4 WM. C. BECKERT, 



AMARANTHUS. 



Showy blooming plants with long racemes of curious 

 flowers and brilliant foliage, hha. 



Caudatus. (Love-lies-bleeding.) Blood-red, drooping. 

 5 cts. 



Cruentus. (Prince's Feather.) Erect flowering, bright 

 scarlet. 5 cts. 



Atropurpureus. Blood-red foliage, drooping. Sets. 



Tricolor. (Joseph's Coat.) Leaves red, j-ellow and 

 green. 5 cts. 



Melancholicus. Foliage blood-red. 5 cts. 



Salicifolius. (Fountain Plant.) In habit pyramidal and 

 drooping ; leaves bronzy green, changing to orange, carmine 

 and bronze. 5 cts. 



Abyssinicus. Splendid as solitary specimens on the 

 lawn. 5 cts. 



Bicolor-Rubra. Carmine scarlet ; splendid. 10 cts. 



Tricolor-Splendens. (New.) A great improvement on 

 a tricolor. Beautiful mixed sorts. 10 cts. 



Henderi. Foliage rosy carmine, orange, buff, golden 

 yellow and olive green. 5 cts. 



Monstrosus. (Giant Prince's Feather.) Blood-red 

 flower spikes. 10 cts. 



Pyramidalis. Crowned by an immense flower spike, 

 with numerous branching side spikes, grows about twelve 

 feet in circumference, tapering to a point. Pkt. 10 cts. 



ANTIRRHINUM. (Snap Dragon.) 

 Fine for summer and autumn flowering; the improved 

 varieties are large and fine. hp. 

 Majus. Tall varieties. 5 els. 



Nanum Striata. New striped sorts of great beautj-. 

 Mixed. 5 cts. 



Tom Thumb. Dwarf, growing sorts. Mixed. 5 cts. 



ANEMONE. 



Among the earliest and brightest of our spring flowers, 

 succeed well in any sunny situation. hp. Coronaria. 

 Mixed. 5 cts. 



ANTIGONON LEPTOPUS. 



Called "Mexican Mountain Rose"; a fine climber; 

 flowers entirely distinct in color, a rich shade of carmine 

 scarlet, borne in large clusters. hhp., but perfectly 

 hardy in the Southern States; a grand greenhouse climber. 

 Pkt. 15 cts. 



ANAGALLIS. 



Pretty low growing plants, very suitable for rock-work. 

 Flowers of various shades of red, blue, crimson and white, 

 hha. Fine mixed. 5 cts. 



ANCHUSA. 



Italica. Remarkably effective border plants ; growing 

 freely in shaded situations; excellent for shrubberies or the 

 wild garden ; intense blue. hp. 5 cts. 



Capensis. Charming azure blue flowers; long bloomer; 

 splendid for bouquets, hh. 5 cts. 



ANGELONIA. 



Excellent as a pot plant for window or greenhouse, and 

 very ornamental for the summer garden, tp. 



Grandiflora. Scarlet, with white spots; cup-shaped; 

 borne on long spikes. Pkt. 20 cts. 



AQUILEGIA. (Columbine.) 



Blooms freely early in the spring and summer, and pro- 

 duces beautiful, curiously formed and variously colored 

 flowers. 



Aquilegia. (White Spurred.) Flowers of a large size; 

 pure snow white with long spurs of elegant shape and borne 

 in lavish quantity; charming for group and excellent for 

 pot plants. Pkt. 15 cts. 



ALLEGHENY, PA. 



Chrysantha. (Golden Spurred.) A strong grower, 

 forming bushy plants three leet high, bearing all through 

 the season an abundance of bright golden vellow flowers. 

 10 cts. 



Durandi, fi. pi. Striped double; very fine. 5 cts. 

 Alba, Fl. Pleno. Double white. 5 cts. 

 Double Mixed Varieties. 5 cts. 



ARGYREIA TILLIAEFOLU. (Mammotb East India 

 Climber.) 



A grand climbing plant of wonderfully rapid growth- 

 large green, heart shaped leaves; very large flowers of 

 white and violet. The seed should be sown in the house 

 and transplanted in the garden in the middle of May. 

 hhp., but remains out all winter in the Southern States; a 

 splendid climber. Pkt. 15 cts. 



ARABIS ALPINA. 



A useful, very early blooming plant, suitable for rock- 

 work and edging; flowers white, hp. 5 cts. 



ARISTILOCHIA. (Ducbman s Pipe.) 



Sipho. A splendid hardy climber for covering walls, 

 trellises, etc. Flowers brownish-purple ; leaves large and 

 glossy; perennial ; thirty feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Elegans. An elegant new variety, with flow ers of a 

 dark purple and white produced in great profusion. Pkt. 

 25 cts. 



BAPTISIA. (False Indigo.) 



Produces bright blue pea-shaped flowers on long spikes, 

 ha. 5 cts. 



BARTONIA AUREA. 



With downy and thistle-like foliage ; flowers large and of 

 bright yellow color, ha. 5 cts. 



BEGONIA, TUBEROUS-ROOTED. 



Of a branching habit, producing a profusion of bright 

 and elegant drooping flowers, tp. 



Single varieties in splendid mixture. 25 cts. 

 Double varieties in splendid mixture. 25 cts. 



BETA. 



A variety of the common beet, with extremelv ornamen- 

 tal and highly colored foliage; very effective for beds in the 

 lawn. 



Silver Crimson, Scarlet and Golden. All colors mixed. 

 10 cts. 



