16 JOHN SAUL’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
PHYGELIUS CAPENSIS. 
This pretty Penstemon-like plant I have found quite hardy, it having passed several winters out doors with- 
out protection. It grows from 8 to 4 feet high and has numerous semi-herbaceous stems, ech terminated bya 
long branching raceme of flowers which are brilliant scarlet. It is a most persistent flowerer, beginning in May 
or June and continuing up to frost. This is one of the most ornamental hardy plants in cultivation.—Garden. 
50 cents. ; 
ANASACANTHUS WRIGHTII.--New. 
Another new plant which I have received from the same latitude in Texas as the Salvia. A shrub attains a 
height of four to five feet, bushy flowers orange, a continuous bloomer, nearly or quite hardy. 50 cents. 
SONERILA HENDERSONII. 
A charmingly variegated plant, of dwarf habit. Its leaves are most elegantly studded over with silvery white 
earl, or tiger-like spots upon a rich dark olive green ground Flowers rosy lilac. This beautiful plant proves 
ar easier in its management than any of the former species of Sonerila. We have found this plant a profuse 
bloomer during the winter. 30 cents. 
PHYLLOTA:NIUM LINDENI. 
A fine Aroid discovered by Mr. G. Wallis, in New Grenada, and sent by him to M. Linden, of Ghent. The 
plant has robust foliage, which is very persistent ; the leaves are of a light glossy green, marked by bands of white, 
which cross the blade in almost parallel lines from a prominent midrib of the same color. $1 00. 
SENECIO PULCHER.--Beautiful Groundsel. 
A half hardy perennial, a pretty plant, with rosy-crimson flowers, very showy, flowers late in summer. Fig- 
ured in American Agriculturist. 30 cents. 
VERONICAS. 
Veronica Hendersonii, a new species introduced the finest of the herbaceous section of Veroni- 
from Japan, growth about two feet high, robust CAS Hor eitsmadenasrededescces We kildecseeiseectles -aacesvocsoocsties 50 
habit, foliage broad, of a deep rich green, dense Veronica, Elegans Variegata, a very beautiful 
and abundantly produced. The flowers are hardy herbaceous plant, with elegantly varie- 
very large, rich deep violet blue, produced in gated foliage, long spikes of blue flowers....... Oo 
large cluster heads composed of many spikes, 
DRACOCEPHALUM. 
Ruyschiana—Var. Japonicum. It is a hardy herbaceous perennial, 18 to 24 inches in height, branching from 
the base. The violet blue flowers, 144 inch in length, are in terminal verticilasters, intermixed with numerous 
obovate acuminate leafy bracts. 30 cents. 
CANNAS. 
Canna Ehemanni, the most distinct of all large, and are used to advantage in bouquet- 
Cannas on account of the large oval Musa- making or producing splendid effects on the 
Ensete-like soft yreen leaves which place it lawn. See plate im Garden .......c..ccccccossesatacosee 50 
foremost among decorative foliage plants. Its *Canna Novtonni, this very distinct and fine 
most striking feature is the splendid carmine Canna is closely allied to the last. Like it the 
red flowers produced on flower stems of great foliage is large and fine, The flowers are also 
length that unfold about 12 flowers to each of very large and showy, of a bright scarlet; a 
the smaller branches. These flowers are very STANG Canna. dceiceccchaecsdes. eye her see eeeske aero 50 
TECOMA STANS. 
A very fine plant, from southwestern Texas, has succeeded finely bedded out with us during summer. The 
flowers are a rich yellow, and very floriferous. 50 cents. 
DORYANTHES PALMERI.—Queen’s Land Lily. 
The flower-scape rises from the centre eight feet in length, forming densely clothed pyramidal compound 
racemes, much like those seen in various Yucca species. Flowers numerous, approaching in size and form to 
those of the well-known Vallota purpurea, from three to four inches in diameter, of a rich pceony crimson hue, 
with a white centre. Each blossom is accompanied with leaf bracts of an equally rich color as the flower. $1.00. 
TABERNAMONTANA CAMASSA. 
(Growers of Flowers for Market should Cultivate a House of this Plant alone.) 
A very desirable shrub, with racemes of double, white flowers of Gardenia-like outline and fragrance, which 
are produced on the point of every shoot. The usual temperature of a hot-house with less humidity, will produce 
blooms more freely and longer in succession. The petals of the flowers are lighter and more elegantly arranged 
than the Gardenia, and not quite so large; small plants in three inch pots will produce flowers freely. 30 to 
50 cents. 
APHELANDRA FASCINATOR. 
A very fine species, with very ornamental foliage as well as magnificent flowers; the leaves are rich dark green, 
beautifully banded with silvery white, and underneath of an uniform purplish velvet the spikes of bloom are 
very large and of a dazzling vermilion color. 40 cents. 
