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SlEBRECHT & WaDLEY'S CATALOGUE OF 
XI. 
Bedding Plants. 
Including Summer-Flowering Bulbs and Tubers. 
Tl T WOULD be useless to offer for summer bedding plants which cannot endure by turns fierce heat and drouth and 
deluges of rain. Popular bedders must grow thriftily and bloom profusely and 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 range from $1 to $3 per dozen, and from $6 to $20 per inndred. 
ACAliYPHAS. The foliage of all sorts of Acalyphas is 
handsomely blotched and marked ; A. toria has leaves 
beautifully cut and curiously twisted. All the best bed- 
ding varieties, §2 per dozen, $i2 per hundred. 
ACHVKANTHES. We offer all the best varieties of 
this section of bright-leaved bedders at fi per dozen, $6 
per hundred. 
AGEK-A-TUMS. On account of their free-flowering quali- 
ties and their large, fluffy clusters of bloom of all shades 
of blue and also pure white, the Ageratums have become 
quite popular as bedders. All the best varieties, Si per 
dozen, $6 per hundred. 
AliTERNANTHER.\S. These are dvvarfer and more 
compact in habit, with smaller leaves than the majority 
of foliage plants for bedding. They are very brightly 
colored, and especially adapted for working out designs, 
letters, etc. $i per dozen, $6 per hundred. 
BEGONIAS, Ijemoine's Hybrids. This is a new class, 
especially bred for bedding. For description, see New 
and Rare Plants, page 13. 50 cents to %i each. 
BEGOXIAS, Tuberous. As a bedding plant the Tu- 
berous Begonia seems to eclipse all the old favorites. 
We now have species that, with good culture, endure 
the hottest suns and produce rich and brilliant effects. 
For varieties and descriptions, see Stove and Greenhouse 
Plants. 
Single Varieties. $2 per dozen, $18 per hundred. 
Double Varieties. 40 cents each, $4 per dozen. 
CALiADlUMesouleutum. The well-known bedder,with 
immense tropical, plain green leaves, $1 to per dozen; 
$6 to g20 hundred, according to size of bulbs. 
CANNAS, New French Dwarf. Tliese give a very 
beautiful and tropical aspect to pleasure grounds by 
their stately growth and broad, massive leaves, relieved 
by rich crimson, scarlet, orange or yellow flowers. 
During the summer months their foliage, comprising 
various shades of rich green, silvery green, chocolate 
and crimson leaf-tints, fits them admirably for grouping. 
They are also invaluable as large pot-plants for port- 
able specimens in pleasure-ground decoration, and 
equally so for grouping in conservatories. They are 
ornamental for any purpose. 
C.\NN.V Adolphe Wcick. Very dwarf, compact habit, 
flowers rich crimson scarlet, shaded orange ; foliage rich 
pea-green. 
C. Admiral Courbet. Flowers yellow, speckled and 
blotched orange-scarlet ; green foliage. 
C. Antoine Chantin. Height three feet ; large, rich- 
colored foliage, beautiful green ; large flowers, with 
round petals, two of them touched with yellow ; color a 
beautiful rosy salmon. 
C. Antonin Crozy. A vigorous grower; foliage green; 
flowers bright rosy carmine. 
G. Asa Gray. Dwarf, comp.ict foliage ; flower large, 
salmon red. 
C. Baronne Cosaneaut. Rich deep green foliage, bright 
orange-scarlet flowers ; free flowering. 
NEW FRENCH CANNA. 
