GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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Pleroma Splendens. 
PLEROJIA SPLENDENS. 
This is a new plant, which flowers at all times of 
the year, but is especially valuable for winter decora- 
tion. Its blossoms are borne freely, are very large 
and showy, and of a rich purplish blue color. A plant 
is never too small to bloom, and will in time grow to 
be several feet tall, and branch freely. Desirable 
either as a pot plant for summer and winter bloom, 
or for bedding out during summer, like a lantana or 
heliotrope. 15 cts. 
PILEA SERPYLLIFOLIA. 
(Artillery Plant.) 
A pretty plant, with graceful, frond-like leaves; 
the flowers produce a snapping sound if sprinkled 
with water. 10 cts. 
PLUMBAGO. 
Capensis. A first-class border plant, blooming all 
sterner. The flowers resemble very much a head of 
lavender-blue phlox. 10 cts. 
Alba. (New.) Like the above, xcepet that the 
flowers are snowy white. 15 cts. 
REBUS GRANDIELORES. 
(The Bridal Rose.) 
f A strong, vigorous shrub, bearing large, pure white, 
perfectly double flowers, resembling balls of snow, 
early in spring, while flowers are scarce. It is showy 
and handsome, and always attracts attention. The 
plant is entirely hardy, needs no protection, and is 
valuable for shrubbery, borders, etc. 15 cts. 
RUSSELLIA JUNCEA. 
A basket plant, of neat, slender habit, bearing a 
great profusion of scarlet tubular flowers the entire 
season . 10 cts. 
7 RHVNCHOSPERMEM JASMIN- 
OIDES. 
A beautiful greenhouse climber with glossy ever- 
green foliage, and masses of pure white, jasmine-like 
flowers, of delightful fragrance. The plant blooms 
in May and June ; the flowers are desirable for bou- 
quets, etc. 20 cts. 
RIVINA HEMILIS. 
A beautiful pot-plant, with racemes of small, 
white flowers, followed by scarlet berries. In bloom 
and full fruit almost the entire year. 10 cts. 
SMILAX. 
A climbing vine with regular glossy foliage; fine 
for decorations, and very extensively grown for use 
with cut-flowers and in floral work. Good plants, 
10 cts. 
SALVIAS. 
The Salvia is of easy culture, and the plants attain 
a height of 2 or 3 feet. The flowers are very 
attractive, especially the scarlet and variegated 
varieties. 
6 cents each, 50 cents per dozen. 
Airs. Stevens. Deep maroon. 
New Dwarf Salvia Splendens. A dwarf va- 
riety, that grows very compact, not attaining a height 
of more than a foot. The flower-spikes are brilliant 
scarlet, and continue from the latter part of summer 
until cut down by frost, making a superb display, 
especially when planted in masses. 
Splendens variegata. Flowers white and red, 
very evenly striped. 
SEBUM PULCHELLUM. 
A fine decorative plant, which though not new 
is almost unknown. The branches, covered with a 
dense growth of foliage, droop from a pot or basket 
most gracefully, and are beautiful all the year round. 
In winter the plant blooms, showing tine clusters of 
golden flowers which are exceedingly pretty, and 
borne in great profusion. An extra-fine plant, which 
will please all. 10 cts. 
SAXIFRAGA SARMEXTOSA. 
A handsome plant of low habit. Leaves nearly 
round, and striped freely with silver bands ; blooms 
white, of great beauty, and borne in spikes nearly 
12 inches high. Adapted for hanging baskets, vases, 
etc. This is also known as strawberry geranium 
and beefsteak plant. 8 cts. 
SOLANUMS. 
Solatium azureum. (The Blue Solanum.) Cer- 
tainly one of the finest plants lately introduced. 
Every one is well acquainted with 5. Jasminoides, 
and its merits are greatly appreciated. In “ the Blue 
Solanum” we have a plant far superior in every 
respect. It is of robust growth, soon making fine 
specimens that cover a porch with handsomely cut 
foliage. In mild localities it is covered during the 
late summer months with hundreds of clusters of 
large, lavender- blue, wistaria-like flowers, brightly 
relieved by golden stamens, each cluster measuring 
15 inches in circumference, and often attaining a 
length of 12 inches. The flowers are succeeded by 
bright scarlet berries, which remain perfect for a long 
time. It is the most beautiful flowering vine that we 
have seen. A brilliant future stands before it, 
especially as a greenhouse or conservatory plant.' 25c. 
Jasminoides grandiflora. A beautiful new 
plant, which inclines to a trailing or climbing habit ; 
it never grows higher than from 3 to 5 feet, and can 
be pinched back to a bush form. Its flowers are 
star-shaped, like a clematis, and borne in enormous 
panicles or clusters, often a foot across ; they are 
pure white, with a violet tinge on the back of petals 
and buds. In pots this is a fine bloomer, both for 
summer and winter; but when trained against an 
outdoor wall or trellis, and showing hundreds of 
magnificent bloom panicles, it is superb. 10 cts. 
PANSIES. 
Pansy-growing has become an art, and correspond- 
ing to theshowof chinawarein the fashionable house 
of to-day is the show of Pansy-beds on the lawn out- 
side. Many have studied the art of preserving Pan- 
sies in a group, like a water-color painting. The 
plants have an abundance of bloom until after severe 
frosts, endure our severe winters, and meet us the 
next season with the same wonderful picture-gallery 
of rich hues. Everyone can have a Pansy-bed. If 
