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I). M. FERRY A CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
HYACINTH BEAN (Ooliclios). 
Splendid climber, with abundant clustered spikes of 
purple and white flowers, which are followed by exceed¬ 
ingly ornamental seed pods; of rapid growth, often run¬ 
ning twenty feet in a season. After the weather has 
become warm, plant where they arc to remain, and culti¬ 
vate like common beans, only give support for the vines 
to run upon. Tender annual; ten to twenty feet high. 
Dolichos, lablab, purpurea, purple.10 
4 * 41 alba, white.io 
44 “ mixed, the above mixed.xo 
44 giganteus, tall growing variety, with large, 
purple flowers; fourteen feet; very fine. io 
Zifa: It IS. -(See Candytuft). 
IClv I*I.AIVT.-(Sce Mcsembryanthemum). 
IMPATIENS SIXTANI. 
Impatiens Sultani, one of the most distinct and 
beautiful decorative plants for the hot-house, 
green-house or summer bedding. The plant 
is of compact growth. The flowers are gor- 
(mpatiens Sultani 
geously colored and are produced in great 
profusion throughout the season. Although 
a green-house plant, it docs finely in open 
border. If planted in open ground the seed 
should be sown during latter part of June. 
The flowers are a brilliant rosy-scarlet color, 
one to one and one half inches in diameter.. .25 
SHOT. (See Canna Indica). 
IPOMEA. 
Beautiful climbers, and exceedingly attractive mixed 
with other climbers. The flowers are of a variety of 
shapes and sizes, and of an endless number of colors, 
many being wondrously brilliant, and of graceful form, j 
They are alike good for green-house, for pots and bask- ; 
cts, and for trellises, stumps, arbors, etc. They require 
heat in starting, and some of the varieties will not sue- ; 
ceed out of the green-house. Tender annual; five to j 
ten feet high. 
Ipomea, coccinea (Star Ipomea), fine scarlet. ..5 
“ bona nox (Good Night), pure white . 5 
44 limbata, elegantly blotched and margined with 
white. c 
Ipomea, Limbata. 
Ipomea, limbata, elegantissima, large flowers, in 
form of a five pointed star, with intense 
purple center, and pure white margin. 5 
“ rubra ccerulea, immense flowers of bright celes¬ 
tial blue; stove or green-house climber . 10 
“ fine mixed. e 
IPOMEA QUAMOCEIT,— (See Cypress 
Vine). 
11 * 0 MOPSIS.— (See Tree Cypress). 
JACOIliEA-(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 worth cultivating. Hardy annuals in open 
border, biennial in green-house. Sow in loam mixed 
with leaf mold. One foot high. 
Jacobsea, dwarf, double purple, fine.10 
“ dwarf, double white, elegant . 10 
blue, 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 
feet 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-(Colx). 
Curious, ornamental grass from the 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). 
JOSEPH’S COAT* — (See Amaranthus 
Tricolor). 
