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JOHN SAUL’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
NEW DIEFFENBACHIAS. 
Each, 
Dieffenbachia Illustris, a stout-habited stove 
plant of noble character, having erect stems, 
which bear bold and finely marked leaves. The 
blade is large, oblong-ovate, distinctly cordate 
at the base, marked all over with irregular 
blotches of yellowish green, and with a ten- 
dency to become yellow along the course of the 
principal ribs... me 
Leopoldii, a South American ‘plant. ‘of ‘resplen- 
deut beauty. The leaves are oblong-ovate, of 
arich, deep, lustrous, satiny green, traversed by 
a broad and stout ivory-white rib, which is bor- 
dered on each side through its entire length 
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with a whitish band, and shows in strong con- 
trast to the color of the leaf surface, producing 
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fine pictorial effect... 
Dieffenbachia Splendens, ‘a ‘plant of ‘ereat beauty, 
remarkable ior the lustre of its coloring. The 
stem is faintly mottled with dark and light 
green. 
midrib and the ground color is of a deep, rich, 
velvety bottle-green, with a resplendent, lus- 
rous surface, freely marked with whitish stri- 
ated blotches, which stand out in striking con- 
trast with the dark green ground color.......... 4 
*SENECIO SPECIOSUS. 
The exceedingly bright and pretty magenta colored flowers of this plant make it very attractive; it is a half 
hardy perennial introduced from South Africa, and is exceedingly floriferous, so much so that in a cool green- 
house its cheerful blossoms are successionally produced throughout the year; they are each about one and a half 
inches in diameter, and are produced in large branching corymbose spikes. 
7) cents. 
HOYA GLOBULOSA. 
We can confidently recommend it as a most useful and valuable plant, blooming profusely and thriving well 
under the same treatment as other Hoyas. 
The leaves have a thick ivory-white - 
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The flowers are of a bright straw color, the coronal protuberances 
white, the interstices of a shining brownish pink, forming a very pleasant contrast ; ‘the trusses large and freely 
pr oduced, and the leaves of a shining green color, with dark green veins.— floral Magazine. 
50 cents. 
BURBIDGEA NITIDA. 
This beautiful plant is the type of an entirely new genus, with the habit of Hedychium. It is a native of 
Borneo. It produces ten to thirty slender flowering stems, each bearing a panicle of 12 to 20 flowers each. The 
leaves are of a lively glossy green on both surfaces, and serve to set off the rich orange scarlet colors of the flowers. 
Its flowers, of a rich orange hue, render it a very striking stove plant. 
50 cents. 
CRASSULA JASMINEA. 
A very valuable and handsome plant, flowers white, resembling a Bouvardia, very fragrant. 30 cents. 
ARDISIA OLIVERI. 
Ardisia Oliveri is a stove shrub of remarkable striking appearance, with recurved foliage and large globular 
The plant was introduced from Costa Rica by the late 
heads of flowers like those of an Ixora, but of pink color. 
M. Endres. 50 cents. 
TOXICOPHLAZAS. 
*Toxicophlea Spectabilis, a beautiful plant 
with white flowers. It is extremely florifer- 
ous, even in the youngest plants; the flowers 
are produced in very large corymbs, each flower 
being of a tubular form with expanded limbs. 
It is very useful for bouquets, being delightfully 
fragrant as well as beautifully chaste in color... 
*Toxicophlea Thunbergii, another beautiful 
species with large corymbs of pure white 
flowers, exceedingly fragrant.......:ssssssseece eee 
BIGNONIA MAGNIFICA. 
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growing and extremely floriferous stove plant, of scandent habit. 
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The flowers, which are produced in 
large branching panicles, are of great size (about 3/4 inches across), and of exceedingly attractive color, ranging 
from delicate mauve to rich deep purplish crimson, reliev ed by a conspicuous throat of light primrose color. 
cents, 
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 ; 
the course of the veins being marked by broad green lines. 
té them a wondrous degree of beauty. 50 cents. 
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at the back the leaves are of a shaded wine purple, 
The glossy shaded satiny surface of the leaves imparts 
ASPARAGUS.—New Species. 
Florists will find in these new Asparagus with their delicately beautiful feathery growths, 
plants admirably adapted for floral work. 
* Asparagus Plumosus, an elegant evergreen 
climber with slender stems, smooth and num- 
erous spreading branches; the white flowers 
are produced from the tips of the branchlets. 
Jt is an exceedingly handsome ornamental 
plant for the greenhouse or conservatory, and 
its pretty feathery growths are extr emely use- 
ful for cutting tor decoration, This is the 
finest species tor florists, much more valuable 
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* Asparagus Virgatus, of shrubby habit, elegant 
and teathery. Rootstock emitting several 
stems, the upper part of which branch in a 
corymbose manner; branches sub-erect, again 
twice branched ; a feathery graceful plant aseaant 
Tenuissima, another very graceful and beauti- 
ful species, of free growth, with filmy foliage ; 
the stems of all these asparagus stan without 
withering after heing cut for a long time........ 
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