Lineata 



Sanderl 1 



Sanguinea 



Srtiaragdina 



Spitzeriana 



Splendens .... 



Triumphans 



Van den Heckei 



Vittata 1 



Wallichii 



VVarscewiczi 



Wieti 



Zebrina 



Kerchoviana 



Kummeriana 



Leopardiana 



Lietzei Superba .... 



Lindeni 1 



Makoyana 50 



flasangeana ( I tue>. . 50 



Medio Plcta 50 ' 



We will furnish one each of the 33 varieties, a grand col- 

 lection, for $15.00. 



MEDINILLA. 



The Medinillas here described are among the most gorgeous 

 tropical flowering plants in cultivation, and most desirable for 

 the ?mateur who has the facilities of a hothouse. They are 

 natives of the Philippines, with handsome, broad, shining, 

 leathery foliage. The plants continue in flower from April to 

 July; the flowers are of a coral-red color, five-petalled, each 

 about an inch across, and are borne in immense pyramidal 

 racemes, frequently a foot long, and bearing from 100 to 150 

 flowers. A large well-flowered specimen is a sight never to 

 be forgotten. 

 flagnifica. Flowers in pendulous racemes. 



$1.00 each. 

 Magnifica Superba. Very large pen 



dulous racemes. $1.50 each. 

 Amabilis. Racemes of flowers are held 



erect. $1.00 each. 



MUSA. 



Ensete {Abyssinian Banana). The 



grandest of all Bananas; the leaves are 

 magnificent, long, broad and massive; of 

 beautiful green, with a broad, crimson 

 midrib; the plant grows luxuriantly from 

 8 to 12 feet high. During the hot summer, 

 when planted out, it grows rapidly and 

 attains gigantic proportions, producing a 

 tropical effect on the lawn or flower gar- 

 den. (See cut.) Good plants, 30 cts. 

 each; strong plants in 5-inch pots, 50 cts. 

 each; 7-inch pots, $1.00 to $1.50 each. 



Maranta Vittata, 



NASTURTIUMS. 



Tom Thumb or Dwarf. Too well 

 known to need description. Mixed 

 colors, ready in May, 75 cts. per doz. ; 

 $6.00 per 100. 



NEPHTHYTIS. 



Picturata. An interesting, ornamental 

 hothouse plant, requiring a moist atmos- 

 phere; dark green, pointed, heart-shaped 

 foliage, with fern-like variegations in 

 silvery-white. $1.00 each. 



NEPENTHES. 



I Pitcher Plant. I 

 These interesting plants, with their curi- 

 ous pitchers, require to be grown in a high, 

 moist atmosphere, and in dense shade. The 

 sorts offered are among the choicest of the 

 genus. 



Each. 



Intermedia $3 00 



Pattersonli 2 50 



Phyllamphora 2 50 



Sedeni 2 00 



Splendida 2 00 



One each of the ten sorts for $20.00. 



Hr«A F.NSETB. 



Each. I 



Ampullaria $2 00 



Courtii 3 00 j 



Dominiana 2 00 



Henry ana 2 00 i 



Hookeriana 3 00 ] 



OLEA FRAGRANS (Sweetoiive. 



An old favorite greenhouse shrub, succeeding admirably as a 

 house plant, producing small white flowers of the most exquisite 

 fragrance, continuing to bloom almost the entire winter. 



50 cts. 



each. 



Ophiopogon Jaburan Variegatus. 



OPHIOPOGON. 



Jaburan Variegatus. A pretty variegated foliage plant, 

 useful either as a pot plant for the window or for planting out 

 in summer; its narrow, dark green foliage is prettily striped 

 with gold, and during July and August spikes of blue flowers 

 add to its beauty. 50 cts. each. 



We offer a very select lot of new Gladiolus. See list on page 159. 



