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JOHtf SAUL'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



GLEICHENIAS. 



Each. 

 *Gleichenia, Dicarpa, the color of the younger 

 and fivsher-looking fronds is a dark green, 

 with a kind of metallic or bluish tint, and the ' 

 under side is glaucous 2 50 



*Rupestris Glaucescens, a very distinct form 

 of G. Kupestris. The fronds are of a much 

 thicker texture and very glaucous on the sur- 

 face, changing with age to a bright glaucous 

 green. A very effective variety 



*Semivestita, a very pretty compact free 

 growing species, makes a handsome specimen 

 plant 2 00 



Each. 

 *Gleichenia, Flabellata, a distinct and fine spe- 

 cies, makes a strikingly beautiful plant 2 50 



*Dichotoma, a very handsome species, makes 

 a nice specimen plant 2 50 



*Mendelli, this is one of the most distinct and 

 free-growing kinds. It is a very compact 

 growing species, requiring cool treatment. 

 The pinnae are of a thick texture, and very 

 glaucous on the underside 



*Speluncae, a distinct and beautiful species, 

 makes a charming specimen plant 



ARALIAS. 



^Aralia, Amboinense (Sciadophyllum pulch- 

 rum), a very ornamental plant with large, 

 bright green shining foliage A grand deco- 

 rative plant 1 50 



*Elegantissima, a beautiful plant with straight 

 erect stem, furnished at short intervals with 

 digitate leaves on long foot-stalks, mottled 

 with white on a dark green ground; the leaf- 

 lets, from seven to ten in number, are filiform, 

 deeply and unequally serrate and gracefully 

 pendulous. The color of the foliage is a deep 

 trreen shaded with brown, 1 00 



Filicifolia, a plant of the first rank, graceful in 

 habit, and well furnished with loliage, alto- 

 gether one of the most valuable decorative 

 plants. The stem and leaf stocks a:e purplish, 

 marked with oblong white spots; the leaf 

 stocks are sheathing at the base, expanding 

 into a broad leafy limb 40 



Reticulata, a very distinct species of free 

 growth ; a fine decorative plant 50 



Aralia, Guylfoylei, the leaves are made up from 

 three to seven-stalked oblong-elliptic bluntish 

 leaflets These leaflets vary in size from two 

 to three inches long, and evenly margined with 

 creamy white, the surface being in addition 



occasionally splashed with gray '25 cts. to 



*Reginse, as the name implies, it is truly the 

 Queen of Aralias. It is of a larger habit of 

 growth than the Veitchii section; the leaf 

 branches are more closely set, and the habit 

 of growth is very graceful. The stem and 

 petioles are beautifully freckled, the palmate 

 divisions of the stalk are fine, smooth and of a 

 uniform green. This must take first place 



amongst table decorative plants 



Sieboldtii 25 cts. to 



*Veitchii, a very elegant plant from the South 

 Sea Islands, producing very narrow digitate 

 leaves, considerably undulated; upper surface 

 deep green, under, dark crimson. One of the 

 most beautiful decorative plants in cultivation, 



40 



1 50 

 50 



1 00 



PHYGELIUS CAPENSIS. 



This pretty Penstemon-like plant I have found quite hardy, it having passed several winters out doors with- 

 out protection. It grows from 3 to 4 feet high, and has numerous semi-herbaceous stems, each terminated by a 

 long branching raceme of flowers, which are brilliant scarlet. It is a most persistent flowerer, beginning in May 

 or June and continuing up to frost. This is one of the most ornamental hardy plants in cultivation.— Garden. 

 40 cents. 



SALVIA GREGGII. 



A pretty new species which T have introduced from Texas. This has long spikes of brilliant cherry; a con- 

 tinuous bloomer, very compact habit, and nearly or quite hardy in this latitude. 25 cents. 



ANASACANTHUS WRIGHTIL— New. 



A new plant which I have received from south-western Texas. This shrub attains a height of four to five feet, 

 bushy, flowers orange, a continuous bloomer, nearly or quite hardy. 30 cents. 



SONERILA HENDERSONII. 



A charmingly variegated plant, of dwarf habit. Its leaves are most elegantly studded over with silvery white 

 pearl, or tiger-like spots upon a rich dark olive-green ground. Flowers rosy lilac. This beautiful plant proves 

 far easier in its management than any of the former species of Sonerila. We have found this plant a profuse 

 bloomer during the winter. 30 cents. 



PHYLLOT^ENIUM LINDENI. 



A fine Aroid discovered by Mr. G. Wallis, in New Grenada, and sent by him to M. Linden, of Ghent. The 

 plant has robust foliage, which is very persisient , the leaves are of a light glossy green, marked by bands of white, 

 which cross the blade in almost parallel lines from a prominent midrib of the same color. $1.00. 



SENECIOS. 



Senecio, Speciosus, the exceedingly bright and 

 pretty magenta-colored flowers of this plant 

 make it very attractive; it is a half hardy pe- 

 rennial introduced from South Africa, and is 

 exceedingly floriferous, so much so that in a 

 cool greenhouse its cheerful blossoms are suc- 

 • cessioually produced throughout the year; 

 thev are each about one and a half inches in 



diameter, and are produced in large branching 



corymbose spikes 75 



Senecio, Pulcher (Beautiful Groundsel), a 

 half hardy perennial, a pretty plant, with 

 rosy-crimson flowers, very showy, flowers late 

 in summer. Figured in American Agricul- 

 turist 30 



