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62. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

--Black Prince--Tube and sepals bright waxy carmine, sepals large and broad, with pale green tips, large, open, pale pink corolla. We have a plant of this variety in our green-house which is nine feet high, nearly twenty feet in circumference and it had over 2,000 blossoms on at one time last spring. They are easily grown in this tree form... 10.
Large plants by express, 25c. to $1.00 each.
--Mons. Thibaut--Tube and sepals dark red; corolla rose vermillion, tinted violet; single... 10.
--Esmerelda--A grand and very distinct variety. Tube short, sepals red; corolla very large and double; beautiful lilac changing to clear rose... 15.
--Avalanche--Large, double, purple corolla, yellow foliage... 10.
--Earl of Beaconsfield--Blooms three inches long, sepals carmine, corolla deep carmine, fine... 10.
--Speciosa--Sepals blush, corolla carmine, one of the best... 10.
--Wave of Life--Foliage golden, sepals crimson, corolla violet... 10.
--Elm City--Sepals crimson, double purple corolla... 10.
--Mdm. Van der Straus--Sepals crimson, double white corolla... 10.
--Snow Fairy--Sepals crimson, double, pure white corolla... 10.
--Meteor--A trailing variety with beautiful foliage shaded from bright red to dark bronze... 10.
--Carl Holt--Sepals white, corolla striped crimson... 10.
FUNKIA Alba--White day lily... 15.

GERANIUMS.
For constancy of bloom the Geranium is unequalled. Small plants put out in May and June will completely fill a bed three or four weeks after planting, and will be a mass of flowers, and continually getting better, until autumn. Unsurpassed for winter blooming in the house.
DOUBLE FLOWERING.
--Mary Hill--The richest and purest deep pink; the flowers are of the largest size and of excellent form; trusses very large and spreading; flowering at all seasons most profusely... 10.
--Gloire de France--A grand variety; flowers large and double; center distinct, dark salmon with large border of rosy white... 15.
--Golden Dawn--The color, as the name would indicate, is of a decided golden orange shade; the flowers are of fine large size and perfect shape. The habit of the plant is all that could be desired... 15.
--Harriet Thorpe--Delicate blush, shaded with pearl pink trusses, large and well shaped; habit perfect... 10.
--Ami Hosie--Rich deep crimson; one of the best... 10.
--Henry Cannell--Intense deep scarlet; one of the best for bedding... 10.

--Asa Gray--Orange salmon, extremely good bloomer... 10.
--La Constitution--Yellowish salmon, very fine... 10.
--Mrs. Garfield--Bright rose pink... 10.
--Bishop Wood--Scarlet, shading to vermillion... 10.
--White Swan--Handsome double, pure white... 10.
--Blond--Delicate pink, splendid bloomer. 10.
--Phallas--A rich apricot orange; fine... 10.
--Cheerfulness--A flesh pink shaded rose; free bloomer... 10.
SINGLE FLOWERING.
King Olga--A most beautiful single variety; the petals are a brilliant deep pink, white at the base; the trusses are very large and perfect, and it is the freest flowering variety of its color; its strong growth and other good points make it invaluable... 10.
Albion--This magnificent new single variety is undoubtedly the finest single white Geranium in cultivation; the flowers are pure white without a particle of color, and are very large, with heavy, waxy petals; very free flowering... 15.

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--New Life--The flowers are vivid scarlet, irregularly striped with salmon and white, like a Carnation; truss good; very free flowering; sports sometimes; no two flowers alike; very attractive and popular (See cut.)... 10.
--Queen of the West--Orange scarlet, best bedding variety... 10.
--Senator Allison--Dark velvet scarlet, large white eye... 10.
--Le Grande--Large scarlet white eye... 10.
--Geoffery--The darkest single scarlet grown, fine... 10.
--Master Christine--Bright pink, splendid bloomer... 10.
--Jealousy--Large orange yellow... 10.
--Cygnet--The best single white... 10.
--Peach Blossom--The color of a peach blossom exactly... 10.
--Apple Blossom--Rosy-salmon, with pink shadings... 10.
--Juliette--A very distinct new color--pink shaded lavender; large truss; very free flowering... 10.