OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 



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*DIEFFENBACHIA ILLUSTMS. 



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, mark- 

 ed all over with irregular blotches of yellowish green, and with a tendency to become yellow 

 along the course of the principal ribs. $1.50 each. 



*DRAC^ENA GOLDIEANA. 



One of the most magnificent ornamental foliaged plants ever introduced, and altogether 

 unique in character and aspect. It is a native of Western Tropical Africa. The plant is of 

 erect habit, and the stems are closely set with stalked spreading leaves, the petioles of which 

 are of grayish color, terete with a narrow furrow along the upper side, the base being dilated 

 and sheating the stem The blade of the leaf is cordate-ovate acuminate, with a yellowish 

 green costa, and banded with dark green and silver gray in alternate straight or furcate 

 bands, the colors being about equally distributed. The back of the unrolled leaves is a pale 

 reddish purple or wine color, and the stem where visible at the upper joints is of similar hue, 

 the lower parts becoming green. It is. without doubt, one of the finest of all stove plants and 

 indispensable in all first class collections. 



This magnificent plant was sent out in London at 5, 7£ and 10 guineas per plant. Price 

 on application. 



Dracaena Goldibana. 



*CTTRMERIA WALLISII. 



A stove plant, very ornamental in character. The leaves are spreadiug and marked with 

 very irregular dark green maculations, some running out from the green costa, and others 

 situated near the edge. The intermediate spaces are furnished with broadish patches of very 

 pale yellowish green, which in the more matured leaves becomes a greenish gray. The colors 

 are about equally dispersed, though the marking is very irregular, both as to the size and. 

 form of the blotches. $1.50. 



