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JOHNSON .-. & .-. STOKES .-. 



KEOl IVIflt^GDEl^ITE Gflt^flflTIO^S. 



GflHNflTIONS THE YEflH ROUND. 

 Flowers Four Months from Seed. 



TKT AND JUDGE YOUKSELF. 



G63. By sowing in the autumn you will have flowers 

 in spring. 



Early sowing in the year will give you ii profusion 

 of sweet-scented flowers in July. 



Sow in May, take off the tips of the branches, pot in 

 August, keep the iJlants in a coUl frame, and you will 

 have beautiful flowers in the winter. 



By a proper method of growing you will have flow- 

 ers throughout the year. 



Though not strictly a Novelty this year the Margue- 

 rite carnations have met with such deserved success, 

 that we desire to give them a prominent position, so 

 that all our customers will trv them. Per pkt., 15c.; 7 

 pkts.,S1.00. 



MANDAVILLA SAVEOLENS. 



An exquisite summer climber, with graceful foliage and 

 great clusters of large, waxy star-shaped blossoms, exqui- 

 sitely fragrant, resembling the single Tuberose in shape, but 

 larger. Per pkt., Me. 



MlCOTIA>".\. COI.OSSEA, Pkt. , 25c. 



NEW CYCLAMEN, MT. BLANC. Pkt., 25c. 



962. Pure AVhite Perpetual Blooming, Large Flow- 

 ering, Fragrant Cyclamen, Mt. Blanc. — This charming 

 cyclamen, imlike other sorts, blooins the year around; it 

 throws its snowy white exquisitely fragrant flowers high 

 above tlie foliage — one good sized bulb will frequently have 

 fifty to one hundred buds and blooms at one time. Flowers 

 are from one and one-fourth to one and one-half inches 

 long, and as it blossoms summer or winter, can be brought 

 out any time desired. Bulbs have been known to bloom 

 fifteen months without resting. Per pkt., 2.'5c. • 



NICOTIANA COLOSSEA. 



2171. Amongst all ornamental foliaged plants 

 coming to perfection the first season from being sown, 

 this novelty ranks foremost. It is an annual (peren- 

 nial when grown under glass) attaining a height of 

 five to six feet in the open ground. The leaves, of about 

 three feet in length by eighteen to twenty inches in breadth, 

 are erect at first, gracefully bending downward successively. 

 When young, they are downy, and of a reddish tint, chang- 

 ing to aglossy dark green later on, this lovely green con- 

 trasting beautifully with the reddish brown ribs. The plants 

 being of branching habit and of robust growth, and the leaves 

 being very tough, are never damaged l)y wind or rain. It is 

 well adapted for subtropical gardening, either as single speci- 

 mens or for groui)S with other ornamental-leaved plants. 

 Pkt., 25c. 



2170. Nicotiana Afflnis. It produces splendid, pure 

 white Bouvardia-like flowers on long terminal tubes. When 

 its large flowers are fully expanded in the evening and early 

 morning, it has a most .striking eflect, and so fragrant that a 

 small bed will perfume the whole surrounding atmosphere. 

 Pkt., 1.5c. 



Fresh air and sunshine^ Jlowers, health, and love — 

 These are endowments, if ive learn to prize them ; 



The wise nian^s treasures — better far than gold, 

 And none but fools and wicked men dcsjiise them." 



