SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1896. 
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Benny Constant. The most magnificent scarlet Geranium 
known. Flower and trusses of mammoth size,each blos¬ 
som finely saucer shaped, perfect in form; color, richest 
scarlet, so bright as to dazzle the eye. Exquisite. 
Wonder. The flowers are the most Intense dazzling soarlet 
and are borne in trusses of enormous size, measuring 
from IS to 30 inches in circumference, with single florets 
measuring T inches in circumference. As a pot plant or 
a bedding Geranium, it has no equal. 
F. Becker. Foliage heavily zoned ; immense trusses of vio¬ 
let crimson blossoms, rayed with glowing orange-scarlet. 
Madonna. Very large trusses of lovely pale pink flowers. 
One of the most pleasing varieties. 
Mar. de Layres. A grand pure white sort with enormous 
flowers and truss. Finest of all single whites. 
Venus. An enormous flower of perfect shape and light 
scarlet in color. 
Souvenlrde Mirande. Each floret has a large creamy-white 
center; upper petals white edged with soft rose. Lower 
petalsa soft but bright salmon-rose with lighter shadings. 
Price, toe. each; 3 for 50c.; the lo for $1.50. 
The above 
GeraiHimjs. 
The most popular of all pot or bedding plants, combining 
line habit, handsome foliage and great quantities of showy 
flowers. More than his, they are the easiest of all plants to . 
grow, and are never troubled with insects. Fine, also, for tujjr 
cutting and wearing, as they do not wilt readily. The varie- 
ties that we offer all have very large trusses of the most per¬ 
fect flowers and of the most distinct colors. We could have 
made our list four times as large, but we chose rather to 
offer a few only, but these extra choice ones. 
BEST DOUBLE SORTS. 
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DOUBLE 
CERANIUM. 
Chopin. Enormous size, semi-double, great, truss, fiery 
orange scarlet. Fine bedder. 
M. Louis Fages. A compact grower with very large truss. 
Flowers large and in color a clear orange scarlet. 
Bruant. Extra large floret, immense trusses. Splendid. 
Hoff Beach. Very dark. A deep amaranth shaded purple. 
Jupiter. A grand flower of the very largest size, and of a 
glowing dark vermilion. Extra fine. 
S. A. Nutt. A massive truss of large double florets; close 
compact habit; rich dark crimson black. 
La Favorite. The best white bedding Geranium, as it does 
not tv.rn pink in the sun. A fine pot sort, also. A strong 
bloomer, and with flowers of snowy whiteness. 
Mars. Immense trusses of very large flowers, of fiery scar¬ 
let rayed with violet, scarlet and touch of orange-yellow. 
Reumberta. Not a yellow, that is yet in the future, but the 
nearest approach to a yellow to be found in theGeranium. 
The color is a light yellowish orange scarlet; very distinct. 
White Swan. Very floriferous. An extra fine pot Geranium, 
covered with large trusses of snow-white flowers that are 
very double and perfect. Habit, short, jointed and bushy. 
/Vice, Me. each; three for 1.0c.: the. 10 for $1.00. 
BEST SINCLE SORTS. 
John Lewis Childs. This new and unique Geranium is 
unlike any other variety in cultivation. Was originated 
and named by "Mr. E. G. Hill, and is a seedling from 
Spotted Gem. Its color is a pale pearly pink, heavily 
i mottled and spotted with crimson. The background 
} is a good light color and the spots bright and bril- 
> liant. It is the only good spotted variety yet known 
. _ to cultivation. It is a free grower, producing very 
large single blossoms in large trusses. 
Violet Queen. Enormous flower and truss of the most per¬ 
fect form, and a prodigious bloomer. A most brilliant, 
and dazzling violet-crimson, with white rayed center. 
A superb sort. 
Mrs. A. Blanc. Another sort with enormous blooms, per¬ 
fect and fascinating. Beautiful orange-pink, marbled 
white. Exquisite. 
A yery popular class of Geraniums, of robust trailing 
habit, thickly clothed with dark green ivy-pointed leaves of 
smooth, glossy, wax-like texture, worth growing for the 
beauty of foliage alone. When in bloom they are doubly 
beautiful, with large trusses of beautiful flowers borne well 
above the foliage. These flowers are much larger than the 
ordinary Geranium, and in sha]>e of flower and exquisite 
markings resemble the superb Lady Washington Geraniums 
or Pelargoniums. All the Ivy Geraniums are fine low bodders 
and should be allowed to trail in their own graceful fashion. 
In such a situation they always bloom profusely and are 
much admired. Very fine also for baskets or bracket. 
Jeanne d’Arc. Pure white; very double and fine. 
La Rosalre. Fine rose. Delicate and charming. 
Souv. Chas. Turner. Flowers are 314 inches, in trusses six 
inches across. The color is a deep bright pink, approach¬ 
ing scarlet in color; the upper petals feathered maroon 
20c. each , the S for 50c. 
MISCELLANEOUS GERANIUMS. 
Tricolor. As beautiful in leaf as most Geraniums are in 
bloom. The finest of all tri-color Geraniums, much better 
than the good old Mrs. Pollock. Its large thick leaves 
are rayed and zoned with scarlet, gold, pink, green, etc., 
in a superb manner. 30c. each; 3 for 75c. 
Colden Leaved. A flue sort, with large scarlet blossoms, 
and foliage of a bright golden color. Very attractive 
and the finest of all golden leaved sorts yet known. 30c. 
each; 3 for 50c. 
Rose Scented Scarlet Flowered. A grand novelty. See 
Specialties and Novelties. 30c. each. 
Mrs. Parker. A variegated Ivy Leaved sort, with large 
double pink blossoms. See Specialties and Novelties. 
30c. each. 
Pelargonium, or Lady Washington. The most beautiful 
of the Geranium tribe. Magnificent flowers of regal 
richness, imposing size and striking beauty. Their pen- 
cilings and blotchings seem as though touched by an 
artist’s brush, they are so fresh and vivid. Easy to grow. 
Six best sorts, of different, colors, 25c. each; 5 for $1.00. 
