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D. M. FERRY & CO'5 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



ducing a profusion of fine, bright metallic yellow blossoms 

 about two inches across. Tender annual ; one foot high. 

 Bartonia aurea, golden yellow 5 



BEGONIA. 



The tuberous rooted Begonia is equally charming as a 

 house plant or for bedding out doors in a cool, partially 

 shaded place. They bloom profusely in three or four months 

 from sowing the seed, and continue until cut off by frost. 

 Store roots in a dry cellar. Tender perennial. 



Begonia, Single. 



Beg:onia, Tuberous Rooted varieties, mixed. These 

 mixtures are the results of the fecundation of the 

 most beautiful varieties. They include the hand- 

 somest shades of colors and the individual florets 

 average from two to five inches in diameter. 



Single mixed, very choicest 25 



Double " " " 50 



Begonia, Double. 



Begonia robusta perfecta, of robust, compact habit, 

 dark green foliage and brilliant double cin- 

 nabar scarlet flowers 50 



Beg:onia semperflorens alba. A very useful variety 

 well adapted to home or out door culture. Plants 

 of compact dwarf habit and are, under proper 

 treatment, almost continuous bloomers. Easily 

 grown ; flowers pure white 25 



" semperflorens rosea, like the above, except flowers 

 are rose colored 25 



" Vernon (semperflorens atropurpurea). Flowers 

 brilUant rich red, which are set off perfectly by the 

 abundant glossy green leaves bi'oadly margined with 

 bronze and purple. Extremely hardy and flori- 

 ferous, the best of the semperflorens class; new 50 



" Kex, ornamental leaved varieties, finest mixed 25 



BELVIDEKE— (Summer Cypress). 



An ornamental, cypress like plant with inconspicuous, 

 green flowers, nearly hidden by the foliage. It is well 

 adapted for growmg in cemeteries. Hardy annual. 

 Belvidere (Chenopodium scopariuvi) 5 



BIGNONIA— (Trumpet Vine). 



Well known, perhaps the most showy, and is one of the 

 best hardy, deciduous climbers for covering verandas, 

 arbors, trunks of trees, old walls, etc. Flowers brilliant 

 scarlet, trumpet shaped ; hardy perennial. 

 Bignonia radicans 10 



BOCCONIA. 



Stately ornamental foliaged plants, well adapted for lavms, 

 either singly or in groups. Hardy, herbaceous, pei-ennial. 

 Bocconia Japonica, four to six feet high; splendid foli- 

 age; flowers in clusters and pure white 10 



BKACHYC03IE-(Swan River Daisy). 



Effective in edgings, beds, or rustic baskets. Half hardy 

 annual; one-half foot high, free flowering. 

 Bracliycome, mixed blue and white 10 



BRIZA— (Ornamental Grass). 



Very useful ornamental grass, much sought for in forming 

 winter bouquets and wreaths; one foot high. 

 Briza Maxima, large; attractive 5 



" gracilis, slender; dwarf 5 



BROWALI^IA. 



These handsome, profuse bloomers are used freely both for 

 indoor and outdoor planting, on account of the ease with 

 which they may be grown and their usefulness for cut 

 flowers. Half hardy annual : height eighteen inches. 



Browallia Roezli, produces white and blue flowers 15 



" elata, fine mixed 10 



BRYONOPSIS. 



An ornamental climber of the gourd family, bearing green 

 fruits, which change in color as the season advances, to 

 bright scarlet striped with white. Tender annual. 

 Bryonopsis laciniosa lery throcarpa, ten feet high S 



CACAI.IA.— (See Tassel Flower.) 



CAI.ANDRINIA. 



Fine dwarf plants for growing in masses; produce an 

 abundance of blossoms; well suited for edgings, rockeries, 

 etc. Tender annual; one-half to one foot high. 

 Calandrinia grand iflora, rosy lilac 5 



" umbellata, crimson & 



