SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 2 *. 
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MOST UNIQUE POT PLANT IN CULTIVATION. 
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TIT Y IIS A C A NT H US. 
Thyrsacaqthiis 
Ratilaqs. 
We read in Gardeners’ Chron¬ 
icle: “Of all the plants that bloom 
in winter and spring, the most 
graceful and beautiful and best 
adapted for indoor decoration, is 
T h y rsacan til us. As a table plant 
its tubular blooms on long (20-inch) 
t hread-like branches, show to great 
advantage. Considering its easy 
growth and the length of time it 
lasts in bloom, it is just one of 
iho «* plants that should have a 
place, in every collection, however 
choice.*' I'o say that the plant lias 
fulfilled all expectations is to keep 
within the truth It was described 
and pictured as bearing racemes 
of flowers six to eight inches long, 
yet the plant before us is covered 
with sprays over 20 inches in 
length, all garnished with flowers 
of the brightest carmine. Tt is a 
good plant in every meaning of the 
word. SSc. each ; extra large plants % 
i y express, Me. each. 
An extra fine pot plant with glossy green leaves, the ; 
true fragrant orange blooms and abundant little bright j 
oranges that will hang on the little bush like balls of gold 
for six months after they are ripe. They will bloom and 
fruit in a two-inch pot; and we have seen a plant in a com¬ 
mon window, that was but 15 inches high, and had 23 
oranges on it. With good sunlight they are never out of 
fruit from one year’s end to another, and at least two-thirds 
of the time are in flower also. The fruit is very sweet and 
handsome. Could we have but one plant in our window it 
would be an Otaheite Orange. In beauty, grace and fra¬ 
grance there is nothing like its delicate, leafy sprays of 
bloom, so indescribable, exquisite, dainty, lovely and ador¬ 
able. Fine plants for blooming and fruiting at once. 20c. 
hach; 3 for 69c.; extra large , by express , hoc. 
Ne\V D\Varf Jhsticia. 
This new Dwarf Justicia is really a much finer plant 
than our engraving suggests. Everyone knows the tall, 
lanky, straggling habit of the old Justicia Rosea. This new 
sort, which is now grown so extensively by Parisian florists, 
begins to bloom when the plant has only three or four leaves, 
and is never out of flower afterward. If pinched back occa¬ 
sionally it makes a very dwarf, stocky plant, frequently 
covered with 20 to 30 large pink flower-heads, lasting a long 
time. The foliage is also more persistent and highly or¬ 
namental, being heavy in texture and very velvety. It’s the 
plant for everybody to grow in quantity. It was lately 
shown at the National Horticultural Society’s exhibition at 
Paris, anil, at Ghent, a plant with 50 flower 'spikes received 
well-merited awards. 30c. each. Kxtra large, hj/ express. 60c. 
NEW DWAllF JUSTICIA 
