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Plants 
with brightly colored leaves (or 
bedding and pot culture 
ACALPHAS 
CYNURA AURANTIACA 
FIRE DRACON (Acalpha Tri-color). A most wonderful plant, 
surpassing the finest Coleus or Begonia in the 
rich color of the leaves, which are rich and beautiful. Mottled 
and blotched with crimson and scarlet on a green background. 
Foliage extra large and maintains its marking regardless of sum¬ 
mer heat. Its most important feature is its wonderful qualifica¬ 
tion for bedding, as it will stand bedding out like Coleus ; in fact, 
in the sunniest place it produces the highest coloring. Price, 10c 
each, 3 for 25c. 
ACHRYANTHUS 
Ranks with Coleus as a bedder, but more hardy. Retains its 
brilliant coloring all the season. Price, 10c each, 12 for 75c. 
BRILLIANTISSIMA Leaves and stems of a beautiful ruby red. 
Splendid for bedding. 
McNally Golden yellow* veined green. 
EMERSONII Leaves of glittering garnet, reverse side purple 
wine colored; veins and stems carmine. 
ANTHERICUM 
COSMOSUM A pretty variegated plant well adapted for use in 
hanging baskets, or as an edging for porch or win¬ 
dow boxes, with graceful 4 to 6-inch long deep green foliage with a 
band of creamy yellow through the center. Price, 20c each, 3 for 50c. 
COLEUS 
NEW CIANT COLEUS Christmas Gem. Leaves immense, 8 to 12 
inches long. Looks like a Rex Begonia, 
and just as beautiful. Bright carmine, shadowing off to a deep ma¬ 
roon, the margin being yellow and green, the whole leaf having a 
rich velvety luster. Price, 15 cents each, 3 for 40 cents. 
C. W. SCHMIDT Center crimson-velvet, edged and spotted gold ; 
very fine for potting. Finest offered in the 
Coleus line. Price, 15 cents each, 3 for 40 cents. 
GOLDEN CEM Sport from Christmas Gem. Has same char¬ 
acter, except the leaves are a bright yellow. 
Price, 15 cents each; 3 for 40 cents. 
RAINBOW COLEUS (Christmas Queen). It is difficult to describe 
this beautiful new large leaf Coleus. Its 
coloring is gorgeous and ranges from dark velvety maroon through 
shades of brown, green, pink, and yellow, the combinations of color 
varying in each plant. Must be seen to be fully appreciated. 
Price, 15 cents each, 3 for 40 cents. 
NEW HARDINC COLEUS Harding Coleus, most beautiful, bright 
red leaves with brown, green-yellow 
edging. A capricious beauty, varying in expression with each day's 
development. The tiny clusters of new leaves are bright green with 
a cheerful carmine segment; the older leaves show a russet back¬ 
ground broken up with cream and pink ; while others frame a dap¬ 
pled wedge of crimson and maroon, with the most brilliant shades 
of clear green. Price, 20c each, 3 for 50c. 
TRAILING QUEEN A center wedge of creamy pink to crimson, 
finely scalloped edges. The plant is half 
trailing or running and is well adapted for window boxes, baskets 
or vases. Price, 10c each; per dozen, 75c. 
VESTAL’S GORGEOUS BEDDING COLEUS Price, 10c each; 75c 
doz.; 100 for $5.00. 
CROTONS 
Nothing can excel the beauty and richness of coloring that is 
found in this class of plants. They are beautiful as pot plants 
for the conservatory, making handsome specimens for decorative 
and exhibition purposes. In the latitude of Little Rock and 
southward they are wonderfully effective for summer bedding, 
presenting a glorious medley of rich variegated colors not found 
in any other class of plants. Three-inch pot plants, 40c, 3 for $1.00. 
VELVET PLANT Velvet Plant seems an appropriate name, the 
leaves being always taken as artificial. They 
and the stems are entirely covered with purple hairs, shining, glis¬ 
tening, reflecting many new colors. Any change in position ap¬ 
pears to alter the color of the foliage. Price, 15c each, 2 for 25c. 
ORDERS 
LESS THAN 
$1.00 
We cannot af¬ 
ford to fill 
orders of less 
amount than 
one dollar, un¬ 
less. in addi¬ 
tion to amount 
for plants 
wanted, ten 
cents is sent 
for postage. 
This does not 
apply to Seed 
orders. 
CALADIUM 
NEW FANCY-LEAVED VARIETIES For window boxes, house 
or greenhouse growing this 
is one of the most decorative plants. Their leaves handsomer 
than Begonias, are spotted, marbled, veined and striped with white, 
pink and dark red. These bulbs, though comparatively rare, are 
easily grown, and their handsome foliage is much admired. Bulbs 
should be started into growth in a warm place. Selected bulbs, 35c 
each, 3 for $1.00, postpaid. 
BLUE LEAF CALADIUM 
ALOCASIA ILLUSTRIS An excellent plant to grow in connec¬ 
tion with fancy-leaved Caladiums or for 
planting in the open border or in a partly shaded position. The 
foliage is large, of a dark green, clouded with a velvety blue black. 
Planted in light, well-enriched soil, with a good supply of water, it 
makes plants two feet high, which form a striking object in sub¬ 
tropical gardening. Price, 25 cents each, 5 for $1.00. 
ALTERNANTHERAS or DWARF COLEUS 
Price, 10 cents each; 60 cents per dozen; $4.00 per 100 
AUREA NANA It is admirably adapted for ribbon lines, carpet 
bedding, or massing front lines in foliage beds. 
It is of compact growth. Color of foliage, bright golden yellow. 
BRILLIANTISSIMA Crimson scarlet and pink. Its gorgeous 
color gives it the name of “Rainbow Plant.” 
PARYONCHOIODES MAJOR It is the Alternanthera so largely 
used in all ornamental carpet 
gardening. It grows only about six inches high, and can be kept 
much shorter by shearing it. The color is as bright when first 
planted as at any other time, and this is kept constantly. The color 
is brightest carmine. 
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