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.-. JOHNSON ■•■&■■■ STOKES .•. 



floVelties- 



AND 



Choice Specialties 'n 



^New White Plume, 



Floaier Seeds. 



OR 



Comet Aster. 



This is, ■we believe, the 

 grandest floral novelty of the 

 year. The flower, which resem- 

 bles very closely a pure white, large- 

 flowered Japanese Chrysanthemum, is 

 larger and more double than that of the 

 other colors, the petals being much longer 

 and more twisted: each petal is ribbed, thus giving to 

 the flower a quite peculiar and elegant appearance. The 

 color is the purest possible glossy satiny-white. 



34.5. XI7W "WHITE PLU^fE. (See cut.) Price per 

 pkt., 25c. 



316. XEW C-AJt^nXE PLUJIE, or C03IET 

 ASTEK. Similar in shape and style of flower to the 

 above, but of a beautiful rich caiTuine color. Price per 

 pkt., 250. 



347. NEW "QUEEN OF THE E.\BLIEST" 

 ASTEK. Lastseason at our "Floracroff' Trial Grounds, 

 this Aster, sown out of doors, bloomed ahead'of plants that 

 had been started under glass six weeks before. Tliey are 

 dwarf plants with fine large flowers of beautiful form. 

 They are without doubt the very earliest Aster listed. 

 (See"cut.) 



If weather is propitious, they may be had in bloom 

 by the beginning of July. 



Queen of the Earliest, pure white, 25c. per pkt. 

 " •' '" luixedcolors, 15c. '" " 



4i5. BEGONIA 

 CKEDNEKI. A 



perfectly distinct 



new variety originated by hybridizing B. 

 Scharfflana and Metallic'a. Its graceful 

 habit is similar to the former specits, 

 while in shape and coloring of the foliage 

 it resembles tlie B. Metallica. The flowers hanging 

 in large innbrella-like clusters, by far excel both 

 parents. The plants attain a height of two to three 

 feet, and produce a profusion of bloom that is aston- 

 ishing; the leaves are dark green, of a metallic gloss 

 and hairy on surface, dark red underneath, si.t inches 

 broad by eight inches in length. Thecolorof the indi- 

 vidual flowers is a snowy white on the inside of the 

 petals, while the reverse is thickly set with fine red 

 hairs, thus forming a most striking and beautiful con- 

 trast. Perpkt..2oc. 



NEW QUEEN OF THE E.iBLIBST ASTEB. 



426. BEGONIA SE.MPERFEORENS ATKO PURPUREA. 



(Vernon.) This beautiful new Begonia is similar in habit to the old 

 and well-known B. Semperflorens. but surpasses the latter by far 

 by its brilliant orange carmine flowers and by its glossy, deep 

 brownish-red foliage, the deep red tint growing in intensity as the 

 season advances. The beauty of the male flowers is still enhanced 

 by the bright yellow stamens, which contrast admirably with the 

 brilliant red flowers and the dark metallic leaves. Blooming in the 

 greatest profusion throughout the summerand autumn, it cannot be 

 too highly recommended for flowering beds or for pot culture. 

 Perpkt.,i3c. 



BEGOXI.i CKEDNERI. Pkt., 25e. 



"In all places, then, and in all seasons. 

 Flowers expand their light and so^d-liJce wings; 



Teaching us by the most persuasive reasons 

 How akin they are to human things." — Longfellow. 



