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GARDEN" GREENHOUSE PLANTS, 



Passiflora Pfordti 



Jasminum Grandiflorum 



(Catalonian or Star Jasmine) 



This is the old favorite sweet scented variety, a most desirable 

 plant for the window garden producing its attractive white flowers 

 almost continuously. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



Jasminum Prima linu m 



Flowers bright yellow similar to the old favorite hardy Jessamine 

 but double the size and develop early in March. An excellent 

 plant for the 'window garden when trained on a trellis as a pot 

 plant. 25 cts. each. 



Lagers t roe mi a Indica (Crape Myrtle) 



This is one of the prettiest Shrubs and while hardy south of the 

 Potomac requires protection in this latitude. Grown in large pots 

 or tubs, specimens 6 to 8 feet high can be produced with little 

 difficulty, and which for two or three months in summer will be 

 covered with flowers. 

 Indica. Delicate soft pink. 

 —Alba. A white-flowered form. 

 Price. $1.00 each. 



Maranta 



Beautiful variegated foliage plants, suitable for the warm con- 

 servatory. 



Rosea Lineata. Rich deep green leaves beautifully variegated 

 with many narrow lines of a soft salmon-rose. $1.00 each. 



Double Pink Oleanders (Nerium) 



We have a lot of splendidly trained tree-shaped plants of this 

 old favorite, which will produce a mass of flowers during the 

 summer; the plants are growing in wooden tree tubs about 15 

 inches in diameter; they have strong, straight trunks 3 feet high 

 and nicely shaped round crowns 30 inches in diameter; an ex- 

 ceptionally fine lot of flowering decorative plants. $15.00 each. 

 Young plants, 4-inch pots, 75 cts. each. 



Variegated Leaved. Foliage attractively edged with creamy- 

 white, single pink flowers; 4-inch pots, 75 cts. each. 



Olea Fragrans (Sweet ouve) 



An old favorite greenhouse Shrub succeeding admirably as a 

 house plant, producing small creamy-white flowers of the most 

 exquisite fragrance, continues to bloom almost the entire winter. 

 4-inch pots, $1.00 each; 5-inch pots, $1.50 each. 



OphiopOgOn (LUy Tuft) 

 Jaburan Variegatus. A pretty variegated foliage plant, useful 

 either as a pot plant for the window or for planting out in 

 summer; its narrow dark green foliage is prettily striped with 

 gold, and during July and August, spikes of blue flowers add to 

 its beauty. $1.00 eat h. 



PandanUS (Screw Pine) 



Veitchi. One of the finest decorative plants for the house, 

 graceful foliage, broadly striped with cream-white on a green 

 ground. 4-inch pots, $1.00; 6-inch pots, $2.50; 7-inch tubs, 

 $3.50; 8-inch tubs, $7.50; 10-inch tubs, $10.00 each. 



PaSSiflora (Passion Flower) 



Pfordti. The most interesting and best variety for outdoors as a 

 summer climber; flowers light blue, suffused with rose and borne 

 quite freely. 50 cts. each. 



Princeps. This is one of the best greenhouse climbers, a rare 

 and showy variety with bright red flowers. $1.00 each. 



Pentstemon Gloxinioides 



As bedding plants these rank in importance with Petunias, 

 Phloxes, etc. They grow about two feet high, bearing 10 to 12 

 inch long spikes of Gloxinia-like flowers throughout the summer. 

 We offer a fine strain of large-flowered varieties in choicest mixture. 

 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Dreer's Superb Single-fringed 

 Petunias 



Our own strain of the finest large flowering single-fringed sorts 

 of this useful bedding plant, and invaluable for porch and window 

 boxes, flowering continuously from early in the summer till frost. 

 Ready May 1st. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



Plumbago 



Capensis. Flowers at all seasons. A fine plant for pot culture 

 or the border; producing spikes of pretty, light blue flowers. 



Capensis Alba. A white flowered form of above. 



Coccinea Superba. Long spikes of showy satiny carmine 

 flowers; a fine pot plant for the window garden. 



Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



Salvia Splendens "America" 



(Scarlet Sage) 



This is the finest of all the Scarlet Sages, being the earliest, freest 

 and most continuous bloomer. It is also the most uniform in 

 habit of growth. Ready May 1st. 



20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Sanseveria 



Zeylanica Laurenti. This variety, in addition to the variega- 

 tion shown in the ordinary sort, has a band of creamy yellow 

 varying from i to j inch on each edge of the leaves, which adds 

 greatly to its decorative effect. 3-inch pots, 75 cts.; 4-inch pots, 

 $1.25; 5-inch pots, $2.00; 6-inch pots, $3.50 each. 



Stepbanotis 



Floribunda. One of the most charming hothouse climbers, 

 growing rapidly, with glossy, deep green foliage, and producing 

 clusters of pure white, fragrant flowers. $1.50 each. 



Stigmaphyllon Ciliatum 



(Brazilian Golden, or Orchid Vine) 



One of the prettiest tender climbers in cultivation, with large 

 yellow, orchid-like flowers, produced very freely during the summer 

 months. It is especially adapted for training over the pillars or on 

 the wall of a conservatory, but will do equally well in the open air. 

 50 cts. ea> h. 



Strelitzia (Bird of Paradise Flower) 



Regina. A serviceable conservatory plant, with dark green 

 leathery foliage, and producing interesting curiously shaped 

 orange and purplish blue flowers that always attract attention. 

 4-inch pots, $4.00 each. 



Tbunbergia 



Erecta. A greenhouse Shrub flowering almost the year round, 

 bearing large, showy deep purple flowers with orange-yellow 

 throat. A most satisfactory plant for the window garden. 

 50 cts. each. 



Harrisi. A splendid winter flowering greenhouse climber, with 

 showy light-blue flowers with creamy white throat. 50 cts. each. 

 Zinnias (Youth and Old Age) 



Dreer's Double Dahlia Flowered. An extra large flowering 

 strain of this popular summer-flowering annual, growing about 

 3 feet high. Mixed colors. 



Dreer's Double Pompon. Grow about 15 inches high pro- 

 ducing splendid small double flowers on long stems suitable for 

 cutting. A full range of colors in mixture. 



Either of the above ready May 10th. 15 cts. each; $1 50 per doz.; 

 $12.00 per 100. 



For the Ornamental Pennisetums, see page 141 



