Fritillaria Recurvata. 
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blooming. Height 3 to 6 inches. 
Dens Canis (Dog's Tooth 
| tolets), Mixed Colors. 
Colors range through crimson, 
white, rose, purple, etc, 4c. 
each; 20c, per doz.; $1.25 
per 100. 
Grandiflorum. (Giant Dogs Tooth 
Violet.) A very large flowering variety, 
bearing from 6 to 12 yellow or cream color- 
ed flowers on stem 12 to 18 inches high. 
(See cut.) 5c. each; 40c. per doz.; $2.50 
per roo. 
Hendersonii. (New.) Large flowers of 
heliotrope or lilac color, with a purple 
centre surrounded .by a narrow yellow 
ring; one of the finest. 30c. each; $3.00 
per doz 
FRITILLARIA. 
A singular group of dwarf Spring flowering 
plants bearing large pendent bell-shaped 
flowers of wnite, purple, bronze, black or yel- 
low, most of which are striped, splashed or 
chequered in the most fantastic fashions; they 
are invaluable for pot culture, and exceed- 
ingly pretty when grown in large clumps in 
the border in a dry situation. 
Recurvata Pluri-flora. New and 
very beautiful. Flowers bright scarlet 
and lightly mottled and spotted with yel- 
low; they are about 3 inches long and 
up to nine flowers are borne on each of 
the stems, the latter attaining a height of 
about 2 feet. This variety is similar to 
Recurvata, but of much stronger growth 
and more profuse in blooming. (See cut.) 
10c. each; $1.00 per doz.; $6.00 per 100. 
Meleagris. (Snake's Head or Guinea 
Hen Flower.)  Bell-shaped flowers of 
various colors, yellow, white, black, pur- 
ple, striped and splashed and chequered 
in the most curious way. Mixed varieties, 
3c. each; 25c. per doz ; $1.50 per 100. 
Aurea. (New; see novelties.) A love- 
ly rare speties; color rich golden yel- 
low with minute black tesselate spots. 
8c. each; 75c. per doz.; $5.00 per 100. 
Moggridgi. Large flowers of bright yel- 
low beautifully chequered with purple; 
very effective. 20c. each; $2.00 per doz.; 
FREESIA. 
Refracta Alba. This is one of the most 
popular and charming bulbs we offer for 
pot culture, flowering in the winter and 
spring in the conservatory or window 
garden. 6or8 bulbs should be planted 
in a 4-inch pot. ‘hey force readily and 
can be had in bloom by Christmas if de- 
sired, and by having a dozen or more pots 
started in the cold frame they can be 
brought in at intervals, thereby keeping 
up a continuous display of bloom through 
the winter; the flowers are produced 6 to8 
on stems about 6 inches high, and are par- 
ticularly useful toe cutting, remaining in 
good condition kept in water for two weeks; 
the flowers are pure White with a yellow 
blotched throat and are exquisitely fra- 
grant. (Seecut.) Extra large bulbs, 2c. 
each; 15c. per doz.; $1.00 per 100; $9.00 
per 1000, PD de 7 uv 
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Sieboldi Variegata. 
FUNKIAS, 
(Day Lilies.) 
Handsome hardy foliage and flowering 
plants. ‘heir noble aspect, elegant outline, 
and bold luxuriant foliage, render them ex- 
ceedingly attractive for large effective clumps, 
succeeding in sunny positions and equally 
well in shady places where many plants would 
not exist. They are also much grown in 
Europe for greenhouse decoration in winter. 
(Ready in November. Postage 5c. extra 
each.) 
Subcordata Grandiflora (White 
Plantain Day Lily). Very showy, splen- 
did milky white flowers, nearly 4 inches 
long; very fragrant. 5c. each; $1.50 
per doz. 
Sieboldi Variegata. A noble Fall 
blooming plant, foliage very handsome 
lively green and variegated with white; 
flowers purplish lilac. (See cut.) 12¢. 
each; $1.25 per doz. 
GESNERIA. 
Greenhouse tuberous-rooted plants, remark- 
abie for the beauty of their foliage, which 1s 
singularly marked and soft as velvet, and also 
for their spikes of brilliant colored flow- , 
ers, mostly scarlet and yellow. For a contin- 
uous succession of bloom, the plants should 
be started at different times. Those started 
into growth in Spring or Summer first will come 
into bloom by the end of September, and the 
others will follow in succession through Win- 
ter and Spring. 
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Mixed Varieties oc. each; $2.00 
per doz. 
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