CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, PLANTS, BULBS AND FRUITS. 
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May's Twentieth Century List of Novelties and Specialties. 
BROWALLIA QIQANTEA, 
OR GIANT TREE VIOLET. 
A charming new flowering plant that maybe put to many useful 
purposes. The plant is a strong, compact, bushy grower, producing 
a profusion of florets about one to one and one half inches in diameter, 
of an intense indigo-blue, fully as intense as the Marie Louise or Cali- 
fornia violet. It bids fair to supplant the lobelia as a bedding plant, 
is valuable for cut flowers, as it is never out of flower, and may be 
grown as a flowering plant for Easter. Flowers may be used with 
violets in design work as the colors are identical. 
Price. 25c. 
BROWALLIA JAMESONI, 
OR ORANGE VIOLET. 
This is an old but neglected plant, forming com- 
gact, bushy heads, which, when the plants are in 
loom, are covered with large violet shaped flowers of 
a bright orange color, giving it a rich golden appear- 
ance. It blooms as soon as rooted and almost perpet- 
ually afterwards. Price, 25c. 
NAEQELIA. 
Very beautiful, showy ornamental plants intro- 
duced from Central America. The blossoms are borne 
in the greatest profusion on long stately spikes, while 
the foliage is especially attractive, being beautifully 
marked and blotched with tints of green, purple and 
maroon, and of a heavj- velvety texture. The colors 
produced are as numerous us they are beautiful, ex- 
quisite tints of rose, carmine, red. shades of pale lilac, 
lavender and purple, pnre white, golden yellow, etc. 
Many of them have a variety of colors most elegantly 
blended. They are tender, herbaceous perennials, the roots being kept 
from year to year. Thc3' should be stored in dry sand during the win- 
ter. Price for strong bulbs 30c, 4 for 3 1 OO. 
NABGBLI.l 
BRAZILIAN MELON FRUIT. 
AN ORNAMENTAL FRUIT BEARING TREE THAT 
NO ONE SHOULD FAIL TO SECURE. 
Two years ago we offered this great p^ant novelty to our cus 
toraers, and ourexperiencewith it and the many testimonials re 
ceived from our patrons, all praisirg its wonderful qualities, only 
confirm our opinion before expressed, that it is the greatest plant 
novelty that has ever been oflered tl e American trade 
It IS a native of Southern Brazil. It is not only ac 
excellent and valuable ornamental plant, with rich 
green leaves that at once gives it a foremost place'in 
the list of handsome foliage plants, but it also furnishes 
us with a most desirable, egg-shaped yellowish orange 
colored fruit, which hangs pendant in clusters, just 
below the beautiful foMn^c. This fruit is of the most 
delightful flavor imaginable, having: a sBghtly 
sub-acid taste, entirely different from any other 
fruit we are acquainted with. For eating out of 
hand, slicing or making into preserves, it is sirapiv 
delicious, and its lovely appearance in a dish on a 
table can only be equaled bv the finest of tropical fruits 
As an ornamental plant It has few equals. Its 
splendid bushy habit, healthy growth and charming 
foliage, giving it the preference over many of the 
weaker and more delicate plants of the ornamental 
clas.s. 
Mrs. T. B. Shepard. Ventura, California, writes: 
'j'^i." 5"^- is large and handsome 
and the fruit of a beautiful orange salmon color when 
npe, and has a delicious sub-acid taste." 
Note — It is desirable only for house culture and the 
open ground during the summer months, and must lie- 
m^j taken into the house at the approach of cold weath' r 
Price, 25c each, postpaid. 
The Seed— We can supply the seeds of this valuable 
plant, and on each packet will be given full and complete cultural 
Qirections. This is very costly and consequently the packets wilt 
contain only a few seeds each. Per pkt. 50c. 
CRIMSON SPIREA, Anthony Waterer. * ^"'"ab'ea^a remarkable new shmb. This i 
J ^, . , . ,! „ . novelties that occur only at rare intervals addi 
our garden flora. It outshines nil Spireas in brilliancy of color, being a bright crimson, of d Warfer and denser grow 
I is one of those exceptional 
3ing richness and beauty to 
^=s'p^ni^o^'^t:?^:2^ti^"^j:^^;/^ 
The prettiest of all flowers and climbing plants. Will grow perfect! r all 
over the United States. Greatly admired by every person who pees it. 
PASSION FLOWER, ' Northern King." _ 
T^f,^ bloom all summer, and very far North must be protected a little from^^old".^ For'the window it is solendid and out riooro it -«ili , 
%^Vi''°r?^"' with beautiful blooms, 4 to 5 inches across, and supported by stout stems The coVorMs pec "bar of bl« whUe ph^£ "^nd 
The foliage is a hght green, tinted on the edges with yellow. Its shape is odd. The flower will attfact the eve amonir hund^^^^ 
n'^t'h7crn\7;'lh':^rd ?,rve*'ot.e"^°E;'ch S^r"-'*'" '''^^ eve*ry*=s^.kL'irf^?^yl'a"rs!"^^E'^ery' 
red. 
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BROWiLLIA Cir.ANTBA. 
