SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1896. 
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Giperaria. 
A wondrously beautiful greenhouse plant, and not. at all 
hard to grow. Seeds (terminate quickly and easily, and 
young; plants grow off without any trouble. Keep in a shady 
over summer, and remove to house in fall. I'se inser¬ 
es to keep free from aphis, and as flower buds show give 
good light. A beautiful plant, the large.Mnxuriant leaves 
surmounted in late winter and spring by immense quantities 
of large aster-like flowers of the most brilliant colors. 
Nothing could be more effective in the window. Per pkt. 
Dwarf Hybrids. Large flowering, mixed colors. 28 
Double Extra Choice Mixed. . fiO 
Gncti. 
At once one of the most curious and popular class of 
plants grown. Many line varieties can be grown from seed, 
with a little care and patience. Sow seed in shallow pans or 
saucers rilled with clear, course sand, with good drainage. 
Cover with glass, keep moderately moist, but, not, wet.. Pot 
seedlings Into very small pots. 
Mixed Sorts. Thirty to fifty kinds. 18 
Eucalyptus Gitroides. 
A beautiful tropical slirub that can he grown as a is it 
plant.. Its leaves are from flu- tlrst deliciously fragrant, 
with a penetrating lemon-like odor, surpassing the Lemon 
Verbena. Very line indeed, and valuable for bouquets., JO 
G«i rqatioq. 
A favorite with everyone. Fragrant double flowers of 
elegant form and exquisite markings. Seeds and plants 
grow as freely as the old garden pink. Spring sown seeds 
make line winter blooming plants. Keep cool in winter and 
close to the glass. 
Good Mixed.... 10 
Fancy Extra Choice Mixed- Variegated colors. 25 
Monthly, or Perpetual Tree. Mixed greenhouse vari¬ 
eties. 
Hardy Hybrids. Hardy free bloomers. Extra line for 
the garden or for pots. Many line colors mixed. 20 
Margaret. Fine early bloomers. 15 
cacti 
Goletis. 
The most popular foliage plant grown. Seeds germinate 
well, and will produce plants with finely variegated foliage. 
Our seed is saved from the best named varieties and will 
please all who try it. Her pkt. 
Extra Choice Mixed. Many new sorts. 2.* 
perns. 
Kerns are exquisite for table or drawing-room decora¬ 
tion. wardian cases, hanging baskets or rockeries. Spores 
are very line, and should be surface sown on sifted soil, and 
covered .with glass. If sown in ordinary pot saucers, neces¬ 
sary moisture can be supplied by placing a saucer of sod 
inside of a larger saucer that lias been tilled with tepid 
water. The water will Alter through, and will not wash the 
soil over the spores as surface watering is apt to do. 
Mixed Sorts. All the finest varieties. '-‘S 
Pal ips. 
Grand decorative plants for the house or piazza, and 
increases in value each year. Easily grown from seeds, 
which are slow, but, quite sure to germinate. 
Mixed Sorts. Many varieties..... 2JJ 
Fillfera, or Weeping. Very fine and easily grown... 10 
\Idsa pqsette. 
Fine single specimens of Ibis arc grand beyond descrip¬ 
tion. and give a massive, tropical effect that nothing else 
cun equal. It grows several feet high the first season, with 
huge, wide-spreading leaves that dwarfs everything near it. 
Give sun. rich soil and abundance of water. 'M 
