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PASSIFIiORA, Incarnata. A hardy herbaceous perennial variety, requiring Vjut a slight 

 protection of leaves during the winter; foliage smooth, tri-lobed, tiowers large, nearly white, 

 with a triple purple and flesh-colored crown. Per pkt. of 10 seeds, 25 cts. 

 PETTXIA, Hybrida Nana Compacta 3Iultiflora. (3"e?r Du-arf Jnim>t"h/e Ptfunia). 

 This new variety is worthy of general attention. a.s it enriches our gardens with a Petunia 

 which is reaUy dwarf , and a profuse bloomer. When only .'i inches high, they begin to un- 

 fold their charming flowers. Each plant forms a compact and densely-branched bush 5 to 8 

 inches high by the same in diameter. The predominating c<<lor is ol a brilliant cherry-red, 

 and marked with a regularly formed white star. This Petunia is very eflective for massing, 

 etc., and admirably adapted' for pot culture ; as a market plant it will be found fur superior 

 to the old tall-£rrowing varieties. Hajf-liardy j^erennial, blooming from seed the first season ; 

 treated like hardy annuals. Pkt. of 50 seeds, 25 cts. 

 iILOX DRl'MMONDI, Grandiflora Violacea. This new large-flowering variety is 

 of strong, compact growth, with beautiful flowers, of a violet color, and white eye; hardy 

 annual; height, 1.S inches. Pkt., 20 cts. 

 PHLOX DRUM-HOXDI, Xana Atropurpurea. A new dwarf, compact-growing variety, 

 wita showy large blood-red flowers; fine for either pot or out-door culture; hardy annual ; 

 hei2^ht not exceeding 10 inches. Pkt., 20 cts. 

 PYRE THRUM, Anream Laciniatam. A new hardy perennial herbaceous plant, for 

 marginal line-*, beds, etc., with beautiful light yellow lacerated, or fringed foliage; height. 

 4 inches. Pkt., 10 cts. 

 SALVIA, Farinacea. A new first-class, 

 branching shrubby plant 3 feet hi^h, 

 suitable for the green-house as well as 

 for summer bedding, of a habit similar 

 to the Salvia Splendens, and floweringr 

 at the same time. If sown early in the 

 spring, the ends of the branches begin 

 to show the flower-spikes in July ; these 

 are light blue, from to IS inches long; 

 it is not so much the individual flowers, 

 but the woolly-haired bracts colored 

 from light to dark blue, which consti- 

 tute its special beauty, and remain on 

 for mc-nths: the beautiful shade of color, 

 and the readiness with which it flowers 

 in the open ground, combined with it> 

 easy culiivarion, will soon make this 

 new Sage a universal favorite in our 

 gardens. Pkt. of 20 seeds, 25 cts. 

 SALVIA, Inrolncrata. Another new 

 first-class Sa^e from Mexico, and cer- 

 tainly one of the most showy species. 

 In general habit it resembles the pre- 

 ceding variety, but the leaves, stalks, 



and bracts are glabrous; the inflorescence consists of a long flower-spike with rose-colored 

 bracts, and splendid rosy crimson flowers of 1^ inches in length, in densely arranged whorls 

 of six flowers. It is a green-house shrubby plant, and treated the same as >Sahia Farin- 

 ace-i. Pkt. of 15 seeds, 'lb cts. 

 TOREXIA, Bailloni. A valuable new species, at once distinguishable from the other 

 Turenias by the size and charming color of its flowers, which are of a bright golden-yellow 

 with a deep brownish-red throtit, and trailing habit. Planted with the favorite forenia 

 Fournieri, which has already acquired such p pularity, a most beatitiful eflect will be 

 obtained. The Torenias thrive well in the summer in open borders; in winter they enliven 

 the green-house or conservatory with their beautiful flowers, which few ether plants pro- 

 duce as freely and in such long succession. Special attention is called to this import", .i 

 novdty, so much the more as the Torenias are, like tender annuals, easily raised from s(ed ; 

 they may be sown in the green-house or hot-bed. Pkt. of about 50 seeds, 20 cts. 

 XERAXTHEHUrtl, Annunm Superbissimum. This new variety has flowers as double 

 as a Ranunculus, globular-shaped, of a 

 beautiful red color, and entirely free from 

 projecting marginal ray florets.' It is said 

 to be the finest form yet obtained of that 

 favorite garden flower; it will be found 

 exceedingly useful for mixing with other 

 varieties of everlasting flowers and grasses 

 for perpetual bouquets. Pkt., 20 cts. 

 XERA\THE.>IU>I, AnnDum Superbis- 

 simum Album. A new variety of the 

 above, only difiering in color, M-hich is 

 pure white,' and very double like the illus- 

 tration. Pkt., 2o cts. XERA.VTHEMUM AXNTTM SX Pi;!iB!--I MUM. 





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