. Choice flower seeds. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. GREVILLEA ROBUSTA. This is known also as the "Silk Oak," and is a valuable decorative plant, germinating readily from seed, and miking in two or three months' time a very ornamental little plant. The lacin- iated foliage gives it somewhat the appearance of a fern, but it is much more hardy, consequently more useful as a decorative plant. Pkt., 8 cts. GYPSOPHILA PANICULATA. No lady who does decorating or who de- lights to adorn her rooms with beautiful flowers should be with- out the Gypsophila. Its fairy, mist-like sprays
. Choice flower seeds. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. GREVILLEA ROBUSTA. This is known also as the "Silk Oak," and is a valuable decorative plant, germinating readily from seed, and miking in two or three months' time a very ornamental little plant. The lacin- iated foliage gives it somewhat the appearance of a fern, but it is much more hardy, consequently more useful as a decorative plant. Pkt., 8 cts. GYPSOPHILA PANICULATA. No lady who does decorating or who de- lights to adorn her rooms with beautiful flowers should be with- out the Gypsophila. Its fairy, mist-like sprays of delicate white blos- soms have also given it the appropriate names of "Vanity," or "Baby's ; By itself it is of no value, but mixed with coarser flowers, it sets off a bouquet as dainty lace does a lady's dress. It is a hardy "perennial, of easy cultivation, and will continue to bloom for years, furnishing a never failing supply of delicate sprays for each needed occasion. Pkt., 3 cts. HEUCHERA SANGUINEA. One of the finest of recently introduced hardy perennials. The plants are dwarf and compact, with evergreen foliage, beautifully cut and marbled and slightly hairy. The flowers are a brilliant red and, though small, are borne in such extrava'gant a- bundance on the long, graceful spikes as to make, with the sunlight upon them, a fairly dazzling appearance. They remain in bloom several weeks, lending their brilliant color to the garden bed, or are graceful and pretty for cutting. Very easy of cultivation. Pkt., 5 cts. LEMOINE'S GIANT HELIOTROPE. I am pleased to offer, this year, seed of this unsurpassed new strain of Heliotrope. With its large, glossy leaves and immense heads of deliriously fragrant flowers, much larger than in the ordinary varieties, it is indeed a magnificent plant. A single truss in a well developed plant measures from ten to fifteen inches across and contains thousands of individual florets. Any attempt to adequately desc
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