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BEGONIAS. Flowering Sorts. 
Exceedingly useful plants for the garden or pot culture in the 
house. For freedom of bloom they are unsurpassed. 
Alba Picta. Green leaves, silvery spots; white flowers. 
Argentea Guttata. Bronzy-green, silver spotted; white flowers. 
B. de Chateau Rocher. Rich waxy-red; very free blooming. 
Erfordia. A fine bedder; rich pink flowers. 
Margaritae. Bronzy-green leaves; rich salmon-pink flowers. 
Marjorie Daw. Flowers salmon-pink; a tall-growing variety. 
Metallica. Bronzy-green foliage; pink and white flowers. 
Nitida. Large, grand panicles of rosy-pink, waxy flowers. 
Otto Hacker. Immense pendant clusters of bright red flowers. 
Purity. Dwarf, compact habit; waxy-white flowers. 
Red Erfordia. Large, waxy red flowers. A splendid bedder. 
Rubra. Dark coral color. Large clusters. The “ Coral ” Begonia. 
Saundersonii. Bright waxy-red; very free blooming. 
Thurstonii. Flowers rosy-white, foliage bronzy-green. 
Vernon. Rich crimson-scarlet. A splendid bedding variety. 
Price , 10c. each, Si.00 per doz.; set of 15 Begonias for SI .25. 
Begonia Templinii. The most ornamental variegated Begonia. 
Leaves 6 to 10 inches long, undulating edges, marked with a 
mosaic pattern in green, creamy white, golden yellow, flesh 
pink and crimson. The reverse side being bright coppery 
crimson. Price, 25c. each, $2.50 per doz. 
CALLA LILIES. 
LITTLE GEM Calla Lily. This variety rarely exceeds 12 inches 
in height. The flowers are correspondingly smaller than the 
tall-growing sort. Price, 15c*. each, $1.50 per doz. 
White Calla Lily. Price, 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 
Spotted Leaf Calla. Leaves, spotted white; flowers white with 
purple throat. Price, 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. 
Black Calla. A remarkable species, producing large, purplish, 
velvety-black flowers, with coal-black spathe. The foliage is 
stately. Price, 30c. each, $3.00 per doz. 
CAMELLIA JAPONICA. 
Favorite flowering plants for cool greenhouses and the South. 
The varieties we supply are the best extant, the pick of a 
Continental collection, and embrace double white, double pink, 
double red and double variegated. Price, $1.00 each, $9.00 
per doz. 
TUBEROUS BEGONIAS. ALL fgjf™ 
These are now among the most popular plants for beds of sum¬ 
mer flowers. Nothing can exceed the brilliancy and richness of 
their flowers. From the time the first blossoms appear until all 
growth is stopped by frost they are never out of bloom. (See cut.) 
Single Tuberous Begonias. Separate colors, Scarlet, Yel- 
----5- low, Crimson, White, Pink and 
Salmon. Price, dry bulbs, up to May 15th, 10c. each; set of six 
for 50c.; $6.00 per 100. Growing plants, ready May 1st, 20c. 
each, set of six for $1.00. Dry bulbs mailed free at prices quoted. 
Double Tuberous Begonias ‘ C ’ e P arate colors, Scarlet, Crim- 
—------ son, White, Yellow, Pink and 
Salmon. Price, 20c. each; set of six sorts, $1.00 for dry bulbs, 
up to May 15th. Growing plants, ready May 1st, 30c. each’ 
set of six for $1.50. Dry bulbs mailed free at prices quoted. 
Valuable for the grand and varied markings of the leaves. 
15c. each, $1.50 per doz. 
Begonia Rex. 
ORNAMENTAL CLIMBING ASPARAGUS, 
Asparagus Sprengeri. A most desirable species, exceedingly useful and orna¬ 
mental as a pot plant to grow on a shelf in the window, or on a pedestal in 
the sitting room or to droop from baskets; the fronds are frequently 4 feet long. 
Asparagus Plumosus Nanus. (Climbing Lace Fern.) Bright green leaves, grace¬ 
fully arched, and as finely woven as silken mesh. Extra size plants, 30c. each. 
Price for the above, 4 inch pots, 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; 3 inch pots 15c. 
each, $1.50 per doz. 
SUPERB FANCY.LEAVED CALADIUMS. 
Among ornamental foliage plants there are none more beautiful in design 
or gorgeous in coloring than the Fancy-Leaved Caladiums. They are simply 
wonderful in the colorings and markings of the leaves. Of special value for pot 
culture, window and piazza boxes. Most of the varieties planted about June 
1st in partially shaded borders succeed admirably as bedding plants. We offer 
16 distinct sorts; the richness of coloring is bewildering and impossible to 
describe in our limited space. Brilliant red and green, green with spots and 
red veins, etc., etc. (See cut.) Price, 25c. each; set of 16 sorts for $3.50. 
"BEDDING" PLANTS. 
We grow immense quantities of this 
class of stock, and we are in a position 
to execute the largest orders in a prompt, satisfactory manner. 
Per 100 
Ageratum. Best white and blue. $4.00 
Alternanthera. Red, yellow.... 4.00 
Alyssum. Dwarf; white.4.00 
Begonia Erfordia. Crimson flowers 6.00 
Caladium Esculentum (Bulbs). 
Large foliage, $8.00, $16.00 and 25.00 
Cannas. Roots to April 1st. . . . 7.00 
Cannas. Plants after April 1st..12.00 
Coleus. Bedding varieties. 4.00 
Daisies. Hardy English. 4.00 
Per 10( 
Geraniums. Double and single. $ 8 . 0 ( 
Geraniums. Silver and bronze. 8 . 0 ( 
Golden Feather. 3 .0( 
Heliotropes. Assorted. 6 . 0 ( 
Lobelias. Best dwarf; blue. 4 . 0 ( 
; Pansies. Finest mixed. 4 . 0 ( 
Petunias. Finest double (named) 8 . 0 ( 
Petunias. Single flowering. 4 . 0 ( 
| Salvias. (“ Scarlet Sage’’). 6 .Of 
J Verbenas. Red, white,"blue, etc . 4.0( 
FANCY CALADIUMS. 
