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Descriptive Catalogue. 17 



LASIANDRA MACRANTHA FLORIBUNDA. 



A magnificent plant of good habit, and a most profuse bloomer; the flowers 

 are rich violet blue, between five and six inches in diameter, and produced nearly 

 all the vear through. It requires the same treatment as Pleroma Elerjans, but 

 it is superior to that plant both in habit and size of its flowers. A truly charm- 

 ing plant. $1 each. 



STEPHANOTHUS FLORIBUNDA. 



This plant is not new. but as a valuable stove climber it is unequalled. The 

 flowers are pure white, of a waxy texture, very persistent. Some large plants 

 in one of my greenhouses were covered with bloom the whole of the past spring 

 and summer. ' Florists should grow it extensively. 50 cents to SI each. 



DIEFFEXBACHIA PICTA. 



This is a very beautiful foliage plant; the leaves are dark green spotted with 

 white. $1.50 each. 



CBASSULA. 



Coccinea Superba. This is a plant well adapted for window cultivation, being 

 of free growth, and semi-succulent. It has large trusses of bright crimson 

 flowers. 50 cents each. 



Lactea. A very beautiful winter flowering plant of easy culture, flowers freely, 

 color pure white. For cultivating in windows few plants succeed as well 

 as this. It is one of the very best plants for this purpose. 30 cts. each. 



GUNNER A SCABPvA. 



This is a native of the Andes of Peru. Its broad leaves, borne upon stout 

 petioles, are more than 4J feet in diameter. For producing a picturesque ap- 

 pearance on a large lawn, or in parks, few subjects equal a finely grown speci- 

 men of this noble plant. If planted in a deep rich soil, it speedily attains a 

 majestic size. 75 cents each. 



GYMNOTHRIX JAPONIC A. 



An exceedingly beautiful grass from Japan, nearly or quite hardy ; it is very 

 graceful, both in growth and flower. 50 cents each. 



*MARANTA TUBISPATHA. 



An elegant and very attractive species, of erect habit of growth ; leaves some 

 r.ine or ten inches long, light green, ornamented on each side the midrib with 

 oblong blotches of cinnamon brown. Native of the tropics of South America. 

 $1.50 each. 



*MARANTA VEITCHII. 



The leaves of this grand plant are upwards of twelve inches in length ; " the 

 under surface of a rich purplish wine color, the upper of a deep shining green, 

 blotched with conspicuous patches along each side, of a yellowish green, almost 

 verging on grey. The contrast is very marked, and the whole plant verv beau- 

 tiful." §2.00 each. 



*DIPLADENIA (ECHITES) A3KEXA. 



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. 

 For summer blooming in the greenhouse, no climber is more lovely than this. 

 §1 each. 



