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species, the bracts surrounding the small flowers being 
bright magenta colored or red, making of the plant when 
in bloom a gorgeous show; the flaming bignonia (Pyros- 
tegia venusta); the blue bignonia (Clytostoma callistegioides); 
and the large-flowered Solandra (Solandra grandiflora), 
a native of tropical America. 
Houses Nos. 14 and 15. In these two houses are the 
smaller specimens of the palm family and Panama-hat- 
plant family, the larger plants being in house 1. On the 
north bench in house 14 is a collection of plants of the 
Panama-hat-plant family. 
CoNnsERVATORY CouRT 
There are three attractive features here during the 
open season, viz., the display of tulips in the spring, 
followed by the collection of desert plants, and the water- 
lily collection. The water-lilies may be found in two 
pools, one in each end of the court. In the easterly 
one are placed the hardy sorts, such as are able to with- 
stand the severe cold of our winters, which remain per- 
manently where they are, winter and summer. In the 
westerly pool are the tender kinds, or such as require pro- 
tection during the winter; many of these are stored in a 
warm place during winter and placed on view again in the 
spring. The most conspicuous of the tender sorts is the 
royal water-lily from Paraguay; this is not hardy in 
this climate, and, as it is too large to protect from the 
cold, is grown anew from seed each year; the seeds are 
sown in the propagating houses late in winter, and the 
young plants placed on view late in the spring or in early 
summer. 
In summer the collection of desert plants is in the beds 
in front of the entrance to house No. 1, usually occupied 
by tulips during the spring. The central bed contains 
American desert plants only, made up largely of members 
of the cactus, amaryllis, and dracaena families. The 
bed paralleling this to the west contains a collection of 
