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A. B. Davis & Son, Purcellville, Virginia. 
Verbena. 
VERBENA 
Our stockof Verbenas is superb, and the plants are 
thrifty and free from mildew. We grow 25 of the very 
best kinds, embracing every color and variegation. 
Price, purchaser’s selection of colors, 5 cents each, 6 
for 25 cts., 15 for 50 cts., 30 for $1. 
VIOLETS. 
Of all delightful perfumes, that of Violets is most 
delicate and pleasing. Violets grow and bloom during 
the dead of winter without any trouble whatever, if 
given a cool situation, but will not succeed in a warm 
place. A cold frame, from which frost is barely ex- 
cluded, is the best place to grow them. The following 
sorts are the best of all the Violets, and are all distinct 
in color : 
Double Perpetual Violet, Swanley White. Of 
all white Violets this is the best, either for pot-culture 
in the house or bedded out. In pots it grows luxuri- 
antly, and is laden with flowers. It is not an uncom- 
mon sight to see as many as 50 large flowers open at 
once, their delicious perfume filling a room. 10 cents 
each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Marie lionise. Flowers deep violet blue; very- 
fragrant and free flowering. It should be grown by- all 
interested in the culture of cut-flowers, on account of 
its easy forcing qualities. 10 cts. each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Robert Garret. A sport from Swanley White. A 
perpetual bloomer; very large flowers of alight, lovely 
shade of blue. 10 cts. each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Hardy White Garden 
Violet. North Carolina. 
Bears single white, very 
fragrant flowers, is a pro- 
fuse blcomer and perfectly 
hardy without protection ; 
a rampant grower, that will 
take care of itself. 10 cts. 
each, 6 for 50 cts. 
California. The sensa- 
tional new single violet. 
Flowers as large as .'150-cent 
piece, of a deep violet 
color, borne on stems a foot 
long ; the foliage is rank 
and thrifty, and the plant 
endures drouths that kilt 
other varieties. A grand 
acquisition. Price 20 cents 
California Violet. each, 8 for $1. 
Lady Hume Campbell. Very large double flow- 
ers a little darker than Marie Louise ; a very thrifty 
grower and profuse bloomer. 10 cts. each, 6 for 50 cts. 
PONTEDERIA CRASSIPES MAJOR. 
(The Water Hyacinth.) 
A very showy aquatic, bearing very freely flowers 
of a delicate lilac rose in trusses like a Hyacinth. 
The individual blooms are two inches in diameter. It 
should be grown in about three inches of water, so 
that the ends of the roots can enter the soil. Very 
easily kept, increases rapidly. 15 cts. each, 6 for 60 
cents. 
THE HARDY memorial rose. 
(Rosa Wichnriana.) 
Creeps on the ground like Ivy ; dark green leaves. 
Numberless sa tiny white flowers, with golden yel- 
low discs. Hardy as grass, and will grow in sun or 
shade. 
20 cts. each, 3 for 50 cts. 
It is difficult to conceive of anything more appropri- 
ate, beautiful and enduring for covering graves and 
plots in cemeteries than the Hardy Memorial Rose. 
It creeps along the ground almost as closely as Ivy, 
growing ten feet in one season and forming a dense 
mat of very dark green, lustrous foliage, with thorn- 
less stems. The flowers are produced in lavish pro- 
fusion, in clusters, on the ends of the short side 
brances, after the June Roses are past, from the first 
week in July throughout the month, and sparingly for 
the rest of the season. They are single, pure white, 
with a golden yellow disc, five to six inches in circum- 
ference, and have the strong fragrance of the Banksia 
Roses. The contrast between the satiny white of the 
petals and the golden yellow disc is sharp and pleas- 
ing, and is one of the distinctive charms of the 
beautiful Hardy Memorial Rose. The entire plant, 
when it blooms, is a mass of great snowflakes, with 
rich, dark green showing here and there. 
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Pontederia crassipes major. 
We wish you all a prosperous year. 
