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Miss Elia V. Baines, The Woman Florist, Springfield, Ohio.
MANETTIA
MANETTIA BICOLOR.
The most wonderful new vine or plant that
has yet been produced. It blooms in Winter
as well as Summer. It is both a rapid and
beautiful climber. The flowers are from an
inch to an inch and a half in length, of a
most intense bright scarlet, shading into
flame, tipped with the deepest golden yellow,
and covered with a thick scarlet moss. The
blossoms remain on the plants for weeks be-
fore falling. Has my highest commendation.
Send to me and get the genuine. Fine
plants, 10 cents each.
MADEIRA VINE.
This is one of the most beautiful of climb-
ers. Grows rapidly, bearing small, white
blossoms that are exquisitely fragrant. Fine
tubers. Five cents each.
MAHERNIA, or HONEY BELLS.
This is a fast-growing dwarf plant that bears
bell-shaped yellow flowers freely, which are
as sweet as any flower I grow. 6 cents each. maderia vine.
BEAUTIFUL MARGUERITE DAISIES.
Marguerite Daisy, Madame Gailbert. — This is one of the finest new plants that
f has ever been introduced Nothing can be imagined that is finer. All know theold
varieties of Paris Daisies, how beautiful and much sought after for decorations of all
kinds. This new variety blooms constantly, and will produce ten blooms to the old
variety's one. Nothing is so airy and graceful as these blossoms of large, white petals showing a
yellow disc. 7 cents each.
Marguerite Daisy, Etoile de Or. — The new yellow Paris Daisy, similar to the above, but a
rich, golden color. The two varieties go handsomely together. 7 cents each.
Agatha Celestis, or Celestial Daisy. — The flowers are a delicate sky blue, with a yellow
disc. It is certainly a charming plant. Dwarf-growing, not over a foot to eighteen inches in
height, and the bushes fairly swarm with its lovely blue blossoms. The cut-flower stores in the
cities use them by the hundreds of thousands. Blooms from November to June. Very desirable. 8 cents each. The three
Marguerites for 20 cents.
MAGNOLIA FUSCATA, THE GREAT BANANA SHRUB.— This is a dwarf-growing, true Banana Shrub
It is always scarce and difficult to procure. I have succeeded in securing a fine, large stock, and offer it reasonable. April and
May is when it gladdens the heart with its profusion of small flowers of
brownish yellow color, exhaling a most exquisite fragrance, similar to a
ripe Banana. This is decidedly a great favorite, and with Olea Fragrans
makes the two very finest and most elegant of all shrubs for the South.
This Shrub is hardy in the South. Fine plants, 50 cents each.
MYRTUS COMMUNIS.
This is the sweet German Myrtle. It grows into a handsome bush, and is
evergreen, therefore is a fine plant for house culture. The foliage is de-
liciously fragrant. Every one should grow it. 10 cents each.
Moon Flowers.
The True Ever-blooming Moon Flower, Ipomoea GraMdiflora. —
I have the true variety that blooms constantly. If planted out in rich ground,
in a situation where it has full exposure to the sun, it will attain a height
(if given a wire or string to twine on) of forty feet by October 15th, bloom-
ing abundantly the entire season. It is called " Moon flower " from its
rare peculiarity of blooming best at night, although it also expands its
flowers in dull days. The flowers are pure white, from five to six inches in
diameter, emitting a rich, Jasmine-like odor at night. The "Moon Flower"
is a tender plant, but it can easily be kept in the house over Winter. It
roots easily from slips, so that no attempt should be made to lift large
plants. Price of the true Moon Flower, 8 cents each.
New Moon Flower, Heavenly Blue. — This makes a splendid compan-
ion plant to the white Moon Flower. It is equally rapid in growth and a
much freer blooming variety than the white one. The blooms come in
clusters of five to twelve, and at times almost hide the vine. The flowers
are the most heavenly blue, with reddish purple rays, and are six inches
across. Nothing is more beautiful. 8 cents each.
MILK AND WINE LILY, or Crinum Fimbriatulura.
" I must tell you that Milk and Wine Lily has done famous work. It has
developed nine fine blooms, and there are two unopened buds. We there-
fore gave it a free ride last Wednesday to Our chapel services. It was ad-
mired by everybody. There were Bostonians and people from various
towns to admire and enjoy it."— .Vrs. E. Adams, Mass. A grand sort, the
most beautiful of the Crinums. Its bulbs grow large, and its strong-grow-
ing foliage is erect and sword-shaped. Flowers in umbels very large and
showy, three to four inches in diameter, striped with white arid carmine
and very fragrant. Hardy in the South. See cut, page 19. Extra large
bulbs, 60 cents each; fine blooming bulbs, 35 cents each.
OLEA FRAGRANS, or TEA OLIVE.
One of the most desirable flowering shrubs of Southern gardens, and also
a favorite house plant in the North. Has deep green foliage similar to the
Camellia. The white flowers, although small, are produced in great pro-
fusion, and emit the most pleasing fragrance. It has been well said that
each individual bloom has more sweetness than the most fragrant Lilv.
The blooming period begins in the Fall and lasts for several mon ' is
of easy cuiture, and especially desirable as a window plant, 35 cents