SELECT AND REMARKABLE VARIETIES. 



M. C. Whitney— One of the most shorry and magnificent of all 

 the double Geraniums. The flowers are produced in the great- 

 est profusion during the entire season, a bed of this variety alone 

 presenting a most dazzling sight. The florets are of unusual 

 size, and are of the brightest cherry red; very brilliant and 

 beautiful. 



Bruant — The Giant among Geraniums. One of the best bedding 

 Geraniums of all varieties. The plant rebounds in vigor ; foliage 

 strong, striking, and of perfect habit. Color of the flower is a 

 bright vermilion red of most pleasing shade. The flowers are 

 absolutely perfect in shape, color and make-up; trusses excep- 

 tionally large, and borne in immense spherical balls, often meas- 

 uring eight inches in diameter. It makes a compact, dense 

 growth, and has all the qualities that go to make the perfect 

 bedder that it is. Fine also in pots. It is of the semi-double 

 type, the most striking of all, only the double form takes place 

 near the base of the petals, allowing them free development, 

 and at the same time showing the semi-double type. It embodies 

 all the advantages of both types, the perfect development and 

 free blooming qualities of the singles, the fullness and beauty of 

 the doubles, without the great fault of having the florets damp 

 and drop off and become unsightly when planted outside. 

 I have an immense stock of this variety. Try a dozen or ^SSi 

 more of this beautiful Geranium in a bed or clump, and it l^^aJ 

 will delight you the summer through with its handsome 

 foliage and pleasing colors, which this Geranium alone possesses. 



Mozart — Another favorite Geranium, possessing all the good 

 qualities of a bedder, and exceedingly rich and showy when a 

 number of plants of this variety are massed together. Florets 

 are of fine form, of a rich bright crimson color, shading lighter 

 toward the center of the flower. Trusses are of a large size, and 

 very fine. 



Swanley Double White — One of the finest double white Geran- 

 iums, the flowers being a perfectly pure, clear white, of large 

 size and immense trusses. A fine bedder, as it blooms as pro- 

 fusely as the other colors. The perfect double flowers are un- 

 surpassed for cut blooms, and retain their snowy whiteness even 

 in the heat of summer. Truly an everblooming variety. 



Mrs. Charles Pease — No one who has not seen this lovely pink 

 Geranium as it is grown in the beds and borders of the Northern 

 parks, can imagine the beauty that lies in a flower of that color. 



Of a deep soft rose, rather pink, but fresh and bright, the blos- 

 soms are perfect in form, and borne well and clear above the fol- 

 iage. The long beds of it seen in Chicago parks, with their 

 edging of Golden Bedder Coleus. formed the most beautiful Ge- 

 ranium planting ever seen, and the combination is delightful. 

 It stands the sun perfectly, and is the finest double variety of 

 any color for massing, when a delicate and artistic effect is de- 

 sired . 



Riiy Bias — One of the finest Geraniums of its color, and equally 

 as valuable for pot culture as for bedding. Trusses are of im- 

 mense size, flaming salmon center, shaded with white, overlaid 

 with pink. 



Ernest Reyer — ^A fine variety in a pleasing and valuable color, 

 and one that is sure to be in the front rank of favorites. Color, 

 a lovely rich rose, shading lighter at center. Trusses enormous ; 

 plant of finest habit. 



Theodore de Banville — One of the most striking of aU the 

 double Geraniums. Color glowing fiery red, shading the nearest 

 to yellow of any of this set. A good gi'ower and free bloomer. 

 Trusses very large. 



Josephine Gerbeaux — This variety produces trusses of immense 

 size, and the largest florets of any of the double varieties. In 

 color it is quite distinct, the center being cherry red, shading to 

 rosy lilac, with white markings on the whole flower. 



W. P. Simmons — This is uncjuestionably one of the very best 

 dark colored Geraniums, both for pot culture and for massing in 

 tbe open ground. Color beautiful deep blood red with orange 

 shadings." Extra fine in every respect. 



Bonne de A'illeneuve — One of the most attractive and yet one 

 of the daintiest of all the double Geraniums. The florets are of 

 large size, beautiful form, and of a deep, glowing pink color, 

 crinkled and crape-like in appearance. A perfect dream from 

 fairyland in loveliness. A sturdy grower and profuse bloomer. 



B. K. Bliss — A perfect marvel among the Geraniums; a bed of 

 this variety causing a sensation wherever gT0^vn. The flowers 

 are produced in the greatest profusion upon medium sized trusses, 

 and are bright, velvety, glowing scarlet, extra large, and of an 

 intense even color. The habit of the plant is good, and it may 

 be classed as one of the freest bloomers 'in cultivation ; has no 

 superior for either beddine or pot culture. 



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