SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1901. IBS 
WATER HYACINTH. 
W ater 
Each plant is a. rosette-like cluster of smooth, round, 
green leaves, to each of which is attached a singular puffed, 
bladder-like leaf-stalk that enables the plant to float. Each 
flower in the spike is the size of a silver dollar. A blending 
of lilac-rose and azure blue tints, with the upper and slightly 
hooded petal blotched a deep metallic blue, with golden spot 
in the center, and sparkling in the sun as though sprinkled 
with diamond dust. Grows well in open vessels in the win¬ 
now, or in tubs or pools out of doors. Blooms best in full 
sun. 20c. each; 3 for 50c.; 7 for $1.00. 
Smilax. 
The dainty, yet luxui’iant masses of the glossy Smilax 
are as handsome in the window as any other flower, and, as 
the plant is easy to grow, anyone can possess it. A beautiful 
climber for the arch of a plant stand, wreathing it in a 
bower of the lovliest green. The finest foliage we have for 
bouquets, cut-flower work, etc., as it is so beautiful and 
spray-like, and lasts for hours without wilting. Flowers 
white, fleecy, profuse and fragrant. 15c. each v 3 for 30e. 
gtrobilax^tljes J)yeriai>Us. 
A new house and bedding plant of great beauty. It forms 
a compact bush 18 inches high, with leaves 6 to 9 inches long, 
3 to 4 inches wide, and of the most intense metallic purple 
color, shading into light rose, with a light green margin, a 
combination unapproached in any other plant. The flowers 
are a lovely violet-blue, very beautiful, of a Gloxinia-like ap¬ 
pearance. For a bedding plant it has few equals. In an 
exposed position its foliage colors highly, and is superbly 
ornamental. 15c. each; 5 for 50c.; 12 for $i.oo. 
SWaiqsopia, or SWapfloWer. 
It will'be hard to name a plant now in cultivation which 
can equal this in beauty and general good qualities. It has 
a most beautiful fern-like foliage and blooms perpetually 
every day in the year, its blossoms being the shape and near¬ 
ly the size of Sweet Peas, and borne in great clusters of 
twenty to forty. These clusters appear at the axils of the 
leaves, and a single branch shows many clusters of bloom at 
all times. The plant is a free and rapid grower, beginning 
to bloom in three or four weeks from cuttings, and continu¬ 
ing for years. It is easier to grow and manage than a Gera¬ 
nium, thriving in any soil or in any window, and is a 
superb bedding plant for the garden in summer. We believe 
there is no plant so easy to grow, or one that thrives and 
blooms under all conditions as does this charming plant. 
Pure White— Large milky white: exquisite. 
Deep Red— Fine dark red, with large white blotches 
Pink—New; bright pink, white center. 
Price, 20c. each ; 3 for 50c. 
Parrot’s Feather. 
A lovely, mossy 
plant, with long, trail¬ 
ing stem s,eovered with 
plumy, feathery foli¬ 
age of the freshest 
loveliest green imagin¬ 
able. Is fine for aqua?* 
iums, where few 
plants do well, and 
makes the water much 
more healthful for the 
fish. Grows nicely also 
in water tubs or orna¬ 
mental pools, and is 
much admired when 
grown in hanging pots 
or baskets of soil. It 
grows as well in soil as 
in water, if it is kept 
well watered. It is one 
of the most charming 
trailing and drooping 
plants, and grows so 
rapidly that it can be 
cut with the greatest 
freedom. 15c. each; 3 
i for 30c. 
