. Childs' condensed catalogue of specialties, novelties and special offers in extra choice new and rare bulbs, plants, seeds and fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Fruit trees. STKO K [ 1. A NT11 K- DY BI! I StPobilar^t^es Dyeriarftis. A new house and bedding plant sent out. this year by Messrs. F. Sander A Co., of England, at each, and to which Was a ward eu t lie sold medal ottered by the Kin;; of Belg
. Childs' condensed catalogue of specialties, novelties and special offers in extra choice new and rare bulbs, plants, seeds and fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Fruit trees. STKO K [ 1. A NT11 K- DY BI! I StPobilar^t^es Dyeriarftis. A new house and bedding plant sent out. this year by Messrs. F. Sander A Co., of England, at each, and to which Was a ward eu t lie sold medal ottered by the Kin;; of Belgium at the Ghent Exhibition. It forms a compact bush 18 inches high, with leaves <i to 9 inches Ions, 3 or 4 inches wide, and of the most, intense metallic purple color, shading Into light rose with a light green margin, a combination unapproached by any other plant. The flowers are a lovely violet-blue, very beautiful. M r. Pflater, of the White House Washington, put it in the open border, where it grew and colored up beyond all expectation i n a .very ex posed position. It has created a veritable sensation Wherever exhibited. TjOc. each. Water Hyaciiftlj. The translucent delicacy of the Water Hyacinth's tinted and its frost-like crystalization of texture, can not be caught by the artist's brush or pictured to the reade r's imagination by cold type In every sense it is a peculiar and beautiful plant. Each plant is a rosette-like cluster of smooth, round green leaves, to each of which is attached a singular pulled, bladder-like petioleor leaf-stalk that enables the plant to float like a boat, until the mass of feathery Indigo-blue roots—themselves a notable feature in this plant —find mooring to their motion and send anchoring roots into the soil below. When the long full spikes of superlatively beautiful flowers appear, no praise can be too high for them. Each flower in the spike is the size of a silver dollar, a blend- ing of lilac-rose and azure-blue tints,
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