. Floral gems : 1897. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Springfield. NEW CUPHEA TRICOLOR Flowers tubular in shape, one and a half to two inches long, and have two bright scar- let wings at the end of each flower; the tip of the flower is bright purple, the stamens are pure white. The plants are always in bloom when given proper care. It grows into a bushy plant about fifteen inches high, and makes an ele- fant appearance for baskets or edding. Price, 10 cents each. THE HARDY BLUE - - Chinese Shrubby Verbena. (
. Floral gems : 1897. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Springfield. NEW CUPHEA TRICOLOR Flowers tubular in shape, one and a half to two inches long, and have two bright scar- let wings at the end of each flower; the tip of the flower is bright purple, the stamens are pure white. The plants are always in bloom when given proper care. It grows into a bushy plant about fifteen inches high, and makes an ele- fant appearance for baskets or edding. Price, 10 cents each. THE HARDY BLUE - - Chinese Shrubby Verbena. (CARYOPTERIS MASTOCANTHUS.) A handsome, half-hardy perennial plant recently introduced from China. It is of a vigorous growth, producing flowers in freat profusion the whole length of its ranches, even the young plants in small pots flowering freely. The color is a rich lavender, or sky-blue. A valuable plant cither for bedding or pot culture, bloom- lug continuously from mid-summer until ||| cut by frost in the Fall. Price, 20 cents Cactus ISpiphyl/um. XsfWmtr OUR BEAUTIFUL NEW Bedding Coleus. The Coleus will give more pleasure at less cost than any otner plant. Their varied tints of crimson, gold, bronze, and green, and richly blotched, veined or margined, produce a brilliancy of coloring unequaled. The Coleus is the gardener's paint box, bearing all the colors on its leaves, ready to be disposed in whatever ornate and parti-colored designs we may choose to dis- play upon our lawns and parterres. In this field there is the greatest oppor- tunity for an interesting exercise of the ornamental taste possessed by all flower lovers. The style is very appropriately called "carpet ; "Whoever has been in our large city parks will never forget the little orna- mental bed curving and quaint designs and mingling arabesques of orange, blue, canary-yellow, scarlet, silver-white, claret, pale green, purplish-black and olive—that look like vari-colored rugs spread
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