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JAPANESE GIANT WINTER CHERRY. 
(JEW JAPANESE GIANT WINTER CHERRY. 
(PHVSflLiIS FH^-NCHETI.) 
A remarkably showy annual of sturdy, erect branching habit, growing aboi 
inches high. The branches are well covered with luxuriant, green folia™ 1S 
studded with large, bright red cherry-like fruits, each enclosed in an enorm d 
balloon-like semi-transparent calyx, about 3 inches long by 7 to 8 inches in cir * * 
ference, at first of light green color, gradually changing, as they mature, to veil* 
then orange, and finally to crimson. It is a bold, handsome plant andgoreeo i 
effective in the autumn garden, and equally as valuable when grown in pots for wi * 
decoration in the house, or the colored balloon-like vessels can be used to great s 
vantage with winter bouquets of dried grasses. The fruit is edible for thnnA JS?* 
like it. Pkt. 25c. (Seecut.) "bo 
New giant flowering niaurandias. 
These are grand improvements over the older well-known sorts. The flowers are full 
double the size and the plants and foliage are correspondingly larger and more robust 
We had a row of each of the colors offered below, growing on 4-foot pea trellis in 0 ur 
grounds the past summer, and they elicited praise from all visitors; the vines quicklv 
hid the trellis from view and hung over 3 or 4 feet, searching for something else to 
cling to, and were thickly studded with flowers nearly as large as Gloxinias. Th* 
plants from seed sown in spring .vill begin flowering by July and continue until frost 
GIANT ROSE-COLORED. 
GIANT PURPLE. Very rich. 
two new and remarkable foRget-nie-Nots, 
1 OBELISK ’ 
1 QUICK EVER-FLOWERING.’ 
Myosotis, or Forget-me-nots, have long been indispensable plants in our gardens for their modest, 
though exquisite beauty. 
“OBELISK” is of quite a now habit, growing luxuriantly into an upright pillar-formed plant from 10 to 
12 inches high. It produces very abundantly pretty, rosy pink flowers with yellow eye. (See cut.) — Pkt. 30 
“ QUICK AND EVER-FLOWERING.” This variety may be 
treated as an annual and bo sown at any time of the year, be¬ 
ginning to flower in from 8 to 10 weeks’ time. The plants 
are sturdy, of round, bushy form, 5 to 7 inches high 
by 8 to 10 inches in diameter, and when fully grown 
are perfectly covered with clusters of flowers of 
the most exquisite bright azure blue. If the 
plants are grown in pots and removed to the 
house or conservatory in the autumn, they 
will continue flowering all winter, or, if 
wintered over in the open ground, like 
other Forget-me-nots, these will bo the 
first in bloom. They are particularly 
valuable for forcing, growing in pots 
and cutting, as well as for garden 
bods and edgings. Pkt. 25 
Miniature Double Balsams. 
Small branching compact plants grow¬ 
ing only It) to 12 inches high, bearing 
small very double flowers almost en¬ 
veloping the steins, very beautiful, 
showy and unique. 
Mixed Colors. . Pkt. 10 
“OBBLI8K”—FORGET-ME-NOTS—“ QUICK AND EVER-FLOWERING.’ 
Nern Hardy “DEIilCflTA.” 
Everlasting Pea — 
A beautiful new color, delicate salmon pink, a 
great acquisition to the Lathyrus latifolius family, 
which has been represented by only the red and white 
varieties. These bushy, hardy climbers arc indispensable 
for permanent positions, increasing in beauty and luxuri¬ 
ance every year; their numerous clusters of large, waxy, pea-shaped flowers are splen¬ 
did for cutting, and those of “Delicata" particularly so. .. Pkt. 25 
WHITE PFnm> miniature 10 weeks c; Tn r.g; 
A sensational new type, differing entirely from other Stocks. The plant grows only 
about6 inches high ; the small leaves densely clothe the stems, forming a beautiful green 
setting for the compact spikes of flowers ; the latter are nearly globular, densely double 
and only % of an inch across. Color pure white and deliciously fragrant. A small 
proportion of the plants will produce single flowers, but even these are charming and 
useful for cutting. The season of blooming is unusually long, and for edgings, low 
beds or for pot culture the “Pearl Stock ” is elegantly adapted. Pkt. 30 
single comphct PETUNIA, “ S^lOWBALtLi.” 
This charming variety belongs to the dwarf compact class, forming round, bushy 
little plants, only about 8 inches high ; the flowers, while not large, are of splendid 
substance, remaining boldly expanded, and are produced in such profusion as to fairly 
cover the plant with its pure satiny white blossoms, forming a veritable “Snowball.” 
It blooms uninterruptedly for months and makes a beautiful edging or bedding plant, 
and is also a beautiful subject grown in pots. Pkt. 25 
