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MISS EMMA V. WHITE, 
JAPANESE HOP. 
. For any place where a rapid grow¬ 
ing vine is needed, nothing is better 
than the Japan Hop. The foliage is 
luxuriant, the leaves being smaller 
and more delicate than those of the 
common hop, and curiously marked 
with silvery and yellowish-white 
streaks. It is easily grown, and with¬ 
stands heat and drouth and insects 
better than almost any other vine, 
and retains its pretty appearance un¬ 
til killed by frosts. 20 to -*o feet. 
Pkt., 4 cts. 
AIvo, Neb., Oct. 11,1807.—"I must congratulate 
you for having such a good quality of flower 
seeds. All who saw my flowers said they were go¬ 
ing to send to you for seed." 
Mbs. G. P. Fobemjut. 
JAPANESE IRIS (Iris Kaempferi). 
“The Iris family are all interesting and beautiful and 
easily grown, but no one ever stood before a well-grown bed 
of Iris Kaempferi in flower without being filled with won¬ 
der and admiration."—Gardening, Sept. 15, 1897, I take 
pleasure in offering seed this year of this wonderfully beau- 
tiftil Iris (seed imported from Japan), at a price which 
brings it within the reach of all. It commences flowering 
early in July and continues five or six weeks. Many of the 
flowers arc from eight to ten inches in diameter,rivalling the 
lily in stateliness and the orchids in their rich colorings. 
The plants will thrive in almost any situation, but develop 
into their finest forms when given plenty of moisture. Like 
many other good things, one must wait, in raising them 
from seed, ns they do not bloom before the second or third 
summer. Jlut while they are getting their growth they 
may be planted in some out of the way place, needing only 
1 1e . f n \ u lebed in the spring with a good coating of manure 
<»ry, an occasional watering, and afterwards removed 
to their permanent bed. Mixed. Pkt., O cts. 
KENILWORTH IVY. 
Although so commoidy used, there is after all nothing 
much prettier for a hanging basket than the Kenilworth 
/ itH li, % b,OSHomH ®»<l delicate pendent foliage, 
uo iinr.i . f ,ns, *y ffrown, coming quickly from seed, and 
so hardy, it being almost impossible to kill it, that it is a 
most satisfactory plant. Pkt., fl cts. 
Japaneso Hop. 
IMPATIENS SULTANI. 
Ladies prize this very much for the window, but 
it is very fine also for the summer garden. It is a per¬ 
ennial Balsam, called also the Zanzibar Balsam. The 
foliage, something like that of the Balsam, though 
not so coarse, is a waxy green, and with the semi¬ 
transparent branches makes the plant in itself at¬ 
tractive. But, best of all, it is almost never without 
its bright, rosy carmine flowers, being an almost 
perpetual bloomer. The flowers are single and from 
1 to 1J7 inches in diameter and very delicate and 
pretty. It grows easily from seed, and where raised 
111 the window is continually self-sowing in the Dots 
near it. Pkt., 5 cts. y 
r airgrove, Mich., Oct. 20, 1897.-‘*Thc collection of seed I nur- 
chMctl of you last spring all grew. The window Balsam (Impatlens 
Sultanii Is covered with bloom. Mns. s. K. Jamesov. 
