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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
MIMULU8, 
Miiqulus. 
Beautiful little plants, with the daintiest and prettiest 
flowers imaginable. Will not succeed in hot sun, hut is just 
the plant for cool, shady beds, or for baskets or pots in poorly 
lighted windows. Seeds fine, and need care in sowing, Great 
favorites with those who baveonce grown them. In exquis¬ 
ite coloring these flowers rival the Gloxinia. Per pkt. 
Mixed Sorts—All colors (Monkey Flower). & 10 
Moschatus— (Musk Plant). Well known for its fine 
musky fragrance.■.• • ■ •.. • • *v • ® in 
Double Mixed—Double flowers; splendidly spotted...10 & 
Tlgrlnus Crandiflorus—Flowers size of a Petunia, and 
of very bright and striking colors; all spotted, tigered 
and variegated in a most charming manner. Fine as 
pot plants, rivaling the Gloxinia.10 & 41 
JVJicotiana. 
Fine for separate clumps or masses, or for the center of 
beds of evening bloomers. One of the easiest of all plants to 
grow, and equally fine for outdoor culture or for winter 
. blooming in pots. Its long, tubular, star-pointed flowers are 
pure white, exceedingly fragrant and very profusely borne. 
It is one of the few plants that will flower well without a 
single ray of direct sunshine, and, for shaded grounds and 
north windows, is invaluable. 
Affin is— Three feet high, with hundreds of fragrant blos¬ 
soms borne for months without intermission.5 & 10 
Decurrens— A dwarrer and more branching variety than 
Afflnis, equally beautiful and even more profuse..10 & 20 
Nigeria, 
Dvtfarf. 
Often called Love in- 
a-mist, from the curious 
way in which the pretty 
blue blossoms are veiled 
by the feathery, close- 
enveloping foliage. 15 
inches. An easy and 
rapid grower of much 
beauty. Dwarf mixed 
colors.....5&10 
NyihPttam* 
Lovely Pond Lilies of which everyone is so fond. Many 
of the new foreign varieties grow and bloom from seed the 
first year, and among them there are a great variety or 
colors, white, yellow, blue, purple, etc. Seed should be sown 
in a pan or saucer of mud. just covered with water. In a 
warm temperature they will germinate quickly and grow 
rapidly. These Lilies'have a fragrance rich and peculiar; 
considered by many to be superior to any other flower. 
Zanzlbarensls, Blue—The grand day-blooming Afri¬ 
can Water Lily, with enormous incurved flowers of 
most exquisite coloring,and so profuse blooming that 
a tub of them is never without flowers from early 
summer until frost. They grow so rapidly that they 
will bloom in ten weeks from seed, and are sodittle , 
trouble anyone can succeed with them. Give them a . 
very rich soil, full sun, and shallow water to start in. 
The larger the vessel that contains them the ranker 
they grow, and the larger their flowers, but they will 
bloom in a common bucket, even. Seed should be 
sown in cups of soil and tepid water. . 10 & 20 
Zanzlbarensls, Red—Like the above, except in color, 
which is a fine purplish red.10 & 20 
Dentata—(N ight-Blooming Star Lily). There is 
nothing among water plants finer than this. Opens 
about eight o’clock in the evening, and closesatnoon 
the next day. Star-like blossoms, pearly white, and 
blooms freely from seed the first season.10 & 20 
Coerulea—A lovely Pond Lily four inches across, and 
of a beautiful lavender blue color. It has a remarka¬ 
ble fragrance, differing from all others . 10 & 20 
Alba— A lovely pure white Water Lily of great beauty 
and fragrance.5 & 10 
Nelumbium, or Egyptian Lotus— This is the grand and 
ancient Egyptian Lotus, a Water Lily of great size 
and surpassing beauty. It should be planted in rich 
mud, with one or two feet of water. It flowers the 
first season, its flower stems rising out of the water 
to the height of four or six feet, surmounted by a 
great double pink or white flower, which is a foot 
or more across. The beautiful rank leaves are often 
over two feet across. Either in pots oi tubs this 
plant is in bloom from July to October, and is an 
object of unsurpassed beauty..10 & 20 
Oepotl^era, 
(Evening Primrose .) 
Large , saucer-shaped 
blooms of the purest white, 
or softest, richest shades of 
yellow, and deliciously fra¬ 
grant. The swollen buds ex¬ 
pand at dusk with a sudden 
“snap” that always delights 
the children and interests 
the adults. Seed can be sown 
in the open ground, and 
plants will soon be in bloom. 
Mixed Sorts.5 & 10 
