LOW’S RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
PETUNIA. 
This is a profuse-flowering hardy annua!, easily culti- 
vated. The brilliancy and variety of its colors, and its 
long continuance in bloom render it invaluable. 
Few plants will make a more showy bed than the 
Petunias, as they continue in bloom all summer until 
after the autumn frosts. The seed of double varieties is 
very difficult to get to germinate, as it possesses much 
less vitality than the single sorts ; only a certain pet 
cent will come double. The Petunia may be classified 
into two kinds, the Grandiflora, or large-flowered, and the 
small-flowered ; the former are better adapted for group- 
ing or planting single, and the small-flowered bcttei tor 
bedding purposes ; nearly all imaginable shades of color 
and striped and blotched forms will be found in these 
beautiful plants, and flowers of the Grandiflora often 
measure 5 inches in diameter. 
496. Petunia Grandiflora Fimbriata. 
497. Carter’s Emperor. 
498. Double Large Flowered, Pure 
White. 
499 Double Striped and Blotched Dou- 
ble Inimitable. 
LARGE FLOWERED. 
500. Petunia Hybrida Grandiflora Ker- 
mesina 2 5 
501. Grandiflora Maculata. — Splendid 
spotted 2 5 
502. Grandiflora Rosea. — Splendid large 
flowers, bright rose, white throat . 25 
503. Grandiflora Violacea. — One of the no- 
blest of the large-flowered Petunias, and of 
a rich violet 2 5 
504. Grandiflora. — Choicest mixed from show 
flowers . 2 5 
505. Double. — The seed we offer is the best to 
be obtained. The double Petunia bears no 
seed, and but little pollen. Packet of 50 
seeds 2 5 
506- Vick’s New Fringed. — A new strain, 
with fringed and frilled edges, very dis- 
tinct and beautiful, and coming usually 
true from seed 2 5 
SMALL FLOWERED. SUITABLE FOR BEDDING. 
507. New Dwarf Inimitable. — A really 
dwarf variety, forming a compact little 
plant five to eight inches in height by as 
much in diameter, covered with regularly 
striped flowers. Admirable for massing, as 
well as pot culture 2 5 
508. Countess of Ellesmere. — Dark rose 
with fine, white throat . . . .10 
509. Blotched and Striped .... 10 
510. Fine Mixed 10 
PORTULACA. 
This much-admired and very showy annual is, indeed, 
very valuable, and no garden can well afford to be with- 
out them ; they delight in hot, dry, sandy soils, where 
scarcely another plant will grow, and will in that situa- 
tion give its largest and most beautiful blooms. I- or 
bedding it is very desirable, and the new selections will 
give flowers which, in size and beauty of marking and 
shades, will astonish those who have only grown the old 
varieties. 
511. Finest Mixed. — A selection of the finest 
colors, choice . . • t - °5 
512. Double Rose Flowered. — A perfectly 
double variety of the most brilliant colors. 
513. Double Rose Flowered ... 15 
| 514. Crimson. — Bright . . • • • *5 
515. Rosy Purple 
516. Rose. — Very delicate t5 
517. White. — Pure 
518. Rose Striped with Carmine . • 15 
519. Orange. — Deep, very- fine . . . 15 
520. Yellow. — Sulphur color . . . • 15 
521. Yellow. — Gold color '5 
The full collection of the above eight separate colors, 1 
packet each color, 75 cts.; 2 collections, Si. 25 , postpaid. 
RICINUS, OR CASTOR OIL BEAN. 
The picturesque foliage and stately growth, combined 
with brilliant-colored fruit, of the new varieties, impart 
to shrubberies and mixed flower borders quite an Ori- 
ental aspect, and if planted out and grown as single 
specimens on lawns and pleasure grounds, as an orna- 
niental-foliaged plant, they produce a splendid effect. 
Half-hardy annuals. 
522. Giganteus. — Plant and leaves of enor- 
mous size ; new ; twelve feet . . • -i° 
523. Ricinus Africanus. White stem and 
branches : very handsome ; new ; seven feet 10 
524. Ricinus Sanguineus. — Blood-red fob- 
age and red fruit-pods j beautiful variety \ 
seven feet • °S 
