RARE FLOWERS AND NOVELTIES 



FOR 1871-2. 



Particular care has been taken that the selection shonld be of the purest character. We 

 cannot affirm the accuracy of the various descriptions, having tested but few of them ; but 

 the reputation of the growers from whom we import is to us the best assurance that satis- 

 faction wili surely follow. Our patrons wishing novelties will please send their orders early, 

 as our stock of some of the varieties is limited. 



per pkt 



1003 Asters, Shakspeare. This new Aster is said to be the finest of all the dwarf 



sorts. Five inches high; densely formed; flowers very double, of the 

 brightest colors, and of a regular imbricated form. Its dwarf, compact, 

 and free-flowering habits, make it very useful either for the garden or pots .25 



1004 New (La Supevbe). Azure blue. To the beautiful rose variety which was, 



in fact, the only one of this race, may be added this charming variety 

 with azure-blue flowers. It cannot fail to meet the same general favor .25 



1005 — — New cellular Victoria. Most charming novelty; inhabit similar to 

 the Victoria Aster; the petals, however, instead of lying flat upon each 

 other, resemble so many tubes open at the ends, forming small cells. 

 The particularly elegant appearance of the flowers is derived, in a great 

 measure, from the symmetrical arrangement of the cells 25 



1000 Mont Blanc. Fine improvement, belonging, like the Victoria, to the Py- 

 ramidal Asters. Plants of luxuriant growth, about three feet high, cov- 

 ered with large, pure-white flowers five inches across, very double, and 

 so disposed as to give to the plants the appearance of complete pyramids .25 



1007 Abronia Arenaria. Nice species, with clear, waxy-yellow, sweet-scented 



flower; habit like A. umbellata 25 



1008 Amaranth us Bicolor ruber. Splendid bedding plant, with abundant foliage 



of a bright fiery-red passing towards the summit to bright carminate 

 scarlet, and sometimes tipped with yellow. Far superior to the old 

 (A. bicolor). For flower-beds, there is, among the whole ornamental 

 foliaged section, certainly not a finer and more striking plant to be found .25 



1009 Silicifolius. This plant is of pyramidal form, attaining a height of from 



two and a half to three feet, branching close to the ground, the lower 

 branches being twelve to fifteen inches in length, and extending in a 

 horizontal position. The leaves, which are beautifully undulated, vary 

 in the earlier stages of growth from a green to a bronzy-green shade, and 

 are from five to seven inches in length by about a quarter of an incli in 

 width. As the plants get stronger, the leaves at the ends of all the prin- 

 cipal branches assume a bright orange red color, and become more elon- 

 gated, generally being from ten to fifteen inches in length, forming 

 magnificent bright-colored plumes, and giving the plant a most elegant 

 and picturesque appearance 25 



1010 Aquilegia glandulosa (true). We are in a position to offer seed of this 

 variety, true. Flowers gathered from the bed from which the seed was 

 saved measured four inches in diameter 25 



1011 Pulchella 25 



1012 Rubra. " Two novel forms of Columbine have recently come under 



our notice. The one is a single red, with the petals margined with white 

 forming a red centre; the other a deep chocolate color margined in a 

 similar manner. They are distinct from any other varieties." . . .25 



1013 Hortensis. Dark brown. Very fine variety, reproduced true from seed .26 



1014 Balsam, Double. Scarlet red. (Impatiens" Balsaminea atrosanguinea.) 



very fine plant, splendid color 60 



1015 Centaurea Glementei ( Veitdi). The foliage is very elegant, and covered 



with a snow-white down. The numerous ramifications are terminated 

 by an inflorescence of straw-colored florets. Splendid for edges of large 

 gioups. the centres of other colored beds, and for isolated clumps . . .25 



101G Cineraria Maritima candidissima. This variety may be best described 

 as possessing the substance and general character of Cineraria maritima. 

 but a more decided white color, combined with the dwarf habit and 

 peculiarly graceful and serrated form of Centaurea candidissima . . .26 



1017 Coleus finest mixed. We have received a few seeds of this favorite plant 

 from a celebrated German grower, which we can recommend as very 

 fino. These beautiful, flne-fohaged plants cannot be too highly estimated 

 for garden decoration. Sow seeds same as Calceolaria. Seo page 9 . .25 

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