SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS, AND PLANTS FOR 1891 
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^p<?eialti<?s ar>d J^ouelti^s ip piapts apd Bulb5. 
y NDEU this head we offer articles which, on account of their special merits or novelty we deem worthy of more than 
ordinary notice. The most special features of this department this year, to which we invite your careful attention 
Water Plants, Chrysanthemums, Mrs. J. Lewis Childs, Ipomcea Pandurata, Sanseveria, Butterfly Orchid, 
ses, etc. We offer special low rates on Spider Lily, Mary Washington Rose, Tropical Fruits, Gloxinias, 
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y are the 1 
New Hoses, t... . _ 
v.me especially line Shrulis, and many other rare flowers. Do not overlook the special offer of three Perpetual Blooming 
Plants (Manettia, Solanum and Abutilon.) for 50c. In fact, nearly everything in this department of Specialties and Novel¬ 
ties is offered at very low prices, especially when taken in quantity. We hoi>e by these low rates to induce club orders. Any 
one, even a child, can, with little effort, sell in their neighborhood scorcsof such grand things as the Mary Washington Rose, 
Manettia Vine, Bryophyllum, Spider Lily, Mary Lemoine Gladiolus, etc. 
A CREAT OFFER .—The following S plants, Abutilon Leopard Eclipse, Manettia Bicolor and Solanun Orandlflorum, are in 
cveri/ respect superb, and should be grown by every lover of flowers in the land. Each one is a perpetual bloomer, blooming all 
the time, both summer and winter. For only liO cents we will send one plant each of the three. They will be good, healthy 
plants, and, in nearly every case, already budded or blooming when you receive them. This is the greatest offer of choice plants 
ever made. 
c&biitilorj 
Ellipse. 
Leopard Strain. 
This is really one of the 
best of all pot plants. It 
will be hard in fact to find 
many which arc fully as 
desirable in every respect. 
In the first place it is al¬ 
ways in bloom. Every day 
in the year its fine light 
orange colorcd.bell-shaped 
blossoms can bo seen. Add 
totbisitslovely light green 
leaves, which are thickly 
spotted with yellow, mak¬ 
ing it one of the most beau¬ 
tiful foliage plants you 
ever saw, and its graceful, 
weeping habit, it makes a 
plant of peculiar value. 
For hanging baskets, pots 
or voscsit is superb, while 
in the garden, it is one of 
the best and most attrac¬ 
tive blooming and foliage 
plants that can be liad. 
11 is easily propagated, and 
large beds of it make a 
splendid show. Here i t lias 
proved to bo one of the 
most attractive plants of 
recent introduction, 
plant our Leopard Strain 
of Abutilon Eclipse, and 
you will have a lovely 
plant which will be in 
bloom every day in the 
year. The plants we send 
out aro already budded or 
blooming. «0c. each; 3 
for 00 c. 
