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Vernon. Foliage rich, glossy green, with red edge; flowers at first opening are deep red, changing to 
clear rose in the fully open flower. Blooms when quite small, thrives everywhere and is very popular. 
Will stand bedding in full sunshine. 
TUBEROUS ROOTED. 
(See cut on page 109.) Gorgeous blooming plants, with many colored flowers from 3 to 4 inches in 
diameter. They are summer bloomers, commencing to flower early and continuing in full bloom until 
frost, rivaling the geraniums in depth and intensity of color. They grow best if planted in partial shade 
in a soil composed of leaf mold, sand, and a small portion of well rotted cow manure. They also make 
splendid specimens when grown in pots. When through flowering they should be dried off and shaken 
free from earth and packed in charcoal dust or dry leaf mold and kept in a warm room until February 
or March, when they may be started again. Strong bulbs that will bloom this season: 
Single, large flowering varieties, each 15c, per dozen $1.25. 
Double, large flowering varieties, each 25e, per dozen $2.50. 
BOUGAINVILLEAS. 
A magnificent family of half hardy plants, comprising some of the most showy climbers in cultivation. 
Their beauty lies in the showy magenta-colored bracts which envelop the small greenish flowers. They 
all require a warm sunny situation to produce the best results, and if planted in good rich soil and given 
plenty of water during dry weather, we know of no climbing plant that will give better satisfaction as to 
persistent flowering and general effectiveness. 
Strong young plants, each 25c; larger plants, each 35c. 
Glabra. Color a rich shade of light purple, though the color varies in different soils. A free bloomer 
and rapid grower. 
Glabra Sanderiana. The most prolific flowering sort in cultivation. It blooms when only a few 
inches high, and it may be said that it is scarcely ever out of flower. The bracts are a rich purple color, 
rather smaller than the other two kinds mentioned here, but what it lacks in size it more than makes 
up in quantity. 
Spectabilis. A very rapid grower, which produces very large bracts of a glowing carmine-purple 
color. The bracts are larger than those of any other variety, foliage large and covered with hairs. This 
variety under favorable conditions will climb to a height of 40 feet. 
BRYOPHYLLUM CALYCINUM. 
A beautiful and strange plant, with thick, heavy leaves which, if cut and laid on moist soil or sand, 
little plants will grow from the notches all around the leaf. They grow very quickly to a considerable 
sizo and make a healthy and beautiful looking plant. When in bloom it presents successively two distinct 
aspects; first, when the calyx develops itself — membraneous, inflated, smooth as silk, cylindrical, round 
at either end, of a pea-green color, streaked with red, increasing in size, until it becomes 2 inches in 
length. Second, the flowers, borne upon slight pedicels, droop directly downwards, and are swayed by every 
breath of air like so many Chinese lanterns. It is impossible to describe the lovely tint of the leaves, 
which are also very prettily scalloped. A plant everyone can grow. Each 25c. 
CANNAS. 
LARGE FLOWERING HYBRIDS. 
No class of plants have made greater improvement in the past few years, as to size and texture of 
flowers, freedom of bloom and diversity of foliage, than the Canna. Thislcombination of brilliant flowers 
and tropical foliage easily places them in the lead of all other bedding plants. With no other plant can 
such gorgeous results be obtained with so little outlay of time and expense. They commence to bloom 
soon after planting out, and are ablaze with magnificent color until winter sets in. The dwarf varieties 
may be grown successively in pots or tubs, making showy plants for the porch during summer, and before 
frost they may be removed to the conservatory or window garden where they will continue flowering all 
winter. 
Mrs. Kate Gray. u New Giant variety .’’ A magnificent hybrid which originated at the nursery of 
Capt. F. Edward Gray, Alhambra, Cal., being the result of a cross between the orchid flowered canna Italia 
and Mad. Crozy. The color is" a rich shade of orange scarlet overlaid with gold, a superb coloring which, 
in open sunlight, is simply dazzling. The form is perfect, the petals being very broad and overlapping 
and measuring 2}/£ to 3 inches across, while the individual flowers are 6 to 7 inches in diameter. The 
texture of the flowers is all that could be desired, they partake of the nature of the pollen parent or Crozy 
race in this respect, and withstand our hottest summer sun without wilting. The foliage is a bright 
glossy green, equal to a Musa in size and substance, and forms an elegant contrast to the glorious heads 
of bloom. The height of the plant is 6 to 7 feet, the growth is luxuriant but very compact, the massive 
foliage and the enormous spikes of bloom gives the plant a noble tropical appearance. It is the only 
