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



HONESTY, or SATIN FLOWER-tLunaria). 

 Early, free flowering plants, interesting for the silver like 

 tissue of the seed pods in their matured state. The flower is 

 purple; not very conspicuous. The seed pods are fine for 

 skeletonizing and working in with other everlasting flowers 

 for winter bouquets. Hardy biennial ; two feet high. 

 Honesty (Lunaria biennis) 5 



HORDEUM- (Ornamental Grass). 



A beautiful ornamental grass for forming winter bouquets. 

 It somewhat resembles our domestic barley, having heavy, 

 bearded heads. Hardy annual. 





HORDEUM JUBATUM. 



Hordeum jubatunn, two feet high 10 



HUMEA. 



A remarkable, handsome plant for decorative purposes. 

 Leaves very fragrant when slightly rubbed. Half-hardy 

 biennial ; six feet high. 

 Hurnea elegans, red, from New South Wales 10 



HYACINTH BEAN— (Dolichos). 



Splendid climber, with abundant clustered spikes of purple 

 and white flowers, Which are followed by exceedingly orna- 

 mental seed pods; of rapid growth, often running twenty 

 feet in a season. Tender annual ; ten to twenty feet high. 



Dolichos lab lab purpurea, purple 10 



" " alba, white.. 10 



" " mixed, the above mixed 10 



" giganteus, tall growing, with large purple flowers. . .10 



IBERIS.-(See Candytuft.) 



ICE PLANT — (See Mesembryanthemum.) 



IMPATIENS SUETANI— (Sultan's Balsam.) 

 Impatiens Sultani, one of the most distinct and beauti- 

 ful decorative plants for the hot-house, green-house 

 or summer bedding. The plant is of compact 

 growth. The- flowers are gorgeously colored and 

 are produced in great profusion throughout the 

 season. Although a green-house plant, it does 

 finely in open border. The flowers are a brilliant 

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

 diameter 25 



Impatiens Sultani. 



INDIAN SHOT.— (See Canna Indica.) 



IPOMEA. 



Beautiful climbers, and exceedingly attractive mixed'with 

 other climbers. The flowers are of a variety of shapes and 

 sizes, and of an endless number of colors, many being won- 

 derously brilliant and of graceful form. They are alike 

 good for green-house, for pots and baskets, and for trellises, 

 stumps, arbors, etc. Tender annual; five to ten feet high. 



Ipomea coccinea (Star Ipomea), fine scarlet 5 



" bona nox (Good Night), pure white 5 



" limbata, elegantly blotched and margined with white 5 

 " limbata elegantissima, large flowers, in form of a 

 five pointed star, with intense purple centre, and 



pure white margin 5 



" rubra ccerulea, immense flowers of bright sky blue; 



one of the best .10 



" fine mixed 5 



Ipomea Limbata. 



IPOMEA QUAMOCEIT.— (See Cypress Vine.) 

 IPOMOPSIS.— (See Tree Cypress.) 



JACOBJEA— (Senecio). 



Remarkably pretty, free growing, profuse flowering plants, 

 almost unsurpassed for brilliancy and beauty. Grow freely 

 from seed. The double are the only ones worth cultivating. 

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

 foot high. 

 Jacobsea dwarf, mixed, above varieties mixed 10 



JASMINE. 



Hardy, deciduous, ornamental shrubs, growing three feet 

 high, and producing beautiful yellow flowers. 

 Jasminum fruticans, yellow, very fragrant 10 



