GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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HYDRANGEA, THOS. HOGG. 
HYDRANGEAS. 
Elegant pot or border plants. 
SteUata fimbriata. Blooms 8 to 9 inches in diame- 
ter, pure white and fringed, and having a crimson 
spot in the center. A beautiful addition to this popular 
class of plants. 25 cents. 
Olaksa. Heads large ; flowers bright rosy pink, 
contrasting beautifully with other sorts. Of low, 
bushy growth. 15 cents. 
Thos. Hogg. Immense trusses of flowers, at first 
tinged with green, then turning pure white, and re- 
maining so a long time. 15 cents. 
Bed Branched. This is one of the finest varieties 
in cultivation, with dark red branches that brighten 
as they near the flower trusses. The plant is of 
robust habit, and produces freely immense heads of 
deep rose-colored flowers. 20 cents. 
HEL1ANTHUS MIJLTIFLORUS. 
(Hardy Doable Golden Sunflower.) 
A beautiful hardy plant, growing to the height of 
three or four feet ; flowers a rich golden-yellow ; very 
double, and as large as a medium-sized Dahlia. Much 
prized as a corsage flower, and one of the best hardy 
perennials. It begins to bloom in July, and continues 
until frost. 10 cents. 
IMPATIENS SULTANI. 
Of compact, neat habit, and a perpetual bloomer ; 
the flowers are a peculiar brilliant rosy scarlet color, 
1 'A inches in diameter, and produced very freely. 10 
cents. 
JPOMCEAS. 
Noctiflora. The well-known and much sought Moon- 
flower. A very rapid grower ; its large white flowers 
expand only at night and on cloudy days. Very at- 
tractive and handsome, and uneciualed as a summer 
climber. In one season it will cover a great amount 
of surface with its handsome foliage. 15 cents each, 
two for 25 cents. 
Pandurata. This is the hardy Moon-flower. The 
tubers are often slow to start and the plant does not 
attain its greatest beauty until the second year ; 
flowers large, pure white, and borne profusely. 20c. 
Variegated Leaf. This is one of the greatest acqui- 
sitions to our list of summer climbing plants. The 
foliage is beautifully marked with clear white and 
vivid green ; the flowers are identical with those of 
the famous Moon-flower. Trained to wires, strings 
or wooden trellises in the open ground, it is attractive 
even when out of bloom. 20 cents. 
IVIES. 
English, Parlor and Kenilworth. 10 cents. 
JASMINES. 
Cape. (Gardenia.) Well-known for its delicious fra- 
grance and the beauty of its flowers, which are white 
and double. 15 cents ; larger, 25 cents. 
Revolutum. A yellow-flowered Jasmine, nearly 
hardy and exquisitely fragrant. 15 cents. 
Granditlorum. (Catalonian Jasmine.) From Italy. 
The flowers are pure white, star-shaped, and of ex- 
quisite fragrance. 10 cents. 
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 cents. 
JUSTICIA COOPERI. 
An upright growing pot-plant, of free growth, crown- 
ed with terminal spikes of beautiful, rosy pink flowers; 
flowers nearly the whole year. 15 cents. 
LANTANAS, or SHRUBBY VERBENAS. 
Very showy, and fine for bedding; colors, white, 
pink and rose. 10 cents. 
LOPHOSPERMUM SCANDENS. 
A vine of rapid growth, and beautiful dark green 
foliage. Excellent for covering fences or out houses in 
summer, as it attains a height of twenty feet, to cents. 
LINUM TRIGYNUM. 
A winter blooming plant of great beauty, producing, 
in great profusion, very large and showy blossoms of a 
bright yellow color. The plant is a complete mass of 
bloom for a long time during winter ; the flowers are 
about the size of a Morning Glory, and no matter how 
small the plant is, it will bloom profusely. 15 cents. 
MUSA ENSETE. 
(Abyssinian Banana.) 
The fruit of this variety is not edible, but the leaves 
are magnificently long, broad and massive, of a beau- 
tiful green, with a broad, crimson midrib. During sum- 
mer, when planted out in rich earth, it grows very 
rapidly ; leaves attain a length of from six to ten feet 
in a single season. Can be cut back and taken up and 
wintered in a cool greenhouse or cellar. Strong plants, 
50 cts. ; large plants, from 8-inch pots, for immediate 
effect, by express, $1 each. 
IMPATIENS SULTANI. 
A wonderful Rose— “The Rainbow. 1 ' See page 8. 
