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ROBERT DRUMM & CO., FORT WORTH, TEXAS. 
ASTILBE JAPONICA. : 
bloom it is about one foot in height. 
The flowers are produced in branch- 
ing. feather-like spikes of pure white. 
A fine cemetery plant, and beautiful 
for any place. It is largely forced in 
in winter by florists for its elegant, 
plumy white flower-spikes. 25 cts. 
BEGONIAS. 
This beautiful class of of plants 
is deservedly popular. The beauty 
of their foliage, combined with 
their graceful flowers and free 
blooming qualities, tend to make 
them a most desirable class of 
plants. Grown as pot plants for 
summer or winter decoration, they 
have but few equals; they are also 
very useful for baskets or vases, or 
for bedding out in half shady 
places on the lawn, flowering pro- 
fusely during the whole summer. 
15 cts. each, except where noted. 
Alba Perfecta Graiuliflora. This 
variety clo.sely resembles Begonia 
Rubra in foliage and growth ; has 
beautiful pure white blossoms. 
Briiantii. Foliage a very bright 
green ; quite large: pure white flow- 
ers, borne in great profusion. 25c. 
Digswelliana. Flowers dark crim- 
son, center pink; very free bloomer; 
a beautiful variety. 
Dreggii. Pure white flowers, freely 
produced ; fine foliage ; a very 
pretty sort. 
Hybrida Miiltillora. Rosy pink. 
Metallica. A fine, erect-growing 
Beginia, with dark, rough leaves; the surface is a lustrous bronze-green; veins de- 
pressed and dark red. A free bloomer The panicles of unopened buds are bright 
red, with surface like plush ; when open the flower is waxy white. This Begonia is 
a splendid house plant. 
SIcBetbii. Of the VVeltoniensis type, with very deeply indented leaves, which are fine 
and small. Shrubby in growth, and very free flowering, being constant the year round. 
White flowers, waxy in texture, and carried in panicles. 
Rioinifolia. Very large palmate leaves, and showy, rose purple flowers; stems red; 
leaves silvery and dark green marked. 25 cts. 
Sangiiinna. The deep red-leaved variety ; one of the handsomest grown. 20 cts. 
Sutton’s White Perfection. This is a seedling of the Semperflorens class. In this 
Begonia we have the finest white both for market and cut-flower purposes we have 
seen. It is a continuous bloomer both summer and winter, and is beautiful in cut- 
flower work. Plant of strong robust growth; foliage dark green; flowers large and 
of a beautiful pearly white, borne on long stems. 20 cts. 
Robusta. Bright carmine flowers ; verv free bloomer. 
Rubra. This is one of the finest .acquisitions to our winter flowering plants ; the leaves 
are of the darkest green, the flowers large, ruby red, glossy and wax-like. This pecu- 
liarity is so marked that when plants are placed singly in a room the glossy appearance 
of the leaves and flowers gives the idea that they are artificial rather than natural. Is 
popular wherever known, and will please all who grow it. 15 cts. 
Semperllorens .Alba. An old and popular variety, with bright glossy green foliage and 
white flowers. Stands the sun well, and is always in bloom. 10 cts. 
Sandcr.sonii. Scarlet: fine for winter blooming. 
Schinirttii. Anew variety with bronze-colored leaves; of dwarf, dense growth, with a 
profusion of rosy white flowers. 
VV’eltoiiicnsis. Exceedingly fine, shrubby habit, with strong green leaves and bright 
crimson stems ; flowers waxy pink, very profuse in winter and summer ; a distinct and 
desirable sort ; stands the sun well ; a good bedding sort. 
One of the finest hardy garden plants ; when i 
Begonia Rubra. 
