Ill 
SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1896. 
Window or Greenhouse “Thants. 
One may have a home grandly constructed, elegantly fitted and furnished m every particular, wanting 
nothing which money can purchase, yet if It does not contain a window of bright blooming plants it lacks some 
essential feature and is, in fact, almost desolate, and its inmates must be regarded as lacking in some degree 
refinement and taste. On the other hand, the humblest cottage is made a home, indeed, by the brightness and 
fragrance of its well-filled windows of plants, and when we sec it we know that good taste, refinement and a 
whole-souled people dwell within. _ 
Plants arc our natural home companions; they are bright, refreshing, cheery; Winter may rage without, 
but inside they make Spring perpetual. A refined and generous nature craves plants and dowers. Nothing 
else can take their place, especially to the care-worn woman, whose elevated taste and love for refinement goes 
largely unsatisfied, plants and flowers are one of God's richest blessings. 
The plant department of our business is most extensive. We have acres of greenhouses and annually 
produce and send out over two million plants. Our system of packing is such that our plants carry success¬ 
fully through the mails to nearly all parts of the world. We are careful to send out only well-rooted, healthy 
stock, and to offer only such varieties as are sure to give satisfaction the very best of their kinds. The enor¬ 
mous quantities which we grow enable us to offer the finest plants of the choicest varieties at a price so low 
that they arc within the reach of all. These facts have made ours the greatest plant distributing establishment 
in the world. 
Gereiis, Nigfyt Dloontlijg. 
No flower that blooms on earth is the peer of the Night 
Blooming Cere us. It is easy to grow' and will bloom well 
In a small pot. We offer three colors. 
Cereus Crandiflora. (The true Ntgttt-Btx>omtk'G Cereus.) 
The most beautiful flower in the world. Its flowers area 
foot across, of a pure satiny white, with outside petals 
faintly tinged with reddish-brown. It is also deliciously 
fragrant. No description can do justice to its wonderful 
beauty, or portray the magnificence of its pure cup, filled 
with thousands of silky stamens. Truly a flower of the 
gods, and one which seems not of earth, as its beauty is 
unfolded only in midnight’s darkness. Nothing can 
compare with the soul-stirring beauty of this flower. 
Would that all could once see ii before they die. 
C. McDonaldi. (Yellow Nigiit-BI/OOMino Cereus.) Like 
above, but with larger blooms, and a fine straw color tint. 
C. Rostratus. (Red Night-Blooming Cereus.) A slender 
climber, with magnificent flowers in the style of Cereus 
Grandifiora, but of a rich wine-red outside, and a lighter 
shade inside. Grand to contrast with the Tighter sorts. 
C. Triangularis. The largest of all. Enormous white 
flower of surpassing loveliness, a foot or more across. 
.Plant a stronjf grower. 
C. Columbrinus. An extra fine sort that in time becomes 
an imposing specimen, of stately columnar growth sev¬ 
eral feet in height. It bears very large and handsome 
pure white flowers, in abundance. 
Price of above five aorta, 95c. each: 3 for 00c.; the 5 for $1.00. 
gegopia, Rex. 
Enormous triangular leaves of satin-like texture, and 
metallic lustre, richly belted and zoned with the most strik¬ 
ing colors. No finer decorative plant anywhere. 
Bertha McGregor. Leaves very large, beautifully lobed. 
Fine silver white variegated with deep blackish-green. 
Robert George. Large disk of silver, bordered with deep 
green and with green center. 
Louise Classon. Leaf dull red underneath, almost black 
outside, variegated with large pink blotches having a 
peculiar metallic lustre. Very odd and beautiful. 
Grandis. Deep silver-gray, festooned with spotted-green ; 
peculiarly marked and handsome. 
Enfant de Nancy. Large beautifully ribbed; deep green 
disk thickly spotted. Large silvery zone and spotted 
green edge. Very fine. 
1 'rice, 25c. each; the five for $ 1 . 00 . 
Day Uloonppg GereUs. 
These all have flat stems, resembling leaves, and magni¬ 
ficent blossoms very freely borne. Flowers nearly as large 
and flue as the Night Blooming Cereus. 
Phyllocactus Ackermanl. Juke Jenkensoni, described 
below, but is scarlet instead of crimson, a rich and glow¬ 
ing color. Extra fine. 
Phyllocactus Hookerl. Much like Latifrons, but a more 
moderate grower. Quite dwarf and compact. 
Phyllocactus Jenkensoni. Easy to grow and exceedingly 
beautiful, blooming in one year from a cutting. Large, 
silk v flowers of the deepest, richest blood-red. as large 
and deep as a good-sized tea cup, while from the center 
of the flower hangs a pendulous golden tassel of innum¬ 
erable white stpmens. These flowers are open day and 
night for about a week, and are borne by the scores, a 
good specimen showing a hundred. 
Phyllocactus Latifrons. (Queen Cactus.) Often called 
Night Blooming Cereus. It divides the honors with 
Cereus Grandifiora. as to being the most, beautiful of all 
Cacti. The plant, is a strong, large, rapid grower, that 
will succeed in any warm window, and is covered each 
spring with bloom. And such bloom ! Words fail to de¬ 
scribe it. “As big as a dinner plate,” says one; ' Abso¬ 
lutely flawless,” says another. Smooth, satiny-white 
flowers delicately flushed with pink on the outer petals, 
the expanded flowers a foot across. 
Phyllocactus Speclosa. Much like above, but flowersare 
not quite as large, and are a soft pink in color. 
Price, 20c. each : the five for 85c. 
