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74. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] TRIFOLIATE ORANGE.

TRIFOLIATE ORANGE.
The most hardy of the orange family, and will stand our northern climate with little or no protection, and is also desirable for pot culture. In the parks of both New York and Philadelphia it is growing luxuriantly, blooming and fruiting profusely. It is dwarf, of a low shrubby growth, with beautiful, trifoliate, glossy green leaves, and an abundance of large, white, sweet-scented blossoms, borne almost continually. The fruit is small, bright orange red in color, having a peculiar pleasant flavor. The fine appearance of the plant, with its constant habit of blooming and showy fruit, combine to make it a plant of peculiar value and beauty. Each 25c.

NASTURTIUM.
DARKNESS.--A charming novelty, similar to the common nasturtium in habit, but the flower is as double as a rose, and of a dark mahogany red or black. Very handsome and is a constant bloomer, but bears no seed. Each 25c.

MYOSOTIS, (Forget-Me-Not.)
A charming, constant blooming plant, requiring plenty of water and partially shaded situations. Valuable for cut flower purposes. Each 10c.

MEXICAN PRIMROSE.
Is a perpetual bloomer, in flower at all times of the year, a good specimen showing always from ten to thirty large saucer-shaped blossoms, two to three inches across, of several beautiful colors. Each blossom keeps perfect many days before fading, and when it droops others are out to take its place, and this succession of beauty is continued from one year's end to another. The plant is a free grower, succeeding in almost any soil or situation. As a window plant it combines great hardiness and ease of culture with delicate beauty. In the open ground it grows freely and profusely all summer and, in fact, until winter is upon it. It is a plant whose merits of hardiness, ease of culture, perpetual freedom of bloom and beauty, both in color and habit, will make it popular everywhere. Each 10c.

[image] STAPELIA.

WATER HYACINTH.
One of the most remarkable, curious and beautiful plants we have ever grown. Instead of growing in soil it floats in the water, which it is enabled to do by means of its curiously inflated leaf stalks, which resemble bladders or balloons, filled with air. A large mass of feathery blue roots grow downward, their ends entering into the soil. It forms a lovely rosette of its curious, shining green leaves, and throws up spikes of the most exquisite flowers imaginable, resembling in form a spike of hyacinth bloom, but as beautiful as many of the choicest and most costly orchids. Each flower is as large or larger than a silver dollar; color a beautiful, soft lilac rose, sparkling as if covered with diamond dust. The upper petal, which is the largest, has a large metallic blue blotch, and in the center of that a small, deep, golden yellow spot. Can be grown in open air in summer and in the window in winter, in anything which will hold water. The most beautiful effect is produced by using a glass vessel of some sort, with shells and white sand so arranged in the bottom as to conceal a small amount of soil. Each 25c.

[image] WATER HYACINTH

[image] MEXICAN PRIMROSE.

MARGUERITE DAISY.
SINGLE WHITE.--Each 10c.
DOUBLE GOLDEN.--Nothing could be more showy than this beautiful new plant, either as a pot plant or bedded out. It might be called the "Shower of Gold," as it is a perfect mass of rich, golden yellow flowers the whole year round. Well grown plants have as many as one hundred and fifty flowers on them at once. Each 10c.

STAPELIA.
This is a genus of curious plants, with showy star-shaped flowers, well shown by this illustration; color buff yellow, with maroon markings. They attract much attention on account of the singular appearance of their flower and peculiar odor. From Cape of Good Hope. Pot in rather poor soil and water sparingly. Each 15c.

[image] MUSA ENSETE.

MUSA ENSETE.
(Abyssinian Banana.) One of the grandest and most picturesque of the banana family; as a solitary plant or in groups on the lawn, it has a very majestic and tropical effect. Leaves are very long and broad, of a beautiful green with crimson midrib in striking contrast. Attains a height of ten feet the first season. Each $1.00.

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PANSIES.
These lovely flowers are too well known to need any description. Nothing can be more effective, whether grown in beds, ribbons, groups, or interspersed among other plants in the border. Our plants are strong and well grown from the best seed.
CHOICE MIXED.--Doz. 50c.
IOWA BEAUTY, IOWA GIANT, TRIMARDEAU AND WHITE.--Any separate colors, per doz. 75c.
Royal assortment of 24 best pansy plants for $1.00.

LION'S TAIL.
Most valuable plant either for sitting room or conservatory. The spikes are upward of a foot in length and of a most vivid orange color, which, next to blue, is the rarest color among flowers. All lovers of flowers should have one or more of these strangely curious, attractive plants. Each 15c.

[image] LION'S TAIL.

VERBENA.
One of the prettiest and most popular of all plants for bedding. We have over 40 varieties, including all the new kinds. It commences to flower and spread from the first day the plants are set, until late in the autumn. Each 10c, doz. 75c.