NOVELTIES IN PLANTS. 



LtCHXIS, PlENISSIMA SejiPERFI nRENS. 



NEW LYCHNIS, 

 PLENISSIHA SEMPERFLORENS. 



One of the greatest additions to our list of hardy perennials, 

 beginning to flower early in the Spring and continuing through- 

 out the entire summer. The flower is of a beautiful tender rose- 

 color and is produced in long, bushy spikes. One of its greatest 

 advantages is its easy forcing qualities in an ordinary green- 

 house or cool conservatory, where it will produce from October 

 to April, with ordinary care, hundreds of flowers. 30 cts. each ; 

 4 for SI. 00. 



LILIUn WALLICHIANUn. 



We have succeeded in procuring a fine stock of this most 

 beautiful of all the Trumpet Lilies. It has immense funnel or 

 trumpet shaped flowers of heavy texture and of elegant color, 

 which is of a pure white shaded with chocolate on the outside 

 and delicately tinged with yellow on the inside. It has been 

 awarded medals and certificates wherever shown and has always 

 been rare and offered only at veiy high prices. We offer fine 

 strong bulbs at 75 cts. each. 



RHODOCHITON VOLUBILE. 



One of the best climbers. At this season it festoons the 

 rafters of a cool greenhouse with wreaths of purple bell-like 

 calyxes, with deep crimson, almost black, corollas. It is of the 

 simplest culture in large pots, or when planted out.- — Garden 

 and Forest. 



Rhodochitoii Volubile is exceedingly graceful in habit. The 

 branches are clothed with pale green leaves, from the axils of 

 which droop the flowers, which have a p»ominent bell-shaped 

 calyx of rosy purple color and dark purple tubular corolla. 

 The plant is in bloom at all times. It may be grown in a mixture 

 of rich loam and leaf mold in equal parts. — M. B.\rker, in 

 Garden and Forest. 



The color of this rare climber is so unique that every one 

 will be pleased with it. 20 cts. each ; $2.00 per doz. 



Improved D^arf 

 Rocky Mountain Cherry. 



This rare cherry is a native of the Rocky Mountains ; for pre- 

 serves or to eat out of hand it has no equal in the line of pitted 

 fruits. The plants are of bushy habit, growing from two to 

 four feet high. It is entirely hardy and most desirable as an 

 ornamental plant for the garden or lawn. 



Strong 1-year-old plants, 25 cts. each ; S2.50 per doz. 

 " 2 " " '■ 30 " " 3.00 " " 



Strobilanthes Dverianus. 



STROBILANTHES DYERIANUS. 



A new and attractive plant now offered for the first time' 

 suitable for growing in pots for house decoration and for bedding 

 out in the summer ; it forms a compact bush 18 inches high 

 with leaves 6 to 9 inches long and 3 to 4 inches wide, of the 

 most intense metallic purple color, shading into light rose u-ith 

 a light gieen margin, a combination unappioached by any other 

 plant. The flowers are of a violet blue and very pretty. It 

 is said to make an excellent bedding plant, having been planted 

 out at the gardens of the White House the past summer, where 

 it attracted considerable notice. 25 cts. each; 5 for .41.00. 



Improved Dwarf Rocky Mountain Cherry. 



