12 JOHN SAUL'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



* BIGNONIA MAGNIFICA. 



A free-growing and extremely floriferous stove plant, of scandent habit. The flowers 

 which are produced in large branching panicles, are of great size (about 3£ inches across), 

 and of an exceedingly attractive color, ranging from delicate mauve to rich deep purplish 

 crimson, relieved by a conspicuous throat of light primrose color. $2 each. 



*TKADESCANTIA MULTICOLOR, "MADAME LEQUESNE." 



This new variety is well adapted for basket culture. The leaves are pale green, beautifully 

 variegated with white and rosy purple ; sometimes the leaf is entirely suffused with either 

 color; a very distinct and decidedly pretty plant. 75 cents each. 



*ANTHURIUM SCHERZERIANUM WILLIAMSII. 



This is undoubtedly the greatest novelty of recent introduction, and will prove as great 

 a favorite with the plant-growing public as A. Scherzerianum itself, and to which it will 

 form a splendid companion plant; in habit and growth it is in all respects like the normal 

 state, but its spathe and spadix differ entirely ; in the variety now offered the spathe is pure 

 ivory white, and the spadix a pale lemon color. $2 each. 



*ARALIA MONSTROSA. 



This is a very elegant and distinct Aralia. The leaves are pendent, pinnate, having 3 to 7 

 oblong elliptic leaflets deeply and irregularly serrated ; sometimes the serration takes most 

 fantastic forms and gives the leaves an altogether unique appearance. The leaflets are 

 broadly margined with creamy white, the surface blotched with grey. Ready in May. 



*EURYCLES CUNNINGHAMII. 



An exceedingly beautiful bulbous rooted plant from Queen's Land, Australia. The flowers 

 are pure white, produced in a many flowered umbel ; it gives its chaste pure white flowers 

 during spring. $1 each. 



* PHILODENDRON CARDERI. 



This exquisitely colored Aroid is a native of South America. The leaves are cordate, 

 bioadish, of a dark shaded bottle green, with a satiny lustre, the principal ribs being marked 

 out by bright green lines of a glaucous or metallic hue ; at the back the leaves are of a 

 shaded wine purple, the course of the veins being marked by broad green lines. The glossy 

 shaded satiny surface of the leaves imparts to them a wondrous degree of beauty. (Ready 

 in May.) $ 2 each. 



*JUNCUS ZEBRINUS. 



The plant, which is a true rush, throws up erect terete leaves, but these instead of being 

 green, are transversely banded with white and green, the colors being in most cases pretty 

 evenly distributed ; in the best marked leaves, the green and white portions occupy alter- 

 nately nearly equal bands of about half an inch deep. It is a most interesting plant. $2. 50 each. 



ASPARAGUS.— New Species. 



Florists will find in these new Asparagus with their delicately beautiful feathery growths, 

 plants admirably adapted for floral work. 



* ASPARAGUS FALCATUS. 



A copiously branched twining evergreen. It grows several feet in height, and has slender 

 angular branches. The leaf-like cladodia are in threes, bright green and glabrous ; the 

 hermaphrodite flowers are white, and grow twenty or thirty together in lateral racemes from 

 the nodes of the branches. Ready in May. 



^ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. 



An elegant evergreen climber with slender stems, smooth and numerous spreading 

 branches ; the white flowers are produced from the tips of the branchlets. _. It is an exceed- 

 ingly handsome ornamental plant for the greenhouse or conservatory, and its pretty feathery 

 growths are extremely useful for cutting for decoration. Ready in May. 



