. Vick's floral guide. Farfugium grande is a first-class ornamental plant forpots, well adapted for house culture. The leaves arethick and leathery, dark green and with yellow spotsthe size of a five-cent piece ; quite grande, each, 50 FEVERFEW, (Pyrethrum.) The Feverfews are among the handsomest and mostuseful of our border plants. Feverfew, Double White, with Daisy-like flowers; good for either house or garden ; always desirable for cutting. 25 or Golden, with bright yellow foliage; very much used for edgings of beds; 20 cents each ; £ per Gem, a ne
. Vick's floral guide. Farfugium grande is a first-class ornamental plant forpots, well adapted for house culture. The leaves arethick and leathery, dark green and with yellow spotsthe size of a five-cent piece ; quite grande, each, 50 FEVERFEW, (Pyrethrum.) The Feverfews are among the handsomest and mostuseful of our border plants. Feverfew, Double White, with Daisy-like flowers; good for either house or garden ; always desirable for cutting. 25 or Golden, with bright yellow foliage; very much used for edgings of beds; 20 cents each ; £ per Gem, a new dwarf variety, growing only from eight to twelve inches in height. The flowers are large and of the purest white; splendid for cutting; per doz. $; each 25 cents. GLAUCIUM. See engraving page 18. A white-leaved ornamental plant, fine for bedding orborders. Leaves long, gracefully recurved, cut andcurled. Glaucium corniculatum, per dozen, $; each, 25 These beautiful plants are now quite generally culti-vated. Some of them do exceedingly well with roomculture, especially the Pteris; the beautiful JapaneseClimbing Fern, Lygodium scandens ; the Sword ; and the graceful Adiantums. All do wellin ferneries or Wardian cases. In summer they shouldbe set out of doors on the shady side of the house orfence. Shower them frequently both in summer andwinter. We have many very excellent varieties of Fernsnot named below ; plants 25 cents each. Lygodium scandens, a beautiful climbing Fernfrom Japan, growing from ten to twenty feet andsucceeding admirably with common room cents to each. Nephrolepis exaltata, or Sword Fern, very desir-able for house culture, especially for hanging bas-kets. 50 cents each. GLOXINIA.
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