28 JOHN SAUL’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
YUCCA. 
Alefolia Variegata. We received a special premium for a fine specimen of this plant 
from the Maryland Horticultural Society. Leaves green, broadly striped and 
banded with yellow; a beautiful variegated plant.........-cecesseesseeee ceeeeeee 75 cts. to 
*Quadricolor. The foliage of this is long , recurved and beautifully variegated. A very 
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DIPLADENLIA, (Echites.) 
*Williamsii. A splendid hybrid. Color soft pink or rosy crimson; it is very profuse ; 
flowers produced in large clusters, the raceme continuing to grow and produce a 
succession of blooms—a marked and desirable character in this variety. Its prolific 
blooming qualities will render it a most desirable plant .............ssseeee coerececeseeenees 
*Ameena. Flowers of a soft pink color, suffused with rose, somewhat resembling D. 
Splendens, but in every respect a great improvement on that variety, being of 
superior form, the lobes being stiff and round, instead of reflex and pointed......... 
*Hybrida. A very floriferous variety ; flowers resembling D. Insignis, both in color 
and form. but are produced in much greater profusion....... ARE rea ecep cc: Cocca atte 
Insignis. This is a fine addition amongst stove climbers and exhibition piants; flowers 
from 4 to 43 inches in diameter, of great substance ; tube white, the remainder of 
the flower being rich, deep rosy carmiine ./.1.0-.--.-.-.. 00-9 /-2--0eee 
*Brearleyana ‘‘Thissplendid variety of Dipladenia is one of the best exhibition plants 
extant. Its superbly colored flowers, which are of the largest size, opening pink 
and changing to the richest crimson color. They have this “remarkable peculiarity, 
that the color increases in intensity with the age of the flowers,”’................. 
*Profusa. This is a grand species, being very floriferous in character, blooming when 
very small, and lasting along time in perfection. The flowers are 5 inches in diam- 
eter, rich carmine, of fine substance, produced abundantly in bunches from the axils 
of the leaves. This species has the best constitution of any Dipladenia we have 
grown, keeping its foliage nearly all the season. There is no plant more beautiful 
than the Dipladenia, lasting as it does, four to five months in flower........eeceeeeeeees 
JASMINUM, SAMBAC (Arabian Jasmine.) 
Duchesse d’Orleans. Flowers double, white, like miniature white roses, deliciously fra- 
grant, avery, valuable plant 0-20. .c.cs-co0sncud <ccuseltancve <eacen!-cewan seco ee eae eee : 
Grand Duke. Flowers double, white, like mimature white roses, pares fragrant, 
similar to the above, but distinet<...2.02020-).-.00.s-<<s- seneeees “ ee 
Grand Duchesse de Tascany. Flowers double, white, like miniature roses, "deliciously 
fragrant, in the style of the two preceding ‘VERY in Greceneraaae Sere Coenen Soke 
Trifoliata. Another fine variety, flowers white, like ininiature roses deliciously fragrant 
Hirsutum, (single.) A very free flowering winter blooming species...............25 cts. to 
No plants can be more beautiful or fragrant than those blooming frees through the 
summer. All who grow choice plants should possess them. 
IXORAS. 
Regina. It is of compact habit, and the flowers are of a deep shade of color; the trusses 
are of a somewhat similar shape to those of I. Coceinea, but the plant is much more 
compact in growth than that variety........ sees weiss eseee sepeae ieay ana eet ee eetta eee eect 
*Prince of Orange. This variety 1s distinet in color from any other, and is a valuable 
addition to this ornamental genus. It is of free compact. habit, flowers rich orange 
red, tinged with violet toward the centre, and produced in large and dense termi- 
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*Fraseri. A most effective and beautiful variety, of free and vigorous growth, with 
rich dark green foliage, and numerous large, ‘terminal, elobular flower heads, with 
blossoms of a brilliant flamed salmon color, upon carmine scarlet flower tubes, and 
rich under pedicels or flower StalkS...se0. ...... .ccscsecsenscseoverece rceveda ->0et (abe eee - 
Amabilis. Of vigorous and compact habit, deep orange salmon, well formed flowers, 
borne in large trusses, which are produced i in great ‘profusion Madwahoes cs ume cuseta teense ae | 
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