. Hovey's illustrated catalogue of new and rare plants. EGATA. A beautiful foliage plant, with dark bronzy leaves, streaked and marbled with white;very ornamental. 60c. each. HYACINTHUS CANDICANS. This new and elegant summer or autumn flowering bulb is one of the most valuableplants of recent introduction. It grows from three to five feet high, and the stemsare terminated with spikes of twenty to forty bell-shaped fiowers of snowy whiteness,somewhat resembling Lapageria alba. It is hardy, with the protection of a few leaves;blooms in September. 20c. each; .$2.00 per dozen. LILIUM HARRISII. Thi
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. Hovey's illustrated catalogue of new and rare plants. EGATA. A beautiful foliage plant, with dark bronzy leaves, streaked and marbled with white;very ornamental. 60c. each. HYACINTHUS CANDICANS. This new and elegant summer or autumn flowering bulb is one of the most valuableplants of recent introduction. It grows from three to five feet high, and the stemsare terminated with spikes of twenty to forty bell-shaped fiowers of snowy whiteness, somewhat resembling Lapageria alba. It is hardy, with the protection of a few leaves;blooms in September. 20c. each; .$2.00 per dozen. LILIUM HARRISII. This Lily is a most remarkable improvement upon the L. Longiflorum, not only inthe size of the individual flowers, but in the habit of producing several upon one^ stem, and its earliness and precocity, the smallest bulb flowering profusely the first year. It also blooms two or three times during the year. It grows from ten to twentyinches high, and often produces from twenty to thirty flowers opening at one time. $1.00 each. NEW, BABE, AND SELECT PLANTS.. HYACINTHUS CANDICANS. (See page 8.) LILIUM FLORIBUNDUM. This is the Bermuda Lily, so called, very similar to Harrisii. It has the same habit, and produces from twenty-five to fifty flowers on one plant. oOc. to $1.00 each. NEW LILY, LILIUM BATEMANII. A new Japanese species, growing three to four feet high, producing ten to twentyrichly colored unspotted flowers of a bright apricot color; very beautiful. $1.00 each. LAPAGERIA ALBA. This rare and lovely variety of the Lapageria produces numerous fine, large, bell-shaped flowers of a waxy white. Nothing can be more beautiful. $5.00 to $10 each. MACKAYA BELLA. This beautiful plant forms a handsome shrub with glossy foliage and branchinghabit. The flowers are bell-shaped, and have a pale-lilac corolla two inches long, thethroat most distinctly pencilled with purple veins. These appear in large, droopingpanicles, and in such profusion as to form one dense mass of bloom. oOc. each; $4.50