W, R. GRAY, OAKTON, FAIRFAX CO., VIRGINIA. 
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GERANIUM 
The following six varieties are of the very latest Introduction from France and England, where our finest va- 
rieties originate. Price. 25 cents each. 
PRINCESS ALEX— Single 
The color Is the most beautiful shade of rose-salmon; 
upper petals feathered rose-pink; flowers perfect, pro- 
duced freely in grand trusses; foiiage light green. A 
strong grov.-er and as a pot plant It has no equal in 
its class. 
COLOSSUS 
This we believe to be one of the best dark crimson 
that we have; the color is that gorgeous, dark, rich 
velvety-crim..mn which is such a favorite with the 
Geranium buying public. Fiowers are of immense size; 
semi-double; gigantic trusses; foliage large and heavy 
texture; growth strong and robust; free flowering and 
of a good habit; strong constitution and stands the 
sun well. 
FLEUVE BLANC 
(Brt. 1905.) Color pure white; florets arc very large 
and just semi-double enough to give them a fine fin- 
ish; enormous trusses on long stems held well above 
the foliage. A profuse and constant bloomer. It 
possesses all the essential points that constitute an 
ideal Geranium, enabling it to withstand our trying 
summers, being one of the best of the magnificent 
Bruant or sun -proof type; very large, handsome, rich, 
green foliage, zoned with dark green; growth dwarf; 
vigorous and compact. 
ALLIANCE 
fi.emoine 1905.) A French hybrid between a zonal 
and ivy, which has retained all the good points of both 
parents, including the beautiful soft finish of the ivy 
and the hardy constitution of the zonal. It is, there- 
fore, not an ordinary, but an extraordinary variety in 
all the good points that go to make up an attractive 
Geranium. Its color is the most exquisite shade of 
delicate lilac white; upper petals feathered and 
blotched bright crimson-rose; flowers semi-double, 
abundantly i>roduced in fine large trusses; foliage 
beautiful, clean and of a splendid leathery texture- 
habit excellent, robust, strong, close jointed. For vases 
or as a pot plant it is unequaled. 
PAUL DESCHANEL 
Single, bright orange-cerise with white eye. A very 
large, brllliart flower. 
EUGENE SUE— Single. 
(Lem. 1905.) Magnificent, well formed flowers, pro- 
duced in enormous trusses in the greatest profusion 
The color is a most brilliant orange-scarlet; foliage 
large and of fine texture; habit splendid; luxuriant and 
branching; semi-dwarf and robust. A most desirable 
sort; one of the best in the class. 
PRICE OF ABOVE KINDS, 20c EACH. ONE EACH OF THE SIX KINDS FOR $1.00 
Telegraph. 
BEAUTE POITEVINE 
TELEGRAPH 
This variety is un- 
doubtedly the most dis- 
tinct introduction in this 
line for many ^ears. It 
is a strong, vigorous 
.grower, bearing immen.so 
trusses of single flowers 
of, mammoth size; the 
color is a rich, deej) 
orange-cerise. Price, 10c. 
PETER HENDERSON 
A magnificent repre- 
sentative of the Bruant 
race. The color is of the 
most superb bright 
orange-scarlet; extremelv 
large semi-double florets, 
produced in enormou.s 
trusses in the greatest 
profusion on long stiff 
stems held well above the 
foliage; in growth It Is 
robust, dwarf and com- 
pact; with a splendid con- 
stitution. Un.surpassed as 
a bedder, and will most 
all the requirements of a 
pot plant. Price, 10c. 
MME. LANDRY 
(Double.) One of the 
choicest and most beau- 
tiful yet added to the 
Bruants. Very free and 
constant in bloom 
throughout the season. 
Trusses large and florets 
of the finest size and cir- 
cular in form. CJolor clear 
salmon, center shading to 
copper, with a white eye. 
Very distinct and one of 
the best. Price, 10 cents 
each. 
A great favorite and conceded to be one of the best 
semi-double light salmon-pink bedders in existence; 
enormous flowers; aurora pink shading to bright sal- 
mon in center. Price, 8 cents. 
JEAN VIAUD 
Flowers semi-double, two to two and one-half inches 
in diameter, made up into trusses twelve to fifteen 
inches in circumference. Of a beautiful, clear, rosy- 
pink color with distinct white blotch at the center. 
The plant Itself is a rapid, vigorous grower, yet com- 
pact and shapely. As near perfection as a (Geranium 
can be. both in freedom of bloom and ease of cultiva- 
tion. Price, 8 cents each. 
MADONNA 
The finest Double White Geranium ever introduced. 
The perfect double flowers are unsurpassed for cut 
flowers. They are borne in large trusses, and are spot- 
less. snowy-white, retaining this pure whiteness even 
in the heat of summer. Price, 8 cents. 
SNOWDROP 
Pure snow-white, borne in enormous trusses; per- 
fectly formed round flowers, held well above the beau- 
tiful foliage. A resplendent bloomer and splendid pot 
plant; strong, healthy, semi-dwarf grower of excellent 
habit. A fine bedder. Single. Price, 10 cents. 
