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| Keywords: Beautify your homes (15727475764).jpg page iS <br> OLEANDERS <br> These old-fashioned shrubs are becoming immensely popular <br> again I am growing and selling them by the thousands No <br> plant makes more handsome specimens in tubs for the veranda <br> or yard Can be wintered in the cellar I have three colors to <br> offer Price 10 cents eacli <br> Oleander Rosea ” lias double pink flowers The old favor- <br> ite Very sweet <br> Lilian Henderson ” Has double white flowers of the largest <br> size Fragrant like the old double pink Scarce <br> Lutea ”Has double primrose yellow flowers of a lovely shade; <br> also fragrant Scarce <br> OTAHEITE ORANGE <br> This valuable and <br> distinct variety of the <br> Orange family is a <br> dwarf compact grow- <br> er with glossy deep <br> green foliage which <br> has a decided odor of <br> the Orange trees of <br> Florida and is exceed- <br> ingly floriferous pro- <br> ducing a wonderful <br> profusion of pure white <br> flowers of the most de- <br> licious fragrance <br> Identical with the <br> much sought - for <br> blooms of Southern <br> Orange groves Ota- <br> heite fruits immediate- <br> ly afterflowering bear- <br> ing fruitaboutone-half <br> thesize of the ordinary <br> Orange retaining in a <br> marked degree its <br> sweetness This unique <br> Orange cannot be <br> equaled as a Winter- <br> blooming pot plant for – <br> house culture Requires but little sunlight and flowers and <br> fruits when but twelve to fifteen inches high As a pot plant <br> this lovely Dwarf Orange is one of the most novel and beautiiul <br> that can be grown With a couple of plants of it you can have <br> an abundance of the far-famed delicate and fragrant Orange <br> blossoms I have grown a large stock of clean vigorous plants <br> that will bloom and fruit at once of this beautiful orange and <br> commend it to mv friends as a novelty of sterling worth and <br> merit Good plants 10 cents each; large strong plants to <br> bloom and bear profusely at once a5 to ° cents each ac- <br> cording to size <br> OXALIS ORTGIESI <br> Upright Oxalis or Star of Bethlehem ” Few new plants <br> will give better satisfaction than this as it is a perpetual bloomer <br> in every sense of the word It is full of bloom every day in the <br> year when grown in a pot of good soil and with ordinary care <br> It grows as freely as a Geranium in any situation Itisa shrubby <br> plant like a Geranium or Fuchsia without buds in which re- <br> spect it differs from other Oxalis It grows twelve to eighteen <br> inches in height branching freely and loaded at all times with <br> clusters of bright golden star-shaped flowers which do not close <br> at night like other Oxalis Beautiful as the flowers are it is still <br> a splendid plant without them on account of its highly orna- <br> mental foliage The leaves are three lobed dark olive green <br> above and a beautiful shining metallic crimson purpleunder- <br> neath and wine-colored stems This makes a truly novel plant <br> as well as a very beautiul one and is surprising to see what at- <br> tention it will attract 8 cents each <br> NEW OXALIS PRINCESS <br> This new Oxalis comes from San Diego California where it <br> has been introduced from the islands of the Pacific It goes un- <br> der the name of Duchess Pink Beauty etc in various cata- <br> logues It is a bright pink the flowers the size of a quarter <br> of a dollar and makes a perfect carpet of its brightpink flowers <br> The best Oxalis extant 6 cents each <br> DOUBLE FRINGED PETUNIAS <br> The double Petunia is one of the finest bedding plants for <br> massing mixed borders or for vases The brilliancy and va- <br> riety of its colors combined with the duration of its blooming <br> period renders it invaluable for garden decoration My col- <br> lection is unsurpassed for brilliancy ot color and size of bloom <br> It includes all the brightest shades of pink purple rose <br> white etc Name the color you want 15 cents each; two <br> for £5 cents <br> PRIMULA OBCONICA <br> Always in Bloom <br> This is a charming plantfor <br> Winter In fact 1 know of <br> none that is better adapted <br> to home culture than this <br> one It is not susceptible to <br> changes of temperature that <br> most plants are subject to <br> It bears its elegant panicles <br> and sprays of bloom of adel- <br> icate pink and white in the <br> greatest profusion It is <br> certainly elegant 8 cents <br> each <br> New Everblooming <br> BABY PRIMROSE <br> This is the freest blooming <br> plant I know of blooming <br> continuously throughout the <br> entire season Plants in <br> very small pots have from <br> fifteen to twenty sprays of <br> lovely light pink flowers on <br> stems ten to twelve inches <br> high at one time and plants in four-inch pots often have from <br> twenty-five to fifty at one time lasting in bloom fully four weeks <br> without fading and continually sending new sprays all over the <br> plant making it one of the most desirable plants for the house <br> ever introduced It 'is a very rapid grower and the easiest <br> grown of all the Primrose family Very desirable 8 cents <br> each <br> CHINESE PRIMROSE <br> In White Pink <br> and Crimson <br> Few house plants afford better <br> satisfaction than this It re- <br> quires to be kept cool a north <br> window suiting it best Care <br> should be taken in watering it <br> that no water gets on the buds <br> as it causes them to decay In <br> the Summer it can be turned <br> out into a shady border The <br> plants I offer are fine and the <br> colors are sure to please I have <br> them in white pink and crim- <br> son iO cents each <br> MEXICAN PRIMROSE <br> This plant is strictly a perpet- <br> ual bloomer In flower at all <br> seasons of the year agood speci- <br> men showing always from ten <br> to thirty large saucer-shaped blossoms about three inches <br> across <br> Apple Blossom ” A splendid variety with handsome flowers <br> shade of apple blossoms Entirely hardy 8 cents each <br> – C Si <br> PRIMULA OBCONICA <br> NEW BABY PRIMROSE 41878688 131125 64689 Page 19 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/41878688 1918 10 1080/00222939708680643 Ella V Baines Firm ; 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