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both. Strong plants, prices, 15c, 25c, and 



STROBIIiANTHUS 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. 



SANSEVIEEA ZEYLANICA.— A decora- 

 tive plant of great beauty and value. A 

 beautiful plant, splendidly adapted for the 

 decoration of drawing rooms or halls, as 

 it stands drought and dust with impunity, 

 and requires scarcely any water. The 

 leaves grow to a length of three or four 

 feet, and are beautifully striped crosswise 

 with broad, white variegations on a dark 

 green ground. It is difficult to find a 

 more unique ornamental plant than this, 

 especially when it is in bloom. 25c. and 

 50c ©ctcli 



SAXIFRAGE SARMENTOSA — (Beef- 



steak Plant).— Fine for hanging baskets 

 and partly shady locations. 15c.' and 25c. 



a SAIiVIA SFLENDENS. — Bon Fire and 



Silver Spot. — 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, whether 

 used singly or in mixed groups. The plant 

 blazes out in dazzling scarlet and the color 

 lasts all summer and fall. Price, 10c. and 

 15c. each; $1.00 to $1.50 per dozen. 



SALVIA PATENS. — A hardy free flower- 

 ing light blue variety, fine for cut flowers. 

 10c. and 15c. each; $1.00 and $1.50 per 

 dozen. 



TBITOMA FFITZERII. — Red Hot Poker 

 Plant. — The greatest bedding plant ever in- 

 troduced, surpassing the finest Cannas for 

 attractiveness and brilliancy, showy as the 

 Gladolius as a cut flower, and blooms in- 

 cessantly from June until November. 

 Plants perfectly hardy with protection. 

 Plants show from 6 to 20 grand flower 

 stalks all the time, each holding a great 

 cluster of flame-covered flowers of in- 

 describable beauty and brilliancy. Each 

 cluster keeps perfect several weeks, and 

 when it fades two or three more are ready 

 to take its place. For cutting it is un- 

 surpassed, as the beautiful long spikes 

 keep several weeks in water. Strong 

 plants that will bloom the first summer. 

 Each, 30c; 4 for $1.00. 



Violets. 



Large Flowering. — For bordering flower 

 beds. 25c. per dozen, $1.50 per 100. 



Lady Hume Campbell. — A vigorous vari- 

 ety, blooming with extraordinary freedom. 

 Large double flowers, of azure blue; richly 

 perfumed. 10c each; 75c per dozen. 



Giant. — Large dark purple violet of great 

 substance. 5c each; 40c a dozen, $2.50 a 

 hundred. 



Swanley's White. — Perfectly double, pure 

 white flowers of fine size and rich fra- 

 grance. By far the best of all white 

 Violets in freedom of bloom. 10c each; 

 75c. per dozen. 



Princess of Wales. — Single, true violet 

 blue, grand. 10c each; 75c per dozen. 



VERBENAS. — We offer the most distinct 

 varieties of these useful bedding plants. 

 All are of the mammoth or large flowering 

 type. The colors range through all the 

 different shades of scarlet, purple, crim- 

 son, pink, blue, white, etc. Mixed seed- 

 lings, 5c each, 50c per dozen; pot grown 

 to color. 10c each, 75c per dozen. 



Ferns. 



ASFLENIUM NIDUS AVIS.— (The Bird's 

 Nest Fern).— An interesting species, with 

 large dark green foliage. 50c. and $1.00 each. 



NEFHROLEFIS SMITHII. — An improved 

 | variety of the Baby Breath Fern. The 

 fronds are of much stronger substance, 

 upright growing habit, quite an improve- 

 ment on the old variety. 25c, 50c and 

 $1.00 each. 



NEFHROLEFIS TUBEROSA FLT7MOSA. 

 The fronds are long and narrow, the pin- 

 nules beautiful plumose, which are of 

 light color, giving the fronds a beautiful 

 effect on account of the two distinct 

 shades, as well as its graceful waviness. 

 25c, 50c and $1.00 each. 



NEFHROLEFIS SUFERBISSIMA (The 

 Fluffy Ruffles Fern). — Foliage dark green, 

 irregular shaped fronds, heavily im- 

 bricated, the pinnae over-lapping, very 

 sturdy in its habit. 25c, 50c and $1.00. 



NEFHROLEFIS WHITBOLDII.— 

 A scarce variety quite distinct from other 

 Nephrolepis, leaves grow erect, slightly 

 recurving near the ends, leaves very broad, 

 sometimes 7 to 8 inches across in fully 

 developed fronds. 25c, 50c and $1.00 up. 



NEFHROLEFIS BOBUSTA . — As the 

 name indicates, a robust growing variety 

 of the Pierson type. The introducer claims 

 that it never reverts to the Boston type, 

 producing only character leaves. A nov- 

 elty of merit. 25c, 50c and $1.00 each. 



NEFHROLEFIS ELEGANTISSIMA.— 



Tarrytown Fern. — This is a "sport" from 

 the Piersonii, in which, the plumy pecu- 

 liarity of the original form is even more 

 distinctly developed, the side pinnae being 

 again subdivided and standing at right 

 angles to the midrib, making, both sides of 

 the frond equally beautiful, while at the 

 same time the plant is of much more com- 

 pact habit, growing only one-half as tall, 

 but with fronds nearly twice as wide, 

 making it a much more desirable plant for 

 all purposes. 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00; 

 extra large specimens, $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00. 



Boston Fern. 



BOSTON FERNS. — A large stock in vari- 

 ous sizes. 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c and $1.00. 

 Extra large, $1.50 and $2.00. 



NEFHROLEFIS WHITMANII.— Phila- 

 delphia Lace Fern. — The most graceful of 

 all the Nephrolepis; very choice. 25c, 50c, 

 75c and $1,50 each. 



NEFHROLEFIS FIERSONH.— Ostrich 

 Plume Fern. — 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 and 

 $1.50 each. 



NEFHROLEFIS AMERFOHLI (or Baby 

 Breath Fern). — The latest novelty; the 

 foliage is finely divided and very graceful 

 in appearance. It is indeed a beauty, 25c, 

 50c, 75c and $1.00. 



