Descriptive Catalogue. 35 



HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS.— Chinese Hibiscus. 



All are magnificent plants for bedding out. 



1 Each. 



Grandiflora. This is a beautiful new plant in the way of the fine old plant 

 //. Rosa Sinensis, it has very large flowers of rosy crimson, one of the 



finest plants for bedding out ; magnificent 25 



Cooperii tricolor. Beautifully variegated in foliage and flowers 25 



Rosa Sinensis. Flowers deep crimson, single 25 



Kosa pleno rubra. Double crimson 25 



Rosa pleno Jaune. Double yellow 25 



Eosa pleno Aurantiaca. Double orange 25 



CROTON or CODIVM. 



These very ornamental plants are natives of thfi South Sea Islands; they are 

 among the most beautiful of variegated plants, the leaves being blotched with 

 yellow and red in various ways, which renders them most attractive and valua- 

 ble for decorative purposes. They are of the easiest culture, succeeding in any 

 warm greenhouse. 



Our rich collection of Crotons was awarded first prize by the Maryland Hor- 

 ticultural Society, Sept., 1876. 



Each. 

 Aucuboefolium. Leaves large dark green, blotched with golden yellow.. ..$0 50 



Angustifolium Leaves very long green, blotched with red and yellow 30 



Hillianum. Dark green, blotched and splashed with red and yellow 40 



Cascarilla. Leaves long, twisted and crimpled, blotched with golden 



yellow 30 



Interruptum. Very long leaves, nearly an inch broad, midrib bright 



scarlet, shading to a golden yellow; an exceedingly graceful plant 40 



Longifoiium. Leaves green, blotched and striped with golden yellow, 



very long and graceful ; a magnificent plant 40 



Picta. Fo'iage dark green, spotted with red and yellow 30 



Varieiratum. Leaves dark green, blotched and spotted with golden 



yellow ., 25 



Varictum Elegans. Leaves dark green, striped with gold, midrib golden 



yellow 30 



Variegatum Eubrum. Leaves dark green, striped and spotted with red 



and golden yellow 30 



*Majesticum, (new.) A truly grand variety, of free growth; leaves from 

 twelve to eighteen inches long, somewhat narrow- when young the 

 leaves are deep green, ribbed with golden yellow, the green changing 

 with age into a deep olive and the yellow becomes crimson ; this, with 



its elegant drooping habit, renders it very attractive 1 50 



"*Weismanni, (new.) This is one of the most beautiful of all the form* ; 

 leave-; about a foot long and three-fourth- of an inch wide; ground 



color shining bright green, striped and mottled with golden yellow 1 50 



*Veitchii, (new.) A splendid variety, perfectly distinct trora any other 

 known kind, both in size of foliage and in coloring. The leave- attain 

 a length of twelve to fourteen inches, and two and-a-balf inches in 

 breadth, and are traversed by broad bands of creamy yellow, which 



change with age into rose and carmine purple 1 50 



*Johannis, (new.) An exceedingly elegant plant: the leaves are from 

 twenty to twenty four inches long, narrow and pendulous, ground 

 color bright shining green, the margins and midrib bright orange 



yellow, a beautiful variety 1 50 



-*Irregulare. Leaves broadest at the base, and tapering to an obtuse point, 

 about nine inches long, and most diversified in shape, scarcely two 

 leaves resembling each other ; ground color dark green, midrib orange 

 yellow, with the upper surface of the leaf irregularly spotted and 

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