THE LOVETT COMPANY. 7 



GRAND NEW TIGRIDIAS. 



Startling improvements have of late been made in that fav- 

 orite summer bulb, the Tigridia. The range of color has been 

 greatly extended and the habit and size of flower much im- 

 proved. After an exhaustive trial we have selected Tigridias 

 GRANDiFLORA viOLACEA and ROSEA as the handsomest and most 

 vigorous of the novelties recently issued. They are most beau- 

 tiful flowers of the largest size, often exceeding six inches in 

 diameter. The color of Violacea is a most lovely violet or 

 rather lilac-purple, with unique shell-like markings of white 

 and dark maroon in the sculptured interior. Rosea is of a 

 delicate rose color, with corresponding markings of yellow 

 and brown within the cup. These splendid novelties are very 

 robust in growth, Violacea being the stronger of the two. 

 They succeed in any fairly rich soil, producing their exquisite 

 flowers in constant succession for many weeks. Ea., 15c; 2 

 for 25; dozen, $1.25. 



RICINUS ZANZIBARENSIS. 



Introduced to cultivation for the first time last year; and is 

 grand and beautiful beyond comparison with the older varieties. 

 The plants attain great dimensions, presenting a splendid aspect 

 with their gigantic leaves, and robust, compact habit. The dif- 

 ferent varieties included in our mixture have light and dark 

 green leaves, and some of coppery bronze, changing to dark 

 green with reddish leaves. These varieties never grow up tall 

 and leggy but retain the leaves near the ground in a neat, pyra- 

 midal shape, quite similar to a giant Aralia Sieboldi. As single specimens or groups on the lawn they are very 

 effective. The seeds are very large, curious and attractive. Pkt., 15c; 2 pkts. for 25c. 



ALBINO TUBEROSE, 



This addition to the list of Tuberoses possesses a number of distinct- 

 ive features that cannot fail to render it very popular. The flower 

 spikes are large and are evenly filled with single reflexed blooms of 

 the purest waxy-white. Entirely free from the objectionable brown 

 and i)m-ple tints on back of petals, so common with the double varie 

 ties, rendering it one of the most valuable of all plants for cut flow- 

 ers. In fact, the flowers are so chaste and pure that when first seen 

 they might be taken for a gigantic Stephanotis or Jessamine. This 

 resemblance is heightened by the fact that the perfume is quite simi- 

 lar, being by no means so heavy as in old varieties. Flowers in 

 July and August, many weeks before the old varieties, throwing up 

 from two to five flower stems from a single hulb^^ and these again are 

 often branched, making it the most floriferous of all Tuberoses. 

 Ea., 10c; 3 for 25c; doz., 75c. 



CAPE FUSCHIA. 



(Phyglia Capensis.) 



A most charming and free-blooming plant; always in floiver and 

 adapted to endure the hottest and driest situation. It grows and 

 blooms freely while Geraniums are perishing from heat and drought. 

 When only a few inches high plants throw up many bold spikes com- 

 pletely crowded with showy scarlet drooping flowers, which are per- 

 sistently renewed from May until late'Autmnn, when the plants can 



be brought into the house for Winter blooming. It is a fine bedding plant to grow singly or m 

 on poor soil and in almost any situation. Seeds, 25c. pkt. Plants, ea., 20c; 3 foi- 50c. 



GIANT OF CALIFORNIA PETUNIA. 



The flowers of this strain are enormous in size, exquisite in color, and of great substance; most of them are 

 beautifully ruffled and fringed on the edges, and are four to five inches in diameter. Their peculiar merits lie, 

 however, in the great variety of colors, markings, veinings, and stripings, forming unique combinations; many 

 having deep throats of yellow, white, black or maroon, in charming contrast. There is nothing among Petunias 

 that can at all be compared with them either in size, form or colors, and will soon be growoi to the exclusion of 

 all other strains of this popular flower. In fact when once seen no one could be satisfied with the old varieties. 

 A notable acquisition to the list of summer annuals. 20c per pkt. ; 3 pkts. for 50c. 



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