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A FEW FLOWERS 
[Some Plants Worthy of Special Mention—Concluded.] 
Improved Pansies. 
Pansies are favorites with all, and are so easily grown and prop¬ 
agated that every one should have them in abundance. To have 
them flower in summer they should be planted in the coolest, 
shadiest place possible. By sowing early in the spring nice 
plants may be had that will bloom beautifully in the fall, and 
until real cold weather, and if protected a little these plants 
will again bloom beautifully very early in the spring. We have 
prepared an enormous stock of Pansy plants for spring sale, 
grown from the finest seed obtainable in the world. We can supply 
them in assorted varieties, whites, yellows, browns, dark and light 
blues, blacks, bronzes, purples, tri-colors, etc., etc. In assorted 
colors, our selection, 50 cents per dozen ; $3.50 per hundred ; 
$30.00 per thousand. 
Erpetion Reneforme. (Australian Pansy.) 
A low-growing, creeping plant, covers the ground rapidly, and 
produces quantities of blue and white Violet-like flowers; valu¬ 
able for baskets, rock work, etc. ; not quite hardy. 15 cents each ; 
$1.50 per dozen. 
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TUBEROUS BEOOMAS IN BORDER. 
Tuberous-Rooted Begonias. 
When we claim that no other class of plants has been so marvel¬ 
ously improved in the past few years as the tuberous-rooted section 
of the Begonias we feel confident that none of the many visitors 
who saw them in our houses and grounds the past summer will 
dispute the claim. Most persons familiar with the older sorts of 
Begonias would scarcely recognize this section as belonging to the 
Begonia family were it not for the unmistakable form of the flow¬ 
ers. Instead of the small red, pink or white flowers, seldom more 
than an inch in diameter, we now have blooms measuring four to 
six inches across, and in color ranging from golden yellow to deep¬ 
est crimson. They are used quite extensively in England for bed¬ 
ding out of doors, and are considered among the finest and most 
brilliant of all the tender plants for that purpose. But little atten¬ 
tion has been given them in this country, owing to the impression 
that a greenhouse was necessary to their successful cultiva¬ 
tion. 
We have found that they will grow more vigorously and bloom 
more profusely out of doors than they do in the greenhouse, if a 
suitable spot for planting them is selected. This should be the 
north side of a building,/or where a group of shrubbery or a 
friendly tree casts its shade through the hottest part of the day. 
The soil should be well enriched with rotten manure, and, if stiff 
or clayey, should have a liberal quantity of leaf mold and sand 
added. They will stand drought better than most bedding plants, 
but if a liberal supply of water is given in dry and hot weather the 
flowers will be much larger and finer in color. For greenhouse 
and conservatory decoration in summer they arc especially valua¬ 
ble, blooming freely and continuously from middle of May to first 
of November. When the blooming season is over the bulbs should 
be packed in dry sand and kept secure from frost. 
The bulbs we offer were specially selected for us by Messrs. 
John Laing & Co., the most noted Begonia growers of England, 
and without doubt are the finest ever offered. We can supply 
these in the following colors: scarlet, yellow,white, rose, crimson, 
pink, red, buff, amaranth and many intermediate shades. 
Certainly the finest floral display we have yet seen in a green¬ 
house was the tuberous-rooted Begonias at Messrs. John Laing & 
Co.’s, London, who arc famous the world over for their Begonias. 
The houses, when we saw them, were a perfect mass of bloom of 
the most brilliant colors imaginable, the individual flowers meas¬ 
uring from four to seven inches across. We purchased a selection 
of their finest varieties, and now offer them with the assurance 
that they are the finest ever offered. 75 cents each ; $7.50 per dozen. 
Seedlings raised from the above collection, in separate colors, 50 
cents each ; $5.00 per dozen. All colors mixed, 35 cents each ; $3.50 
per dozen. Fine mixed,’20 cents each ; $2 00 per dozen. 
