Dreer's mid-summer list, strawberry plants, Dreer's mid-summer list, strawberry plants, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. : July 1896 August . dreersmidsummerl1896henr Year: 1896 New Durarf Justicia Velutina.' This New Dwarf Justicia, so highly praised by Mr. Louis de Vilmorin in the Revue Horticole, is really a much finer and dwarfer plant than our engraving, made from an imported specimen, suggests. Everyone knows the tall, lanky, straggling habit of the old Justicia Rosea. This NEW sort, which is now grown so extensively by Parisian florists, begins to bloom when the plant has
Dreer's mid-summer list, strawberry plants, Dreer's mid-summer list, strawberry plants, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. : July 1896 August . dreersmidsummerl1896henr Year: 1896 New Durarf Justicia Velutina.' This New Dwarf Justicia, so highly praised by Mr. Louis de Vilmorin in the Revue Horticole, is really a much finer and dwarfer plant than our engraving, made from an imported specimen, suggests. Everyone knows the tall, lanky, straggling habit of the old Justicia Rosea. This NEW sort, which is now grown so extensively by Parisian florists, begins to bloom when the plant has only three or four leaves, and is never out of flower afterward. If pinched back occasionally, it makes a very dwarf, stocky plant, frequently covered with 20 to 50 large pink flower- heads, lasting a long time. The foliage is also more per- sistent and highly ornamental, being heavy in texture and very velvety. 30 cts. each ; $ per doz. Maranta. Valuable decorative stove plants, remarkable for the richness and beauty of their varied foliage. Makoyana. $ to $ Massangeana, 50 cts.; Zebrina, 50 cts. to $ Nepenthes. (PITCBER PLANTS.) We grow sis choice varieties of these interesting plants. They succeed best planted in baskets suspended from the roof of the greenhouse or conservatory. They should always be thoroughly shaded and furnished with an abundant supply of water. $ to $ each. Lotus Pelyorensis. {COMAL GEM.) This charming jilant seems to be unknown in this coun- try, yet it is so well thought of abroad that a prominent horticultural journal color-plated it. The Garden says of it : ' 'Its slender, branching habit is most striking, and the silvery foliage even more so. 'Without its flowers it might almost be described as a silvery Asparagus ; but the bright coral- red flowers, measuring 2 inches in length, are really beauti- ful, greatly reminding one of the rare and beautiful Clian- thus or Glory Pea, so diflicult to giow, while this gem is of t
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