PLANT DEPARTMENT ° Select List of Decorative and Flowering Plants. 
Our stock of the following is in grand condition and can be shipped with perfect safety to any point in the country through 
the summer months. For a complete list see our Garden Calendar for 1900. 
ALLAMANDA WILLIAMSII. 
This handsome variety is entirely distinct from all others, being quite 
dwarf and forming a compact bush with trusses of bloom at every point. It 
continues flowering the whole summer, and, with proper management, in the 
The flowers are from 3 to 4 inches in diameter, of a very rich 
yet delicate tint of yellow, and are deliciously scented. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
winter also, 
Good strong plants 
ANTHURIUMS (Flamingo Flower). 
Pretty greenhouse plants that do not receive the attention they deserve, 
but which we are certain will, when their many good qualities are better 
known, become popular, not only as decorative plants, but as cut flowers, 
for which many of the varieties, on account of their peculiar-shaped flowers 
and rich colorings, which frequently last on the plant from two to three 
months, especially adapt them, 
Andreanum Hybrids. 
we can select the following colors, all in large-sized flowers, brilliant scar- 
let, salmon, dark red and rose. $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 each. 
Seherzerianum. Brilliant scarlet flowers, 50 cts. to $1.00 each. 
—Rothschildianum. Creamy white, spotted with crimson. $2.00 each, 
— Sanguineum. $1.00 each. 
ARAUCARIA (Norfolk Island Pine). 
Excelsa. 
becoming more popular every season. 
A fine collection of seedlings, from which 
ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI. 
Rich crimson. 
ARALIA. 
Sieboldii. Excellent house plant, having large, deeply 
cut foliage, of a bright, cheerful green color. 25 cts. each. 
Sieboldii Variegata. A pretty variegated form of 
the above. Strong plants. 50 cts. each. 
Chaubrieri. A most graceful species with finely divided 
bronzy-green foliage; useful table plants, 18 inches high, $1.50 
each, 
This most beautiful of all tender evergreens is 
As a decorative plant for 
the house this is one of the handsomest and most serviceable 
4-inch pots, 6 to 8 inches high, $1.00 
each; 5-inch pots, 12 to 15 inches high, $1.50 each; 6-inch pots, 
18 to 20 inches high, $2.50 each. 
Excelsa Glauea. Identical with above, except in color 
p ants in our collection. 
Aristolochia Sturtevantii. 
(Duck Plant.) 
Of all aristolochias this is the most curious and interesting: 
The flowers are heart-shaped, from 8 to 10 inches in diameter, 
of a creamy white color, the interior beautifully mottled with 
deep claret purple, deepening towards the throat to solid purple. 
of foliage, which is of a beautiful bluish or glaucous color. 
The plants we offer of this are exceptionally heavy, fine dwarf 
specimens. 96-inch pots, 8 inches high, $1.00 each. 
Robusta Compacta. This differs from 4, Zxcelsa in 
its more robust, but at the same time more compact growth, pro- 
ducing even a more symmetrical plant than Zxce/sa ; color is a 
rich, deep green. 
high, $1.50; 6-inch pots, 12 inches high, $2.50 each. 
An exterior view of the flower resembles a duck, hence the Strong plants, in 5-inch pots, 10 inches 
name. 450 cts. each. 
ASPARAGUS. 
Sprengeri. Especially useful to grow as a pot plant for dec- 
orative purposes or for planting in suspended baskets; fronds are fre- 
quently four feet long, rich shade of green and most useful for cutting, 
retaining their freshness after being cut for weeks. Makes an excellent 
house plant, as it withstands dry atmosphere and will succeed in almost 
any position. Good young plants, 15 cts. each; $1.50 doz.; strong plants, 
25 cts. each; $2.50 doz.; large specimen plants, $1.00 each. 
Plumosus Nanus. This graceful climbing Asparagus has to a 
great extent taken the place of the once popular Syadax in all fine dec- 
orations. It possesses the advantage of being much more graceful, its 
foliage being finer than that of the most delicate fern, and will last for weeks 
after being cut, the whole plant being of a bright, cheerful green. It is 
an excellent house plant, succeeding under almost any conditions. 10 cts. 
and 25 cts. each. 
ASPIDISTRA. 
Lurida. A very useful and durable decorative plant of strong” 
growth; will succeed in any position; an excellent hall or corridor 
plant. 50 cts. each. 
Lurida Variegata. 
foliage being striped with white. 
BROWALLIA SPECIOSA MAJOR. 
A giant flowering form of this beautiful genus, flowering continually 
summer and winter, which may be grown either in the border or as a pot 
plant. Its beautiful ultramarine blue color, which is rare in all classes of 
plants, makes it especially valuable and desirable. (See cut.) 15 cts. 
each; $1.50 per doz. 
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A pretty variegated form of the above, the 
50 cts. and 75 cts. each. 
BROWALLIA SPECIOSA Major, 
