Descriptive Catalogue. 15 



*CALADIUM PRIXCE3S OF WALES. 



Leaves larcre. similar to the preceding, with the addition of some bright spots of 

 color ; very iiandsome. 

 Ready in May. $2 30 each. 



*ACALyPHA TRICOLOR. 



This beautiful-leaved plant is a native of New Caledonia It is a very distinct 

 and handsome plant, with ovate leaves of a coppery tinted green, washed here and 

 there in splashes, dots and patches as though smeared and stained with red lead ; 

 a very striding and singularly marked foliage plant. ^1 50 each. 



DALECHAMPIA ROEZLIxVNA ROSEA. 



This fine plant blooms very freely, even on plants a few inches high, and pro- 

 duces its flowers nearly throughout the year, but especially so during winter. In- 

 dividually the flowers are extremely handsome, and last long time in beauty, owing 

 to the persistent nature of the bracts; added to these recommendations it is sweetly 

 scented. 75 Cc-nts each. 



*JERDONIAINDICA. 



A curious but beautiful dwarf-growing plant, belonging to the order Didymo- 

 carpese. The stem is very short; leaves about two inches long, heart-shaped, and 

 ciliated at the edges with red hairs; the upper surface is deep green, the centre of 

 the leaf marbled with pale green ; the flowers are pale lilac streaked with crimson, 

 small, but freely produced. This little eem is anativeof the Nilgherry Mountains. 

 ^1 50 each. 



*SPIR.EA PALMATA. 



This is undoubtedly the finest species in this genus, and one of the best hardy 

 plants of recent introduction. The leaves are upward of six inches in length, 

 deeply lobed, and full green in color ; the flowers are deep crimson, and produced 

 in large terminal corymbs which are from six to twelve mches in diameter. It 

 flowers during the month of June, and is very effective. Native of Japan. S2 each. 



*a:nthurium scherzeriaxum. 



One of the most striking and beautiful dwarf-flowering stove plants of recent in- 

 troduction, producing beautiful brilliant scarlet flowers, each of which remains from 

 two to three months in bloom. This charming and novel plant is of easy culture, 

 and a most abundant bloomer. Ready in May. ^5 each. 



"IMANTOPHYLLUM miniatum. 



A very excellent evergreen, warm greenhouse, or cool stove plant, intermediate 

 between Clivia and Vallota or Amaryllis in style of growth, with daik green leaves, 

 and large corymbs of erect, large, clear rich salmon or light flame colored cup-like 

 blossoms. 



*SAUNDERSOXIA AERAXTIACA. 



A beautiful scandent plant with the habit of Gloriosa, and producing numerous 

 large somewhat globose orange colored flowers, habit graceful and neat, and most 

 desirable among greenhouse plants. Ready in May. $2 each. 



ABUTILOX YEXILLARIUM. 



Distinct sub-climbing habit, with elegant drooping flowers of varied colors iu 

 scarlet and yellow, veined and striped. 25 cents each. 



*ABUTILON VEXILLARIUM YARIEGATUM. 



The foliage of this beautiful new variety is spotted and blotched in the style of 

 A. Thompsouii, and fully as beautiful as the foliage of that fine plant. $1 each. 



ABUTILOX TIIOMPSOXI. 



The ground color of the leaf is a bright green, shaded and mottled with yellow, 

 having the appearance of mosaic work. It is a free growing plant of the easiest 

 culture, whether in pots or bedding out ; beautiful. 'dO cents each. 



