OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 19 



LASTREA ARISTATA VARIEGATA. 



Each. 

 One of the most charming of greenhouse variegated Ferns. It has the same kind of 

 leathery fronds of the type, and like it is of a rich dark full green color, which sets 

 off the distinct variegation to much advantage; the variegation consists of a band 

 of pale yellowish-green, which runs down the centre of the pinnae, and includes 

 the mid-rib $0 50 



*ADIANT[JM SPECIOSUM. 



A very elegant Fern, of semi-scandent habit, with large tripinnate fronds, which fre- 

 quently attain a length of 36 inches with a width of 21 inches, the pinnules of which 

 are f to 1 inch across the lobes cuneated and soriferous at the apex. The whole of 

 the pinnules are covered with dense short hairs, giving the foliage a woolly feeling 

 when touched 1 00 



ASPLENIUM. NOB1LIS. 



This is a graceful Fern with light, lace like pinnas and arched fronds, which somewhat 



resemble those of A. viviparum or A. lineatum 50 



DENNSTCEDTIA DAVALLIOIDES YOUNGI. 



" In its native country it is said to produce fronds 17 feet in length ; and as seen in 

 this country, under pot culture, it has caudices as thick as one's finger, and fronds 

 7 or 8 feet in length To this stout and vigorous constitution, it adds the elegance 

 and gracefulness of minute subdivision, so that its fronds, though lar^e, are utterly 

 devoid of coarseness ; while growing to a large size, it is one of the most finely cut 

 of all the large growing sort." $0 50 to 1 00 



ARALIAS. 



Filicifolia (new). An ornamental leaved plant of the first rank, graceful in habit, and 

 well furnished with foliage, altogether one of the most valuable decorative plants 

 of its family. The stem and leaf stocks are purplish, thickly marked with oblong 

 white spots; the leaf stocks are sheathing at the base, expanding into a broad leafy 

 limb, wnich is imparipinnately divided 75 



*Elegantissima. A beautiful plant with straight erect stem, furnished at short inter- 

 vals with digitate leaves on long foot stalks, mottled with white on a dark green 

 ground ; the leaflets, from seven to ten in number, are filiform, deeply and unequally 

 serrate and gracefully pendulous. The color of the foliage is a deep green shaded 

 with brown 1 50 



*Veitchii. A very elegant plant from the South Sea Islands, producing very narrow 

 digitate leaves, considerably undulat d; upper surface deep green; under, dark 

 crimson. One of the most beautiful decorative plants in cultivation 1 03 



Guilfoylei. The bold pinnate leaves are made up of from three to seven stalked oblong- 

 elliptic bluntish leaflets ; these leaflets vary in size from two to three inches long, and 

 are neatly and evenly margined with creamy white, the surface being, in addition, 

 occasionally splashed with gray. A tine and distinct ornamental stove plant. 25 cts. to 50 



Reticulata. A very distinct species of free growth ; a fine decorative plant 50 



*Amboinense — [SaadophyUum pulchrum). A very ornamental plant with large bright 



green shining foliage. A grand decorative plant 1 50 



Sieboldtii ., 25 cts to 50 



ANTHUBIU31S. 



*Crystallinum. The emerald green refulgent leaves are spotted all over with a brighter 

 shade, and bordered by a broad silvery or rather crystal band, which surrounds the 

 intramar^inal and four secondary nerves. These dazzling white zones are so dis- 

 tinct and regular that they resemble a border of incrusted silver around the sec- 

 tions of the blade of the leaf $1 00 to 2 00 



♦Regale. This is a superb ornamental foliage plant. There are several varieties of this 

 plant. The one now offered is the finest ; the leaves are heart-shaped, much length- 

 ened out towards the apex, and rich dark velvety green in centre $1 00 to 2 00 



