170 



[illlHWADREER -PHILAKLPtllA J'A- 



GARDM^CflEEIIHOUSE PLANTS : 



Cype of our Royal Exhibition Pan?v. 



ROYAI. 



EXHIBITION 



PANSIES. 



The plants here offered are 

 grown from our own choicest 

 strain of seed, and for size 

 of bloom, richness of coloring, 

 and texture will be found unsur- 

 passed by any other strain. 60 

 cts. perdoz.; $4. 00 per 100. 



PASSIFI^ORA. 



(Pajsion Flower Vine. ' 



Attractive climbers, covering a large 

 space in a remarkably short time, 

 and bearing their exquisitely-forraed 

 flowers freely throughout the summer and 

 fall. 



Constance Elliott. Pure white, a slight coloring at base of petals. 

 Incarnata. White tinted lilac; light purple coronna. 

 Pfordtl. This we consider the best of all. Its beautiful flowers are 



borne freely, even on quite small plants. They are of a rich shade of 



blue, suffused with rose. 

 PrincepS. This is one of the best greenhouse climbers, a rare and showy 



variety with bright red flowers. $1.00 each. 



Price, except where noted, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



PAULLINIA. 



Thalictrifolia. A very pretty climbing plant for the conservatory or 

 window, with finely divided fern-like foliage. 25 cts. each. 



PEL, ARGONIU3IS (Laay Washington Geranium.). 



The six varieties offered below are a choice selection of distinct colors. 

 Crimson King. An intense rich crimson. 



Duke of Cornwall. Reddish crimson, bordered with light salmon. 

 Linda. Clear salmon, feathered and blotched maroon in the upper 



petals. 

 Mme. Thibaut. White, richly blotched and m.irked with rose, the 



upper petals marked with crimson-maroon, with large white centre. 

 Mrs. R. Sandiford. Pure glistening snow-white 

 Sandiford's Best. Beautiful shade of pink, surrounded with a deep 



band of pure white, and large white throat. 



20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz. Set of 6 varieties, $1.00. 



PENNISETUM (Foumam Cra.*^. 



Tender ornamental grasses and valuable additions to the list of bed 



ding plants, and as a border to a bed of Cannas or Caladium esculentuif 



they stand in a class by themselves. 



Macrophyilum Atrosanguineum {Crimson Fouutain Grans) 

 Foliage gracefully recurved, of a pleasing dark metallic, coppery 

 bronze, which far surpasses in richness the finest of the bronze-leaver 

 Cannas; attains a height of about 4 feet, the ends of the shoots beinf 

 terminated by tawny crimson plumes, 10 to 12 inches long. Read' 

 April loth. 15 cts. each; .«;i..">0 per doz.; $10.00 pe- 100. 



Rueppelianum (Pm-ple Fountnin Grans). Giu>vs about 3 feet high 

 producing long, graceful green foliage and cylindrical-purplish plumes 

 Young plants,ready in May, lOcts. each; $1.00 per doz.; $6.00 per 100 



PHILODEXDRON, OR MONSTERA. 



An interesting hothouse plant with large heart-shaped 

 dark green leaves, with light veins. $1.00 anc 

 00 each. 



Pertusum. -\ hothouse plant of climbing 

 habit, with large, perforated leaves of 

 grotesque appearance. $1.00 anc 

 $2 00 each. 



Acuminatum. A small leaved 

 climbing species. 50 cts, each 



PHYGEI^IUS. 



Capensis (Cape Fuchsia). 

 Of dwarf, shrub- like habit, 

 and an excellent bedding 

 plant, producing tubular, pen- 

 dulous, showy purplish-red flow 

 ers the greater part of the .sum 

 mer. Hardy south of Baltimore 

 15 cts. each. 



CRfMson FouKTAiN Grass (Pennisetum). 



Seed of RoytJ Exhibition Pantiet as weO m» ether Hae itimm» i» offered ob pege lOS. 



