General Catalogue of Plants. 
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Reference as to our business standing- and reliability. People’s National Bank, Leesburg, 'Virginia. 
(By permission.) 
PANSIES. 
Pansy-growing has become an 
art, andcorrespondingto the show 
of chinaware in the fashionable 
house of to-day is the show of 
Pansy-beds on the lawn outside. 
Many have studied the art of pre- 
serving Pansies in a group, like a 
water-color painting. The plants 
have an abundance of bloom until 
after the severe frosts, endure our 
severe winters, and meet us the 
next season with the same won- 
derful picture-gallery of rich hues. 
Everyone can have a Pansy-bed. 
If covered with a litter of leaves, 
it will stand the winter and be 
prettier than ever the second 
spring, i Pansies, if successfully 
grown, should be bedded out in 
March or early April, in rich, 
loamy soil, so that they may have 
time to grow and bloom before hot 
weather. We grow three strains 
famous for size and color : Ger- 
man Show, French Giant, and 
Royal Exhibition, and these com- 
prise about 50 distinct varieties, running through 
the various shades of w'hite, yellow, purple and gold ; 
many of the flowers are variegated, striped and mot- 
tled. 5 cts. each, 8 for 25 cts., 18 for 50 cts., 50 for #1 
IOO for r,c. 
Show Pansy. 
PENTSTEMONS. 
Penstemons make fine plants from :8 inches to 2 feet 
in height, and are in continuous bloom from the time 
they are planted out until frost. The flowers, borne in 
spikes, are of gloxinia-like form, shaded and mottled 
in white, scarlet, crimson and pink. The plants are 
hardy with very little covering in winter. The newer 
ones have flowers of great size, half-pendent, bell- 
shaped, and marked and marbled in beautiful bright 
shades, making them seem more like glowing exotics 
than hardy perennials. They bloom abundantly from 
June to October, and are very valuable for cut-flowers. 
10 cts. each, set of 6 for 50 cts. 
TUBEROSE. 
The Tuberose is one of the most fragrant and beau- 
tiful of summer-blooming bulbs. It sends up stems of 
double, wax-like white flowers from 2 to 3 feet high, 
and continues in bloom for a long time. To insure 
blooming, and thereby give better satisfaction, we 
started in pots a number of bulbs that will flower in 
July, and take pleasure in offering the plants to our 
customers, that they may be gratified with the lovely 
flowers in midsummer. 
New Double Pearl. Flowers nearly twice as 
large as those of the old variety, and flower-stems only 
18 inches to 2 feet high. Large bulbs, started in pots, 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz. Dry bulbs, 4 inches and up- 
ward in circumference, with perfectly sound centers, 
5 cts. each, 8 for 25 cts. 
□ TRfIDESCfINTIfl MULTICOLOR. 
Beautifully variegated with purple, scarlet and 
white ; a fine basket plant, and useful for vases or 
| moist or shaded places. 10 cts. 
Double Pearl Tuberose. 
Viola. The sweet-scented Pansy, with the violet 
fragrance, mixed color. 10 cts. each, 4 for 25 cts., 
60 cts pei doz. 
Tradeseantia multicolor. 
