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A. B. DAVIS & SON, PURCELUViLLE, VIRGINIA. 
PHENOMENAL FL'CHSIA. 
FERNS. 
Our stock of Ferns is very fine. We 
offer nothing but specimen plants, too large 
to mail. 
Adlantum Gracilliiiiuin. A most ele- 
gant and distinct fern, with very light and 
graceful fronds, which are about a foot lone 
and eight or nine inches across ; thin and 
fragile ; the color is a pale yellow, tinted 
olive green. 25 cents. 
Adlantum cuneatuin. (Maiden-Hair.) 
Light, graceful fronds of moderate size, 
varying beautifully in color. 25 cents. 
Microlei>ia hirta cristata. This fine 
crested fern is an introduction from the 
South Sea Islands, and will be welcomed 
by all lovers of ornamental ferns on ac- 
count of its graceful character and free 
habit of growth. 25 cents. 
Davalia Foenlculacea. Very rare ; a 
beautiful variety, with massive green fronds 
two feet long and nine inches broad. 25Cts. 
Aspleniiim Berlaiigeri. Elegant 
feather-like fronds; deep green color. 25Cts. 
Nephrolepis exaltala. (Sword Fern.) 
Of easy culture and soon grows to great 
size, 15 cents. 
Pteris tremula. Very large, rich green 
foliage; beautifully cut, and of rapid 
growth. 15 cents. 
FUCHSIAS. 
Storm King. This famous Fuchsia still 
stands at the head ; its flowering qualities 
are remarkable ; the flowers are immense 
in size and very dovrble ; the outer petals 
are a deep crimson, the inside petals pure 
waxy white. 10 cents. 
Mrs. E. G. Hill. The short tube and 
sepals are a bright, rich, reddish crimson 
color; corolla extra large, full and double; 
flowers of the largest size. It has every 
qualification to recommend it — both size, 
freedom of bloom and good constitution. 
Must and will win its way into favor every- 
where. 10 cents. 
Phenomenal. One of the largest fuch- 
sias that has come to our notice ; shorttube 
and sepals of a bright, rich, reddish crim- 
son color ; cofolla very full and double, of 
a beautiful azure violet, flaked with red ; 
the habit is very good, and the plant is a 
persistent bloomer, beginning when very 
small. 10 cents. 
Speciosa. Sepals light pink, corolla 
darker; a profuse bloomer, and makes a 
superb specimen when grown to a large size 
and wintered over, to cents. 
Gen. Roberts. A remarkably beautiful 
variety, of drooping habit ; the blooms are 
from 4 to 5 inches in length, borne in large 
clusters ; single corolla, of a rich, plum 
color ; tube and sepals crimson, to cents. 
NEW FEVERFEW. LITTLE 
GEM. 
This is a grand improvement on the old 
dwarf Feverfew ; it is very dwarf, attaining 
a height of only 8 or 12 inches. The flow- 
ers are larger, of more perfect form, and of 
the purest white, to cents each, 90 cents 
per dozen. 
GLADIOLUS. 
The Gladiolus is the most beautiful of the 
tender summer flowering bulbs, with spikes 
of all desirable colors of flower, some two 
feet in height. If cut when the lower flow- 
ers only are open, they will remain in good 
order, opening fully, for several weeks. By 
planting the bulbs at intervals of two weeks 
from April to July, a grand succession of 
bloom can be had until hard frosts close the 
ground. After the frost has cut them down 
lift the bulbs and store away in a dry cellar. 
We offer large bulbs that will give fine re- 
sults. 
Yellow. 8 cents each. 
Light. Colors, Mixed. 6 cents each." 
White and Light. 8 cents each. 
Pink Striped and Variegated.p8 cts. 
Mixed. Dark colors. 5 cents each. 
GLADIOLUS. 
