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A. B. DAVIS & SON, PURCELL VILLE, VIRGINIA. 
FRAGRANT GERANIUM. 
GERANIUMS, continued. 
Golden Gem. Leaves a rich golden yellow. 10 cts. 
Mad. Saileroi. A very compact variety of Silver 
Geranium ; fine for massing. 8 cents each, 60 cents 
per dozen. 
Mrs. Pollock. Bright bronzy red zone, belted with 
crimson and edged with golden-yellow. 25 cents. 
Black Douglas. Golden yellow, with broad, red 
zone. 15 cents. 
Bismarck. Foliage yellow, dark chocolate zone. 
10 cents. 
Chieftain. A golden disc, surrounded with a bronze 
zone. 10 cents. 
Distinction. The leaves are encircled with deep 
black. 10 cents. 
Exquisite. Large chocolate zone, golden-yellow 
center. 
Fanny. Golden yellow, red zone, peach-colored 
blossoms. 10 cents. 
Marshal McMahon. Golden-yellow, zone of dark 
chocolate. 10 cents. 
Zulu. A bright yellow leaf, with almost black zone. 
10 cents. 
IVY GERANIUMS. 
These are fine plants for hanging baskets and genera* 
pot-culture. Single and double kinds, bearing white’ 
pink, salmon and scarlet blossoms. 15 cents. 
FRAORANT GERANIUMS. 
Apple-scented, Peppermint, Rose, Variegated 
Rose, Oak-leaved, Pennyroyal, Shrubland Pet, 
Lemon-scented. 10 cents. 
GNAPHALIUM LANATUM. 
A downy, white-foliaged plant, of creeping habit, ad- 
mirably adapted for the front lines of ribbon borders ; 
also a fine basket plant. 8 cents. 
HELIOTROPES. 
These plants are universal favorites on account of 
their delightful fragrance, flowering equally well as 
bedding-plants in summer, or as pot-plants in the house' 
during winter. 
Price, 10 cents each. 
Albert Delaux. Bright lavender-blue ; foliage a 
bright golden-yellow, blotched with green. A gem. 
Douglas. Deep purple. 
Queen of the Violets. Deep violet purple, with 
with large, almost pure white center ; very fragrant. 
Mrs. David Wood. The new semi-double (although 
we cannot see any double to it); however, it is a fine, 
distinct heliotrope, with large trusses of violet flow- 
ers with light center. 
Mad. Bruant. Plant dwarf and exceedingly free- 
blooming. Immense panicles of very large flowers ; 
rich purple, with large white eye. 
Juliette. Large heads of rich lilac. 
White Lady. A strong-growing, free-branching 
plant, very profuse in bloom. The flower is large 
and of the purest white. 
Swanley Giant. The largest of heliotropes ; rich 
lilac. 
CHINESE HIBISCUS. 
Large-growing tropical shrubs, with very glossy 
foliage. The plants under the hottest sun produce 
enormous flowers in great numbers, and make noble 
specimens. They can be grown in tubs, and kept for 
years. The blossoms average five or six inches in 
diameter, and are gorgeously colored. 
. Price, 10 cents each. 
Aurantiaca. Large and double, with orange-colorep 
flowers. 
Canninatus perfeetus. Full round flower of per- 
fect shape, a rich, soft carmine rose, with deef crim- 
son eye. 
Callerii. Flowers buff-yellow, with a crimson scarlet 
base. Peculiarly handsome. 
DflCorus. New. A very large and brilliant flower of 
clear scarlet. 
Miniatus semi-plenus. Semi-double flowers of a 
brilliant vermilion-scarlet ; petals waved and recurv- 
ed, and very handsome. 
Sub-violaceus. Flowers of enormous size ; beauti- 
ful carmine, tinted with violet ; probably the largest 
flower of the Hibiscus family, and an unusually free 
bloomer. 
Versicolor. A variety combining in its flowers all 
colors of the whole family, being handsomely striped 
with crimson, buff, rose and white. 
Zebrina. Double; outer petals scarlet, edged with 
yellow ; inner petals irregular and curiously varie- 
gated with creamy white. 
HOYAS. 
(Wax-Plant.) 
Carnosa. A climbing plant, with thick fleshy leaves 
and umbels of beautiful flesh-colored, star-shaped 
flowers. One of the best plants for house-culture, as 
it stands extreme heat and cold better than most 
plants, and is not easily injured by neglect. 20 cents. 
Carnosa variegata. Like tile above, except 
that the leaves are beautifully variegated with olive 
and creamy white. 35 cents. 
CHINESE HIBISCUS. 
If you don’t grow flowers, hand over Catalogue to some friend who does. 
