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A. B. DAVIS & SON, PURCELLVILLE, VIRGINIA. 
Nepeta Clechoma. (Sec- page 35.) 
JASMINES. 
Cape Jasmine {Gardenia florida). Much grown 
for its delicious fragrance and the beautyof its flowers, 
which are white and double. 15 cts.; larger, 25 cts. 
Revolntum. A yellow-flowered Jasmine, nearly 
hardy and exquisitely fragrant. 15 cts. 
Grandifloruin. (Catalonian Jasmine.) From Italy. 
The flowers are pure white, star-shaped, and of 
exquisite fragrance, to cts. 
Grand Duke of Tuscany. This Jasmine is very 
easily grown ; even small plants bear a profusion of 
very double, creamy white flowers, having a delicious 
perfume. It is a magnificent plant, and will become 
one of the most valuable and popular pot-plants when 
better known. It can be stored in a dry cellar in 
winter. 25 cts. 
JUSTICIA COOFERI. 
An upright-growing pot-plant of free growth, crowned 
with terminal spikes of beautiful, rosy pink flowers 
nearly the whole year. 15 cts. 
NEW DWARF LOBELIA. 
This fine new plant bears beautiful little blue flowers 
that sparkle like dewdrops. The plants are low and 
spreading, fine for pot-culture and hanging baskets. 
The admiration of all. 6 cts. each, 6 for 25 cts. 
LANTANAS, or SHRUBBY VERBENAS. 
Very showy, and fine for bedding. Colors White, 
Pink and Rose. 10 cts. 
SPIDER LILY. 
White. This easily-grown bulb bears large umbels 
of curious but exceedingly beautiful, large, white 
flowers, which are very fragrant. The flower is a cup- 
shaped disc, surmounted by long narrow petals and 
long stamens, which give it its name. It is not only 
exceedingly beautiful but extremely odd and curious, 
and always a great attraction. They can be planted 
out in summer in rich, warm soil and lifted in fall, or 
kept growing in pots all the year. Treat like an 
Amaryllis, to which family it belongs. 15 cts. each, 
3 for 30 cts. 
Japanese Pink. The White Spider Lilies have 
given the greatest satisfaction, and speedily become 
lasting favorites with all who have grown them. It is 
not too much to predict that the beautiful Pink Jap- 
anese sort, Lycoris (Nerine Japonica) radiala, we now 
offer will meet with an enthusiastic welcome from all 
lovers of truly beautiful flowers. As shown in our cut, 
the spikes of flowers are produced in graceful umbels, 
and are most delicate and beautiful, varying in color 
from pinkish-salmon to pink, vermilion and scarlet, 
with petals beautifully undulated, and by artificial light 
sparkling like jewels. The flowers suddenly appear 
during thefall months, after the leaves of the plant have 
died down. The bulbs may be kept in a pot the year 
round, or kept dry over winter and bedded out in the 
spring. , Large, blooming size bulbs, 15 cts. each. 
LADY WASHINGTON PELARGONIUMS. 
These are strictly greenhouse or pot-plants, and are 
not suitable for bedding. They differ from other Ge- 
raniums 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 desir- 
able. We grow f 2 beautiful varieties, and offer nice 
plants for 15 cts., 5 for 50 cts., t2 for $1. 
EVERBLOOMING PELARGONIUM, 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 purew-hite,each 
one being shaded toward the center with rich carmine- 
pink, and marked with a glowing crimson blotch. 15c. 
LOPHOSPERMUM SCANDENS. 
A rapid - growing vine, with beautiful dark green 
foliage. Excellent for covering fences or outhouses in 
summer, as it attains a height of 20 feet. 10 cts. 
LINUM TRIGYNUM. 
A winter-blooming plant of great beauty, producing, 
in great profusion, very large and showy blossoms of a 
bright yellow. The plant is a complete mass of bloom 
for a long time during winter ; the flowers are about 
| the size of Morning Glories, aud no matter how small 
| the plant is, it will bloom profusely. 15 cts. 
Spider Luy. 
Carnations are.the most fashionable cut-flowers, don’t fail to grow some. 
