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A. B. DAVIS & SON, PURCELLVILLE, VIRGINIA. 
PANSY. 
TUBEROSE. 
The Tuberose is one of the most fragrant and beauti- 
ful of summer-blooming bulbs. It sends up stems ot 
double wax-like white flowers from two to three teet 
high, and continues in bloom for a long time. To in- 
sure blooming, and thereby give better satisfaction, we 
started in pots a number of bulbs that will flower in 
July, and we lake pleasure in offering these plants to 
our customers, that they may be gratified with the 
lovely flowers in midsummer. 
\ew Double Pearl. Flowers nearly double the size 
of the old variety, and flower-stems' only eighteen 
inches to two feet in height. Large bulbs, started in 
pots, io cts. each, $i per doz. Dry bulbs with per- 
fectly sound centers, four inches and upward in cir- 
cumference, 6 cents each, 50 cents per doz. 
THE PANSY. 
Pansy-growing has become an art. and correspond- 
ing to the show of China ware in the fashionable house 
of to-day is the show of pansv-beds on the lawn out- 
side Many have studied the art of preserving pan- 
sies in a group, like a water-color painting. They have 
an abundance of bloom until after seveie frosts, 
endure our severe winters, and meet us the next season 
with the same wonderful picture-gallery of rich 
hues Everv one can have a pansy bed. If covered 
with a litter of leaves, it will stand the winter and be 
prettier than ever the second spring. Pansies, it 
successfully grown, should be bedded out in March 01 
early April, in rich, loamy soil, so that they may have 
time to grow and bloom before hot weather. We grow 
three strains famous for size and color : German Show, 
French Giant, and Royal Exhibition ; in all their vari- 
ed colors, 5 cents each, 36 for $1. 
TRITOMA UVARIA GRAND1FLORA. 
(Flame-flower.) 
A splendid summer and autumn-flowering plant, with 
stately flower-scapes and magnificent terminal dense 
spikes of rich orange-red tubular flowers ; familiarly 
known from its glowing colors as the ' Red-hot 
Poker.” Effective among shrubbery ; perfectly hardy. 
15 cents each, Si. 50 per dozen. 
TRADESCANT1A MULTICOLOR. 
Beautifully variegated with purple, scarlet and white; 
a fine basket plant, an d useful for vases or moist 
shaded places. 10 cents. 
VERBENA. 
Our stock of Verbenas is superb. Our plants are 
thrifty and free from mildew. Our collection contains 
Henderson’s Mammoth strain, and the standard sorts. 
Purchaser’s selections of colors, 5 cents each, 50 cents 
per dozen. 
VIOLETS. 
Of all delightful perfumes, that of Violets is most 
delicate and pleasing. Violets grow and bloom during 
the dead of winter without any trouble whatever, it 
given a cool situation, but will not succeed in a warm 
place A coldframe, from which frost is barely excluded, 
is their best location. The following sorts are the best 
of all the Violets, and are all distinct in color : 
Double Perpetual Violet, Swanley White. Of 
all white violets this is the best either for pot-culture 
in the house or bedded out. In pots it grows luxu- 
riantly and is laden with flowers. It is not an un- 
common sight to see as many as fifty large flowers 
open at once, their delicious perfume filling a room. 
15 cents each, 6 for 60 cents. 
Try our collection of 36 Giant Pansies for *1. 
