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SCHIZAXTHUS. A splendid class of plants, combining elegance of growth wiih a rich 

 and various-colored profusion of flowers, fine for greenhouse or out-door culture; half- 

 hardy annual ; height 2 feet. 



Graxdiflorus Ocllatus. Various shades of colors, with a beautiful blue centre 5 



Fine Mixed Varieties. All colors of the tall-growing varieties mixed 5 



PiNXATUS, Tom Thumb. This is a new dwarf variety, 1 foot high, of pyramidal shape, 



and covered with pretty, black-eyed purple flowers 10 



SEDU3I, MIXED (Stone-Crop). Apretty and useful little plant, growing freely on rock 

 or rustic-work, hanging-baskets, etc. ; during the summer they expand their brilliant 

 star-shaped flowers in great profusion ; hardy jjerennial ; mixed colors and varieties ; 



3 inches 10 



SENECIO, or JACOBOEA, MIXED. Free-growing plants, producing gay-colored 

 double flowers in profusion, for beds or ribbon-gardening, delighting in alight, rich soil; 



hardy annual ; beautiful mixed colors; 1 foot 10 



SEX.SITIVE PLANT 'Mimosa pudica). Curious and interesting plants, with pinkish 

 white flowers, the leaves close and droop when touched or shaken; they require a mixed 



soil of peat, loam, and sand ; tender annual; 2 feet 5 



SILEXE (Cotchfly). A beautiful, early free-blooming plant, adapted for beds, borders, 

 or ribbon-gardening; of easy culture, growing in any garden soil; hardy annual; 1 ft. 



Mixed Colors (.S". ^rT/ienaj.' Red, white, and rose, colors mixed 5 



Pen'DULA Flobe-Plexo. Producing charming double rose-colored flowers in profusion. 10 

 STOCKS {Mathiola annua.) The Stock Gilly-flower is one of the most pojailar, beautiful 

 and important garden favorites; whether for bedding, massing, or pot-culture, it is un- 

 surpassed either for brilliancy and diversity of colur or profusion and duration of bloom. 

 The TEX-AVEFK STOCKS [Jiathiola annwii are generally cultivated, and bloom from 

 ten to twelve weeks after being sown ; they grow from 6 to 15 inches high, and when 

 grown in light, rich soil, and occasionally watered with weak guano water, they throw 

 out an immense quantity of lateral spike's of bloom, so that each plant forms a perfect 

 bouquet of delightful fragrance. For early flowering plants, start the seeds in a green- 

 house or hot-bed. We offer the following varieties, imported from one of the best 

 Prussian growers ; half-hardy annuals, unless otherwise mentioned ; 1 foot. For separ- 

 ate colors, see assortments of Stocks. 



Dwarf German Ten-Week. Double, of choice mixed colors 10 



Dwarf Bouquet Tex- Week. It flowers in the shape of a bouquet, with beautiful 



double flowers of various shades and colors mixed; 10 inches 20 



Perpetual Dwarf Tex- Week , J/. Semperjlorens}. A double constant-blooming variety, 



with fine double flowers of various colors mixed 10 



Large-flowering Dwarf Tex-Week. The following are the best double varieties, 



and most desirable colors for cultivation: 

 Dwarf Tex-Week Royal Gem. One of the finest large-flowering Stocks; of the 



richest dark crimson color, and very double flowers 20 



Blood-red. Crimson. Light-blue. Purple. Pure white Each 10 



Mixed Colors. Of all the double Large-flowering Dwarf Ten-Week Stocks, produc- 

 ing a beautiful variety of colors 10 



Intermediate or Autumnal-flowering. Very beautiftil; choice double flowers, of 



fine mixed colors, for late autumn-flowering; 2 feet 10 



Brompton or Winter. Half-hardy biennial, bushy plants ; producing a beautiful dis- 

 play of double flowers; mixed colors ; 2 feet 10 



Perpetual or Emperor. Half-hardy perennial; double large-flowering; of choice 



colors mixed; li feet '. 10 



SWEET \^TLLIAJ>I (Dianihv^ harhatus). A well-known attractive, free-fluwering 

 plant, which has been greatly improved of late years ; producing a splendid effect in 

 beds, and shrubbery borders, with their extreme rich and divers-colored flowers ; hardy 

 perennial ; 2 feet. 



Double-flowering. Of the finest mixed colors 10 



Auricula-flowered Perfection. Choice single flowers of this beautiful variety of 



all colors mixed 10 



Fine Mixed. A single varietv, good old colors mixed 5 



TAGETES SIGNATA PUMILA. A dwarf, compact, bushy plant, with beautiful 

 delicate fern-like leaves, densely covered with bright yellow single flowers, with a 

 brownish stripe through the centre of each petal, valuable for borders as well as beds ; 



half-hardy annual ; 1 foot 5 



TOREXIA iFOURXIERI. A very fine new tender annual variety from Mexico, having 

 large sky-blue flowers, with three'spots of a dark blue, and a bright yellow centre. A 

 splendid" pot-plant for the green-house, or for growing out of doors, they make beautiful 

 flowering plants, covered until late in the season with one mass of bloom, and we can 



hi^hlv recommend it to everv lover of flower? ; 15 inches 20 



TOURNEFORTIA HELIOTROPOIDES [Summer Heliotrope). A beautiful plant 

 resembling the Heliotrope, but without its fragrance ; adapted either for bedding or pot- 

 culture, of a trailing habit; bluish lilac flowers; half-hardv annual 10 



TRACHELIUM CCERl'LEUM (Throaticort). A hardy' herbaceous perennial, with 

 blue Campanula-like flowers blooming in August. Sow in a hot-bed in the spring, 



and plant out in April in a rich sandy loam : 2 feet 10 



VALERLAXA, MIXED. Very showy border plants, or for mixing with shrubbery; 

 growing in any garden soil ; hardy perennial ; mixed red and white flowers ; 2 feet...... 5 



