GENEVA. PHILADELPHIA. 
BOSTON. 
NEW AND RARE SHRUBS, 
Azalea Viscosa. — Azaleo Viscosa is found in favored localities growing naturally, 
and its clusters of yellow, white and pink flowers, with their fragrance of honeysuckles, 
are a surprise and delight to all who approach them. 
KalniiaLatifolia.— (Mountain Laurel.) A native shrub, with such thick and glossy 
evergreen leaves that the early settlers called it a Laurel from its close resemblance to 
the famous Laurels of the old world. Its dense head of dark, shining foliage is a back- 
ground to set off its great trusses of pink and white blossoms, which fairly cover the 
plant, making, altogether, as perfect a picture of light and shade as artist could imagine. 
Sanibucus Aurea. — A new golden foliaged shrub which comes from Europe, and 
has large compound pinnate foliage of a deep golden color, not variegated with yellow, 
but solid golden yellow, of the richest shade seen in any plant, whether tender or hardy. 
The plant is very vigorous and perfectly hardy. The blossoms of this new Golden Shrub 
are quite pretty in July, though not showy, but the color of the foliage which never fades 
and never burns through the whole summer, makes it the most showy and most remark- 
able shrub in cultivation. No plant can compare with it for solid golden yellow leaves. 
Spirea Aurea. — (Golden Leaved Spirea.) Foliage of a rich, golden yellow tint. 
Produces an abundance of white blossoms in June. It Is regarded the Queen of the 
Spireas. 
Zeiiobia Raceinosa. — A shrub closely related to the Azaleas, with beautiful glossy 
foliage, a neat compact habit of growth and bearing racemes of drooping flowers very 
much like those of Lily of the Valley, and fully as fragrant. 
NEW CLIMBERS, 
Scarlet Clematis. Clematis Coccinea. — This magnificent Climber is acknowledged 
as one of the most brilliant gems of the Clematis genus. 
The plant is perfectly hardy in tliis latitude. Being herbaceous, it dies down every 
winter, and in spring throws up eight to twelve vines to a height of eight to ten feet. 
Early in July, and continuing till frost appears, its one to one and one-half inch long, 
bell shaped flowers, of the most intense scarlet, shine as if polished. The leaves are of 
a rich, deep, glossy green, deeply lobed. and of fine texture. The foliage and entire 
habit of the plant is elegant, bright and attractive. 
Wistaria Tuberosa. — A vine having foliage resembling that of the common 
purple Wistaria, but smaller, and clusters of chocolate colored blossoms of the same 
general style of those of the old sort, only smaller, and often with compound clusters of 
three bunches growing together. It has the odor of violets, and has this great advantage 
over the otlier Wistarias, tliat it will flourish in the poorest soils and always blooms the 
same year planted — as its top is mostly annual, the tubers supply it with the needed 
strength. It can be planted in pots in the house in the autumn and will flower in a 
sunny window and climb with great rapidity. It is sold in the form of a bulb resemb- 
ling a very small sweet potato. 
