GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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Pansy. (For description, see page 3S.) 
TUBEROSE. 
The Tuberose is one of the most fragrant and beau- 
tiful of suininer-bloomb'g bulbs. It sends up stems of 
double, wax-like white flowers from 2 to 3 feet high, 
and continues in bloom for a long time. To insure 
blooming, and thereby give better satisfaction, we 
started in pots a number of bulbs that will flower in 
July, and take pleasure in offering the plants to our 
customers, that they may be gratified with the lovely 
flowers in midsummer. 
New Double Pearl. Flowers nearly twice as 
large as those of the old variety, and flower-stents only 
18 inches to 2 feet high. Large bulbs, started in pots, 
10 cts. each, 81 per doz. 
Dry bulbs, 4 inches and upward in circumference, 
with perfectly sound centers. 5c. each, 50c. per doz. 
TRADESCANTIA MULTICOLOR. 
Beautifully variegated with purple, scarlet and white; 
a fine basket plant, and useful for vaset or moist 
shaded places, to cts. 
VERBENA. 
Our stock of Verbenas is superb, and the plants 
are thrifty and free from mildew. We grow 25 of the 
very best kinds, embracing every color and variega- 
tion. Price, purchaser’s selection of colors, 5 cts. 
each ; 13 for 50 cts. ; 6 for 25 cts. ; 30 for $1 . 
VIOLETS. 
Of all delightful perfumes, that of Violets is most 
delicate and pleasing. Violets grow and bloom dur- 
ing the dead of winter without any trouble whatever, 
if given a cool situation, but will not succeed in a 
warm place. A coldframe, from which frost is barely 
excluded, is the best place to grow them. The follow- 
ing sorts are the best of all the Violets, and are all 
distinct in color. 
Double Perpetual Violet, Swan ley White. Of 
all white Violets this is the best, either for pot-culture 
in the house or bedded out. In pots it grows luxu- j 
riantly, and is laden with flowers. It is not an un- j 
common sight to see as many as 50 large flowers open 
at once, their delicious perfume filling a room. 10 cts. 
each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Marie Louise. Flowers deep violet blue ; very 
fragrant and free flowering. It should be grown by 
all interested in the culture of cut-flowers, on account 
of its easy forcing qualities. 10 cts. each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Robert Garrett. A sort from Stvanley While. A 
perpetual bloomer ; very large flowers of a light, lovely 
shade of blue, to cts. each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Hardy White Garden Violet North Carolina. 
Bears single white, very fragrant flowers, is a profuse 
bloomer and perfectly hardy without protection ; 
a rampant grower, that will take care of itself. 10 cts. 
each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Double Russian. A perfectly hardy double blue 
variety ; very fragrant, and a prolific bloomer. 10 
cts. each, 6 for 50 cts. 
Regina. Flowers are single, as large as a 50-cent 
piece, borne On stems a foot long ; of a deep violet 
color; the foliage is very rank and thrifty, a 
grand acquisition. 25 cts. 
Lady Hume Campbell. Very large double flow- 
ers a little darker than Marie Louise; a very thrifty 
grower, and profuse bloomer. 15 cts. each, 6 for 75 cts. 
WATER HYACINTH. 
'Excellent for Winter Blooming.; 
This is undoubtedly the plant of all water plants 
for the masses, because of its uniqueness, great beauty, 
the limited amount of space it occupies, and the ease 
with which it is grown. It floats on the water by 
means of its curiously inflated leaf stalks, resembling 
bladders or balloons filled with air, and its beautiful 
feathery blue roots grow downward in the water. 
It forms a lovely rosette of curious shininggreen leaves, 
and sends up spikes of the most exquisite flowers 
imaginable, resembling in form a spike of Hyacinth 
bloom, but as beautiful as many of the choicest and 
costliest Orchids. Each flower is as large or larger than 
a silver dollar, and in color a beautiful, soft lilac-rose, 
sparkling, as if covered with diamond-dust. The 
upper petal, which is the largest, has a metallic blue 
blotch in the center, and in the center of that a small, 
deep golden yellow spot. The plant can be grown in 
in the open air in summer, and in the window in winter, 
When grown in the window, the most beautiful effect 
is produced by using a glass vessel of some sort, with 
shells and white sand so arranged in the bottom as to 
conceal a small amount of soil. In summer the plant 
can be grown in the yard in a pool or tub, and will 
bloom profusely. Fine plants, 20 cts. 
THE JAPANESE WINEBERRY. 
This new fruit belongs to the raspberry family. It 
is a strong, vigorous grower, attaining the usual height 
of a raspberry, and is perfectly hardv in all positions 
without protection. It is, in fact, more hardv and 
vigorous than any other form of raspberry or black- 
berry. it stands alike the cold of northern winters 
and the heat of the southern summers without the 
slightest degree of injury. Its leaves are dark green 
outside, silvery white underneath, andtheyoungshoots 
and branches are covered with a reddish’ brown hair 
or moss. The fruit is borne in large clusters ; often 
there are from 75 to 100 berries in a bunch. These 
berries, from the time of formation and bloom, until 
they ripen, are enclosed in a “bur” or calyx, which 
covers them entirely. When ripe the bur opens, 
showing a large berry of the brightest, light glossy 
scarlet or sherry wine color. The burs and stems are 
covered with a heavy reddish moss like a moss rose- 
bud. The flavor of the fruit is entirely different 
from that of any other berry, being very sprightly, 
sweet and jnicy, having no disagreeable acidity, but a 
delicate and luscious taste 
peculiar to itself. It is very 
juicy, and it is said to make 
the finest quality of wine. 
The berries begin to ripen 
earlvin July, andtheplants 
continue bearing for ajong 
time. This is the most 
orotific berry known, the 
bushes being literally cov- 
ered with luscious fruit. It 
is propagated from the tips 
like cap raspberries and 
dewberries, and can be 
increased rapidly. Wehave 
thoroughly tested this new 
fruit, and it deserves to 
be widely grown. 15 cts. 
Violet Regina. each ’ Jl 5 ° P er <*oz. 
Our field of Dahlias was a sight worth seeing last September and October. 
