YELLOW KID. 



the flowers of great substance and verv lasting. 



/. T. LOVETT, LIT7LE SILVER AND RED BAJSK, N, J. 



NEW GERANIUMS. 



YELLOW KID. 



In offering this new Geranium I do .not 

 hesitate to state it is the best golden-leaved 

 variety that has yet appeared. Itsf oliaige is 

 not only pure bright golden yellow at all 

 times, but is very abundant, and the leaves 

 are round, smooth and perfect. The flowers, 

 which are freely produced (a rare property 

 in a variety of its class) are lar^e. flat and 

 round, single, in trusses of fair size, and 

 are the richest velvety crimson-lake ijai- 

 aginable — conti'asting with the foliage in a 

 charming manner. It stands the sun well, 

 much better than any other fancy-Jeaved 

 variety I have seen, and is indeed a most 

 valuable pot plant. Xow first offered. 

 Ea.. 63c: doz.. >fi.OO. 



CARDINAL. 



A single Bruant and a very valuable 

 variety. It belongs to the scarlet section, 

 but is distinct in color from any other G-ef- 

 anium — a clear, strong, brilliant carmine 

 with a suggestion of lake: not so deep as 

 G-ettysburg and ever so much brighter, 

 purer and more brilliant. The fobage is 

 dense, deep green with indistinct zone and 

 the freest in bloom of anu Geranium of its 

 class. The trusses are large and full, and 

 As a bedding variety it has great value. Ea.. 30c: doz.. ?3.00. 



PINK GEM. 



If a dwarf, verv free blooming, bright pink Geranium that endures bright sunshine and drought pe^ectly 

 is valuable, then there is a place for Pink Gem. It is just what I have been wanting and looking for these many- 

 years. The trusses are iiot large, but are produced at all times with the freedom almost of Hais. and are held 

 well above t'le foliage. Florets large, semi-double, bright clear cheerful pink and very lasting. Foliage pea- 

 gi'een. without zone, rather small, very abundant and exceedingly tough and leathery, never burning or scald- 

 ing in the least. Habit remarkably dwarf and compact. Ea.. 50c; doz.. -So.OU. 



FLASHLIGHT. 



^'Pelargonium //? )(/f!'6/T/cf?a^i'//( is a distinct and "handsome species found in Thibet and the warmer parts 

 of Central Asia. After- innumerable attempts to hybridize it with the improved Zonale bedding •Geraniiuns," 

 the raiser secured a single viable seed, polleuized with the variety Gettysbiu'g. The result proves a complete 

 fusion of the must desirable qualities cf both i^arents. being larger in all its parts, and much stronger in growth 

 than m^JfiJirnrf^'ritem.' The handsome, palmate foliage I'eache* five inches in diameter, borne aloft on long, 

 graceful p-ti"les. and is velvety green in color, usually marked with a light bronzy zone. The flowers are pro- 

 duced m the greatest profusion on stiff stems, averaging nearly i foot h ng and are poised in light, a'iry umbels 

 of fifteen to twenty tloiet-. The tli)ret'« are usually more than an inch across and of a brilliant but tender car- 

 mine color, bright and uuchauging until the petals drop, ichicli does not occvr until the last floret expands. The 

 flowers are vtery desiraVile for cutting; they do not fall f ront the trH.<is like ordinarif Geraniums, the hright 

 umbels on long -t'r-ni- resembling gigantic and highly- coloi-ed trusses of candytirft." 



The above is the description of the introducer. The seed was produced and the hybrid grown in my green- 

 houses, and I have watched it with interest ever since the original seedling appeared above the ground. It is in- 

 deed a most valuable and distinct variety, for bedding, pot cultni-e and for cut flowers. Its flowers remind one 

 of a choice Bouvardia. and are even more lasting and charming in color. The plants are literally covered with 

 flowers, and its deeplv cut and heavilv bronzed foliage is also verv attractive at all times. Ea.. 2oc: doz., 82.50: 

 100. .?i-j.on. 



SALVIA, **DROOPING SPIKES." 



A vast improvement on the well-known Salvia spiendens or Scar- 

 let Sage, of which it is a variety, blooming very much earlier and 

 with greater freedom. The spikes of bloom are numerous and very 

 large, and are so thickly clothed with the brilliant scarlet flowers as 

 to fairly bend beneath their weight. The dai-k green foliage and 

 profuse Vivid bloom present a combination of color that is very at- 

 tractive, and the flowering is incessant until checked by frost. 

 Ea.. 15c: 3 for 40c: doz.. -*1.'^5. 



"TOM THUMB" Golden-leaved Salvia. 



A mo^t beautiful and stnkmg decorative plant, even more satis- 

 factory in eft>ct than a Coleus. very tufted and compact, forming a 

 mass of goklen-yellow foliage of most showy appearance, very en- 

 during in color and brilliancy. It does not produce flowers* and 

 grows to a height of from ten to twelve iuches. Ea.. :^0c: 3 for 50c; 

 doz . -SI. 50. 



S^ALVIA DROOPING SPIKES. 



