Garden and farm manual : 1905 . HNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA o<^ PURPLE FOUNTAIN GRASS (Pennisetum Rueppclianum) 1451. Decidedly the most ornamental decorative grassever introduced, and will be found as useful for room, hallor table decoration as many a palm. Fine purple plumes afoot long. Pkt., 10c. GREVILLEA ROBUSTA 1460. (Silk Oak.) Beautiful and graceful fern-leavedfoliage plant. Pkt., 10c. GYPSOPHILA Dainty free flowering plants of easy culture. Fine formixing in bouquets, giving them an airy-fairy look that ischarming; \y„ feet high. 1480. Elegans. Star-shaped, white and pink flowers.
Garden and farm manual : 1905 . HNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA o<^ PURPLE FOUNTAIN GRASS (Pennisetum Rueppclianum) 1451. Decidedly the most ornamental decorative grassever introduced, and will be found as useful for room, hallor table decoration as many a palm. Fine purple plumes afoot long. Pkt., 10c. GREVILLEA ROBUSTA 1460. (Silk Oak.) Beautiful and graceful fern-leavedfoliage plant. Pkt., 10c. GYPSOPHILA Dainty free flowering plants of easy culture. Fine formixing in bouquets, giving them an airy-fairy look that ischarming; \y„ feet high. 1480. Elegans. Star-shaped, white and pink , 5c. 1481. Paniculata. Produces numerous panicles ofsmall, white, handsome flowers ; line for bouquets. Pkt., 5c. HELIANTHUS {.SeeSunflower)HELIOTROPE Deliciously fragrant flowering plants, 1 to 2 feet for pot culture in winter and bedding in summer. 1520. Finest Mixed. Pkt., 5c. 1521. King of the Blacks. Rich purple. Pkt., 10c. 1522. Giaut Hybrids. Immense clusters ;very fragrant. Pkt . HELIOTROPE—LEMOINES GIANT HYBRIDS. HOLLYHOCK Grand summer and autumn flowering plants. Old in-habitants of our garden, but marvelously improved of lateyears both in doubleness and enlarged size. Chafers. Prize Double, Red. Pkt, 10c. 1562. Pink. Pkt., 10c. 1560. White. Pkt., 10c. 1561. Yellow. Pkt., 10c. 1558. Salmon. Pkt,, 10c. 1559. Crimson. Pkt., 10c. 1563. Mixed. Pkt., 10c. New Mammoth Flowering Allegheny Hollyhocks 1564. The flowers of this new variety are so differentfrom the old conventional ones that but for the similar habitof the plant it would not be taken for a Hollyhock. They are from 4 to 6 inches in diameter, ranging fromsemi-double to double, and finely fringed and curled. The colors are shell pink, rose and ruby red, a shade ortwo deeper at the centre, and exquisitely tinted towards theedge. Price, per pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c.
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