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D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



IBERIS— (See Candytuft). 



ICE PliANT— (See Mesembryanthemum). 



IMPATIENS SULTANI— (Saltan's Balsam.) 

 Iiupatiens Sultani, plant of compact growth; flowers 

 gorgeously colored and produced in great profusion 

 throughout the season. Although a green-house 

 plant, it does finely in open border; flowers brilliant 

 rosy scarlet color, one to one and one-half inches In 

 diameter 25 



INDIAN SHOT.— (See Canna Indica.) 



IPOMCEA. 



Beautiful climbers, and exceedingly attractive mixed with 

 other climbers. They are alike good for green-house, for 

 pots and baskets, and for trellises, stumps, arbors, etc. 

 Tender annual; five to ten feet high. 



Ipomcea Limbata. 



Ipomoea coccinea (Star Ipomoea), fine scarlet 5 



" bona nox (Good Night), pure white 5 



" limbata, elegantly blotched and margined with white 5 

 " limbata elegantissima, flowers, star shaped with 



intense purple centre, and pure white margin 5 



" rubra coerulea, immense flowers of bright sky blue . 10 

 " fine mixed 5 



IPOMCEA QUAMOCLIT.— (See Cypress Vine.) 



IPOMOPSIS.— (See Tree Cypress.) 



JACOBJEA— (Senecio). 



Remarkably pretty, free growing, profuse flowering plants. 

 The double are the only ones worth cultivating. Hardy 

 annuals in open border, biennial in green-house. One foot 

 high. 

 Jacobaea dwarf, mixed 10 



JAPAN HOP.— (See Humulus Japonicus.) 



JASMINE. 



Hardy, deciduous, ornamental shrubs, groviing three feet 

 high, and producing beautiful yellow flowers. 

 Jasminum fruticans, yellow, very fragrant 10 



JOB'S TEARS-(Coix). 

 Curious, ornamental grass with broad, ' corn like leaves, 

 and seeds of a light slate color. Valuable for the formation 

 of winter bouquets, in connection with everlasting flowers, 

 and strings of handsome beads are formed from the seeds. 

 Hardy annual; three feet high. 

 Coix lachryma (Job's Tears) 5 



JOSEPH'S COAT— (See Amaranthus Tricolor). 



KAULFUSSIA. 



Beautiful, free blooming little plants of dwarf and compact 

 growth, somewhat resembling the single asters. Flowers 

 are light blue, pure white, and a most intense violet-purple. 

 A good plant for mixed beds and borders. Hardy annual; 

 six inches high. 

 Kaalfussia, fine mixed 5 



LANTANA. 



These plants are rapid ' growers, forming small, hardy 



shrubs, and producing their pink, yellow, orange and white 

 flowers in great abundance. 



Lantan A. 



Lantana, finest Frencli hybrids, mixed, all colors 10 



LAKKSPUK— (Delphinium). 



The Larkspur is one of the handsomest and most useful of 

 plants, and for large gardens is invaluable. 



ANNUAL SORTS. 



Delphinium ajacis (Double Dwarf Kocket Lark- 

 spur), hardy annual ; ten inches high ; mixed 5 



" Cardiopetalum, deep blue, heart shaped. Hardy 



annual; one and one-half feet high 5 



" Tall Stock flowered (consollda fl. pi.), brightest 

 and best colors mixed. Spikes of double flowers 

 eighteen inches long. Hardy annual; two feet high 5 



Delphinium, Tall Stock Flowered, 



Delphinium Imperiale fl. pi., (Double Emperor 

 Larkspur), one and a-half feet high, compact and 

 profuse bloomer, having erect spikes of perfectly 



double flowers. Mixed colors 1ft 



" consolida candelabrum fl. pi., a type of annual 

 Larkspur, growing in the form of a branched 

 candlestick; flowers double and of various colors.. 10 



