GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



Ill 



SANSEVIEBA ZEYLANICA. — A deco- 

 rative plant of great beauty and value. A 

 beautiful plant, splendidly adapted for the 

 decoration of drawing-rooms or halls, as 

 it stands drought and dust with impunity, 

 and requires scarcely any water. The 

 leaves grow to a length of three or four 

 feet, and are beautifully striped cross- 

 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, 25c. 

 and 50c. each. 



SAXIPRAGE SABMENTOSA. — (B e e f- 

 steak Plant). — Fine for hanging baskets 

 and partly shady locations. 15c. and 25c. 

 each. 



SAI.VIA SFI.ENDENS. — Bon Fire and 

 Silver Spot. — This magnificent scarlet sage 

 or salvia has three times the flowering 

 capacity 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, wheth- 

 er used singly or in mixed groups. The 

 plant blazes out in dazzling scarlet and the 

 color lasts all summer and fall. Price, 

 10c. and 15c. each. 



SAIiVIA PATENS. — A hardy free flower- 

 ing light blue variety, fine for cut flowers. 

 10c. and 15c. each, $1.00 and $1.50 per 

 dozen. 



Tritoma Pfitzerii. 

 TBITOMA PPIT ZEBU.— Bed Hot Poker 



Plant. — The greatest bedding plant ever in- 

 troduced, surpassing the finest Cannas for 

 attractiveness and brilliancy, showy as the 

 Gladiolus as a cut flower, and blooms in- 

 cessantly from June until November. 

 IMants perfectly hardy with protection. 

 r*!ants show from 6 to 20 grand flower 

 stalks all the time, each holding a great 

 cluster of flame-covered flowers of in- 

 dpscribable 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 un- 

 surpassed, as the beautiful long spikes 

 keep several weeks in water. Strong 

 plants that will bloom the first summer. 

 Rach, 30c.; 4 for $1.00. 



VIOLETS. 



Iiarg'e Plowering-. — For bordering flower 

 beds. 20c. per dozen, $1.00 per 100. 



Ziady Hume Camptoell. — A vigorous vari- 

 ety, blooming with extraordinary freedom. 

 Large double flowers, of azure blue; richly 

 perfumed. 10c. each; 75c. per dozen. 



Giant. — Large dark purple violet of great 

 substance. 5c. each; 30c. a dozen, $1.50 a 

 hundred; large clumps, 25c. each. 



Swanley's White Violet. 



Swanley's Wliite. — Perfectly double, pure 

 white flowers of fine size and rich fra- 

 grance. By far the best of all white 

 Violets in freedom of bloom. 10c. each; 

 75c. per dozen. 



VEBBENAS. — We offer the most distinct 

 varieties of these useful bedding plants. 

 All are of the mammoth or large-flowering 

 type. The colors range through all the 

 different shades of scarlet, purple, crim- 

 son, pink, blue, white, etc. Mixed seed- 

 lings, 5c. each, 50c. per dozen; pot grown 

 to color, 10c. each, 75c. per dozen. 



FINE NEW FERNS OF 

 SPECIAL MERIT. 



Choice varieties of special merit, par- 

 ticular attention is given these little plant 

 pets, and we take great pride in growing 

 them to the best treatment possible. We 

 offer them to you in first-class condition. 



We have one green-house devoted 

 specially to the growing of Ferns, and 

 have the most popular varieties by the 

 hundred, especially Maiden Hair and 

 Boston Ferns. 



N-EPHBOI.EPIS SMITHII. — An improved 

 variety of the Baby Breath Fern. The 

 fronds are of much stronger substance, 

 upright growing habit; quite an improve- 

 ment on the old variety. 25c., 50c. and 

 $1.00 each. 



NEPHBOI.EPIS TUBEBOSA PI.UMOSA. 

 The fronds are long and narrow; the pin-- 

 nules beautiful plumose, which are of 

 light color, giving the fronds a beautiful 

 effect on account of the two distinct 

 shades, as well as its graceful waviness. 

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



We strong-ly advise shipping" by Express whenever practicable; this will enable ns to 



send mnch strong-er plants and guarantee safer delivery. If ordered by 



mail add 20 per cent, of the value of plants to cover postage. 



