PLANT DEPARTME 
SEE CONDENSED LIST OF WELL-KNOWN KINDS ON PAGE 45 
ABUTILONS— Flowering Maples 
Always popular; as pot plants, for summer bedding, 
or for vases and baskets. Their bell-shaped flowers 
are of various colors, and appear in masses all summer, 
Daydawn. Flowers bright daybreak pink. 
Eclipse. Of distinct trailing habit. Long, angular 
leaves strikingly marbled with alternating blocks 
of yellow and green in varying shades. Flowers 
bright yellow w'ith crimson throat. 
Savitzi. Variegated green and white foliage. Dwarf 
and compact. 20 cts. 
Souvenir de Bonn. Deep green maple-shaped leaves, 
widely and irregularly bordered with creamy white; 
orange flowers, veined crimson. 
Splendens. A beautiful deep red variety, dwarf in 
habit; ahvaj-s in bloom. 
Unless noted, 10 ets. each; $1.00 per dozen. 
ACALYPHA 
A showy class of foliage plants as bright as the best 
of the Coleus, much hardier and not so liable to wilt 
in the hottest and dryest weather. 
Marginata. Very large waxy leaves of olive brown, 
with a saw-toothed edge of old rose. 10 cts. each; 
li.oo per dozen. 
Miltoniana. Drooping, slender, irregular leaves; 
deep green with creamy white margin. 10 cts. 
Sanderi. (Chenile 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. 15 cts. 
Triumphans. Crisp ovate pointed leaves of light 
red; fantastically marbled in darker shades; like an 
immense autumn leaf. 10 cts.; $1.00 per dozen. 
Acalypha Sanderi 
They make intensely bright beds, and show off 
splendidly in borders to taller growing plants. 
Brilliantissima. Brilliant rosy carmine. 
Emersoni. Leaves of glittering garnet. 
McNally. Rich green variegated red and yellow. 
10 cts. each; 20 for $1.00. By express, $4.00 per 100. 
AGERATUMS 
Their blue flowers are greatly appreciated in all 
summer bedding schemes, and are also very useful in 
baskets and vases. 
Blue Perfection. Good sized flowers in large clusters, 
bright blue with purplish shadings; growth bushy. 
15 cts.; Ii.oo per dozen. 
Inimitable. A giant flowered t^^pe, much larger than 
other sorts. Flowers lavender-blue, produced in 
immense heads on stout heavy stems. Plant grows 
nine to ten inches high and flowers freely the year 
around. 15 cts. each; |i.oo per dozen. 
Princess Pauline. This dwarf, compact variety, that 
rarely exceeds six inches in height, presents the 
charming color combination of soft blue bristles 
protruding from a white burr. A prime favorite. 
Stella Gurney. Dwarf; the deepest blue. 
Tapis Blue. Dark and showy. 
White Cap. Puure white. 
Unless noted, 10 cts. each; 10 for 50 cts. 
By express, $3.50 per 100. 
AMARYLLIS 
Valuable alike for house, conservatory or garden. 
For pot culture they should be well drained and potted 
in soil composed of leaf mold and light loam, although 
they grow well in any rich soil. 
Belladonna. A fall blooming sort with beautiful 
shell pink flowers, on stems 18 to 24 inches high. 
They are exceedingly fragrant and very free of 
bloom. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per dozen. 
Formossissima. (Jacobean Lily.) Crimson velvet 
color, flowering early in the summer. 10 cts.; Ii.oo 
per dozen. 
Johnsonii. A strong growing sort with brilliant red 
flowers five inches in diameter, with a distinct white 
stripe in the center of each petal; very fragrant. 
30 cts.; I3.00 per dozen. 
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