Farquhar's catalogue of seeds 1900 : plants, bulbs tools fertilizers, sundries . lf a remarkably valuable addition toour flower gardens especially for sub-tropical beddingand foliage effects. The foliage is long and slender,gracefully recurved and glossy deep green in color. Ifsown in March in heat, the plants should bloom by themiddle of July, and the silvery plumes tinted with vio-let-purple waving in the sunlight are exquisitely beauti-ful, height three feet 10 8535 Stipa Pennata. (Feather Grass.) Hardy perennial with silvery white, feathery plumes, height two feet . .05Zea Japonica. See No
Farquhar's catalogue of seeds 1900 : plants, bulbs tools fertilizers, sundries . lf a remarkably valuable addition toour flower gardens especially for sub-tropical beddingand foliage effects. The foliage is long and slender,gracefully recurved and glossy deep green in color. Ifsown in March in heat, the plants should bloom by themiddle of July, and the silvery plumes tinted with vio-let-purple waving in the sunlight are exquisitely beauti-ful, height three feet 10 8535 Stipa Pennata. (Feather Grass.) Hardy perennial with silvery white, feathery plumes, height two feet . .05Zea Japonica. See No. 8265. PALMS, ARAUCARIA AND MUSA. No. Pkt. 8540 Araucaria Erelsa. (Norfolk Island Pine) 20 8545 Areca Baueri. (Seaforthia Robusta.) 20* 8550 — Lutescens 20 8560 Chama-rops Excelsa. (Fortunei.) lO 8565 — Humilis lO 8T370 Cocos Weddelliana 20 8580 Kentia Belmoreana 20 8585 — Fosteriana 20 8595 Latania Borbonica 10 8610 Pandanus Utiis. (Screw Pine ) 25 8612 Phoenix Dactylifera. (Date Palm) lO 8615 — Tenuis .10 8617 Ptychosperma Alexandra: 20 8620 Seaforthia Elegans lO. MUSA ENSETE. 8600 Musa Ensete. (Abyssinian Banana.) Of all plants available to us for sub-tropical effects, this is themost luxuriant. It is frequently grown about Bostonto a height of twelve or fifteen feet and with leaveseight or nine feet in length. Seeds sown in January orFebruary in heat produce good plants for planting outof doors in June 20 FLOWER SEEDS FOR WILD GARDENS. SPLENDID MIXTURES OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED BEAUTIFUL VARIETIES. These Mixtures contain many beautiful and interesting An-nuals, furnishing a profusion of bloom from early summer untilfrost. They are intended to produce a display without the carenecessary to regularly-kept flower beds. We sell annually largequantities of these Seeds, for beautifying the surroundings of Sea-shore and Country Hotels and Residences. They not only beau-tify the grounds, but afford many varieties of flowers useful tocut for house decoration ; and owing to
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