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inches high by the same in diameter. The predominating color is of a brilliant cherry- 

 red, and marked with a regularly formed white star. This Petunia is very effective for 

 massing, etc., and admirably adapted for pot culture. Half-hardy perennial, blooming from 

 seed the first season; treated like hardy annuals. Pkt., 25 cts. 



PHLOX DRUMNONDI, Grandiflora Violacea Albo-Oculata. This new large- 

 flowering variety is of strong, compact growth, with beautiful flowers, of a violet color, and 

 white eye; hardy annual; height, 18 inches. Pkt., 20 cts. 



PHLOX DRUMMONDI, Grandiflora Rosea Albo- Oculata. Same as above, but rose 

 colored, with a white eye. Pkt., 20 cts. 







SALVIA FARINACEA. 



PRIMULA SINENSIS, FIMBRIATA ALBA MAGNIFICA.. 



PRIMULA SINENSIS, Fimbriata Alba Magnifica. This new Primula is a great im- 

 provement on the older varieties. The plants are of compact habit, and having deeply 

 indentated light green foliage ; producing freely large trusses of pure white flowers with a 

 citron eye, measuring 2 \ inches across; they are of great substance, each petal being deeply 

 and beautifully fringed. Primulas are treated as green-house annuals. Pkt., $1.00. 

 PRIMULA, Fimbriata Cristata Nana Alba. A highly interesting and entirely distinct 

 variety of French origin. The plant is of dwarf and dense habit, with foliage similar to 

 the Malva crispa, having frilled or crimped edges. Its charming snow-white flowers, with a 

 pale yellow-eye, are dentated, and show a tendency to become double. This Primula comes 

 nearly always true from seed. Pkt. of 10 seeds, 50 cts. 

 PYRETHRUM, Aureum Selaginoides. All the Pyrethrums are valuable bedding 

 plants, for edging and ribbon beds. This variety being quite distinct and novel, the flat 

 golden foliage resembling two fronds of some species of Ferns, overlapping each other; this 

 peculiarity with its dwarf compact habit, adds to its beauty; hardy perennial. Pkt., 25 cts. 

 SALVIA, Farinacea. A new first-class, branching shrubby plant 3 feet high, suitable for 

 the green-house as well as for summer bedding, of a habit similar to the Salvia Splendens. 

 If sown early in the spring, the ends of the branches begin to show the flower-spikes in 

 July; these are light blue, from 9 to 18 inches long; it is not so much the individual flowers, 

 but the woolly-haired bracts colored from light to dark blue, which constitute its special 

 beauty, and which remain on for months; and the readiness with which it flowers in the- 

 open ground, combined with its easy cultivation, will soon make this new Sage a universal 



favorite in our gardens. Pkt., 25 cts. 

 SALVIA, Involucrata. A new variety of 

 the most showy species. In general habit it 

 resembles the above, but the leaves, stalks, 

 and bracts are glabrous ; the inflorescence con- 

 sists of a long flower-spike with rose-colored 

 bracts, and splendid rosy crimson flowers of 

 1J inches in length, in densely arranged 

 whorls of six flowers. It is a green-house 

 shrubby plant, and treated the same as Salvia 

 Farinacea. Pkt. of 15 seeds, 25 cts. 

 SENECIO, Speciosus. A new attractive 

 free-flowering half-hardy perennial from 

 South Africa. It produces in the open ground 

 an abundance of branching spikes of bright magenta-colored flowers, from spring until fall, 

 and can be had in bloom throughout the winter in a cool green-house. Pkt., 25 cts. 

 XERANTHEMUM, Annuum Superbissimum. This new variety hasflowers as double as 

 a Eanunculus, globular-shaped, of a beautiful reddish-purple color, and entirely free from 

 projecting marginal ray florets; the finest form of that garden favorite; useful for mixing 

 with other everlasting flowers, etc. Pkt., 20 cts. 

 XERANTHEMUM, Annuum Superbissimum Album. A new variety of the above,, 

 differing only in color, which is pure white, very double like the illustration. Pkt., 20 cts. 



XERANTHEMUM, ANNUUM SUPERBISSIMUM. 



