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Aster, la super be. A splendid class of Asters, hitherto represented by only three 
colors. The plants are very branching, and the flowers of extraordinary size, 
full double, and very beautiful. Collection of eight separate colors . • • 
Aster, Shakspeare* This new and distinct variety is the prettiest of all the dwarf 
Asters; the plants forming a compact bush tenor twelve inches in diameter, 
and only live inches high, producing extra-double, imbricated flowers. Its 
dwarf and symmetrical growth makes it very valuable both for pot-culture and 
for edging and dwarf groups. Collection of eight separate varieties . 
Annual Flowers suitable for pot-culture. Twenty-five varieties . • • 
Coleus. Beautiful ornamental plants for bedding out in summer, or for house cul¬ 
ture. Six separate varieties . . 
Greenhouse plants* Twelve distinct species . . • • ; • • 
Emperor Larkspur. A very beautiful new class of the branching Larkspur ; or 
compact growth, about two feet high; very brandling, and covered with dense 
spikes of double flowers throughout the summer and autumn. Collection of 
three varieties, — tri-colored, red striped, and blue - . . • * • 
Tansies. Assortment of ten finest and largest flowered varieties; separate, rrom 
a German collection celebrated for choice selections of this popular flower 
Petunia, new double. Saved from a splendid German collection, all the seed¬ 
bearing flowers of which were most carefully fertilized with pollen from beauti¬ 
ful double-flowering specimen plants. Collection of six finest strains separate 
Pico tees and Carnations. Assortment of twelve choice varieties, five seeds ot 
each, including Flakes, Bizarres, edged and fancy colors . . • • • 
Popp v, double p;eony-liow« red. Large, double, P.eony-like flowers. Extremely 
brilliant and showy. Collection of ten fine colors . • « • • • • 
Scabious, new double dwarf. Very beautiful, with double flowers, the petals 
of whieli are entirely different from the common Scabious, being flat, and iineiy 
imbricated. The plants grow about one foot high, upright and compact, similar 
to a tine Pompon Aster. The flowers are of various colors, — rose, purple, 
white, &c. Exceedingly pretty. We can recommend it as one of the prettiest 
and most desirable annuals. Collection of six colors . . • • , • 
Stocks, East Lothian. These are the finest intermediate Stocks ever ottered; the 
colors are scarlet, purple, and white, and of remarkable brilliancy in the two 
former, and purity in the latter. They produce immense spikes of bloom, and 
the flowers are very double. Assortment of three colors . • • • • 
Zinnia doifblc, Hovey’s choice prize varieties. Saved by ourselves from 
extra-double, finely-formed flowers. In collections of four varieties, scarlet, 
orange, rose, crimson. 
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Ageratum coeruleuni, Heine dee Massif*. This is a beautiful dwarf variety, 
about fifteen inches in height, forming dense tufts crowned by corymbs of light 
blue, violet-tinted flower-heads . . • * * * 
Ageratum Lasseauxi. This beautiful rose-colored species, from Buenos A\res, 
is of perennial duration, but flowers the first season from seed in the open bor¬ 
der ; also pretty for pot culture . • • • v. * . . * - * * 
Ageratum imperial dwarf, white. This is a new variety with white flowers, 
and is as constant in character as the blue one • • • * ; 
Agrostemma coeli rosa compacts kermesina. A handsome crimson compact 
variety of the favorite Bose of Heaven . • • • • •. : .. • * 
Agrostemma coronaria at rosa i.guinea. A most bnlliant and distinct‘ 
b colored variety of this well-known perennial, llio brightness ot its color is 
beautified by the silvery-white foliage, rendering it a striking novelty • • 
Allium cernua. A hardy, bulbous-rooted plant, growing about one loot high, with 
Aloynia ch Hodo ™' The well-known lemon-scented Verbena, highly esteemed for 
the fine fragrance of its leaves . . • • • • • • *... * 
Alyssum, Benthami compacta A very compact variety of the old favorite, white- 
flowered Sweet Alvssmn; a valuable acquisition . . • .* • * * 
Amaranth us Abyssiuieus. A new Abyssinian introduction, fonning an exceed- 
ingly vigorous tree-like specimen fouror live feet in height. The plant is > com¬ 
posed of six or eight stout branches, each of which throws out smaller ones, nil 
terminating in handsome drooping carmine-red flower-spikes; these are also 
sur. ounded by ten or twelve shorter ones, thus giving the plant a very curious 
appearance. As central plants for flower-beds or single specimens on lawns, 
this species produces a remarkably striking effect . . • • • • 
Amaran'hu. bicolor ruber. A splendid bedding-plant, with fohage of «• bnght 
flerv-red, passing to bright scarlet, sometimes tipped with yellow. I or flowei- 
beds there is not a finer ornamental-foliage plant . . • • • • . * 
Amanuithus Olbiensis multicolor. An extremely showy plant of about two 
and one-half feet in height, with long recurved foliage, which is of a purplish- 
green color about half-way up, terminating gradually from purplish led to 
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