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78. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] PERFECTION LANTANA

LOBELIA--Handsome trailing plants, profuse bloomers; elegant for baskets, vases and borders. Each 10c.
LANTANA.--We consider this one of the most satisfactory plants grown. It is the flower for everybody, both for outdoor bedding and blooming all winter in house. It has a flower somewhat resembling the Verbena, borne on a woody, bush-shaped plant. The flowers embrace all shades of orange, sulphur, lilac, red, pink, white, etc., changing from one distinct color to another as they increase in age and development.
Javoi.--The best, largest and freest blooming white variety. Every one will be pleased with it. Each 15c.
Perfection.--The only Lantana having variegated foliage. Is unusually handsome. Outside rows of florets are pink with rose center; inside florets very light sulphur yellow, with orange center. Blooms freely. Each 10c, doz. $1.00.
Gold Cup.--A dwarf compact grower, with very pretty lemon yellow flowers, having golden yellow center. Each 10c.
Amiel.--Semi-dwarf, very compact, fine bloomer, umbel and floret fine size. Reddish orange with yellow center. Each 10c.
Weeping.--A beautiful trailing variety, very desirable for planting in hanging baskets, vases, pots or open ground. Bears an immense profusion of lovely clear pink frowers [flowers] from early summer until late in the fall. Everyone is delighted with it. Each 10c.
LEMON VERBENA.--A universal favorite, invaluable for its fragrant leaves. They will retain their fragrance for years when dried. As a plant for the garden or for pots it is equally valuable, its fine sprays of foliage and delicious fragrance making it desirable for bouquets, etc. In good rich soil each plant will covor [cover] a space of three to four feet in diameter. Each 10c.

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LEMON VERBENA
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JASMINE--Maid of Orleans--A beautiful plant of easy culture, fine grower, good bloomer, very fragrant and of elegant waxy white appearance. Each 20c.
Night Blooming.--World famous variety, producing pure white fragrant flowers incessantly. Each 15c.
MUSK PLANT.--This is the true musk plant and has a refreshing, deligntful [delightful] fragrance which become [becomes] quite strong and pervading when the leaves are rubbed. It is a pretty little plant and of much value for pot culture and bedding. Flowers yellow. Each 10c.
MAURANDIA.--Graceful climbers for window or conservatories or open ground in summer; admirable to hang from vases, cover stumps and low trellises, flowering freely. Each 10c.
MOUNTAIN PINK--A fine plant for baskets or rockeries. Flowers bright pink, two inches in diameter. Each 10c.
MONARDIA DIDIMA.--Strong growing plants, from two to three feet high, dense foliage, aromatic and sweet scented. Large spikes or heads of intense, rich, deep scarlet flowers. It blooms throughout July and August. Each 10 cents, doz. $1.00.
MOON FLOWER--A very handsome climber, growing to a height of twenty-five to forty feet, and covered nightly and on dull days with its white, moon-like flowers five to six inches in diameter. Each 15c.

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SPRAY ONE FOURTH NATURAL SIZE
WEEPING LANTANA

HELIOTROPE.--These are universal favorites on account of their delightful fragrance. Flowers equally well as bedding plants in summer, or as pot plants in the house during the winter.
Czar.--A new giant flowering, very dark colored sort, almost black. Each 15c.
Czarina.--A fine companion for the above. It grows a trifle taller and bears an enormous truss of deep indigo blue flowers with clear white eye. Each 15c.
Jersey Beauty.--Very large trusses of blue flowers. Each 10c.
Madam Blonay.--Immense truss; very light colored flowers. Each 10c.
Snow Wreath--Superb large cluster of delicious fragrant flowers, nearly white. Each 15c.
MARGUERITE.--(or Paris Daisy.)--White.--A French improvement on the old White Marguerite which has for years been so popular. Much larger and will produce ten times as many flowers. All flower lovers should try a few of these. Each 10c, doz. $1.00.
Yellow.--Similar to the above, but of a very pretty canary yellow color. It blooms freely and continuously. Each 10c.
Blue.--A strikingly beautiful flowering plant, producing an abundance of clear sky blue flowers. Plants are fairly loaded with the flowers, which are very desirable for cutting. Each 10c.

MANETTA.--Bicolor.--One of the handsomest little vines in existence. It is easily and quickly grown and blooms continuously. It is well adapted for hanging basket, pot culture, vases or bedding. The flower is of the size and shape shown in our illustration, and of brilliant scarlet, tipped with clear golden yellow, making it most wonderfully attractive. Manetta Bicolor blooms constantly and profusely during all the summer months out of doors and all of the winter months when taken into the house. We heartily recommend this vine to one and all our customers, and feel assured of no complaint when tried. Each 10c, large size 25c.

[image] MANETTA BICOLOR

OTAHEITE ORANGE--An extra fine pot plant, with glossy green leaves, the true fragrant orange bloom and abundant little bright oranges that will hang on the little bush like balls of gold for six months after they are ripe. With good culture they are never out of fruit from one years end to another and at least two-thirds of the time are in flower also. In beauty, grace and fragrance there is nothing like its delicate, leafy sprays of bloom. Fine plants for blooming and fruiting at once. Each 20c.
OLEANDERS.--These old fashioned shrubs are becoming popular again. No plant makes more handsome specimens in tubs for the veranda or yard. Each 25c.
OTTHONA, or Pickle Plant.--A very pretty plant for basket culture. Each 10c.
OXALIS--Golden Star--(Ortgiesi.)--A shrubby plant, about 12 inches in height, branching freely; loaded at all times with clusters of bright golden star-shaped flowers. Each 15c.
Bermuda Buttercup.--Fine for pot culture. As many as fifty flower spikes have been produced by a single well grown plant and as many as one thousand flowers in a season. Flowers are pure bright yellow. Each 10c.

[image] OTAHEITE ORANGE.

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