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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 73.

[image] BOSTON FERN.

FERNS.--We have many choice varieties of these delicate appearing, attractive plants at prices from 10c to $1.00 each. Collection of eight varieties for $1.00.
Boston Fern.--This is a wonderfully healthy, rapid growing and graceful house plant. It has been in great demand everywhere. Many people buy it in preference to the finest Palms or Rubber Plants. Its long, broad fronds are more graceful than the old Sword Fern and seem to grow faster. Thrives in all rooms, gas or furnace heat do not seem to injure it. It is one of the most beautiful and useful of house plants, being of easy culture and its sword-like fronds, on large specimens, attain a length of 5 to 6 feet, produced in a bewildering mass, arching, curving and interlacing in every conceivable direction. Each 15c. Large plants 25c and 50c.
Sword Fern.--An old favorite, with narrower, stiffer fronds than the above. Each 15c.
Ostrich Plume Fern.--A beautiful novelty described on the colored pages of this book. It is elegant beyond description. Each 25c.
Anna Foster Fern.--A beautiful new variety of the Boston Fern having broad fronds and the petals are finely cut or divided into little leaflets, thus giving the plant a most beautiful and graceful effect. It is one of the most charming plants for growing in pots, vases or hanging baskets in the house, as it is very little affected by gas or the dry atmosphere of the ordinary living rooms. Each 20c.
Maiden Hair Fern.--Very popular; the most graceful and useful of all for cut flower work. Each 15c.
Moss Fern.--(Selagnellia or Lycopodium.)--Has delicate lace-like foliage. Fine for fern dishes and always beautiful. Each 10c.
MIKADO FERN BALL.--Quite a novelty from Japan and a beautiful thing when well grown, but it is rather difficult to grow them satisfactorily in the dry atmosphere of an ordinary house. Largely advertised in the east. In dormant state, each 65c postpaid.
FICUS Elastica or Rubber Tree.--During the past few years there has sprung up an immense demand for rubber plants and they are highly valued everywhere for their tropical appearance. Leaves are very large, thick and leathery and of a beautiful shining green color. It endures the dry air of living rooms remarkably well. Everybody likes it. They are difficult to propagate and will always remain high in price. Each 50c; larger size $1.00 and $1.50 each.

GENISTA or Shower of Gold.--A most desirable plant. The drooping branches are covered with delicate sage green foliage and every twig is tipped with a long raceme of exquisite pea-shaped blossoms of a pure canary color almost hiding the foliage. Each 10c.
IVIES.--English.--An old favorite vine, showy the year around if properly grown. Each 10c, large 25c.
Variegated English--Foliage very prettily marked with pure white on a dark green ground. Handsome as a pot plant in the window or for trailing from the edges of boxes or baskets. Each 15c.
German, or Parlor--A popular vine for hanging baskets and window boxes. Each 10c.
ICE PLANT.--Interesting from its being covered with ice-like crystals. Flowers very pretty. Each 10c.
HIBISCUS.--A large, shrub-like, woody plant bearing immense double or single flowers. Various colors. Each 15c.
Peachblow.--One of the finest free flowering plants for either pot culture or the open ground. Flowers very large, double and of a charming rich clear pink with deep crimson center. Each 20c.
HOYA.--Carnosa.--(Wax Plant.) The well known house climber, with thick fleshy leaves and curious waxy flowers. Each 25c.
GREVILLEA, or Silk Oak.--One of the quickest growing of any of the ornamental house plants. It is easy to manage, grows rapidly and is pretty in all stages of growth. With its long, drooping, silky foliage, it reminds one of a palm or fern. The young growths are of a light bronze color, the tips being covered with a soft down closely resembling raw silk. Each 15c.

[image] GREVILLEA OR SILK OAK.

[image] FICUS, OR RUBBER TREE.

FUCHSIA.--Jupiter.--A new giant flowered variety from France. The flowers are of really mammoth size with very rich violet purple corolla. Tube and sepals bright crimson. Plant is a strong hardy, free grower. Each 15c.
HYDRANGEA.--Otaska.--A Japanese variety used extensively for Easter decorations. Produces enormous trusses of intense pink flowers. Makes excellent specimen plants for the porch or lawn. Blooms the entire season. Each 15c.
Thomas Hogg.--The immense trusses of flowers are at first slightly tinged with green, changing to the purest white. Each 15c.
Paniculata Grandiflora.--This perfectly hardy variety is considered the finest of all hardy shrubs. Flower heads 6 to 15 inches long, pure white changing to pink. In bloom July to October. Each 15c, large size 35c.

READ THESE.
Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 23.--The seven Rose Bushes which you sent me last Spring came through in good shape and are now growing nicely.--CHARLES J. MURPHY.
The plants that arrived last week and those received today are just as ordered and reached here in good condition.--MRS. ALEX ROBINSON, BENCIA, COLORADO.
Plants just received in fine shape and I am well pleased with them. The Lemon Tree is grand.--M. H. MYERS, KANSAS CITY, MO.

FUCHSIAS.--These, when in full bloom, are the most graceful of all cultivated plants; nothing surpasses the beauty of well grown specimens.
White Phenomenal.--The grandest double white variety in existence and one which should be in every home. Each 15c.
Phenomenal.--Darker than Jupiter, with enormous flowers, a single one measuring 3 inches across; sepals bright scarlet, rich purple corolla, very double, flaked with red. Each 10c.
Monarch.--This is by far the largest of the single varieties. Its immense blooms are a very dark purple color. Each 10c.
Black Prince.--Tube and sepals bright carmine, sepals large and broad with pale green tips; large, open, pale pink corolla. Easily grown in tree form. We once had a plant 7 feet high, loaded with two thousand flowers at once. Each 10c.
Storm King.--Large double flowers; sepals glowing scarlet crimson, corolla delicate, waxy white, elegantly penciled with deep bright crimson. Each 10c.
Trailing Queen.--Of beautiful trailing habit; fine for hanging baskets. Bright rich scarlet and purple flowers. Each 15c.
Speciosa.--Sepals blush, corolla carmine. Best winter bloomer. Each 10c.
Little Beauty.--Tube and sepals bright red, corolla deep purple. Each 10c.
Rose of Castile.--The best single summer blooming fuchsia. Blush pink with violet corolla. Each 10c.
Lottie.--Carmine corolla; tender rose sepals and cream colored tube. Each 10c.

[image] JUPITER FUCHSIA.

YOU WILL BE PLEASED WITH OUR PROSPERITY COLLECTION OF ROSES SHOWN ON COVER PAGE.