Bedding Plants 
BEDDING PLANTS 
Includini! Summer Flowering Bulbs and Tubers 
T would be useless to offer tor Summer bedding plants which cannot endure, by turns, fierce heat and drouth and 
deluges of rain. Popular bedders must grow thriftily and bloom profusely aud continually, or keep their foliage 
bright, despite all such hardships ; and, moreover, must content themselves with but a moderate amount of care. 
We offer only the brightest and sturdiest of the class including the best Summer Blooming Bulbs and Tubers, 
Foliage and Flowering Plants. 
Prices ranite from $1 to $3 per doz. and from $6 to $20 per hundred 
FUCHSIAS. For bedding in shaded places, covering 
unsightly angles and corners, or for llowering on 
porches and verandas. Fuchsias are the perfection 
of grace and exceedingly pretty. 20 cents each ; 
$2 per dozen. 
GERANIUMS. We keep in stock a fine assortment 
of the liest double and single forms of these popular 
old plants. They have not been overlooked in the 
general plant evolution, as many e.vcellent new 
ACALYPHAS. The foliage of all sorts of Acaly- 
phas is handsomely l)lotchcd and marked ; ,1. torta 
has leaves beautifully cot and curiously twisted. 
All the best bedding varieties, .$2 doz., .$12 per 100. 
ACHYKANTHES. We offer all the best varieties of 
this section of hright-lcaved bedders at $1 per 
dozen, .$(! per 100. 
AGERATUMS. On account of their free-flowering 
qualities aud their large fluffy clusters of bloom of 
all shades of blue and also pure white, the Ager- 
atunis have become quite popular as bedders. All 
the best varieties, .$1 per dozen, .fO per 100. 
ALTERNANTHERAS. These are dwarfer and more 
comiinct in habit, witli smaller leaves than the 
majority of foliage plants for bedding. They are 
very brightly colored and especially adapted for 
working out designs, letters, etc. $1 per dozen, 
ffV, i)er 100. 
BEGONIAS, liCmoine's Hybrids. This is a new 
class, especially bred for bedding. .50 cents to 
%1 eacli. 
BEGONIAS, Tuberous. As a bedding plant the Tu- 
berous Begonia seems to eclipse all the old favor- 
ites. We now have species that, with good culture, 
endure the hottest suns and produce rich and bril- 
liant effects. For varieties and descriptions, see 
Bulbs and Tubers. 
CAIiADIUM escnlentum. The well known bedder, 
with immense tropical plain green leaves, $1 to %'A 
per dozen ; $6 to .$20 per 100, according to size of 
bulbs. 
CENTAUREAS. (Dusty Miller). The silvery white 
leaves of tliese plants contrast finely with those of 
dark colored sorts. Some of them are finely cut 
and fernlike. $1 per dozen, $0 per 100. 
COLEUS. or 
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BEDDING COLEUS 
(hese standard bedding foliaK(' 
all the best varielies. 
leaves reniler them as valuable for 
decoinlion as for Summer bedding. 
,$(; pel KlO, 
ECHEVERIAS. The thick, fleshy 
IIousi' Leeks form dense roselles 
effective in bedding. .$1.50 per dozen 
jilants 
riu'ir brilliant 
Winter house 
.$1 per dozen, 
leaves of the 
that are very 
,$10 per 100. 
sorts will show. 15 cents each, $1.25 per dozen, 
$10 to .$15 per 100. 
HELIOTROPE. For bedding and pot culture these 
fragrant heat loving jjlants are alike indispensable. 
Their flower trusses now show many shades of 
color from pure white through lavender and pinkish 
violet to rich deep purjile, and some have golden 
variegated leaves. All the best varieties, 15 cents 
each, .$1..")0 per dozen. 
LANTANAS. These bedders are bright with bloom 
the entire season, very pretty, ami require little 
care. All the best colors, 10 to 15 cents each ; 
$1 per dozen. 
LOBEIiIAS. The blue and scarlet Lobelias are bril- 
liant and free flowering; unsurpassed for bedding, 
edgings, baskets and vases. $1 per dozen, $0 per 100. 
MARGUERITES. I'aris Daisy— The Frenchman's. 
POIilANTHES tuberosa. This, the well known 
Tuberose, is one of the best of our Summer bulbs. 
Single Tuberose. The "Orange-Flowered" variety. 
10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
Escelsior Pearl. The finest strain of the double 
varieties, and a beautiful flower; of dwarf habit. 
10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
SALVIAS. These are among our very best plants for 
Summer display. Their habit is very compact and 
graceful and the flowers are of various colors: pure 
white, blue, wliite with scarlet spots, and in red 
from all deep, dark shades to bright scarlet. 
10 cents each. $1 per dozen. .$8 per 100. 
TIGRIDIAS. {Fcrraria.) Splendid Summer bloom- 
ing bulbs ; the flowers are showy and freely pro- 
duced. 
T. concliiilora. Dark yellow flowers. 5 cents each, 
50 cents per dozen. 
T. grandiflora alba. White flowers. 10 cents each, 
$1 per dozen. 
T. grandiflora rosea. A beautiful new 
variety, with flowers of lilac rose. 60 
doz.. .$5 per 100. 
T. pavouia. Scarlet. 5 cents each, 50 cents per doz. 
TROP.iEOLUMS. We have no more brilliant flower 
than this for any purpose. Quick growing, free 
flowering and having marked individualitv in both 
leaf and flower, it is par excellence as a bedding 
plant, or for growing in baskets, vases, etc. AH 
the best species and varieties 10 cents each, $1 per 
dozen, .$(! per 100. 
T. variegatum. A new and valuable plant. Has 
finely marked white and green leaves like those 
of a Silver (Jeranium, and is excellent for ribbon 
work. 50 cents each. 
VERBENAS. These are elegant bedding plants, with 
sliapely trusses of flowers in every sliade of every 
color except yellow. The large 'flowering strain, 
y. hi/hrida praiidiflorii. now supersedes all others. 
10 cents each. .$1 per dozen, ifO per 100. 
and rare 
cents per 
The Largest Horticultural Establishment in America. 
