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D. M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
N K L U M H I U M L U T E U M 
(American Lotus). This is 
one of the most beautiful and 
valuable of all the water lilies. 
The dark green leaves, 12 to 15 
inches in diameter, surmounted 
by the enormously large double 
flowers resembling a monster 
double tulip, form a beautiful 
contrast and are a worthy orna¬ 
ment to any garden or lawn. 
Easily grown in tanks or ponds. 
Full cultural directions on each 
packet. Yellow, fragrant.25 
NICOTIAN A A F FINIS.-A hand 
some genus of garden plants of 
the tobacco family which are 
noted for the freedom and frag¬ 
rance of their bloom. Half 
hardy annuals: three feet high. 
Flowers white, salver shaped, 
having long, tubular corollas, 
and are of exquisite fragrance. 
Deserves a place in every gar¬ 
den.10 
NEMO PHI LA- (See Love Grove). 
M EREMBERGIA GRACIL¬ 
IS.—Charming little plants, 
well adapted for edgings, bas¬ 
kets, etc. one-half hardy annu¬ 
al. A fine bedding plant; white 
with purple eye; slender and 
graceful. One foot.10 
NIGELLA—(See Love-in-a-Mist). 
N O L A N A .—Beautiful, trailing 
. plants, with prostrate stems, 
much branched; almost equal to 
the Portulaca for growing in masses, and unsurpassed 
for rock work, pots, baskets or -vases, as the branches 
hang pendulous over the edge of vase or basket. The 
blossoms are convolvulus shaped, brilliant, freely pro¬ 
duced, and of various colors. Hardy, trailing annual; 
six inches high. Mixed. 5 
Palm. Chamcrops, Excelsa. 
OXALIS—Rosea, rose colored. 10 
Floribunda alba, white. 10 
PiEONY HERBACEA— (Chinensis).— New varieties of 
these justly popular flowers are obtained from seed, 
and are sure to repay the little care required. A splen¬ 
did collection of finest double sorts of all colors.25 
NYCTER INI A. Charming little plants well adapted for 
rockeries and baskets. The flowers are borne on large 
heads, are of various colors, star shaped, and during 
the evening are very fragrant. Half hardy annual; six 
inches high. « 
Nycterinia. 
Capensis, white.10 
Mixed, .10 
<EX <)T 11E R A— (See Primrose). 
OLEANDER—(Nerlum Oleander).— This well known 
shrub, originally a native of India, is of easy culture, 
and flowers freely the greater part of the year. In 
warm, moist climates, it requires no protection, and 
attains the proportions of a good sized tree. The flow¬ 
ers have a silver shaped corolla, with ft crown of torn 
appendages in the center, and are a beautiful shade of 
pinkish red . 10 
OXALIS.—Very pretty herbaceous plants with rich, rose 
colored blossoms. They thrive well in a mixture of 
loam and sand. Desirable for green-house decoration, 
rock work or baskets out of doors. Half hardy peren¬ 
nial. 
PALM— (Chanuerops).— The palm is perhaps one of the 
most ornamental plants in the green-house, and those 
varieties that are hardy enough to bear planting out in 
the lawn during warm weather are sure to command 
attention. 
Humilis—(Dwarf Fan Palm), the most hardy and 
dwarf of its species, seldom attaining over eight or ten 
feet in height . 15 
Excelsa—(Hempen Palm of China), is a green-house 
variety in our climate. As a lawn plant in our South¬ 
ern States, nothing could be more conspicuously 
attractive. A well grown specimen will attain the 
height of twenty-five or thirty reet.25 
PAM 1* AS GRASS—(Gynerium argenteum).- Mag¬ 
nificent, ornamental grass, producing numerous flower 
stems surmounted by plumes of silvery inflorescence. 
Half hardy perennial, from South America; ten feet 
high.10 
Oxalis. Floribunda, 
