GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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SALVIA. 
The salvia is of easy cul- 
ture, attaining a height of 
two or three feet. The flow- 
ers are very attractive, es- 
pecially the scarlet and varie- 
gated varieties. 6 cents. 
Splendens (Scarlet Sage). 
Flower spikes of the most 
brilliant scarlet, blooming 
from the latter part of sum- 
mer until cut down by 
frost, and making a superb 
display, especially when 
planted in masses. 
Splenclens V ariegat a . 
Flowers white and red, 
very evenly striped. 
SOLANUM JAS- 
MINOIDES GRAN- 
DIFLORA. 
PANSY. 
THE PANSY. 
Pansy-growing has become an art and a 
passion, and corresponding to the show of 
China varieties in the fashionable house of 
to-day is the show of pansy-beds on the 
lawn outside. Many have studied the art 
of preserving pansies in a group, like a 
water-color painting. They have abun- 
dance of bloom until after severe frosts, en- 
dure our severe winters and meet us the 
next season with the same wonderful pic- 
ture-gallery of rich hues. Every one can 
have a pansy-bed. If covered with a litter 
of leaves, they will stand the winter and be 
prettier than ever the second spring. 
Pansies, if successfully grown, should be 
bedded out in March or early April, in rich 
loamy soil, so they may be allowed time 
to grow and bloom before hot weather. We 
grow two of the most famous strains for 
size and color-bloom in cultivation. The 
German Show pansy and the French Giant ; 
assorted colors, 5 cents each, 36 for $1. 
PLUMBAGO. 
Capensis. A first-class border-plant, 
blooming all summer; flowers resemble 
very much a head of phlox ; lavender 
blue. 10 cents. 
Alba. New. Like the above, except in 
color, which is snowy white. 15 cents. 
SMILAX. 
Climbing vine with regular glossy foliage ; 
fine for decorations and very extensively 
grown for using with cut-flotvers and in 
floral work. Good plants, ro cents. 
A most beautiful newplant 
which inclines to a trailing 
or climbing habit, but never 
attains a greater height than 
three to five feet, and can be 
pinched back to a bush form. 
Its flowers are star-shaped, 
like a clematis, and borne 
i n enormous panicles o r, 
clusters, often a foot across. In color 
they are pure white, with a violet tinge on 
back of petals, and on the buds. In pots it 
is a fine bloomer, both summer and winter; 
but its grandeur for outdoor culture when 
trained against a wall or trellis, and show- 
ing hundreds of these magnificent panicles 
of bloom, cannot be described. It is a free 
and constant bloomer, commencing when 
only a foot high, and, like the Manettia, its 
flowers keep perfect a long time before fad- 
ing. No more beautiful object can be seen 
than these two vines growing side by side, 
and mingling their profusion of bloom. 
15 cents. 
TUBEROSE. 
The tuberose is one of the most fragrant 
and beautiful of summer-blooming bulbs, 
throwing up stems of double wax-like white 
flowers from two to three feethigh, and con- 
tinuing in bloom for a long period. To in- 
sure blooming and thereby give better 
satisfaction, we have started a number in 
pots that will flower in July, and we take 
pleasure in offering these plants to our cus- 
tomers, that they may be gratified with the 
lovely flowers in mid-summer. 
New Double Pearl. Flowers nearly 
double the size of the old variety, and 
flower-stems only eighteen inches to two 
feet in height. 
Large bulbs, started in pots, 10 cents 
each, $1 per dozen. 
Drv bulbs with perfectly sound centers, 
four inches and upward in circumference. 
6 cents each. 
