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W. R. GRAY, OAKTON, FAIRFAX CO., VIRGINIA 
Miscellaneous Plants — Continued 
NEW IMPATIENS HOLSTII 
The newest Balsam ottered to date. It Is a strong 
grower, quite distinct trom any other Impatlens. The 
flowers measure trom one to two inches across and 
are a brilliant vermilion color, a fine contrast to the 
dark green foliage. Price, 15 cents. 
IMPATIENS 
GLADIOLI 
Mixed — Our mixed Gladioli embrace a magnlfloent 
variety ot bcautltul colors, all the poorer sorts having 
been discarded when in flower. Price, extra fine mix- 
ture, of ail colors, three for 10 cents; 30 cents per 
dozen, all blooming size. 
TUBEROSES— NEW DOUBLE PEARL 
Sultana (Sultan’s Balsam.) 
It is of a compact, neat habit of growth, with a good 
constitution, and a perpetual bloomer. The flowers 
are of a brilliant rosy-scarlet color, of a peculiarly 
distinct but most effective hue, about one and one-half 
inches in diameter. Price, 10 cents. 
THE NIGHT-BLOOmNG CEREUS 
The most beautiful flower in the world. Its flowers 
are very larce. of a pure satiny-white, with outside 
petals faintly tinged wtih reddish-brown. It is also 
deliciously fragrant. Price, 10 cents. 
Flowers nearly twice as lai’ge as those of the old va- 
riety and flower stems only eighteen inches to two feet 
high. Very fragrant. Large bulbs, started In pots, 8 
cents each; 75 cents per dozen. Dry bulbs, four Inches 
and upward In circumference, with perfectly sound 
centers, 3 cents each; nine for 25 cents, or 30 cents 
per dozen by express. 
VINCA MAJOR 
Variegata. 
A beautiful variegated trailing plant, admirably 
adapted for hanging baskets and vases. The leaves 
are a glossy-green, broadly margined a creamy -white; 
flowers blue. Price, 5 cents. 
VIOLETS 
Swanley White — This is a sport of the popular and 
well known Violet Marie Louise, and is in every way 
equal to its parent, having the same growth, the same 
freedom of flowering, the same perfect perfume, and 
the individual flower equally as large and of the purest 
white. Price, 10 cents each. 
New Single Violet, Princess of Wales — This variety ■ 
is tar ahead of any other Single Violet known. The 
grand single flowers, of a true vlotet-blue color that 
does not fade, are of round, symmetrical form, almost 
as large as Pansies, and of the richest, most delicious 
fragrance. Price, 8 cents; 60 cents per dozen, 
Marie Louise — Bold, fine flowers, very fragrant and 
very prolific. The color is of a dark blue, flowers dou- 
ble. This is the favorite double-blue Violet that you 
see in the flerists' windows. Price, 8 cents; 75 cents 
per dozen. 
WANDERING JEW 
Tradescantia Multicolor. 
Nearly everyone is acquainted with the Zebrina. The 
one now offered is the most beautifully variegated 
purple, scarlet and white. Price, 5 cents each. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS, or FLOWERING 
SAGE 
One of the finest of fall blooming plants, be- 
ing completely covered in autumn with long 
spikes of scarlet flowers, remaining in bloom 
untH cut down by the frost. Some of the finest 
beds in the White House grounds at Washing- 
ton a^'e of this plant. Kept sheared down to 
make it thick, it is a wonderful sight. Price, 
by mail. 5 cents each; 50 cents per dozen; by 
express, $3.50 per 100. ^ 
GROFF’S NEWEST HYBRID GLADIOLUS 
In Grand Mixture. 
A new stra.in of great merit has been evolved by 
Mr. Groff, who is widely known as an enthusiastic and 
successful hybridizer and grower of Gladiolus. Ilis 
present strain is unsurpassed and now world-famous 
Strong, vigorous-growing plants, with long, sturdy 
spikes. The flowers are extra large, of perfect form, 
splendid substance, and of the greatest beauty, embrac- 
ing a range of diversified coloring with combinations 
of markings almost endless and undreamed of; there 
are red. scarlet, crimson and garnet shades of unex- 
celled brilliancy and intensity; whites, creams, yellows, 
rose, pinks, salmon, orange. ?tc. ; stained, blotched, 
dotted, striped, watered and feathered in marvelous 
variety: rare blues, clematis, lilac and heliotrope 
shades, charmingly unique and to be found in no other 
strain of Gladiolus, insuring to purchasers many de- 
lightful surnrises. 
Price. Groff’s Genuine, Newest Hybrid Gladiolus 
Bulbs, in Grand Mixture, large blooming size, 5 cents 
each: 50 cents per dozen. 
MANETTIA BICOLOR 
This is the most beautiful and desirable of all vines, 
as it can he grown either in the house or garden 
equally as well. In the house it can be trained about 
a window, forming a wreath of the most brilliant 
bloom, both summer and winter. The flowers are from 
an inch to an inch and a half in length, of a most In- 
tense scarlet, shading into flame, tipped with bright 
golden-yellow, and are covered with a thick scarlet 
moss. Price, 10 cents. 
SAXIFRAGA SARMENTOSA 
A handsome plant of low habit, leaves nearly round 
and striped freely with silver bands; blooms white, of 
great beauty and borne in spikes nearly twelve inches 
high; fine for hanging baskets, vases, etc. Price, 5c. 
DOUBLE HOLLYHOCK 
One of the most majestic of hardy plants, and a 
clump or vine in any garden gives an effect not attain- 
able with any other plant. For planting among 
shrubbery or forming a background for other flowers 
it is without equal. One-year-old plants, ready to 
bloom, separate colors, red, white, yellow, pink, 10 
cents each, by mail. 
HARDY PINKS 
Price, 5 cents each. 
The New Double White Pink, Her Majesty — We have 
much pleasure in drawing attention to this charming 
novelty, which is one that will hold its own as long 
a's Pinks arc cultivated. It has become one of the 
most “popular of the day,” being grown by acres to 
supply the demand for cut flowers. By all means the 
best hardy Pink grown. 
May Gray — Clear, bright pink. 
Homer — Rich rosy-red, with dark center. 
