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A. B. DAVIS SON, PUR CELL VILLE, VIRGINIA. 
Mexican Primrose. 
LADY WASHINGTON PELAR- 
GONirns. 
These are strictly greenhouse or pot-plants, and.are 
not suitable for bedding. They differ from other 
Geraniums in having larger and more showy flowers, 
the petals of which are usually very beautifully 
blotched. Although their season of bloom is rather 
short, their great beauty while in bloom makes them 
very desirable. We grow 12 beautiful varieties, and 
offer nice plants for 15 cts., 5 for 50 ets., 12 for $1. 
EVERIH.OOM1NG PELARGONIIM, 
FREDDIE DORNER. 
We consider this to be one of the most desirable 
house plants grown. It is a perpetual blooming 
variety, usually beginning to bloom in December or 
January, and continuing throughout the spring and 
summer. The throat and edges of the petals are 
pure white, each one being shaded toward the center 
with rich carmine-pink, and marked with a glowing 
crimson blotch. 30 cts. 
JPENSTEMONS. 
Penstemons make fine plants from 18 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-pen- 
dent, bell-shaped, and marked and marbled in beauti- 
ful bright shades, making them seem more like glow- 
ing exotics than hardy perennials. They bloom 
abundantly from June to October, and are very valu- 
able for cut-flowers. 
10 cts. each, set of j 6 for 50 cts. 
Dr. Tuke. Bright red. veined with crimson; 
large. 
John Cowe. Bright, shining scarlet; line spike. 
George Fisher. Splendid bright rose, throat 
white; lai'ge flowers and spike. 
Miss F. Hope. Pure white, slightly shaded with 
rose ; one of the best. 
Emile Paladilhe. Large and fine; amaranth 
white throat. 
H. Cannell. Bright rose, throat pure white, 
heavily penciled with crimson-maroon ; large. 
MEXICAN PRIMROSE. 
This is strictly a perpetual bloomer, as it is in 
flower at all times of the year, a good specimen show- 
ing always from 10 to 30 large saucer shaped blos- 
soms about 2 inches across. Each blossom keeps 
perfect many days before fading, and when it drops, 
others bloom out to take its place, and this succession 
of beauty is continued throughout the year. The 
plant is a free grower, succeeding in any soil or situ- 
ation. As a window plant it combines great hardiness 
and ease of culture with delicate loveliness. In the 
open ground it grows freely and blooms profusely all 
summer, and, in fact, until winter is upon it. Early 
frosts do not injure it, and it blooms on until frozen 
solid or covered with snow. We offer fine plants of 
three varieties : 
Charming. Lovely deep, light pink flowers, 
veined with scarlet and having a white center. 10 cts. 
Apple Blossom. White, tinted with blush and 
bordered with satin pink; lovely. 15 cts. 
Hermosa Tinted. Beautiful light rose-colored 
flowers. 15 cts. 
For 30 cts. we will send one nice plant of each of the 
above varieties. 
