OF NEW, BARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 



MELON PEAR OR MELON SHRUB.— Solatium Guatemalense. 



"A very delicious fruit from the Highlands of Guatemala, and now being cultivated in California. It will 

 likely succeed in the South. The fruit is of the size of a hen or goose egg, or even larger, and very much of the 

 same shape. The color is lemon or pale orange with streaks or waves of bright violet, the whole making a fruit 

 unrivaled in beauty. The interior of the fruit is a solid pulp similar to that of a pear, also of a pale yellow color, 

 and of a taste resembling that of a fine musk-melon, but which has besides a most charming acid, so wholesome 

 and so delicious that when the fruit is partaken of on a very warm day, it allays the thirst for several hours. 

 The plant is an enormous yielder. I have seen plants of small size, say two by two feet, bear 30 large fruit which 

 from their size and weight pressed the branches to the ground, and thus formed a most beautiful border all around 

 the plant. The melon shrub can stand light frost, but heavy frost will cut it to the ground. The dead branches 

 should then be cut off, the plants covered with an inch or so of soil or straw, and will, if so protected, start up in 

 the spring as vigorously as before." 30 cents. 



*MEDINILLA CURTISII. 



A beautiful Stove plant of bushy habit. The flowers are produced in great numbers in terminal and lateral: 

 panicled cymes on flower stalks of a beautiful coral red. Each flower is about half an inch in diameter, and has 

 an ivory white calyx and a creamy 1 white corolla, which show to great advantage the, central tuft of purple 

 stamens. 



The neat and compact habit of the plant, the profusion with which its chaste flowers are produced, and which 

 continue in perfection for many weeks in the autumn, render this one of the most valuable plants of recent 

 introduction. $1.50. 



DRACAENAS. 



Each. 

 ♦Dracaena, Lindeni, one of the most brilliant 

 acquisitions recently made among fine foliaged 

 plants. The stem is erect and simple, the 

 leaves, which are deep green, are traversed by 

 bands of creamy-white and yellow, handsome- 

 ly variegated, a most distinct and striking 

 variety. It is a plant which will gain a high 

 reputation 



: Dracaena, Massangea, centre of leaf pale yel- 

 low, green margin ; a very superb and distinct 

 variety. This superb plant, like U. Lindeni, 

 will be extensively grown, as they are two of 

 the most distinct and graceful of decorative 

 plants 



Each. 



*FI(^JS ELASTICA VARIEGATA. 



An attractive variety of this useful plant, the leaves being striped and marked with creamy yellow. 



*AGLAONEMA PICTUM. 



This is a brilliant Aroid, with a fine rounded stem. The leaves vary in form, sometimes elliptical, oblong- 

 lanceolate, are rounded at the base and almost suddenly acuminate at the top, from 4 to 7 inches long, and 2 to 

 3% in width ; they are of a lovely deep velvety green, beautifully mottled with large spots and irregular mark-, 

 ings of a whitish blue. The mid-rib is prominent and slightly channelled on the upper face. When it is in 

 flower it is still more attractive. The spathe is remarkable for its curious pucket-like form and its knotty spadix. 

 $1.50. 



*SCHISMATOGLOTTIS LAVALLEEI. 



"In announcing this lovely plant we are convinced that it will become popular among lovers of fine-foliaged 

 plants. It may be distinguished at a glance from all other species in cultivation. The texture of the leaf is 

 flexible, the mid-rib is slightly prominent on the upper surface, and of a beautiful bright green, on which are 

 scattered numerous silvery white »pots, producing a most pleasing effect." $2.00. 



NEW BEGONIAS. 



* Begonia, Albo-Picta, a neat and pretty species, 

 introduced trom Brazil, distinct in character 

 from all the cultivated kinds, whether species 

 or varieties. It is shrubby in habit and of 

 compact growth, having elliptic lanceolate 

 leaves shortly stalked. The leaves are glossy 

 green, freely spotted with bright silvery white, 

 the nebulous markings becoming smaller to- 

 wards the margins. It has small and elegant 

 foliage, and will make a really useful and 

 pretty plant for decorative purposes 1 00 



*Assamica, a very distinct and beautiful new 

 species 50 



*Arc-in-Ciel, a lovely new variety of the Rex 

 type; the marking is delicate and exceedingly 

 beautiful 1 00 



Diadema, a species of incomparable beauty and 

 moreover a distinct type. From the short, 

 fleshy stem branch out numerous leaves, erect, 

 of a delicate green, and marked with white 

 elongated blotches. The leaves are perfectly 

 smooth and shiny. The ground is a clear 

 green, whereon numerous white strains are 

 scatter> d, without regularity, in bands or 

 longitudinal lines 30 cts. to 50 



Gosoensis, a beautiful new foliage Begonia 75 



1 00 



Begonia, Berthe de Chateaurocher, a very 

 distinct and handsi.me variety 75 



Manicata Aurea Maculata, this very beauti- 

 lul Begonia has its fine foliage blotched and 

 spotted with yellow, similar to the well known 

 Fartugium graude, a grand foliage plant 1 00 



*Mira, a hybrid between Diadema and Gosoen- 

 sis finely spotted foliage ; a distinct and beau- 

 tiful hybrid 



Socotrana, a species of remarkable interest, 

 botli in its scientific and in its horticultural 

 aspect, discovered in the island o( Socotra. 

 B. Socotrana is a plant of very neat habit, with 

 erect stems 8 to 12 inches high, furnished with 

 orbicular peltate leaves 4 to 7 inches in diame- 

 ter, and producing a profusion of bright rose 

 pink flowers, of which the males are fully two 

 inches in diameter. Its great recommendation 

 is its very free blooming character, and its 

 flowering in the depth of winter, when other 

 Begonias are at rest, thus prolonging the 

 season of these beautiful plants 



*Ville de Namur, this beautiful foliaged Be- 

 gonia is in style of Louise Chretien, but supe- 

 rior. The finest that have been introduced 

 for some years i 00 



50 



