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description. This is a plantthat you should 

 not miss getting. It will attract instant ! 

 attention and admiration. Strong plants, 

 30 cents each, 2 for 50 cents. 



ACALYPHA. 



A showy class of foliage plants that is 

 becoming very popular for ornamental and 

 sub-tropical bedding. The colors are as 

 bright as in the best of the Coleus and the 

 plants are much hardier and not so liable to 

 wilt in the hottest and driest weather. 



MARGINATA— Fine large foliage, dark 

 olive, margined rose. A very desirable 

 variety, standing upright in hot and dry 

 weather, 



MiLTONiANA— Beautiful foliage, bright 

 green, edged creamy white, leaves long and 

 pointed. 



Triumphans — A very bright, ovate point- 

 ed leaves, light red, shaded and marbled 

 darker. 



MacaFEana— A grand foliage plant with 

 bright orange red leaves, very showy. 

 Price 10 to 20 cents each, fr.oc and $2.00 

 per dozen. 



ACHYRANTHUS. 



LindEnii— Of a rich, dark red color, ad- 

 mirably adapted for ribbon bows, or the 

 •edging of flower beds, 



McNalle — Very decided improvement, 

 dwarf, compact and splendid show, 10 cents 

 to 20 cents each. 



BEiMUELLERIi— Dark, metal red foliage. 

 Its strong point is its low-spreading, sym- 

 metrical growth, does not exceed six inches 

 in height, a very useful novelty, 10 cents to 

 20 cents each. 



AI/fERNANTHERAS, 



Splendid for bedding or bordering. Grow 

 very compact, and so well-known that a 

 description is superfluous. We offer separate 

 colors; red and 3-ellow variegated, 5 cents 

 each, 50c. per dozen, $3.00 per 100. 



AI,OYSIA CITRIODORA. 



Lemon Verbena. 

 This plant has the most fragrance of any 

 grown. One plant will scent a whole 

 garden, the fragrance is that of the Lemo"., 

 really exquisite, a rapid grower in the 

 Southern garden, 10 to 20 cents each. 



APPI,E GERANIUM. 



This is the old-fashioned Geranium, the 

 fragrance of whose foliage resembles ripe 

 apple. It is very desirable, and much 

 sought after, being very scarce, Price 15 

 cents each, 



ASTER PLANTS. 



In choicevarieties, strong, healthy plants, 

 50 cents per doseu. 



ASPIDISTA, 



Tough, hardy foliage plants, suitable for 

 house decoration or the garden. 



Lurtda — Beautiful dark green, price 25 

 and 50 cents. 



Lurida VARIGATA— Dark green, hand- 

 somely margined yellow and white, 5 cents 

 each, large specimens 75 and $r.oo. 



ANANASSA SATIVA. 



{Pineapple. ) 

 Strong plant 25 to 50 cents each, 



ANTIRRHINUM. 



{Snapdragon.') 

 We offer this year an unusually fine lot 

 of antirrhinum seedlings from seed saved 

 from the finest and most beautiful flaked 

 mottled and stripe varieties in cultivation* 

 Per dozen, 75 cents; jo cents each. 



ACHANIA MAI,VAVISCUS. 



The upright flowering fuchsia, a fine bed- 

 ding and house plant bearing brilliant scar- 

 let flowers in great abundance, 10 cents to 

 25 cents each. 



ALTHAEA FRUTEX. 



{Rose of Sharon.) 

 These are among our most desirable flow- 

 ering shrubs, and deserve to be more exten- 

 sively cultivated, as they produce their * 

 flowers in the greatest profusion during 

 three months. The new European varieties 

 lately introduced are nearly all of dwarf 

 growth, and their flowers are greatly supe- 

 rior to the old sorts. 



ALTHAEA VARIEGATA. 



{Variegated- Leaved Rose of Sharon.) 



This is a hardy shrub, with foliage beau- 

 tifully variegated, each leaf being broadly 

 margined white. Flowers dark crimson, 

 very double. It forms a handsome shrub 

 six to seven feet high. 



Double WHITE— Continuous bloomer, 10 

 to 35 cents each. 



Double Purple— Continuous bloomer, 

 10 lo 35 cents each. k 



Double Rose — Very delicate rose, lo to 

 35 cents each. 



Banner Althaea— New. (Rose of 

 Sharon). The most beautiful variety ever 

 introduced. The flowers are as large as 

 good sized roses, and very double; the color 

 is pale rosy pink, elegantly striped with 

 rich crimson. It blooms in July and August, 

 when every branch is loaded and crowded 

 with flowers. It is a very handsome, erect 

 growing little tree or tall shrub, 25 cents 

 each. 



Althaea BLANCHE— New. A great im- 

 provement on the double white althaea now 



