NEW FLORAL GUIDE—SPRING 1900 
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Abutilon or Chinese 
J Bell Flower 
ABUTILON—Chinese Bell Flower or Flowering 
Maple, as it is sometimes called, is a beautiful 
plant for house or window ; may be bedded out 
in Summer and taken up in Winter; grows 
easily from seed, and blooms very quickly. Love¬ 
ly bell-shape flowers, borne all the year. Colors : 
Pink, yellow, orange red, white, etc. The 
leaves are also beautifully mottled and variegated 
with green, white and yellow, and are almost as 
pretty as the flowers. It bears hard usage well 
and always looks bright and handsome. Fine 
mixed, pkt. G cts. 3 Pkts. for 15 cts. 
ACACIA FARNESIANA—A very beautiful, easily 
grown plant that should be better known, delicate 
Fern-like foliage and charming tassel-like golden 
yellow flowers, deliciously fragrant, should be 
started early in-doors. Pkt. 6 cts. 
ACROCLINIUM, (Everlasting) or PINK DAISY— 
Considered one of the most beautiful everlasting 
flowers we have; grows one foot high; color: 
elegant pale pink, shading to rose ; fine for bed¬ 
ding and borders, and when dried makes lovely 
Winter bouquets. New double, mixed colors. 
Pkt. 4 cts. 
ANCHUSA CAPENSIS or Large-flowering For¬ 
get-me-not—A fine hardy annual, grows about 
two feet high, branches freely and bears a pro¬ 
fusion of lovely sky blue flowers, each with a clear 
white eye ; blooms early and continuously all Sum¬ 
mer ; fine for cutting and bouquets. Pkt. 4 cts. 
AMARANTHUS GIBBOSIS—A very handsome, 
ornamental foliage plant with long, drooping tas¬ 
sels of purplish red flowers, frequently two and a 
half feet long. Pkt. 3 cts. 
Abutilon or Chinese Bell Flower. 
AMBROSIA—A fine, hardy annual, with long, 
spiral stems, bearing small, yellow flowers of 
most delicious fragrance—fully equal to the 
rose geranium for floral work, but a different 
perfume. Seed may be sown early in open 
ground. It is easily grown and needs little care. 
Pkt. 4 cts. 
AMARANTHUS RAINBOW—Very beautiful 
and the finest of all the Amaranths ; two to 
three feet high; fine pyramid form, each leaf 
two colors, half black and half green, changing 
in August to bright scarlet rose, pink, yellow, 
etc., making a blaze of colors which few other 
plants can equal. Pkt. 4 cts. 
CENTROCEMA GRANDIFLORA, BUTTER- 
PLY PEA—An entirely new climbing vine of 
great beauty; begins to bloom quickly and 
bears large clusters of pea-shaped flowers from 
early June till cut down by frost. The flowers 
are quite large, very fragrant and borne in 
profusion from June until October ; the color is 
rosy purple and creamy white, very handsome 
and attractive, six to eight feet high. Seed 
should be soaked in water over night, and 
planted early in Spring where it is to remain. 
Pkt. 4 cts. 
New Double Datura. 
New Fragrant Candytuft, Empress. 
NEW DOUBLE YELLOW DATURA, an elegant novelty 
tested last year, and much admired, makes a fine bushy 
plant, about two feet high, covered all over with beautiful, 
large yellow double trumpet-shaped flowers, very handsome 
and showy. Seed grows easily and plants soon begin to 
bloom. Pkt. 6 cts. 
DATURA CORNUCOPIA fHorn of Plenty)—A large spread¬ 
ing plant, three to four feet high and nearly as broad, bear¬ 
ing large thick leaves and immense trumpet-shaped flowers, 
seven to eight inches long and four to six inches across. 
Each flower is formed of three distinct trumpet flowers, one 
within the other. The color is waxy-white, richly marbled 
with purple. Seed grows easily and plants bloom continu¬ 
ously all the season. Very fragrant. Pkt. G cts. 
NEW FRAGRANT CANDYTUFT, EM PRESS-The Candy¬ 
tuft is well known as one of the prettiest and most useful 
annuals. The Empress is the newest ana best variety; 
bears large heads of pure white, fragrant flowers all through 
the season. Pkt. 6 cts. 
CANDYTUFT, White— Pkt. 4 cts.; oz. 20 cts. 
CANDYTUFT, White, Purple and Crimson Mixed —Pkt. 
4 cts.; ox. 20 cts. 
