GARDEN MANUAL FOR 
THE SOUTHERN STATES. 145 
or four feet and are beautifully striped 
eross-wise with broad, white variegations 
on a dark green ground. It is difficult to 
find a more unique or ornamental plant 
than this, especially when it is in bloom; 
25 and 50 cents each. 
Swainsonia or Swanflower. 
Ever-blooming Plant.—Just imagine a4 
plant that is fully as pretty as a Fern 
in elegant sprays of 30 or 40 flowers each, 
which in form and fragrance are equal to 
Sweet Peas, which it strongly resembles. 
You can then form an idea of the Swain- 
sonia. Of vigorous, healthy habit of 
growth, it blooms the year round. 
Alba. (White.) Magnificent 
A Superb | 
Salvia Splendens. Bon Fire and Silver 
Spot.—This magnificent scarlet sage or 
salvia has three times the flowering capa- 
city of ordinary scarlet sages. The 
flowers are produced so abundantly as to 
bend the branches and suggest the name. 
Drooping Spikes for this superb type. It 
is altogether attractive and showy and 
one of the best for decorative purposes, 
eS . ' whether used singly or in mixed groups. 
bearing the utmost profusion of flowers | The plant blazes out in dazzling scarlet 
and the color lasts all summer and fall. 
Price, 10 and 15 cents each. 
Salvia Patens. A hardy free flowering 
ight blue variety, fine for cut fiowers. 
| 10ce. and 15c. each. 
large | 
satiny-white flowers just like Sweet Peas. | 
When you see them you will agree with | 
us that they are simply exquisite. 
Splendens. (Pink.) An _ exceedingly 
rare and beautiful variety, identical with 
Alba, except the flowers, which are a 
deep shiny pink. The contrast between 
the two varieties is strikingly beautiful. | 
Be sure to try both. Strong plants, 
prices 15, 25 and 50 cents each. 
Strobilanthus Dyerianus. 
Strobilanthus Dyerianus. An excellent 
bedding plant es well as a beautiful foli- 
age plant for pot culture, it forms a com- 
pact bush 18 inches high, with leaves 6 | 
to 9 inches long; of a beautiful metallic 
purple, shading into light rose, with a 
light green margin, a combination unap- 
proached by any other plant. The flow- 
ers are violet blue, borne in immense 
racemes; 15 to 25 cents. 
Tritoma Pfitzerii. 
Tritoma Pfitzerii. (Red Hot Poker 
Plant.) The greacest bedding plant ever 
introduced, surpassing the finest Cannas 
for attractiveness and brilliancy, showy 
as the Gladiolus as a cut flower, and 
blooms incessantly from June until No- 
vember. Plants perfectly hardy with 
protection. Plants show from 6 to 20 
grand flower stalks all the time, each 
holding, at a height of 3 to 4 feet, a great 
cluster of flame-clored flowers of inde- 
scribable beauty and brilliancy. Each 
cluster keeps perfect several weeks, and 
when it fades two or three more are 
ready to take its place. For cutting it is 
unsurpassed, as the beautiful long spikes 
keep several weeks in water. Strong 
plants that will bloom the first summer. 
Each, 30c.; 4 for $1.00. 
For a Sure Crop Frotscher’s Superior Large Late Flat Dutch Cabbage. 
