SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1891. 
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Garr*atior*. 
This elegant flower should be grown more generally from 
seed. Seed germinates as freely and plants are as easily 
raised as its first cousin, the Dianthus. Plants from seeil 
sown in April will commence blooming in August und con¬ 
tinue all winter. 
Cood Mixed. 10 
Fancy, Extra Choice, mixed; variegated colors.. 25 
Perpetual Tree, or monthly,extra choice. 25 
New Hardy, See Novelties. . 25 
Calceolaria. 
Another exceedingly showy house plant, which, when in 
bloom, is, indeed, a rare beauty, having hundreds of showy 
pocket-like ilowers of various colors, some spotted and 
marked elegantly. Treat like Primulas or Cinerarias. 
Hybrids, mixed colors, extra choice seed. 25 
Rugosa, mixed, fine for open ground during summer... 15 
Feri}. 
Ferns aro useful for winter decoral ions, baskets, wardian 
cases, and for cool shady nooks in the garden. 
Mixed Sorts, all the best varieties. 25 
Gerartiiiii). 
These beautiful plants are very easily raised from seed, and 
the seed here offered will produce new varieties equal to the 
very best. With good eai-e plants will bloom within six or 
seven months from the time the seed is sown. There is no 
better way to get a tine lot of Geraniums than to grow them 
from seed. Per pkt. 
Zonale, choico mixed, from fine sorts. 10 
“ • extra choice, mixed from linest new varieties.. 20 
Apple Scented, very delightfully scented leaves. 25 
Double Mixed, Saved especially for us from the linest 
new sorts, und will produce some of the best double 
varieties in existence . 30 
Musk Scented, free bloomer. . 20 
Heliotrope. 
All Sorts, mixed. 
A veryfragrant 
and desirable 
llower. They do 
finely bedded out 
in the garden 
where they will 
bloom all sum¬ 
mer, and when 
carefully lifted, 
.potted, cut back 
and brought into 
'alight, warm win- 
,dow they bloom 
'most beautifully 
during winter. 
The Ilowers arc 
always prized for 
their delicious 
fragrance. 
Mixed Colors, 15 
Haptapa 
Seedlings grow 
quickly an d 
bloom the first 
summer. They are 
exceedingly II n e 
for summer bed¬ 
ding. 
.. 10 
Ixeipop yerbepa. 
This elegant, fragrant plant is easily grown from seed and 
Succeeds well. Have a good bed of it in the garden over 
Bummer, that you can cut its fragrant foliage and Ilowers to 
make up with "bouquets. Per pkt. 
Lemon Verbena, choicest seed. 10 
Mbsa Epsette. 
The great Abyssinian Banana, so beautiful for bedding 
purposes. It grows several feet high with enormous leaves, 
which are highly ornamental. 
Ensette, per packet of 5 seeds.,,,,,,.. 20 \ 
Passiflora. 
This elegant vine is easily grown from seed, and it is well 
worth any one's while to try it. They are very beautiful for 
windows, and when planted out in summer they makes mag¬ 
nificent climber growing very rapidly. 
Mixed Sorts. 10 
Palips. 
Flllfera, the beautiful weeping Palm that is so hardy and 
robust. It grows very rapidly from seed. See plant 
department for full description. 10 
Sipilax. 
We doubt if one of our customers in a hundred have ever 
seen a stringof Smilax in bloom. Though grown principally 
for its elegant green foliage, so indispensable for floral work, 
it nevertheless bears flowers by the thousand, which for rare 
and graceful beauty and delicate fragrance cannot be ex¬ 
celled. Smilax requires a nice sunny window and freedom 
from dust. 1 1 grows very quickly from seed. 
Smilax, extra line seed. lo 
rn vula. 
priipdlu Sipepsis. 
We doubt if there is a greenhouse or window plant more 
popular than the Primrose. 11 is justly popular, first for its 
elegant Ilowers and long continued season of bloom, which 
extends nearly through the whole year, and second, on ac¬ 
count of its ease of culture, thriving In a window where there 
is little or no sun which few plants will do. ltisnotparticu- 
lar as to situation and is never attacked by insects. It is a 
plant that will thrive in any window for anybody. It grows 
readily from seed and there is no reason why every lover of 
beautiful ilowers should not have a good lot of these elegant 
| plants. Our seed is from the choicest strains in Europe, and 
cannot be excelled. 
Mixed, very good: from a fine large-flowering collection 10 
Fimbriata, extra fine, large flowering, mixed . 20 
“ Feiicifolia. mixed (Fern-leaved Primula)_ 20 
“ Flora Plena, Alba, fine double white. .. 50 
11 “ llosea, fine double, rose. 50 
11 “ Mixed, double. The double 
Primulas are truly magnificent 50 
Obconlca, a most valuable new species, being a strong, 
vigorous grower and in bloom every day in the year. 
It is particularly a free bloomer in winter, producing 
large clusters of white flowers and often more than 
fifty of them appear on a plant at once. A plant is, 
in fact, a perfect mass of bloom all winter. 20 
Clobosa, mixed colors. A new strain of the Sinensis 
Fimbriata type, witli largo fringed flowers, of lino 
shape and bright colors, and borne in great clusters. 
The plants are dwarf and compact in growth, which 
makes them extra line for pot culture. Colors, white, 
red, pink, striped, etc. Our customers will find this 
an extra fine strain. 30 
