SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 
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Night Blooipiqg G ereiJS ’ 
The following are rare sorts of the grandest 
©f all flowers, the Night Blooming Cereus. 
Ooreus Grand Iflora —(The true Night-Bloom¬ 
ing Cereus.) The most beautiful flower in 
the world. Its flowers are a foot across, of 
a pure satiny white, with outside petals 
faintly tinged with reddish-brown. It is 
also deliciously fragrant. No description 
can do justice to its wonderful beauty, or 
portray the magnificence of its pure cup, 
filled with thousands of silky stamens. 
Truly a flower of the gods, and one which 
seems not of earth, as its beauty is unfolded 
only in midnight’s darkness. Nothing can 
compare with the soul-stirring beauty of 
this "flower. 
O. McDonaldl — (Yellow Night-Blooming 
Cereus.) Like a,bove, but with larger 
blooms, and a line straw color tint. 
4l.lt o at rat us—(R ed Night-Blooming Cereus). 
A slender climber, with magnilicent flowers 
in the stylo of Cereus Grandiilora, but of a 
rich wine-red outside, and a lighter shade 
inside. Grand to contrast with the lighter 
sorts. 
9. Triangularis— 1 The largest of all. Enor¬ 
mous white flower of surpassing loveliness, 
a. foot or more across. 
Mopcttia Vipe. 
A poor vine is little but an eyesore; but a thrifty Manet- 
tia is lovely beyond all question. It can be grown either in 
the house or garden, and is in full bloom every day in tho 
year. In the house it can bo trained all around a window^ 
and it will bo a solid wreath of bloom, both 6ummer and 
winter; in the open ground during summer it will grow ten 
feet, branching freely and covering a largo space of trellis, 
arbor or wall, showing at all times thousands of its bright 
blossoms. The flowers are 1J-4 to 2 inches long, and of the 
most intense fiery scarlet, shading off to a bright yellow tip. 
They are also covered with a scarlet moss or hairy substance 
which adds much to their beauty, and each flower keeps 
perfect for weeks before falling. No plant is easier to grow, 
and it commences to bloom at once from the smallest cut¬ 
tings, and continues to bloom most profusely at all times. 
There is not ado y during its life that it is without flowers, 
if it has any sort of decent 
care. It being quite un¬ 
known and of such striking 
beauty, either for screens, 
baskets, vases, windows, t 
trellises, stumps, etc., that 
it attracts the admiration 
of every eye. 
Price , lOcfcach; 8 for soc .; 
extra large plants by express , 
80c. each; 8 for COc . 
S^tford F crr b 
A grand center plant for 
largo baskets, pots or vases. 
The long, narrow, pinnato 
fronds arch gracefully in 
every direction, growing 
from 3 to C feet long. Per¬ 
fectly hardy and lino for 
rock work, or tbo garden 
also. No Fern endures the 
heat and dust of living 
rooms so well as this, henco 
its great valuo for window 
decoration. A charming 
ornament. 30c. each; 3 for 
60c.' Extra large, by express, 
60c. each; S for 
OP 
FERN 
Phyllocaetus Hooker!— Much like Latifrons. hut a more 
moderate grower. Quito dwarf and compact. 
f*hyIlocactu8 Jenkensoni —Largo silky flowers of the 
deepest, richest blood-red, as largo and deep as a good- 
sized tea-cup. The flowers aro open day and night for 
about a week, and are borne by the score. 
IPhyllocactuB Latifrons—(Q uf.en Cactus.) It divides the 
honors with Cereus G-randiflora as to being the most 
beantthil of all Cacti. The plant is a strong, large, rapid 
grower, that will succeed in any warm window, and 
covered each season with bloom. And such bloom I 
Words fail to describe it. “ As big as a dinner plate, 
says one. Smooth, satiny white, delicately flushed. 
Wiyllocactus Speclosa— Much like above, but flowers arc 
not quite us largo and are a soft pink in color* 
PriWt> SOc. each; 8 for 6Qc. 
