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Tea Roses, Tender. 
f Prices in pots, $1 to $3 per doz. 
Bon Silene. Rosy carmine flowers in great abundance. 
Bride. Pure wliite, large, very fragrant, fine for forcing. 
Blooms freely. 
Hermosa.. This grand pink bedding Rose is most pro- 
lific in blooming and is very nearly hardy. 25 cts. each. 
Mad. Hoste. Color varies from a creamy white to light 
yellow ; large and finely formed. 
Fapa Gontier. Rose, shaded yellow, reverse of petals 
crimson. Large and profuse bloomer ; semi-double. 
Safrano. SafTron and apricot. A fine old variety. 
Sweet Brier Roses. 
Single pink. The foliage is very sweetly scented, especially 
mornings and evenings, when covered with dew. If the bushes 
are shortened and compact, they will be densely covered with 
red berries, which continue into winter. 25 cts. 
GLADIOLUS. 
This islheiiiost beautiful and easily grown of all summer bulbs. The 
flowers embrace almost every desirable color; brilliant scarlet, crimson, 
creamy white, orange, salmon, violet, striped, spotted and blotched in 
the most singular and pleasing manner. They may be planted in the 
open border or among roses and shrubs from the last of April until the 
first of July, setting the bulbs from 6 to 9 inches apart and about 4 inches 
deep. Before very hard frosts, ta.ke up the bulbs and put them in o 
paper bags and store them in the cellar or in a room secure from frost. 
These grand summer and fiutumn-blooming plants excel all others 
in their brilliant colors and military statelincss. They are so adapted 
to all soils and situations, there is nothing in the whole floral kiiig<lom 
so easy of culture and so certain to succeed as the Gladiolus. I hey 
never "fail to llower the iirsl season I-'lower stems cut and put in water 
in \ ases will coniinue in bloom for 10 thu s. People of wealth can 
indulge in the new and costly varieties, which are really magnificent ; 
those of less menus, can for a few dimes, secure a dozen bulbs, which 
for beauty and variety of colors will be the delight of the neighborhood . 
Our Choice Hybrid Gladiolus, which have been selected 
from thousands of fine seedlings of nearly all colors and styles 
of niarkinjis. attracted nnich attention, and many were the 
e.xpressions of admiration front visitors who saw them last 
season when in bloom. 
Selected Varieties. By mail. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Mixed Varieties. Variotis shades, all colors. 50 cts. 
per doz., $2 per 100. These are ever\' one good, though so cheap. 
Mixed Varieties. Light and white, very fine. 75 cts. 
per doz.. including all of 
I^einoine*s Hybrid Oladiolus Trained Below. 
This brilliant and remarkable class of Cdadioli was originated by 
Victor Lcnioine, of France. " For vivid and rich, orchid-Hkc color- 
ing thc\ have no eipial. Emhla/oncd with the niosl intense, burning 
;in<l inexpressible ricli shades, they arc li uly wonderful In the blotchy 
which is a remarkable and Ivpica! feature, ttie color reat hes the climax. '1 
The following list embraces the best ol Lemoine's Hybrid Gladiolus . 
Admiral Pierre. Large flowers, deep carmine lake, lower 
divisions blotched with maroon, bordere<] sulphur. 20 cts. 
