OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 13 
*PHILODENDRON CARDERI. 
The leaves are cordate, broadish, of a dark shaded bottle green, with a satiny lustre, the 
principal ribs being marked out by bright green lines of glaucous or metallic hue; at the 
back the leaves are of a shaded wine purple, the course of the veins being marked by broad 
green lines, The glossy shaded satiny surface of the leaves imparts to them a wondrous degree 
of beauty. $1.00. 
JUNCUS ZEBRINUS. 
The plant, which is a true rush, throws up erect terete leaves, but these instead of being 
green, are transversely banded with white and green, the colors being in most cases pretty 
evenly distributed; in the best marked leaves, the green and white portions occupy alter- 
nately nearly equal bands of about halfaninch deep. Itisa mostinteresting plant. 75cents. 
ASPARAGUS.—New Species. 
Florists will find in these new Asparagus with their delicately beautiful feathery growths, 
plants admirably adapted for floral work. 
*Falcatus. A copiously branched twining evergreen. It grows several feet in height, and 
has slender angular branches. The leaf-like cladodia are in threes, bright, green and 
glabrous. $1.50 
*Plumosus. An elegant evergreen climber with slender stems, smooth and numerous spread- 
ing branches; the white flowers are produced from the tips of the branchlets. It is an 
exceedingly handsome ornamental plant for the greenhouse or conservatory, and its 
pretty feathery growths are extremely useful for cutting for decoration. 
*Racemosus. An elegant climbing foliage plant. The stems are very slender, and furnished 
with still more slender branchlets and spray, clothed with linear cladodes or fulse leaves 
of bright glossy green. It isa most desirable plant for the conservatory and warm green- 
house. $1.50. 
*Virgatus, Ofshrubbery habit elegant and feathery. Rootstock emitting several stems, the 
upper part of which branch in a corymbose manner: branches sub-erect, again twice 
branched : a feathery graceful plant. $1.50. 
*GLONERIA JASMINIFLORA. 
A fine evergreen stove shrub, of erect branched habit and terminal roundish corymbose 
panicles of long tubed white flowers with a four-parted limb, and freely produced ; a beautiful 
plant. $1.00. 
*ERYTHRINA MARMORATA. 
“A free growing, very showy variegated plant, of erect habit, with beautifully colored 
foliage. The leaves are broader than those of the flowering kinds usually cultivated; they 
are blotched and spotted with white in a very effective manner. 
‘“‘The elegant and beautiful appearance of this plant renders it most useful for decorative 
purposes.’’ 75 cents. 
ALPINIA ALBO-LINEATA. 
A very striking and beautifully variegated Plant, 8 to 4 feet high when fully developed. 
The leaves are 9 to 12 inches long, elliptic lanceolate, pale green, marked divergently with 
broad bands of white and pale green. This is a grand addition to our ornamental Plants, 
and makes a fine contrast intermixed with other Foliage Plants. 50 cents. 
GRAPTOPHYLLUM NORTONII. 
“The leaves are of ovate-oblong form, about 6 inches long and 23 inches broad, and deep 
glossy green. The mid-ribs are at first light rose, and have on one or both sides a central 
blotch of light yellow. As the leaves approach maturity the mid-ribs deepen to crimson 
and the blotches become suffused with rose.’’? 40 cents. 
ARTOCARPUS CANNONI. 
A tropical plant of exceedingly ornamental foliage of a rich bronzy-crimson tinted with 
purple above, beneath of a vinous red, about 1 ft. long and 7 in. broad, very variable. 50 
cents. : 
