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Rapid growing plants of easy culture. Flowers pendulous, bell-shaped and produced in great abundance. If 
taken up carefully before frost, they make good winter flowering plants. 
, THOMPSONII PLENA 
Beautiful variegated foliage, green and gold, has per- 
fectly double flowers resembling a double Hollyhock 
pendant' color rich orange, shaded with crimson. 
Price, 10 cents. 
SAVITZII 
Leaves more deeply cut than S. de Bonne, and with 
more white in the variegation; of dwarf growth; a 
decorative variety. Price, 10 cents. 
GOLDEN BELLS 
A bright golden-yellow Abutilon of strong, vigorous 
habit at.d very free flowering. This Is the finest yel- 
low variety on the market and combines large size, 
^fine form and depth of coloring. Price, 8 cents. 
SPLENDENS 
Free flowering bright red. Price, 10 cents. 
SOUVENIR DE BONNE 
It is a strong, upright grower, with large, bright 
green foliage, distinctly edged with a broad band of 
creamy-white and yellow. Flowers very large on 
stems eight to nine inches In length. Color bright 
orange-rod, very effective with its beautifully varie- 
gated foliage. Price, 3 cents. 
ECLIPSE 
Fine for baskets and vases, trailing in habit. Its 
foliage is very attractive, beautifully marked dark 
green and yellow. Flowers bright yellow, with crim- 
son throat. Price, 8 cents each. 
ENFANTA EULALIA 
A green loaf variety, with orange-red flowers; a 
strong grower and the freest blooming variety grown. 
Price, 8 cents. 
ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI 
Used In decorations, as, for example, in the decora- 
tion of mantels, nothing can equal it. It Is also a 
handsome thing for ferneries and hanging baskets. 
Price, 5 cents; three-inch pots, 10 cents. 
BOUGAINVILLEA SANDERIANA 
ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS 
One of the handsomest of our foliage plants. The 
leaves are a bright green, gracefully arched, and as 
finely woven as the finest silken mesh. Surpassing 
Maiden Hair Fern in grace, fineness of texture and 
richness of color. It is one of .the finest decorative 
vines. Price, nice plants, 8c each; three-inch pots, 12c. 
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This beautiful free-flowering variety was introduced 
about three years ago. and on account of its free- 
blooming qualities has become very popular, especial- 
ly as a plant for Easter decorations. It is of strong 
and rapid growth, and the brilliant rosy-crimson blo.s- 
soms are produced from early in March until midsum- 
mer; in fact a plant will frequently flower the greater 
part of the year. Altogether it is .a most desirable 
subject for the conservatory or window garden. Price, 
10 cents. 
CALADIUM ESCULENTUM 
Very effective and suitable either for single speci- 
men plants on the lawn, masses in bods or margins of 
water. Its very distinct, apron-like leaves often attain 
the length of three feet by twenty inches wide, and 
have a rich, tropical effect. The growth is verv rapid, 
and the ground must be made rich. Watering in dry 
seasons will help develop large loaves. Bulbs can be 
stored in dry sand in winter and kept from year to 
year. Extra large bulbs, by mall, 
15 cents: by express. 10 cents. 
Medium, by mall, 10 cents; by ex- 
press, 5 cents. 
ALOYSIA CITRIODORA 
Lemon Verbena. 
A well known shrub; indispensable in the construc- 
tion of bouquets, etc., on account of the delightful 
fragrance of its leaves. Price, 5c each; 50c per dozen. 
HIBISCUS 
Peachb!ow-*This is one of the finest plant novelties 
offered in recent years. The flowers are double and 
from four to five inches in diameter; of a charming, 
rich clear pink color, with a small deep crimson cen- 
ter; an entirely new and most beautiful shade. We 
are confident it will give entire satisfaction to all who 
grow it, either in pots or planted out in the garden. 
It is also a good winter bloomer in the greenhouse oi 
sunny window. Price, 10 cents. 
Rubra — A very pretty double red Hibiscus. Flower 
deep cherry-red. very large and double. The finest red 
Hibiscus. Price, 10 cents. 
PLATYCENTRA 
(Cigar Plant.) Red tube with 
black ends, covered with flowers 
all summer. Price, 5 cents. 
CALLA 
(The White Calla.) Calla Ethi- 
opica, or Lily of the Nile. T/arge, 
pure white flower; too well known 
to need description. Price, 10 
cents and 20 cents each. 
Coleus. 
NEW COLEUS, DOCTOR ROSS 
One of the brightest and richest colored 
Coleus ever seen; enormous leaves, rich, 
dark velvety-crimson, shaded and marbled 
with black, and showing a broad wedge or 
ereamy-whitc and green in center; ele- 
gantly fringed, and bordered with green 
and gold. Price, 10 cents each; three for 
25 cents. 
COLEUS 
The Coleus will give more 
pleasure at less cost than any 
other plant. Their varied 
tints of crimson, gold, bronze 
and green, and richly blotched, 
veined or margined, produce 
a brilliancy of coloring un- 
cqualod. They arc equally as 
desirable for pot plants as for 
bedding out. We grow ten of 
the most brilliant varieties. 
Price, by mall, 5 cents; 50 
cents per dozen. By express, 
$2.50 per 100. 
