NOVELTIES IN NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
BEGONIA, GLOIRE DE LORRAINE. 
The Most Beautiful of all 
Winter-flowering Begonias. 
This Begonia is now given first place among all winter-flow- 
ering varieties. From October until April the elegant little 
plants are a wonder of beauty and profuse, fresh pink bloom. 
They grow from 12 to 15 inches high, and their handsome, 
l)ronze-tinted leaves are fairly smothered with flowers. 
This variety makes an elegant plant for hanging pots, being 
conspicuous for its graceful and delicate beauty. It is also 
useful for cut-flowers, lasting a week in water; and for dinner- 
table decoration it is especially beautiful when mi.\ed with fine 
adiantum or the glossy dark green Asparagus Sprcngcri. The 
color is a perfect match for some of the choice new pink roses. 
The plants also make beautiful center pieces in a neat arrange- 
ment of small palms and ferns. It is very satisfactory, too, for 
a window plant, accommodating itself to the ordinary care of a 
good window gardener. $3. 
FICUS RADICANS VARIEGATA. 
This pretty creeping Ficus has broad, irregular variegations 
of white margining its leaves. Its free, regular growth, easy 
culture and bright variegation make it one of our most elegant 
new vines for hanging pots and vases, for the margins of stages, 
or for training over low trellises into specimen ornamental 
plants. (From introducer's description.) Good small plants, 
from 3-inch pots, $3. 
TILLANDSIA LA SALLIANA. 
{Sh'hri'clit tf- Son.) 
A new species from South America, with most brilliant 
flowers. It is of free growth and easily cultivated, thriving 
best in a moderate temperature and in a light, fibrous soil 
mixed with sphagnum. $2. 
Begonia, Gloire de Lorraine. 
New Lilacs or Syringas. 
The best Lilac in cultivation, valuable 
shrubberies. Flowers white, in large 
Golden Yellow Cosmos, " Klondike.' 
MARIE LE GRAY. 
both for forcing and 
panicles. 50 cts. 
ROSEA GIGANTEA. Rosy pink flowers. Probably the 
largest flowering of all the Lilacs now in cultivation. $1. 
OTHER CHOICE LILACS 
Of recent introduction are offered and described in our depart- 
ment of Hardy Deciduous Shrubs. We have an e.xtra-large and 
fine stock, including new fancy sorts, and can supply almost 
any variety in any size desired. 
Golden Yellow Cosmos, 
"KLONDIKE." 
This variety, from Mexico, now first introduced, 
produces an abundance of magnificent bright yellow 
flowers 2% to 3 inches across, from June until frost. 
It is entirely different from the old small-flowered 
liiileiis feritla'folia, sold sometimes as "Yellow Cos- 
mos." This Cosmos is a cross between the true 
Cosmos sulplturcn of Mexico and a tall, late-bloom- 
ing variety. The original plant showed its first ter- 
minal bloom April 15, when 18 inches high, and by 
May 15 was 2,i-o feet high and covered with bloom. 
When cut down by frost, the plants are usually 3X 
to 4 feet high, quite as broad, and a perfect mass of 
golden yellow flowers. (Condensed from introducer's 
description.) 15 cts. per pkt. 
New Roses 
And otlu-r new plants of merit will bo found in their 
respective departments. 
