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CHAMAEROPS Excelsa. One of the most beautiful fan palms 
both for the house and outside. It has a smaller trunk than other fan 
palms and medium-sized leaves with slender stems and is very at- 
tractive. 35c to $5.00 
KENTIA Belmoreana. One of the most valuable house plauts 
grown; from Australia. Elegant pinnate leaves beautiful even when very 
small. 50c to $1.50 each. 
Fosteriana. Resembling the above but of more upright habit. In- 
valuable for house decoration. 50c to $1.50 each. 
LATANIA Borbonica. ‘The Chinese Fan Palm; a beautiful house 
palm; leaves fan shaped and a handsome shining green. Grows well out- 
side in California. 25c to $1.50 each. 
PHOENIX Canariensis The handsomest and hardiest of the 
date palm family. 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, and very much pointed. 25c, 50c to $2.50 
each. 
SEAFORTHIA Elegans.. One of the most graceful and beauti- 
ful of palms. It grows on long slender stems and bears long feathery 
arching leaves, and bears after maturity branches of long drooping ropes 
of bead like pinkish mauve flowers that.develop into bright red seeds 
about the size of a small cherry. It is always blooming or seeding. It 
makes beautiful pot plants. We grow this in great quantity. Smallest. 
size without character leaves, 15c to 25c; larger, $1.00. 
DRACAENA Indivisa. A fine plant for outdoor planting in Cali- 
fornia, and much in use for lawns, avenues, and parks. The plants are 
fine for window decoration. 25c, 75c to $1.50 each. 
ARALIA Sieboldii. A fine decorative plant with large shining light 
green leaves. It gives large clusters of small white flowers; is especially 
adapted for pot and house culture. 25c to $1.00. ° 
PEPPER Tree. 15c to 35c each; $3.00 dozen. 
~ Ornamental Grasses, Etc. 
ARUNDO Donax Variegata. Very broad corn-like foliage, beau- 
tifully striped with creamy-white and light green. Itforms grand plants 
and grows 8 to 10 feet high. 25c to 50c each 
PAPYRUS Antiquorum. “Egyptian Paper Plant.’ Is most 
elegant, graceful, and stately. It sends up reed-like stems, which on old 
plants rise from 8 to 10 feet high, crowned with a tuft or umbel of long, 
wiry grass that falls gracefully above and around the stem. 15c, 25c 
to 50c each. 
CYPERUS Alternifolius. ‘‘Umbrella Grass.”” Slender grass, 
surmounted by alternate leaves, so arranged as to resemble the frame of 
an open umbrella; as beautiful and ornamental for house decoration as a 
palm. 10t to 25c each, $1.50 to $2.50 dozen. 
