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PRIMULA OBCONICA.—A lovely per- 
petual blooming primrose, and admirably 
adapted to growing in a cool room. The 
flowers are not large, but are profusely 
borne in loose trusses, and are of a deli- 
cate rosy lilac, shading to white, and 
pessess the true primrose frangrance. 25c. 
to d50c. 
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Poinsettia FPuicherrima. 
POINSETTIA PULCHEERIMA.—A trop- 
ical plant of gorgeous beauty, the bracts 
of leaves that surround the flower being 
in well-grown specimens one foot in 
diameter and of the most dazzling scarlet. 
25c., 50c., $1.00 and $2.00 each. 
BUDEECEIA (Golden Glow).—Grows 8 
feet high, branching freely and bearing by 
the hundreds, on long graceful stems; ex- 
quisite double flowers of the _ brightest 
golden color and as large as a Cactus 
Dahlia. As cut flowers the blooms last 
well. Perfectly hardy and blooms con- 
jtinuously throughout the summer months. 
Strong plants, 15c. each; larger planis, 30c. 
RUSSELIA.—A most useful basket or 
vase plant, producing numerous long, wiry 
stems, which are virtually ieafless. Upon 
these stems and branches the fiowers are 
borne, which are about one inch long, 
tubular and brilliant scarlet color, and are 
produced in the greatest freedom. i15c. and 
25c. each. 
SWAINSONTA CGR SWANFLOWER.—A 
Superb Ever-Blocoming Piant.—Just imagine 
a plant that is fully as pretty as a Fern 
bearing the utmost profusion of flowers 
in elegant sprays of 30 or 40 flowers each, 
which in form and fragrance are equal to 
Sweet Peas, which it strongly resembles. 
You ean then form an idea of the Swain- 
sonia. Of vigorous, healthy habit of 
growth; it blooms the year round. 
Alba (White).—Maenificent large satiny- 
white flowers just like Sweet Peas. When 
you see them you will agree with us that 
they are simply exquisite. 
Splendens (Pink).—An exceedingly rare 
and beautiful variety, identical with Alba, 
except the fiowers, which are a deep shiny 
pink. The contrast between the two vari- 
eties is strikingly beautiful. Be sure to 
try both. Strong plants, prices, 15c., 25c. 
and 50c. each. 
SANSEVIERA ZEYLANICA.—A _  deco- 
rative plant of great beauty and value. A 
peautiful plant, splendidly adapted for the 
decoration of drawing-rooms or halls, as it 
stands drought and dust with impunity, 
Sieckier’s French Market, the Best Winter Cabbage. 
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and requires scarcely any water. The 
leaves grow to a length of three or four 
feet, and are beautifully striped cross- 
wise with broad, white variegations on a 
dark green ground. It is difficult to find 
a more unique or ornamental plant than 
this, especially when it is in bloom. 25c. 
and 50c. each. 
SAZIFRAGE SAERMENTOSA. — (Bee f- 
steak Piant}.—Fine for hanging. baskets 
mS partly shady locations. 15c. and 25c. 
each, >: 
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Strobilauthus Dyerianus. 
STROBILANTHUS DYERIANUS. — An 
excellent bedding plant as well as a beau- 
tiful foliage plant for pot culture, it 
forms a compact bush 18 inches high, with 
leaves 6 to 9 inches long; of a beautiful 
metallic purple, shading into light rose, 
with a light green margin, a combination 
unapproached by any other plant. The 
flowers are violet blue, borne in immense 
racemes. 15c. to 25c. each. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS.—Bon Fire 
Silver Spot. 
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This magnificent scarlet sage 
or salvia has three times the flowering 
capacity of ordinary scarlet sages. The 
flowers are produced so abundantly as to 
bend the branches and suggest the name, 
Drooping Spikes, for this superb type. It 
is altogether attractive and showy and one 
of the best for decorative purposes, wheth- 
er used singly or in mixed grouvs. The 
plant blazes out in dazzling scarlet and the 
color lasts all summer anda fall. Price, 10c. 
and 15c. each. 
SALVIA PATENS.—A hardy free flower- 
ing light blue variety, fine for cut fiowerzs. 
10c. and 15c. each: 
TRITOMA PFITZERII.—Red Eot Poker 
Piant.—The greatest bedding plant ever in- 
troduced, surpassing the finest Cannas for 
attractiveness and brilliancy, showy as the 
Gladiolus as a cut flower, and blooms in- 
cessantly from June until November. 
Piants perfectly hardy with protection. 
Plants show from 6 to 20 grand flower 
stalks all the time, each holding, at a 
height of 3 to 4 feet, a great cluster of 
flame-covered flowers of indescribable 
