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1 POINSETTIA.—wWhite flowering; distinct 
from the old variety. 50c., $1.00 and $2.00 
each. 
RUDBECKIA (Golden Glow).—Grows 6 
feet high, branching freely and bearing by 
the hundreds on long graceful steams ex- 
quisite double flowers of the _ brightest 
golden color and as large as a Cactus 
Dahlia. As cut flowers the blooms last 
well. Perfectly hardy and blooms con- 
tinuously throughout the summer months. 
30. each. 
RUSSELIA.—A most useful basket or 
vase plant, producing numerous long, wiry 
stems, which are virtually leafless. Upon 
these stems and branches the flowers are 
borne, which are about one inch long, 
tubular and brilliant scarlet color, and are 
produced in the greatest freedom. 25c. each. 
SWAINSCNIA OBR SWANFLOWER.—A 
Superb Ever Blooming Plant. Of vigorous, 
healthy habit of growth, it blooms the 
year round. 
Alba (White).—Maenificent, 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 varie- 
ties is strikingly beautiful. Be sure to try 
both. 25c. and 50c. each. 
STROBILANTEHUS DYERIANUS.—An 
excellent bedding plant as well as a beau- 
tiful foliage plant for pot culture, it 
forms a compact 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 
unapproached by any other plant. The 
flowers are violet blue, borne in immense 
racemes. 15c. to 25c. each. 
SANSEVIERA ZEYLANICA.—A  decora- 
tive 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 crosswise 
with broad, white variegations on a dark 
green ground. It 
more unique ornamental 
especially when it is bloom. 
plan than this, 
25c., 50c. and 
$1.00 each. 
SAXIFRAGE SARMENTOSA. — (Beef- 
steak Plant).—Fine for hanging baskets 
and partly shady locations. 15ce and 25c. 
each. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS.—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, whether 
used singly or in mixed groups. The plant 
blazes out in dazzling scarlet and the color 
lasts all summer and fall. Price, 15c. each; 
$1.50 per dozen. 
SALVIA PATENS.—A hardy free flower- 
ing light blue variety, fine for cut flowers. 
15c. each; $1.50 per dozen. 
TRITOMA PFITZERII.—Red Hot Poker 
Plant.—The greatest bedding plant ever in- 
troduced, surpassing the finest Cannas for 
attractiveness and brilliancy, showy as the 
Gladolius as a cut flower, and blooms in- 
cessantly from June until November. 
Plants perfectly hardy with protection. 
Plants show from 6 to 20 grand flower 
stalks all the time, each holding a great 
cluster of flame- covered flowers" of inde- 
scribable beauty and _brilliancy. Each 
is “difficult. to find. a= 
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 he first summer. Each, 40c.; 4 
for $1.50. 
Violets. 
Large Fiowering.—For bordering flower 
beds. 25c. per dozen, $1.50 per 100. 
Lady Hume Campbell.—A vigorous vari- 
ety, blooming with extraordinary freedom. 
Large double flowers of azure blue; richly 
perfumed. 15c. each; $1.50 per dozen. 
Giant.—Large dark purple violet of great 
substance. 5c. each; 40c. a dozen; $2.50 a 
hundred. 
Princess of Wales.—Single, true violet 
blue, grand. 15c. each; $1.50 per dozen. 
VERBENAS—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, crimson, 
pink, blue, white, ete. Mixed seedlings, 
60c. per dozen; pot grown to color, 10c. 
each; $1.00 per dozen. p eREPE plants, 15c. 
each; $1.50 per dozen. 
Ferns. 
ASPLENIUM NIDUS AVIS.—The Bird’s 
Nest Fern).—An interesting species with 
large dark green foliage. 50c. and $1.00 each. 
NEPHROLEPIS 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. 
NEPEHROLEPIS TUBEROSA PLUMOSA. 
The fronds are long and narrow, the pin- 
nules beautiful plumrose, 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. 
NEPHROLEPIS SUPERBISSIMA.—(The 
Fluffy Ruffles Fern).—Foliage dark green, 
irregular shaped fronds, heavily im- 
bricated, the pinnae over-lapping, very 
sturdy in its habit. 25c., 50c. and $1.00. 
NEPHROLEPIS ROBUSTA.—As_ the 
name indicates, a robust growing variety 
of the Pierson type. The introducer claims 
that it never reverts to the Boston type, 
producing only character leaves. A nov- 
elty of merit. 25c., 50c. and $1.00 each. 
NEPSHROLEPIS ELEGANTISSIMA.— 
Tarrytown Fern.—This is a “sport” from 
the Piersonii, in which, the plumy pecu- 
liarity of the original form is even more 
distinctly developed, the side pinnae being 
again subdivided and standing at right 
angles to the midrib, making both sides of 
the frond equally beautiful, while at the 
same time the plant is of much more com- 
pact habit, growing only one-half as tall, 
but with fronds nearly twice as wide, 
making it a much more desirable plant for 
all purposes.- 25c., 50c., 75c: and $1.00; 
extra large specimens, $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00. 
NEPHROLEPIS WHITMANTI.—Phila- 
delphia Lace Fern.—The most graceful of 
all the Nephrolepis; very choice.  25c., 50c., 
75c. and $1.50 each. 
NEPHROLEPIS PIERSONTII.—Ostrich 
Plume Fern. 25c., 50c., 75c., $1.00 and 
$1.50 each. 
NEPHRCLEPIS AMERPOHDLI (or Baby 
Breath Fern).—The latest novelty; the 
foliage is finely divided and very graceful 
in appearance. It is indeed a beauty. 25c., 
50c., 75c. and $1.00 
