GARDEN >IANUAL TOTl THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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generally gives best satisfaction, flowers white 

 and yellow, 1^ to 2 inches in diameter. Price, 

 10c. each; §1.00 per dozen. 



Phlox. Perennial. A collection embracing 

 every color from purest white to darkest 

 crimson; 15 cents each. 



Steckler's blue perennial phlox. Used very 

 very largely for border ulants; 73c. per doz., 

 $4.00 per 100. 





Phrynium Variegatum. 



Phrynl'jm Variegatum. An elegant pot 

 plant. The leaves are briglit, pale green, 

 beautifully variegated with white and gold, 

 the variegations being extremely diversiiied. 

 In some leaves the whole area is white, in 

 others only one-half, in others again it is con- 

 fined to the interspaces' between two or three 

 of the nerves, while i:i others it is reduced to 

 a few stripes; 25 and 50 cents each. 



Pllea. Arborea. (Artillery Plant.) A 

 pretty little plant of drooping habit, resem- 

 bling the fern, it is aiine basket plant. Price, 

 20c. each. Large plants, 50 cents. 



Plumbago. Capexsis. A plant worthy of 

 more general cultivation; producing large 

 trusses of delicate azure flowers. Excellent for 

 bedding out in summer or growing in pots for 

 single specimen plants; 15, 25 and 50 cts. each. 



Capexsis Alba — Equally as desirable as 

 Plumbago Capensis and identical in every 

 respect but color, which in this variety is 

 beautiful creamy white; 15, 25 and 50c. each. 



larger, often 

 15, 25 and 50 



Plumbago. Sanguixia — This Plumbago is 

 very distinct fi-om the other two, having 

 large leaves, making a dwarf, bushy plant, 

 and the trusses of bloom are 

 measuring 10 inches in length; 

 cents each. 



Primula. Chinese Primrose. Splendid 

 winter blooming plants, doing well in cool 

 rooms. Colors include white, rose, blue, 

 crimson and other shades; flowers variously 

 cut and fringed. Prices, 25 and 50 cents. 



Primula Obconica. A lovely perpetual 

 blooming primrose and admirably adapted to 

 growing in a cool green house. The flowers 

 are not large, but are profusely borne in loose 

 trusses and are of a delicate rosy lilac, shad- 

 ing to Avhite, and possess the true primrose 

 fragrance. It is in bloom fully nine months 

 of the year and some plants have kept up a 

 succession of bloom during the entire season; 

 25 cents each. 



Pentas Carnia. Short grov/ing plant of 

 fine quality. Flowers of waxy pink bloom- 

 ing in clusters; 20 to 40 cents each. 



Pentas Alba. Same as above, the differ- 

 ence being in the flower, which is a pure 

 white; 20 to 40 cents. 



Petunias. (Double.) 

 25 cents each. 



Polnsettlas. Double 

 bracts of this new kind 



clusters, which fill up the center. It is strik- 

 ingly gorgeous of a most brilliant and vivid 

 scarlet color; 25 to 50 cents each. 



In all colors; 15 and 



Fj.owerixg. The 

 are gathered into 



Poinsettias. 



Pulcherrima. A tropical plant of gorgeous 

 beauty, the bracts of leaves that surround 

 the flower being in well known specimens one 

 foot in diameter and of the most dazzling 

 scarlet; 25c., 50c. and $1.00 each. 



Rhododendron. The most showy and 

 magnificent hardy evergreen shrub that 

 grows. Will thriy^ on any good soil in the 

 blaze of the sun^. Prefers well prepared soil 



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