WINTER FLOWERING- AND DECORATIVE PLANTS. 



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WINTER Flowering and Ornamental PLANTS 



FOR THE HOUSE AND CONSERVATORY 



Although best known as a bedding plant, potted specimens 

 of Abutilpns are bright with bloom and fancy foliage during 

 the winter months. 



Daydawn. Flowers bright daybreak pink. 



Souvenir de Bonn. Deep green, maple shaped leaves, 



widely and irregularly bordered creamy- white. Very free 



flowering, with bright orange flowers, veined crimson. 



Distinct and showy. 

 Thompson!. Flowers salmon-pink, foliage blotched with 



yellow. 25 ots. each; $2.50 per dozen. 



Brightly ornamental as winter pot plants and one of the 

 best subjects for summer bedding. 



ANTHERICUM MANDAIANUM 



A new variegated decorative plant, useful, when small, as 

 center to jardinieres. Larger plants are very attractive in 

 porch boxes and hanging baskets. The leaves are only about 

 six inches long, dark green, with a bright yellow center; the 

 crest of each flower stem reproducing a new plant complete 

 20 cts. each; $2.00 per dozen. 



Acalypha Sander! 



Sanderi. (Chenille Plant.) A strikingly handsome plant 

 equally useful for pots or bedding. Foliage deep glossy 

 green; the flowers being fuzzy, bright red, rope-like pendants 

 often 18 to 20 inches long, drooping from the axil of each 

 leaf. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per dozen. 



Triumphans. Crisp ovate pointed leaves of light red, fan- 

 tastically marbled in darker shades; like an immense autumn 

 leaf. 20 cts. each; I2.00 per dozen. 



AGAPANTHUS 



Umbellatus Albns. A splendid white flowered form of the 

 "Lily of the Nile," with long, narrow, drooping leaves and 

 abundant clustered flowers on spikes two to three feet long. 

 These are good interior decorations, and may be set out 

 doors in tubs during the summer. 4 inch pots, 50 cts. each ; 

 by express. 



AGATHEA COELESTIS 



A very pretty pot plant plentifully furnished with blue 

 daisy-like flowers. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per dozen. 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus 



ASPARAGUS 



Plumosus Nanus. The lace-like texture of its foliage out- 

 classes Maiden Hair Fern for grace and daintiness; the long 

 sprays being indispensable for floral decorations. Excellent 

 alone or as center plant in jardinieres. 



SprengerL Mostly used for hanging baskets where its long 

 dense trails make a gleaming mass of green. 

 20 cts. each; $1.75 per dozen. 



4 inch pot plants, 35 cts. each; $3.50 per dozen by ex- 

 press. 



REX 



BEGONIAS 



(Painted Leaf 

 Begonias) 



The high color- 

 ing and exquisite 

 markings of Rex 

 Begonias makes 

 them invaluable 

 as decorative 

 plants for house 

 culture. They 

 make excellent 

 plants for baskets 

 and vases if given 

 plenty of mois- 

 ture and not ex- 

 posed to the full 

 rays of the sun. 



Mixed varie- 

 ties varied 

 colorings , 3 inch 

 pot plants 30 cts 

 each; $3.00 per 

 dozen. 



