DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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Grammanthes. 



Gourd, bottle, handsome and useful lo 



■■ Corsican, elegant fruit and rapid climber lo 



•• Siphon, or dipper, long, slim handles, useful 



for dippers lo 



" powder horn, in the form of a powder horn lo 



" Hercules' club, the longest of all the varieties. lo 

 '• mixed, ornamental lo 



Corsican 

 GRAMMANTHES. 



A'charming little succulent plant, producing an abund- 

 ance of bright scarlet and orange-yellow blossoms in the 

 shape of a star. It is especially adapted for rock work, 

 hanging baskets, edgings, <S:c. The segments of the 

 corolla have the appearance of the letter V on them. 

 Give it a warm, sunny situation, and good, rich soil. 

 Tender annual ; six inches high. 

 Grammanthes, gentianoides, rich, orange-scarlet. 15 



'■ lutea, yellow 15 



'' fine mixed 15 



GUNNERA. 



A curious, herbaceous perennial, growing best in rich 

 mold kept moist. It is increased by seed and by divi- 

 sion of roots. Has curious, cone-shaped blossoms. 

 Green-house plant. 

 Gunnera, scabra, large, rhubarb-like leaves, and 



purple blossoms. One and a half feet high ; 



curious 15 



G-YNERIUM— (^See Pampas Grass.) 



GYPSOPHILA. 



Delicate, free-flowering litte plants, covered with a 

 profusion of little, star-shaped, white blossoms. Well 

 adapted for hanging baskets and edgings, and valuable 

 for making bouquets. Blossom first season, and con- 

 tinue to blossom several years. Make handsome speci- 

 mens dried. 

 Gypsophila, elegans, white and pink flowers; hardy 



perennial ; one foot 5 



'' muralis, pink flowers ; hardj- annual ; six 

 inches 10 



HEDYSARUM— (See French Honeysuckle.) 



HETiT A NTHUS— ' See Sun Flower.) 



HELICHRYSTJM. 



Large, full, double flowers of various colors, from 

 bright yellow to scarlet, shaded and tipped. Peculiarly 

 desirable as dried specimens ; and exceedingly hand- 

 some bouquets may be formed of them for winter, if 

 blossoms be gathered when on the point of expanding. 

 Sow early in spring, in any good garden soil, and thin 

 the plants to one foot apart each way. Hardy annual ; 

 six inches to two feet high. 

 Helichrysum, bracteatum (Golden Eternal 



Flower), bright yellow 5 



" nanum atrosanguineum, deep crimson 10 



" compositum album, flowers white 10 



" monstrosum fl. pi. mixed, eight varieties of 



lar-f^est double flowers ; mixed. 10 



"■ nanum fl. pi. mixed, five dwarf-growing, 



double-flcweriti^ varieties mixed 10 



" minimum fl. pi. mixed, four varieties of 

 beautiful little miniature double fltrzvers : 



flne 10 



" mixed i^ 



