86 -/g JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILA DELPHIA . . . . _ 
NOVELTIES * UN * PLANTS 
NEW LACE FERN*. 
New Lace Fern 
For Household Decoration 
(Aspidium Prolijerum Walasloni.) 
A rare species of lady fern, valuable alike to the 
florist and as a house plant. Can be grown successfully 
in a cold room, and even under the most trying circum¬ 
stances will make line specimens as a parlor plant. 
There is no other fern that can compare with it in en¬ 
durance and easy management. The large specimens 
will yield fronds 18 to JO inches in length that can be used 
with grace and success in the finest floral pieces. The 
photographic illustration gives a good idea of its beauti¬ 
ful, finely cut foliage, but its beautiful dark green color 
has to be imagined. Trice, 25 cents each ; 3 for 60c. 
Doubly Nasturtiums 
Flowers are large and double as roses, of delicious 
fragrance and borne in profusion winter and summer. 
They are of climbing habit and will twine gracefully 
about the window or porch. 
“Sunbeams.” Bright golden yellow with carmine 
markings. 
“Sunset.” Rich orange crimson. 
Price, each, 15c.; 1 each for 25c.; per doz., $1.50. 
NOVELTY PLANT COLLECTION. 
1 Plant each, described on this page, for only 80c. 
Hardy White 
Clematis 
Paniculata 
One of the most beautiful 
of our hardy full-blooming 
vines. The (lowers are pure 
white, very fragrant and are 
borne in great panicles or 
clusters of bloom, fairly cover¬ 
ing the plant, so that it is a 
mass of llecov white; tiic 
fragrance is delicious Price, 
20 cents each; 3 for 50 cents; 
(1 for $1.00. 
One Plant each on this 
page for 80c. 
NEW FLOWERING PEA RUSH OR MONGOLIAN HONEYSUCKLE. 
NICW IIAUDY SIIKUn " YELLOW HORN.’ 
Mongolian Honey= 
suckle 
or Flowering Pea Bush 
(IIedysa rum Multij ugum .) 
This is an exceedingly 
handsome flowering shrub in¬ 
troduced from Mongolia. It 
attains a height of 5 to G feet, 
branching from close to the 
ground and spreading out 
widely in all directions. The 
flowers are of a deep violet 
red, with a white and yellow 
spot nt the base of petals; 
borne in racemes 12 to Ifr 
inches long and shaped like 
pea blossoms, from which it 
has been given the name 
“Flowering Pea Bush.” It 
is exceedingly floriferous, 
being completely covered with 
flowers, and is really one of 
the very finest plants in our 
catalogue. It is of very easy cultivation, and 
its exceeding hnrdincss will make it a most- 
welcome acquisition to gardens in the severe 
climate of the Northern United States and 
Canada, where many other fine garden 
plants do not withstand the winters. Price, 
20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
NeW Hardy Shrub “ yellow Horn ” 
(Xantlioccras Sorbifolia.) 
Blooms almost as soon as the frost is out 
of the ground. The handsomest early flower¬ 
ing shrub known. The bushes completely 
covered with beautiful white and yellow 
flowers. Plants six inches high will bloom 
profusely. Will add beauty to the most mag¬ 
nificent of homes. 
The. name Yellow Horn is the literal 
translation of the botanical name Xantlioccras, 
and alludes to the yellow horn-like glands or 
nectaries between the petals. It is a shrub or 
small tree, reaching a height of 8 to 10 feet, 
having handsome light green foliage, resem¬ 
bling that of the Mountain Ash. The flowers 
are white, with a reddish copper-colored spot 
at base, and nre disposed in racemes about S 
inches long. The flowers nre so freely pro¬ 
duced as to render the plant a perfect mass of 
bloom and remain in unimpaired benutv for 
a long time. Price, 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
