NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS AND PLANTS. 
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Kalanchoe Carnea (Novelty ) .—This strikingly beautiful decorative plant commences to flower at 
Christmas, continuing in bloom throughout Januarj^ and February, its bright and pleasmg color bemg 
very attractive during those dull months, thus proving it a most welcome addition to the wmter flora. 
The plant was recentlv introduced fron South Africa; it is of easy culture, and does well in a tcnipera- 
ture of fifty to fifty-five degrees; it attains a height of about eighteen inches, and is of good bush habit. 
The flowers, which are borne in large clusters of wax-like consistency, lasting a long time m perfection, 
are of a beautiful delicate pink color, and in addition, are deliciously fragrant, which greatly enhances 
the value of this charming plant. Pkt. 50o. 
YIOL/I TRICOLOR flflXin/I F0LII5 YflRIEQflTIS. 
VARIEGATED LEAVED GIANT PANSY. 
A very effective new variety, of robust, compact growth, and with variegated foliage, the leaves 
being conspicuously marked with broad stripes of golden yellow and yellowish white, contrasting 
beautifully with the dark glossy green of the ground color. The flowers are of the Tnmardcau race, 
enormous in size, and of rich colors. Pkt. 50o. 
STREFTOC/IRFQS, NEW HYBRIDS. 
This beautiful newraccof Strcptocarpus 
originated at the Roj'al Gardens, Kew, 
where Mr. Watson crossed S. Rexii and S. 
Parviflortis with S. Dunnii, and raised 
several charming new varieties. 
These have again been hybridized 
and selected, and the result is a 
great variety of striking and beau- 
tiful colors hitherto unknown among 
this genus. 
The plant is a green-house 
perennial, of dwarf, neat habit, 
growing about nine inches 
with rather long, narrow, 
arched and recurved stem- 
less leaves ; the leaves are 
of a velvety bright green 
ycolor. 
HOLiiiVHocK. 
stay's Prize. — These magnificent flowers with 
their stately spikes of handsome bloom, form grand 
and conspicuons objects in the flower garden during 
summer, and should always be grown where con- 
venient. They are easily raised from seed, and sown 
in January or February in the house, will bloom 
splendidly the same year. When grown in this way 
alight, rich soil should be used; the plants should 
be potted singlv into small pots, as soon as large 
enough to handle, shifting into larger as these fill 
with roots. Gradually harden ofl", and finally plant 
oat in June. The seed wc offer has been selected 
verj' carefully, and may be relied upon. (Seeillus.) 
Choicest Mixed, pkt.' 25c 
Streptocarpus, New Hvbrids. 
These new hybrids are remarkable 
for their abundance of bloom, and the 
continuous succession in which the 
flowers are produced for about four 
months in the summer and earl^' autumn, and also for the long time the individual flowers 
last in perfection. 
The flowers, which are very graceful in form, arc trumpet shaped, widely open and 
slightly recurved at the mouth, and measure about one and three-quarter inches in length ; 
they are divided at the moiithinto five segments, the bottom three of which extend a tittle 
beyond the two top, and arc borne on strong, upright, slightly WO0U3' or hairy stems, 
branched at the top. 
The variation of colors in these new hybrids is very striking, scarcely two plants being 
exactly the same, and the colors range from pure white, through pale lavender, lavender- 
blue, lilac-blue, light mauve, purple, violet, bright rose, and red, to rich, rosj- purple, with 
all the intermediate tints, and in all the flowers the throat and three lower segments are 
more or less marked or splashed with long blotches or spots of various shades of purple, 
generally shaded and relieved with white, which greatly enhances the efl*ect, and affords a 
pleasing contrast of color. In some instances the blotches run a long way down the tube, 
while in others they are near the mouth only. 
The culture of Streptocarpus is one of the easiest possible ; they may be started in an 
intermediate house, but a grcen-hotxse is all they require so long as frost is kept out. 
They succeed best in a compost of two-thirds good fibrous loam and one-third peat and 
sand, or leaf-mould and sand in equal proportions. During hot weather the plants should 
have a slight shade from the direct rays of the sun. If seed is sown the end of February 
and March the plants come into bloom the following June and July, and continue flower- 
ing freely until the end of September and October. As pot plants they are highly 
decorative, and also succeed wonderfully well when planted out along the borders of 
Ithe walks in a gr een-house or conservatory. Pkt. 50c. (See ill us. > 
