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Jasminoides Alba. A beautiful variety like the old T. Jasminoides, except that 

 the foliage is a lighter shade of green, and the flowers pure white, with a pale 

 yellow throat. They are also larger, of heavier texture, and the lobes of the 

 flower tube are fuller and overlap each other, giving a soft effect that is very 

 beautiful. Young plants 50 cts.; large $ 1.00. 



Jasminoides. A very handsome climber and always admired. Glossy foliage, and 

 clusters of large flaring, trumpet-like flowers, white with maroon-red throat, and 

 pink with a red throat. White, 25 cts.; pink, 30 cts. 



TACSONIA, " Sut her landia." It is of vigorous habit, with handsome, large, 

 shining three-lobed foliage, of strong texture, and a rich dark green. The flowers 

 measure 4 inches across. Color, an exquisite carmine-rose, shading darker in 

 the centre, with a tiny purple fringe around the throat. It is a fine bloomer, 

 rivaling even its parent, the Scarlet Passion Vine, so noted for the profusion and 

 magnificence of its flowers. 25 to 50 cts. each. 



Exoniensis. One of the most magnificent climbers in existence. The foliage is 

 handsome, a glossy green; plant grows very rapidly, covering arbors, or screens 

 in a single season: climbs to the top of high trees and is always full of blossoms ; 

 the color of the flowers is a very deep rose: they measure six inches across, 

 the tube is three inches long, and the stem two or three inches in length. 35 to 

 50 cts. each. 



Mollissima. A strong growing variety with pretty light pink flowers, followed 

 by large yellow edible seed pods. 15 to 25 cts. each. 



palms, Dracaenas, 6tc 





BRAHEA Edulis. A new variety of Fan Palm ;from jGuadaloupe Island. Large 

 plants, $2.00 to $5.00 each; small, 35 cts. 



Filamentosa. The hardy California Fan Palm, a most vigorous growing plant; 

 foliage very regular, of a bright green, deeply and regularly pinnated, the mar- 

 gins of each being covered with hair-like, long filaments, giving them a remark- 

 able appearance from other Fan Palms. They are beautiful decorative plants in 

 all respects, either for in or outdoor use. Small, 25 cts. each. Plants 1 to iy 2 

 feet, 50 cts. each; plants, 2 to 21/2 feet, $1.00 each; extra large plants, $2.00 to 

 $3.00 each. 



Glauca, Blue Palm. A very ornamental Fan Palm of robust habit. The leaves are 

 a blue-green, glaucous beneath. New and rare. Small, 25 to 50 cts. ; fine speci- 

 men plants, $3.00 to $5.00 each. 



CORYPHA Australis, Liivistona. A very hardy Australian Palm ; foliage dark 

 green, very symmetrically and regularly slit, the segments partly doubled from 

 base of petioles or leaf-stock, which is thickly armed with crooked spiues. 

 Strong plants 75 cts. each ; plants 2 to 5 feet high, $1.50 to $3.50 each. 



CHAM^ROPS Humilis. A Fan Palm with dwarf habit ; it is a native of Southern 

 Europe ; very hardy. A splendid specimen for the lawn. Small plants, 25 cts. 

 each; plants 1 to 1% feet high, 75 cts. to $1.50 each. 



PHGENIX Canariensis. The handsomest and hardiest of the Date Palm familv. 

 Being a rapid grower, it soon develops into beautiful specimens, with pinnate, 

 dark green leaves from 6 to 12 feet long, the divisions linear, lance-shape, very 

 much pointed. It is fully as hardy as the native Fan Palm, and differing widely 

 from that variety in its habit of growth, color and style of foliage. A finer con- 

 trast cannot readily be imagined when the two are planted either opposite or 

 alternately in rows. Small plants, 50 cts. to $1.50 each. 



Tenuis. This is a very hardy Date Palm, very desirable and elegant, bright sea- 

 green. Small plants, 25 cts. each. 



RHAPIS Flabelliformis. China and Japan. A hardy little Cane Palm, which 

 suckers from the roots like the bamboo, and forms a dense clump of canes. A 

 delicate and graceful little plant, only 3 or 4 feet in height when full grown. 

 Unexcelled for home decoration. 75 cts. to $3 each. 



SEAFORTHIA Elegans. The leaves dark green, the leaf stems rather stout at 

 their base, pinnate, lanceolate; and narrow bifid at the apex, the whole plant 

 perfectly smooth, on a cylindrical, smooth whitish green stem. A most elegant 

 species. Plants 2 to 3 feet high, $1.50 to $3.00 each. 



