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NOVELTIES IN PLANTS. 



Novelties in Plants. 



New Canna. QUEEN CHARLOTTE. 



A magnificent new variety from Germany, claimed to be the 

 finest introduction up to date. The plant attains a height of 

 about three feet and is furnished with a Musa-like splendid 

 bluish green foliage. The enormous flower spikes towering 

 grandly above the foliage bear a beautiful bouquet of large 

 flowers of perfect form, with petals of a velvety grenade blood- 

 red, broadly banded with the brightest canary yellow. This 

 grand Canna, which is now offered for the first time, gained the 

 highest awards wherever exhibited in Europe last year and will 

 without doubt become very popular. 



Plants ready May 1st. $3.00 each. 



New Chrysanthemums. 



MRS. E. G. HILL. 



This magnificent new early pink Chrysanthemum is a seedling 

 from Puritan and Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, and has received the 

 highest awards wherever exhibited, including a medal and diploma 



at the World's Fair Exhibition on October 16th. The blooms are of large size, from 7 to 8 inches in 

 diameter, a grand incurving sphere full to the centre when fully developed and of a beautiful pearly 

 pink color. 75 cts. each. 



BEAU IDEAL. 



Beau Ideal is a bright rose pink without a touch of lavender shadings. The form is a somewhat flat incurved, the 

 outer petals horizontal, showing the bright pink, the incurving centre showing a lighter shade. The petals are broad, 

 of good substance, flower of fine size, stiff stem and good foliage and possessing every desirable quality of a cut 

 flower. We know of no variety that will compare with it in purity and brightness of tone, while in size and general 

 make-up it compares with the best. $1.00 each. Queen 



CHALLENGE. charlotte. 



Challenge is a late variety, being in full perfection November 25th to 30th. It was awarded the $100 premium at the World's 

 Fair Chrysanthemum Show last November for the finest seedling in the Show in 54 entries. The flower is a perfect globe of 

 gold, which finally shows a pointed centre. The color bright yellow, form quite as deep as wide, stem very strong, foliage extra, 

 good and a somewhat dwarf grower. It is the ideal yellow Chrysanthemum. $1.00 each. 



EUGENE 



DAILLEDOUZE. 



There is nothing brighter and 

 clearer among yellow Chrysanthe- 

 mums than this grand new variety. 

 The flowers are large, full double,, 

 glowing in color, with stiff stems, and 

 good foliage, and above all it is a free,, 

 easy grower. It has taken first pre- 

 miums everywhere as the best yellow. 

 $1.00 each. 



INTER-OCEAN. 



This grand novelty took first pre- 

 mium at Chicago for the " best of any 

 color." The color is a delightful,, 

 glistening, pearly white. Petals of 

 great substance, recurving, forming a 

 flower one-third larger than the type 

 of V. Morel, of which it is a seed- 

 ling. The stems are very stiff, the 

 foliage exceedingly handsome, and 

 carried close to the flower. $1 00 

 each. 



Lychnis Plenissima Semperflorens. 

 {F rom photograph of a five months' old plant.) 



New Lychnis. 



LYCHNIS 



PLENISSIMA 

 SEMPERFLORENS. 



A grand addition to our li^t of 

 hardy perennials, beginning to flower 

 early in the spring and continuing 

 throughout the entire summer. The 

 flower is of a beautiful tender rose- 

 color and is produced in long bushy 

 spikes. One of the greatest advan- 

 tages of this plant is its easy forcing 

 qualities in an ordinary greenhouse 

 or cool conservatory, where it will 

 produce from October to April with 

 ordinary care hundreds of flowers. 

 50 cts. each ; $5.00 per dozen. 



