GROSMAN BROTHERS* CATALOOUE. 
BARTONIA AUREA, 
BARTONIA, 
A very showy half-hardy annual, with 
gray branches and thistle like leaves. 
The seed should be sown where the 
plants are designed to bloom, as it will 
not bear transplanting; thin to six 
inches apart. (Illustration.) pkt. Cts. 
Bartonia Aurea, flowers bright 
yellow; large and attractive.5 
BRACHYCOME. 
Pretty, dwarf-growing, free-flowering 
plant, covered all summer with a pro¬ 
fusion of small Cineraria-like flowers 
succeeding in any light, rich soil. Half- 
hardy annual. 
Brachycome iberidiiolia (Swan 
River Daisy). Blue and white 
mixed ; £ foot. 5 
BALSAM. 
After persistent hunting we now have the 
pleasure of presenting to the public a most 
elegant strain of Double Balsam, and it is with 
the utmost confidence we ask a trial of the' 
same. Half-hardy annual, producing fine 
larg^. double flowers in great abundance, 
requiring a rich soil and good cultivation ; 
sow in a frame early, or in the garden iu a 
sheltered place: when safe from frost trans¬ 
plant to ten or twelve inches apart; pinch off 
a portion of the shoots, which will render the 
plant more vigorous and 3 howy. (Illustra¬ 
tion.) 
Camellia-Flowered, very double and 
perfect in form ; mixed colors__ 10 
Bo able Rose-Flowered, perfectly 
double ; splendid ; mixed ; 2 feet. 10 
Bouble Rose-Flowered White, flow¬ 
ers perfectly double, over Jtwo inches 
across, and borne in great profusion ; 
exquisite. 10 
Fine Double, mixed colors.10 
BALSAM—BRANCH IN BLOOM. 
CACALIA. 
A beautiful and profuse-flowering hardy annual, with tassel-shaped flowers in 
clusters. Sow early, and thin to six or eight inches apart. Often called Flora’s 
Paint Brush, or Tassel Flower. Height 18 inches. 
Coecinea, scarlet. 5 
CELOSIA. 
Magnificent and highly ornamental class of plants for the garden or greenhouse. 
The seed should be sown in a hot-bed, or in a warm border, and transplanted into a 
warm, rich soil. When grown in pots they are the most elegant of greenhouse and 
conservatory plants. Many varieties of this class may be cut and dried like an 
everlasting, retaining both form and color. Tender annuals. 
Cristata (Coxcomb), dwarf varieties, mixed.. 
Japonica, or new Japan Coxcomb; leaf scarlet or crimson ; combs delicately 
cut, of a deep scarlet hue, and produced in the greatest profusion. 10 
