FINE N0VELTIE5 OF RECENT INTRODUCTION. 



Whoever has visited our large city parks will never forget the beautiful and wonderful designs and effects produced by the 

 skillful display of Coleus, looking like oriental rugs spread invitingly out on the green sward. Truly the Coleus is the gardener's paint 

 box. from which may be produced, with his artistic touch, the most beautiful pictures imaginable. In this field there 

 is full opportunity for an interesting exercise of the taste of all flower lovers. Beds of any and every shape are desirable, f^^Sk 

 which may sometimes be simply filled with plants of one dark variety edged with Golden Crowii, for instance, which 

 will grow more beautiful as the season advances. Should you desire something more fanciful, sketch out your design 

 and then follow it in your bed, which may ba readily done, using as many varieties of Coleus as your design may suggest. The plants 

 in any event should be set about eight inches apart, to get immediate and lasting effect. These plants are all first class varieties. 



STANDARD VARIETIES THAT AS YET HAVE NO SUPERIOR! 

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Chas. D. Jacobs— A beautiful vai-iety of exquisite coloring. 

 Center of leaves soft cream, mottled and veined with rosy ma- 

 genta. Outer border of leaves mottled green and deep rich 

 wine, producing a brilliant and unique effect. A strong grower 

 and showy bedder. 



Bird of Paradise — A novel and unique sort, having the leaf 

 oddly blotched with bright wine and yellow, green and mahog- 

 any, no two leaves being colored alike. Each plant is so brill- 

 iant and varied in its coloring that it presents a bouquet of itself. 

 A strong vigorous grower, it makes a magnificent firstclass 

 bedder in every respect. 



John Goode — A fine stm-dy grower of rich, striking beauty. 

 The leaves are a brisrht golden yellow color, oddly mottled with 

 green, making it a distinct and desirable varietv. 



Beckwith's Gem— The leaves of this variety are as handsome 

 as a beautiful Begonia in richness of coloring. Ground color 

 deep, rich mahogany, shading to beautiful velvety red toward 

 the edge. Daintily mottled and outlined with bright green and 

 golden yellow. A vigorous grower and grand bedding variety of 

 exquisite coloring. 



Golden Crown— The strongest grower of all the yellow varie- 

 ties, possessing a coloring entirely distinct from all others. A 

 vein- showy and striking variety and greatly admired on account 

 of its rich, pure yellow color and finely shaped foliage. 



Verschaffe [tie— Deep, rich blood red', vei-y delicately outlined 

 with golden green. The finest of bedders, being of strong con- 

 stitution and strikinglv rich and beautiful. 



LieNelge — This is the nearest approach to a black that we have. 

 Leaves are a solid mass of very deep dense wine color, and are 

 commandingly beautiful. A vigorous gi-ower. 



Brightness— Center of leaf bright vermilion, surrounded with 

 black blotches and bright emerald green. Whole leaf is deli- 

 cately veined, and one color is so blended into the other as to 

 render it exceedingly soft and' beautiful. The coloring is dis- 

 tinct from that of every other sort, making it a valuable acqui- 

 sition to the Coleus family. 



Golden Bedder— A fine variety, especially adapted for edging 

 beds of other varieties, as it is somewhat dwarf in its habit. 

 Leaves are evenly colored a rich golden yellovy ; very showy and 

 handsome. 



Black Chief— A grand dark variety of sturdy growth. Leaves 

 are beautifully and deeply serrated and shirred ; color a dense, 

 deep mahogany, so intense as to be almost black. Outer edge 

 most delicate penciling of greenish yellow imaginable. A very 

 rich and beautiful Coleus. 



Gold Mine— Center of leaves a bright golden cream delicately 

 and softly shading to bi-ight green toward the edge of leaf. Very 

 handsomely and oddly serrated, and mottled with green and 

 cream. A fine bedder and strong grower. Very rich and beau- 

 tiful. 



Hiawatha — A very strong,- handsome sort that is at once both, 

 striking and beautiful. Ground color of the leaves, a rich, deep 

 cream, oddly mottled with light green and deep wine. A rich 

 effect when used by itself in a bed. 



SPECIAL OFFER! Plants, 10c Each. The entire Set of 12 Varieties, 75c; $4 per 100, by Express. 



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