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New Floral Guide— Spring, 1901
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Datura Double Yellow.
AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS, Blue Lily of the Palace.-There is
no finer plant than this for outdoor decoration ; planted in large pots or
tubs on the lawn or piazza. It is also a splendid ornament for house and
conservatory in Winter. Pkt. Gets.
AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII, Japan or Boston Ivy.— This is the best and
most beautiful Hardy Climbing Vine for covering the walls of houses,
Churches, Schools, etc. It is entirely hardy, grows rapidly, and clings
firmly to the walls without other support. The foliage is lovely green
in Summer, but changes in Autumn to bright crimson, making a grand
display of rich and charming colors. Grows easily from seed. Pkt. 6 cts.
HARDY ALPINE ASTER.— These pretty perennial Asters grow very
easily, are entirely hardy, and bloom on from year to year, much ad-
mired for beds and borders. Pkt. 6 cts.
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, vei-y handsome and showy. Seed grows easily and plants soon
begin to bloom. Pkt. 6 cts.
DATURA CORNUCOPIA (Horn of Plenty.) -A large spreading plant,
three to four feet high and nearly as broad, bearing large thick leaves
and immense trumpet-shaped flowers, seven or eight 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 continuously all the season.
Very fragrant. Pkt. 6 cts.
DATURA (Angel's Trumpet or Sweet Nightingale.^— Large branching
plants, growing three to four feet high, producing handsome double and
single trumpet-shaped blossoms, white, blue, yellow and purple, of ex-
quisite fragrance. They bloom finely from seed sown in the open ground
the first season, and the roots can be kept over Winter when desired, the
same as Dahlias. Pkt. 3 cts.
DIAMOND FLOWER.— A lovely little annual from Portugal, quickly
covering the ground with beautiful moss-like foliage fi'om which the
flowers will glisten like diamonds within a month from the time seedis
sown. Klegant for pots and window gardens, and when bedded will
bloom all Winter, regardless of ice and snow. Pkt. 6 cts.
EUPHORBIA HETEROPHYLLA, (Mexican Fire Plant or Fire on the
Mountain. ) Makes fine, bushy plants, two to three feet high ; leaves
are at first entirely green, but change about Midsummer to brilliant
carmine, orange and crimson, presenting a mass of gorgeous colors
which are very beautiful and always attract wonder and admiration.
Pkt. 4 cts.
MARVEL OF PERU, (MirabilHs.)— A well-known handsome plant;
the colors are very brilliant and of great variety; the flowers open in
the afternoon, and are sometimes called " Four o'clock; " grow very
easily and are among our most brilliant and showy Annuals.
Pkt. 3 cts.
NEW HIBISCUS— Crimson Eye.— A splendid plant, grows three to
four feet high, branching freely and bearing immense cup-shaped
flowers, each one six to eight inches across. Color, pure, satiny white,
with deep rose centre; entirely hardy. Pkt. 6 cts.
Diamond Flower.
ICE PLANT ( Mesembryanthemum)— A handsome plant for hang-
ing baskets, vases, rock -work, etc.; leaves and stems appear as
though covered with icy crystals, which glisten in the sunlight.
Pkt. 3 cts.
Chrysanthemums
^"^ CHRYSANTHEMUM (PERENNIAL.)
CHRYSANTHEMUM,(-Perennial)— Many flower-lovers have learned
that the finest Chrysanthemums are easily raised from seed, and
bloom splendidly the first season. Our seed is saved from the finest
Hybrid Japanese, Chinese and ostrich plume varieties, and may be
expected to produce grand double flowers of exquisite forms and
color, and perhaps some valuable new varieties, as this is the kind
of seed which produces new varieties. It germinates easily and
will soon commence to bloom. Pkt. 6 cts., 3 pkts. for 15 cts.
CHRYSANTHEMUM, (Inodorum Plenissimum.)— A perennial, but
blooms abundantly the first year from seed, each plant bearing
hundreds of perfectly double, snow-white flowers ; fine for cutting;
continues to bloom all through the season. Pkt. 5 cts.
FRENCH MARGUERITES OR ANNUAL CHRYSANTHEMUMS
are entirely different from the Japanese sorts; twelve to eighteen
inches high; bright, showy flowers; very handsome. Pkt. 3 cts.
STEVIA SERRATA.— A well known, very pretty and desirable
plant for pots and bedding; pure white, star-shaped flowers and
fragrant leaves; fine for cutting. Pkt. 4 cts.
Ja^GREVILLEA ROBUSTA, SILK OAK OR FERN LEAF TREE—
^ Resembles a lovely Fern or Palm, with deeply cut leaves, but grows
Chrysanthemums. quickly and easily ; the young leaves are bronze green, and are