OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 15 
ASPARAGUS —New Species. 
Florists will find in these new Asparagus with their delicately beautiful feathery growths, 
plants admirably adapted for floral work. : 
Each, 
*Plumosus. An elegant evergreen climber with slender stems, smooth and numerous 
spreading branches; the white flowers are produced from the tips of the branchlets. 
It is an exceedingly handsome ornamental plant for the greenhouse or conserva- 
tory, andits pretty feathery growths are extremely useful for cutting for decoration. 
This is the finest species for florists, much more valuable than the dwarf variety...$1 50 
*Virgatus Ofshrubby habit, elegant and feathery. Rootstock emitting several stems, 
the upper part of which branch in a corymbuse manner ; branches sub-erect, again 
twice branched marten ten crace ma plint, coenc .-secesescesleeasar/accccaeascanscennelcwecesas cine es 1 00 
*GLONERIA (PSYCHOTRIA) JASMINIFLORA. 
A fine evergreen stove shrub, of erect branched habit and terminal roundish corymbose 
panicles of long tubed white flowers witha four-parted limb, and freely produced ; a beautiful 
plant. $1.00. 
ALPINIA ALBO-LINEATA. 
A very striking and beautifully variegated plant, 3 to 4 feet high when fully developed. 
The leaves are 9 to 12 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, pale green, marked divergently with 
broad bands of white and pale green. _This isa grand addition to our ornamental. plants, 
and makes a fine contrast intermixed with other foliage plants. 40 cents. 
GRAPTOPHYLLUM NORTONILI. 
‘The leaves are of ovate-oblong form, about 6 inches long and 23 inches broad, and deep 
glossy green. The mid-ribs are ut first light rose, and have on one or both sides a central 
blotch of light yellow. As the leaves approach maturity the mid-ribs deepen to crimson 
and the blotches become suffused with rose.’”’ 380 cent®, 
ARTOCARPUS CANNONI. 
A tropical plant of exceedingly ornamental foliage of a rich bronzy-crimson tinted with 
purple above, beneath of a vinous red, about 1 foot long and 7 inches broad; very variable. 
50 cents. 
*PANAX LACINIATUM. 
‘ An elegant and very distinct plant. The leaves are tinted and indistinctly marked with 
pale olive brown, and form a rather complicated mass of narrow segments; they are bipin- 
nate, nearly as broad as long, and have a drooping.contour; and the pinnules or segments 
are very variable in size and form, presenting the appearance of a complex head of foliage.’’ 
40 cents. 
CLIDAMIA VITTATA. 
“ A splendid foliage plant, having large green leaves with a light band down centre of the 
leaf, of easy culture and rapid growth. 40 cents. 
NEPENTHES, PITCHER PLANT. 
Each, 
*Gracilis Major. This is a plant of free growth and somewhat compact habit; its 
pitchers are produced very abundantly ; the ground color is dark green, over which 
is wpROWsSiONn Of, dark -reddish=browMiSpous), scsecces cesses sccece-c occ eacseheeces o-0sean $0 75 to 2 50 
*Phyllamphora. This plant is of very free growth, producing in great profusion 
mroneratesizea plichersiof a. brightvareems A--.cdccer-wscsencsececese ccs -bessas sek seck $0 75 to 2 50 
*Levis. Of very free growth, producing its pitchers freely of moderate size, of a bright 
ezeen shaded. with reddish; brow My 5. .ccreccva-ssan dune Secs at cones sceneccieoens ec me Ge ¢0 7a to 2 50 
*Courtii. A hybrid pitcher plant of exceptional merit. The plant, although tree grow- 
ing, is dwarf in habit. The leaves are coriaceous, and margined with hairs. The 
pitchers, which are freely produced, are flask-like, deep green in color, densely 
spotted or clouded with deep crimson, and attain a length of from six to eight inches. 
The membranous texture of the pitcher is remarkably firm and durable.....$2 50 to 5 00 
