12 JOHN SAUL'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



*HOYA GLOBULOSA. 



"Under the name of Hoya globulosa, Cranston's Nursery and Seed Company, Hereford, 

 exhibited at the meeting of\he Royal Horticultural Society, a charming Hoya, so pretty and 

 distinct as to merit and receive a First class Certificate of Merit. 



" "We can confidently recommend it as a most useful and valuable plant, blooming profuse- 

 ly and thriving well under the same treatment as other Hoyas. 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 produced ; and the leaves of a 

 shining green color, with dark green veins." — Floral Magazine. $1.00 each. 



*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." 



" The first place a'mong new plants must be claimed for Burbidgea Nitida." $1.00 each. 



♦HIBISCUS ROSA-S1NENS1S ZEBRINUS. 



A very distinct and handsome variety with double flowers, which are beautifully flaked, 

 and striped. The individual blossoms are about 3 \ inches in breadth, and "1\ inches in 

 depth ; the five outer petals scarlet edged with creamy-yellow in the lower part. The sta- 

 minal column is entirely petaloid, with a few large petal-like bodies, forming numerous irreg- 

 ular tufts at the apex, of a creamy-yellow color, variously and irregularly striped and flaked 

 with scarlet. Both the form and marking of the flowers are very irregular and grotesque. 

 $1.00 each. 



HIBISCUS SCHIZOPETALUS. 



"One of the most remarkable varieties of H. Eosa Sinensis ; the petals are deeply lacini- 

 ated and fringed, as are the petals of Mignonette, Clarkia, &c. Its drooping flowers with 

 reflected orange red, and laciniated petals render this plant not only a curiosity, but highly 

 valuable as a decorative plant. A most singular and elegant plant." — Garden. 50 cts. each. 



CRASSULA JASMINEA. 



A very valuable and handsome plant, flowers white resembling a Bouvardia, very fragrant. 

 Eeady in April. 75 cts. 



ARDISIA OLIVERI. 



"Ardisia Oliveri is a stove shrub of remarkably striking appearance, with recurved foliage 

 and large globular heads of flowers like those of an Ixora, but of pink color. The plant was 

 introduced from Costa Rica by the late M. Endres." — G. Chronicle, lb cts. 



*GARDENIA GLOBOSA. 



A native of Natal, where it extends from the sea-coast to an elevation of 1200 feet, is a 

 free- flowering shrub, having lanceolate glabrous leaves. The large white funnel-shaped fra- 

 grant flowers are terminal, the tube broad, an inch long, hairy at the mouth, and with the 

 spreading limb an inch and a half across; they are succeeded by globose fruits, as large as a 

 walnut. $1.00 each. 



*BIGNONIA MAGNIFICA. 



A free growing and extremely floriferous stove plant, of scandent habit. The flowers 

 which are produced in large branching panicles, are of great size (about 3£ inches across), 

 and of exceedingly attractive color, ranging from delicate mauve to rich deep purplish 

 crimson, relieved by a conspicuous throat of light primrose color. $1.00. 



TRADESCANTIA MULTICOLOR, "MADAM LEQUESNE." 



This new variety is well adapted for basket culture. The leaves are pale green, beautifully 

 variegated with white and rosy purple ; sometimes the leaf is entirely suffused with either 

 color ; a very distinct and decidedly pretty plant. 20 cents each. 



