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Variegated Ice Plant. 
Hyacinth Bean 
Ice Plant. 
IPOMEA. 
Beautiful climbers, and exceedingly attractive mixed 
with other climbers. The flowers arc of a variety of 
shapes and sizes, and of an endless number of colors, 
many being wondrously brilliant, and of graceful form. 
They are alike good for green-house, for pots and bask¬ 
ets, and for trellis, stumps, arbors, Ac. They require 
heat in starting, and some of the varieties will not suc¬ 
ceed out of the green-house. Tender annuals; five to 
ten feet high. 
Ipomea, coc inea (Star Ipomea), fine scarlet. 5 
44 bona nox (Good Night), pure white..10 
44 limbata, elegantly blotched and margined with 
white. .10 
44 limbata hybrida, great variety of colors ; fine. 10 
44 44 clegantissima, large flowers, in form 
of a five pointed star, with intense purple cen¬ 
ter, and pure white margin.10 
44 rubra ccerulea, immense flowers of bright ce¬ 
lestial blue ; stove or green-house climber.. .. 10 
44 fine mixed. .... .10 
IPOMEA aUAMOCLIT (See Cypress Vine). 
IPOMOPSIS— (See Tree Cypress). 
JACOB-iEA—(Senecio). 
Remarkably pretty, free growing, profuse flowering 
plants, almost unsurpassed for brilliancy and beauty. 
Grow freely from seed, and are easily propagated from 
cuttings, not one in fifty failing. The double are the 
only ones -.oor/h cultivating. Hardy annuals in open 
I border, biennial in green-house. Sow in loam mixed 
with leaf mold. One foot high. 
Jacobaea, double crimson, extra fine . 10 
44 double white, elegant .10 
44 44 yellow .. 10 
44 new double dwarf blue, carefully selected, 
constant in height, pure in color, and double 
to the center . 10 
44 mixed, above varieties mixed . 10 
JASMINE. 
Hardy, deciduous, ornamental shrubs, growing three 
fett high, and producing beautiful yellow flowers, which 
are very fragrant, and much admired. The seeds re¬ 
quire bottom heat to start. 
Jasminum, fruticans, yellow; fragrant . 10 
JOB’S TEARS -(Coix). 
Curious, ornamental grass from East Indies, with 
| broad, corn, like leaves, and seeds of a light slate color, 
wonderfully lustrous. Valuable for the formation of 
winter bouquets, in connection with everlasting flowers, 
and strings of handsome beads are formed from the 
seeds. Plant in open ground, in hills three feet apart, 
four or five seeds in a hill, and cover half an inch deep. 
Hardy annual ; three feet high. 
Coix, lachryma (Job’s Tears). 5 
JOSEPH’S COAT— (See Amaranth us Tricolor). 
KATJXFUSSIA. 
Beautiful, free blooming little plants of dwarf and 
compact growth, somewhat resembling the single asters. 
