CHAMPION CITY GREENHOUSES, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 
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CHINESE AZALEAS 
No plant has Increased in popularity during recent 
years with such amazing rapidity as the Chinese 
Azaleas. A few years ago the annual importation 
of these from Belgium into the United States would 
hardly exceed twenty-five thousand. Today it reaches 
five hundred thousand. At Easter they are seen in 
every church and in the windows of our finest resi¬ 
dences. The ease with which they can be grown, 
their diversity of color and freedom of flowering, will 
always keep them in public favor. The plants we of¬ 
fer are all set with buds and are beautifully trained 
specimens, and will flower in the springtime in any 
ordinary living room. We give their time of flowering, 
so you can have a succession of bloom. In summer 
set out of doors in the shade and keep moderately wet. 
60 cents each; $5.50 per dozen. 
Chinese Azalea. 
THE BEST AZALEAS 
Apollo —(Medium.) Crimson scarlet, best red. 
Madame Van der Cruyssen — (Late.) Glossy rose, 
tinted with amaranth. By many thought to be the 
best of all. 
Sigismund Rucker — (Early.) Lilac-rose, bordered 
with white, blotched crimson. 
Simon Mardner — (Early.) Intense velvety-rose; a 
grand variety. 
Schrijveriana —(Late.) Very double, pink and white, 
with darker center; splendid. 
Azalea Hexe —This is the dwarf variety that blooms 
beautifully in pots; can be had in flower by Christ¬ 
mas time. 35 cents each; $3.00 per dozen. 
Acalypha Sanderil. 
ACALYPHAS 
Acalypha Marginata —A charming variety. Deep 
green foliage, with a distinct margin on the edge of 
each leaf of bright pink. lively. 40 cents per dozen; 
$2.00 per 100; $18.00 per 1,000. 
Acalypha Sanderii — Goes under various names, such 
as “Chenille Plant,” “Philippine Medusa,” “Comet 
Plant,” etc. The most sensational new plant intro¬ 
duced for years, and one of the most striking flower¬ 
ing ornamental plants. Strong, free growth with large 
dark green leaves, from each axil of which rope-like 
spikes of velvety-crimson flowers from one to two feet 
long and nearly one inch thick are gracefully suspend¬ 
ed. 50 cents per dozen; $3.00 per 100; $27.50 per 1,000. 
Triumphans —A beautiful plant, with large, highly 
colored leaves. Bright red with blotches of crimson- 
bronze. 60 cents per dozen; $4.00 per 100. 
Bicolor — A wonderful new variety with leaves of 
bright green, margined with a wide, irregular band of 
lemon-yellow, and having wide yellow bars running 
lengthwise of the leaf and also thickly dotted with 
yellow blotches. This is entirely distinct from all 
other Acalyphas and is a first-class plant for green¬ 
house decoration; but its most important feature Is 
its wonderful qualification for bedding, as it will stand 
bedding out like a Coleus; in fact, in the sunniest 
places it produces the highest coloring. 50 cents per 
dozen; $3.00 per 100. 
AZALEA MOLLIS 
ALTERNANTHERAS 
(Hardy Shrub.) 
The most brilliant and showy of all hardy shrubs— 
exceeding even the Rhododendron—and entirely hardy 
without protection in all situations. The bloom, which 
varies in color from the intense rosy-crimson to lemon- 
yellow, literally covers the compact, spreading plant, 
forming a huge bouquet, and which remains in perfec¬ 
tion for a long time in May and June. Massed they 
produce an effect that is actually brilliant and daz¬ 
zling. 35 cents each; $3.50 per dozen. 
ASPIDISTRA 
This handsome plant, always a favorite, is at pres-. 
ent one of the most popular greenhouse and parlor 
ornamental plants in cultivation, and well deserves 
the distinction it enjoys, few being equal to it in 
beauty of foliage, gracefulness of habit, thriftiness, 
hardiness and general adaptability. 
Lurida— Foliage dark green. 6 cents per leaf. 
Lurlda Varlegata— Foliage striped white and green. 
10 cents per leaf. 
These are the little dwarf red and yellow plants 
that only grow a few inches high that a.re used to 
make letters, designs or borders for beds. We offer 
two kinds, red and yellow. 40 cents per dozen; $2.50 
per 100. 
ALOYSIA CITRIODORA 
Lemon Verbena —This plant has the most fragrant 
foliage of any plant grown. The fragrance is that of 
the Lemon. One plant will scent a whole yard. Grows 
rapidly. Exquisite. 35 cents per dozen; $2.50 per 100. 
AUCUBA, or SILVER SHRUB 
A lovely half-hardy evergreen shrub, with laurel-like 
foliage of olive-green, spotted with silver spots. This 
is hardy in the far South, where it can be planted out. 
A grand decorative plant grown in pots for the porch 
and lawn. Strong plants, 15 inches high, 25 cents each; 
$2.50 per dozen; 24 inches high, 40 cents each; $3.50 
per dozen. 
