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BEGONIAS. FLOWERING SORTS 



Exceedingly useful plants for the garden or pot culture in the 

 house. For freedom of bloom they are unsurpassed. 

 Alba Picta. Dark green leaves, silvery spots. White flowers. 

 Argentea Guttata. Bronzy-green leaves. White flowers. 

 Bertha de C. Rocher. Bright reddish-pink flowers. 

 Margaritae. Rich salmon-pink flowers, foliage deep bronze and 



dark green. Quite ornamental and very easily grown in window. 

 Marjorie Daw. Flowers salmon-pink, a tall-growing variety. 

 Metallica. Velvety foliage, rosy white flowers. 

 Nitida. Pinkish-white flowers, large " elephant's ear " leaves. 

 Otto Hacker. Bright red, large pendant clusters. 

 Purity. Dwarf, compact habit, waxy-white flowers. 

 Rubra iCorallina). Dark coral color. Large clusters. 

 Red Erfordia. A beautiful variety for pot plants. It makes a 



compact, symmetrical bush and is fairly loaded with glossy 



blood-red flowers. Fine for pots or garden. 

 Saundersonii. Bright waxy-red. Very free flowering. 

 Thurstonii. Flowers rosy-white, foliage bronzy-green, reverse 



purplish-red. A grand variety in every way. 

 Vernon. Brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers produced abundantlv; 



dark green glossy foliage. Useful for bedding. 

 Zulu King. In the sun the foliage turns blood red when planted 



outdoors. Flowers deep crimson red. 



Price, plants for summer blooming, from 3-inch pots, 10c, each; 

 set of 15 Begonias for $1.25. 



Beg 



onia 



D Valuable for the grand and varied markings 



r\ex. Q £ the i eaves i5 c each, SI. 50 per doz. 



CALLA LILIES. 



TCBEROUS 

 BEGONIA. 



LITTLE GEM Calla Lily. This variety rarely exceeds 12 inches 

 in height. The flowers are correspondingly smaller than the 

 tall-growing sort. Price, 15c. each, 81.50 per doz. . 



White Calla Lily. Price, 20c. each, S2.00 per doz. 



Spotted Leaf Calla. Leaves, spotted white; flowers white with 

 purple throat. Price, 20c. each, S2.00 per doz. 



Black Calla. A remarkable species, producing' large, purplish, 

 velvety-black flowers, with coal-black spathe. The foliage is 

 stately. Price, 30c. each, S3. 00 per doz. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA. 



Favorite flowering plants for cool greenhouses and the South, 

 The varieties we supply are the best extant, the pick of a Con- 

 tinental collection, and embrace double white, double pink, double 

 red and double variegated. Price, SI. 00 each, $9.00 per doz 



TUBEROUS BEGONIAS. All Selected Bulbs. 



These are now among the most popular plants for beds of sum- 

 mer flowers. Nothing can exceed the brilliancy and richness of 

 their flowers. From the time the first blossoms appear until all 

 growth is stopped by frost they are never out of bloom. (See cut) 



Separate colors, Scarlet, Yel- 

 low, Crimson, White, Pink 

 and Salmon. Price, dry bulbs, up to May loth, 10c. each ; set of six 

 for 50c; $6.00 per 100. Growing plants, ready May 1st, 20c. 

 each, set of six for $1.00. 



Single Tuberous Begonias. 



Double Tuberous Begonias. 



Separate 

 Crimson, 



colors, 

 White, 



Scarlet, 

 Yellow, 



Pink and Salmon. Price, 20c. each; set of six sorts, SI. 00 for dry 

 bulbs, up to May 15th. Growing plants, ready May 1st, 30c. 

 each, set of six for $1.50. 



OKNAMENTAL CLIMBING ASPAKAGUS. 



Asparagus Sprengeri. A most desirable species, exceedingly useful and orna- 

 mental as a pot plant to grow on a shelf in the window, or on a pedestal in 

 the sitting room or to droop from baskets; the fronds are frequently 4 feet long. 

 Price, 4-inch pots, 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; 3-inch pots, 15c. each, $1.50 

 per doz. 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus. (Climbing Lace Fern.) Bright green leaves, grace- 

 fully arched, and as finely woven as silken mesh. Price, 3-inch pots, 15c. 

 each, $1.50 per doz.; 2-inch pots, 10c. each, $1.00 per doz. 



SUPERB FANCY^LEAVED CALAD1UMS. 



Among ornamental foliage plants there are none more beautiful in design 

 or gorgeous in coloring than the Fancy-Leaved Caladiums. They are simply 

 wonderful in the colorings and markings of the leaves. Of special value for pot 

 culture, window and piazza boxes. Most of the varieties planted about June 

 1st in partially shaded borders succeed admirably as bedding plants. We offer 

 20 distinct sorts; the richness of coloring is bewildering and impossible to 

 describe in our limited space. Brilliant red and green, green with spots and 

 red veins, etc., etc. (See cut.) Price, 25c. each; set of 20 sorts for $4.50. 



= " BEDDING" PLANTS. = 



We grow immense quantities of this class of stock, and we are in a position to execute the 

 largest orders in a prompt, satisfactory manner. 



PANCV CALABIUMS. 



Per 1(H) 

 Ageratum. Best white and blue. $4.00 

 Alternanther. Red, yellow .... 4.00 



Alyssum. Dwarf; white 4.00 



Begonia Erfordia. Crimson flowers. (i. 00 

 Caladium Esculentum (Bulbs). 

 Large foliage, $8.00, $16.00 and 25.00 

 Cannas. Roots to April 1st. . . . 7.00 

 Cannas. Plants after April 1st. . 12.00 



Coleus. Bedding varieties 4.00 



Daisies. Hardy English 4.00 



Per 100 

 Geraniums. Double and single 



Geraniums. Silver and bronze. . 8.00 



Golden Feather 3.00 



Heliotropes. Assorted 6.00 



Lobelias. Best dwarf ; blue 4.00 



Pansies. Finest mixed 4.00 



Petunias. Finest double (named) B 



Petunias. Single (lowering 4.00 



Salvias. (" Scarlet Sage ") 6.00 



Verbenas. Red, white, blue, etc. 4 00 



