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HO VET AND CO.'S CATALOGUE OF 
ARAL1A SIEBOLDI. 
A superb, subtropical plant, with very large, glossy, deep-green, palmate foliage, 
attaining the height of three or four feet, and very ornamental. 
Price, #1 each. 
ANTIRRHINUMS. 
These are very showy plants, and flower abundantly all summer. Our stock is 
raised from the choicest seeds selected from the finest mottled and striped varieties. 
Price, 25c. each; $2.25 per dozen. 
ARUNDO DONAX VARIEGATA. 
One of the handsomest grasses, of vigorous growth; four feet high, with the 
foliage beautifully striped with white. 
Price, 50c. each; $4.50 per dozen. 
ASTILBE JAPONICA (Spirjea Japonica). 
This is one of the prettiest of hardy herbaceous plants, growing about eighteen 
inches high, with neat foliage and dense spikes of pure white, feather-like flowers. 
For winter flowering and for bouquets it is very valuable, the foliage and flowers 
being alike ornamental. 
Price, 30c. each •, $3 per dozen. 
Asclepias angustifolia, white, 30c. | Asclepias curassavica, orange, 30c. 
SEEDLING AUCUBAS. 
These new half-hardy evergreen shrubs are new acquisitions, and will become 
popular and beautiful additions to our gardens. Nothing, it is said, in “ the way of 
evergreen shrubs will at all compare with Aucnhas when laden with their coral-red 
berries.” The old variety produced nothing but flowers; but since the introduc¬ 
tion of the new Japan male varieties by Mr. Fortune, the flowers are fertilized, and 
bear a profusion of its deep-scarlet berries. 
Price, $1 each. 
Four named varieties, male and female. $1 each. 
AZALEA INDICA. 
One hundred and fifty of the very finest varieties, descriptions of some of which 
will be found in the special list in another page. 
Price, 50c. to $1 each; $1.50 to $9 per dozen. 
BAMBUSA VARIEGATA. 
A most beautiful, dwarf-growing plant from Japan, forming elegant tufts with 
erect stems and ribbon-grass-like leaves, clear white and deep green; growing 
freely, and elegant for the open ground in summer, and baskets or vases in winter. 
Plants, 30c. each. 
ambusa metake, 50c. | Bambusa aurea, 50c. 
BASELLA RUBRA VARIEGATA. 
A pretty, variegated-leaved variety of the Madeira Vine; of dwarf habit, and a 
handsome plant for baskets or vases. 
Price, 30c. each; $3 per dozen. 
BEGONIAS. 
These are popular and very handsome plants; easily grown, and adapted for pot 
culture or for bedding out for summer blooming. They are also very valuable fo 
