. Plants, seeds, bulbs, and flowers : 27th year, 1899. Nursery stock New Hampshire Keene Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. ELLIS BBOTHEBS' CATALOGUE. green color and good texture. This variety will be found most useful and valuable, not only for collections and decorations, but especially for the filling of jardinieres and fern dishes on account of its dwarf and bushy habit. It will also serve well for cutting purposes,'especially for the boutonnieres and small bouquets. Price 40 6ts. Nephrolepis Cordata Compacta (new Sword Fern). In our estima- ti
. Plants, seeds, bulbs, and flowers : 27th year, 1899. Nursery stock New Hampshire Keene Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. ELLIS BBOTHEBS' CATALOGUE. green color and good texture. This variety will be found most useful and valuable, not only for collections and decorations, but especially for the filling of jardinieres and fern dishes on account of its dwarf and bushy habit. It will also serve well for cutting purposes,'especially for the boutonnieres and small bouquets. Price 40 6ts. Nephrolepis Cordata Compacta (new Sword Fern). In our estima- tion this variety is the finest of all the Sword Ferns; it is of free, strong-growing compact habit, attaining when fully grown a height of about two feet. The fronds, which are of a very rich dark green color, of upright growth, with just sufficient arch in them to make them graceful. As a Fern for house culture or for win- dow gardening we do not know of any other variety that would give the same satisfaction and which we could recommend so highly. A beauty, it cannot be too~highly praised. (See cut.) Price 20 6ts., 50 cts. and 75 (fts. Boston Sword Fern (Nephrolepis Exaltata Bostoniensis). A variation originating in the vicinity of Boston, where it has been in popular favor for a number of years under the name of Boston Fern. In the vicinity of Boston no other plant is used so extensively as this graceful Nephrolepis, which differs from the ordinary Fern in having much longer fronds, which fre- quently attain a length of four feet. These fronds arch and droop over very gracefully, on account of which it is frequently called the Fountain Fern. This drooping habit makes it an excellent fern to grow as a single specimen on a table or pedes- tal. We pride ourselves in being the first to offer this grand Fern to retail catalogue trade of this country. (See cut.) Price 20 cts., 50 As.; fine specimens, 75 <5ts. Pteris Victoria. A most remarkable and undoubtedly one of the most str
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