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SCABIOSA. 



SCABIOSA (Mourning Bride). 



A class of popular, showy plants, with elegant 

 fragrant flowers of different colors and shades; 

 their flowers are borne on long stems, making 

 Them very suitable for cut flowers or bouquets. 

 Fine for bedding, mixea borders, etc.; blooms 

 profusely until frost. Hardy annuals. 



Snowball. The flowers of this pretty Sca- 

 biosa are large, of purest white and very 

 double. The stems are very strong and the 

 foliage luxuriant. This plant comes quite 

 true from seed and is sure to be liked for 

 vases and bouquets 5 



Nana. Fl. PI. Habit more dwarf, flowers 

 quite double, all colors mixed, 1 ft 5 



TORENIA. 



Charming plants for pot culture, vases or 

 ■hanging baskets. They succeed well in the open 

 ground in summer; are exceedingly free bloom- 

 ■ers, and the flowers of great beauty. Tender 

 <innual. 



Fonrnieri. Lovely velvet- blue flowers, with 

 thiee large spots of darkest blue and a 

 bright yellow throat 5 



VENUS LOOKING GLASS. 



(Campanula Speculum). 



A free-flowering pretty little plant, especially 

 adapted for beds, ribbons, or edgings; grows 

 ■well in any garden soil. Hardy annual. 

 Fine Mixed, all colors, 6 in 4 



VINCA (Periwinkle.) 



Free blooming plants of great beauty, with 

 'Shinin<^ green "foliage and handsome flowers, 

 either adapted for bedding or pot culture for 

 winter blooming in the house. Tender perennial. 

 Fine Mixed. 2 ft 5 



VIRGINIAN STOCK. 



A class of pretty little profuse flowering, 

 sweet scented, hardy annuals, well adapted for 

 small beds, edgings or masses; fine for bouquets. 

 Tine Mixed, all colors; 6 in 4 



VISCARIA. 



Handsome annuals, making a splendid show 

 when massed; targe, round, single flowers of 

 white, scarlet, blue, flesh, margined and marked 

 witii various colors. Hardy annuals. 

 Tine Mixed, all colors: 18 in 4 



TOM THUMB TERBENA. 



VERBENA. 



A well-known favorite, and is valuable for 

 bedding on account of their low trailing habit, 

 and the dazzling brilliancy of their beautiful 

 flowers; blooms freely the first season from seed, 

 and are more healthy and make larger and 

 hardier plants than if grown from cuttings; 

 requires a very rich, mellow soil. The seeds 

 sprout very unevenly, and some will not be 

 started at tbe time others must be removed, 

 hence the soil should be disturbed as little as 

 possible. Half-hardy vereiinials. 



Hybrida Compacta> or Tom Thnmb. A new 



and tine strain. The plants form almost cir- 

 cular bushes of about two feet in diameter, 

 throwing up in a siHgularly compact man- 

 ner, on stiff and erect stems, a great num- 

 ber of flowers, which are elegantly carried 

 above the dark green foliage. The indi- 

 vidual flowers are large and well forcned. 

 The mixture contains a great variety of 

 color 10 



Mammoth, or Large Flowering. Flowers of 

 this Mammoth variety when well grown 

 measure fully nine inches in circumfer- 

 ence. Plant more vigorous than the ordi- 

 nary variety, and far excel them in dazzling 

 richness and variety of colors. The dis- 

 tinct white eye adds greatly to their strik- 

 ing and beautiful appearance 10 



New Italian Striped. Brilliant colors, striped 

 ornation-like un various colored grounds, 

 best mixed 10 



Alba. Pure white; a desirable variety for 

 florists or for the cemetery 19 



Extra Choice Mixed. Saved from large named 

 varieties of the richest and most brilliant 

 colors 10 



Tine Mixed 5 



MAMMOTH VERBE5A. 



