16 



JOHtf SAIL'S DESCRIPTITE CATALOGUE 



Each. 

 Croton, Evansianus, the newest leaves are light 

 olive-green, with midrib and veins of golden- 

 yellow, and the interspaces spotted with the 

 •same color. As the leaves become older, the 

 green deepens and changes to a bright 

 bronzy-crimson, and the golden-yellow of the 

 midribs, veins and spots become a rich orange- 

 scarlet 50 



Fasciatus (Hendersonii), a very deep green, the 

 principal veins being marked by bright yel- 

 low lines, interlacing near the edge, where, 

 near the point, the surface is chiefly yellow, 

 with irregular small green spots. The midrib 

 forms a brownish-yellow band 50 



Hanburyanus, a bright olive green in several 

 shades, is, in mauy leaves, quite subordinate 

 to the rich gulden yellow and rosy crimson 

 that suffuse the whole plant. All the leaves 

 are beautifully marbled and blotched with 

 these tints 50 



Hawkeri, of dwarf and compact habit. The 

 middle and lower portions of the leaves, 

 together with the footstalks, are light creamy 

 yellow which spead over the greater part of 

 the leaves, the extremities with the edges of 

 the leaves are green 50 



La Dame Blanch, a very beautiful variety 

 with long undulating foliage ; the variegation 

 is white, which marks it as distinct from other 

 Crotons 50 



Lancifolius, the leaf is dark green, the midrib, 

 margins and veins pale yellow, whicb, as the 

 plant attains its character, becomes reticulated 

 with bright rosy pink; the whole of the leaf 

 presenting a very charming mosaic appear- 

 ance 50 



Prince of "Wales, the leaves are about 24 

 inches long. The midribs are light yellow 

 with a broad band of the same color on either 

 side ; the remainder of the blade is light olive- 

 green profusely spotted and marbled with 

 yellow. 50 



00 



50 



50 



Each 

 Croton, President, a charming new Croton, 

 with foliage broadly variegated with golden- 

 yellow 



Macarthuri, the color is constant, but the 

 markings on the different leaves are as varied 

 as the forms assumed by the leaves themselves. 

 The variation, fully one-half of which is yel- 

 low, is very striking. The midribs are yellow, 

 and are spotted, blotched, flaked, and barred 

 in infinite variety 



Princess of Wales (Glorious), this is one 

 of the long leaved drooping forms of Cro- 

 ton. Leaves sometimes plain and sometimes 

 strongly undulated. The ground color is 

 green, and the variegation creamy-yellow, 

 very variable in character. In some there is 

 a creamy-yellow midrib, with a band on each 

 side 



Queen Victoria, the ground color of the leaf 

 is rich golden yellow, beautifully mottled 

 with green ; the midrib and the primary veins 

 are of a rich magenta color, changing with age 

 to a vivid crimson ; the margin of the leaf is 

 unevenly banded with carmine 50 



Variabilis (Falcatus), a robust variety. It 

 has long leaves, marbled and blotched with 

 different shades of yellow, orange and crimson. 

 The leaves both in color and shape, are very 

 variable; some are straight, others recurved, 

 falcate or often distorted, their surface being 

 either smooth or undulated 



Williamsii, this is one of the red-tinted series, 

 very strongly flushed with violet crimson. 

 The leaf has a central band and costa ot yel- 

 low, from which the pinnate veins of the same 

 color branch out on either side. These veins 

 all change to deep crimson and the whole 

 plant becomes flushed with a glowing tint of 

 crimson, shaded with violet 



Extra size plants of the above Crotons can be 

 supplied at extra prices. 



50 



50 



BERTOLONIAS. 



*Bertolonia, Van Houteii, has the leaves of a 

 rich olive velvet ground color, traversed 

 broadside by large bars of beautiful magenta 

 red, and dotted all over with thousands of 

 spots of the same color. The description will 



however, give only a slight idea of the real 



beauty of this plant 50 



*Bertolonia, Guttata, leaves -dark green, pro- 

 fusely dotted with rose colored spots, a charm- 

 ing plant 50 



GOODYERAS. 



♦Goodyera, Dawsoniana, a very beautiful plant. 

 The leaves blackish-green on the upper side, 

 and very glossy, with lines of beautiful golden 

 purple traversing irom the base of the apex; 

 flowers white 2 00 



*Goodyera, Discolor, a beautiful plant, grows 

 about six inches high ; foliage a beauti I ul dark 

 velvety color, with white markings through its 

 entire length; flowers white 50 



LAURESTINUS.-Viburnum Tinus. 



♦Laurestinus, Splendens, a variety of Lauresti- 

 nus, with magnificent large flowers. A good 

 grower and a free bloomer 



50 



: Laurestinus, Pure White, the flowers of this 

 variety are pure white « 50 



PHYLLANTHUS ROSEA-PICTUM. 



This variegation is exceedingly rich and varied, no two colored leaves showing precisely the same markings 

 with like tints. Many of the leaves are bright crimson, which is also the color of the stem during the early stage 

 of growth; some are a light cream color, tinged with a delicate blush, others again have a dark bronzy hue, 

 shaded with crimson; some are dark green with blotches and spots of rose, while others are tri-colored, white 

 with different shades of rose and green. 40 cents. 



DICHORISANDRAS. 



♦Dichorisandra, Mosaica, an extremely hand- 

 some plant, of dwarf habit ; leaves large, 

 ground color of the upper side rich, deep 

 shining green, traversed with an innumerable 

 quantity of parallel transverse fine white 

 lines: the upper side is of a unilorm deep 



S tuple. It also produces lovely rich azure 

 owers 1 00 



Dichorisandra, Thyrsiflora, a very fine species, 

 flowers in a thyrse of rich azure; magnificent 



species 



Undata, very different from'D. Mosaica, pro- 

 ducing large ovate leaves, very dark green in 

 color; the midrib and veins are of a lighter 

 green, which gives the leaves a striped or mar- 

 bled appearance 



50 



