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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 
M^sa Epsette. 
Fine single specimens of this are grand beyond descrip¬ 
tion, and give a massive, tropical effect that nothing else 
can equal. It grows several feet high the first season, with 
huge, wide-spreading leaves that dwarf everything near it. 
Give sun, ricli soil and abundance of water. .10 & 20 per pkt. 
Pa lips. 
Grand decorative plants for the house or piazza, and 
-increase in value each year. Easily grown from seeds. 
which are slow but quite sure to germinate. 
Mixed Sorts —Many varieties .. 10 & 20 
Filifera, or Weeping— Very fine and easily grown _5 & 10 
SWaipsopia. 
Lovely pot plants, blooming freely all the time. Foliage 
as well as flowers is exquisitely handsome. One of the very 
finest of all pot plants for constant blooming. Flowers 
closely resemble Sweet Peas, and are borne in large clusters. 
There are two colors, white and pink. We offer fine plants 
of both sorts on page 23. 
Mixed Colors-White and pink.10 & 20 
(Jleapder. 
Well-known shrubby plants for tub culture. Very beau¬ 
tiful when in bloom. 
Mixed Sorts—All colors.10 & 20 
Solapbip Jasrpipoides. 
A beautiful half climber, easily kept in bush shape by a 
little pinching, or can be allowed to climb or trail at will, as 
it never grows too large for a window. Mostly grown as a 
house plant, for which its size and long profusion of star- 
like flowers well adapt it, but it is even more pleasing grown 
as a summer vine at the foot of a pillar or window. The 
panicles of pure white bloom are very pretty and are pro¬ 
fusely borne both summer and winter. It is never without 
flowers.. .10 & 20 
Srpilax. 
This elegant vine is easily grown from seed, which, 
though slow to germinate, is sure to grow. Not only a fine 
window vine, but exceedingly fine for outdoor planting 
wherever a small growing vine is wanted. In tlie open 
ground it grows luxuriantly, furnishing great quantities of 
its dainty, glossy-green sprays that are exquisite to use in 
cut flower work, and remains fresh and green until after 
early frosts. In the house it requires good light and freedom 
from dust. Its feathery little blooms are delicately fragrant, 
but its chief merit is its exquisitely beaut iful foliage. .5 & 10 
Tea. 
Everybody is interested in the Tea plant of China, and 
such a plant is always an attraction and a curiosity in any 
window. The Tea plant grows readily from seed, and makes 
a very ornamental foliage pot plant, as well as an interest ¬ 
ing one. It often takes the seed, which are large, a month 
to germinate...10 & 20 
PA88IFLORA. 
Passiflora. 
The seeds of Passifloras are largo and easily grown. 
Some varieties are grown for their elegant foliage, others 
for their beautiful and curious cornet-like blooms. A fine 
vine for an arch or window or for planting out in summer. 
Mixed Sorts.5 & 10 
Gracilis— A lovely annual variety which blooms in a short 
time from seed. Splendid pot or trellis plant. See 
Novelties for full description.10 & 20 
Violet. 
A fino collection of many fine varieties and colors—blue, 
lavender, white. Many of the finest scented varieties are 
i included. 
Mixed Sorts..10&20 
