A SELECTION OF 

 STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



EEMAEKABLE FORTHE BEATTTY OF THEIE LEAVES. 



HE plants we here describe, and which we re- 

 commend to the notice of plant growers, will 

 all be found worthy of general cultivation, and 

 of great beauty, distinctness and sterling merit having 

 been our qualifioatiom test in the selection. Many more 

 species and varieties could have been included, but we 

 believe the amateur and gardener will find ample material 

 to supply their wants, whether they require examples 

 for the embellishment of the stove or greenhouse, the 

 drawing room, dinner table, or the sub-tropical garden 

 in the open air. 



Abutilon. 



This Malvaceous genus affords only a few examples of 

 sufficient note to be entered here as fine foliage plants. 

 They can be easily grown, and are quite at home in any 

 situation in which they may be placed, but they display 

 their elegant variegation to , the greatest advantage in 

 the open air during the summer, thus affording quite a 

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