OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 13 



♦ASPARAGUS EACEMOSUS. 



An elegant climbing foliage plant. The stems are very slender, and furnished with still 

 more slender branchlets and spray, clothed with linear cladodes or false leaves of bright 

 glossy green. It is a most desirable plant for the conservatory and warm greenhou- 

 pillar and trellis climber. It is also useful as a decorative plant generally, its distinct habit 

 and aspect rendering it especially effective for contrast. Ready in May. 



*ASPAEAGUS VIRGATUS. 



Of shrubby habit, elegant and feathery. Rootstock emitting several stems, the upper 

 part of which branch in a corymbose manner; branches sub-erect, again twice branched ; a 

 feathery graceful plant. Ready in May. 



*GLONERIA JASMINIFLORA. 



A fine evergreen stove shrub, of erect branched habit and terminal roundish corymbose 

 panicles of long; tubed white flowers with a four parted limb, and freely produced ; a beauti- 

 ful plant. $1.50. 



*PURE WHITE, PERFECT, DOUBLE-FLOWERING BOCJVARDIA, 

 "ALFRED NETJNEB." 



" This is equal, if not superior, in profuse blooming quality to the valuable single white 

 variety, Davidsonii. of which this double white one is a sport. The flowers are rather larger 

 than those of the single-flowering, and composed of three perfect rows of petals of the purest 

 waxy white color, each floret resembling a miniature Tuberose. $ 1.50 each. Ready in May. 



*MONTBRETIA POTTSII. 



A bulbous rooted plant from the Cape, requires similar treatment to Gladiolus; stem 1| to 

 2 feet high, with a panicle nine inches long, bearing long, deep bright yellow flowers, tinted 

 outside with red. $ 1 each. 



*ERYTHRINA MARMORATA. 



" A free growing, very showy variegated plant, of erect habit, with beautifully colored* 

 foliage. The leaves are broader than those of the flowering kinds usually cultivated ; they 

 are blotched and spotted with white in a very effective manner. 



" The elegant and beautiful appearance of this plant renders it most useful for decorative 

 purposes." $1.50 each. 



*PAVONIA WIOTI. 



11 A very striking flowering plant. The outer calyx consists of two whorls of narrow 

 slender bright red braeteoles, the outer whorl shorter than the inner, which equals the closed 

 corolla. Both the latter and the calyx are of a ' red black.'' 



" It flowers continuously throughout the year, but most freely in the winter months; it 

 also commences to bloom when only 2 to 4 inches high, and a small plant has from 20 to 40 

 blooms open at one time, and thus with its neat habit and pleasing foliage it will be exceed- 

 ingly valuable for decorative purposes." $ 1.00. 



GRAPTOPHYLLUM NORTONII. 



11 The leaves are of ovate-oblong form, about 6 inches long and 2J inches broad, and deep 

 glossy green. The mid-ribs are at first light rose, and have on one or both sides a central 

 blotch of light yellow. As the leaves approach maturity the mid-ribs deepen to crimson, 

 and the blotches become suffused with rose." 50 cents. 



* PANAX LACINIATUM. 



An elegant and very distinct plant. The leaves are tinted and indistinctly marked with 

 pale olive brown, and form a rather complicated mass of narrow segments ; they are bipin- 

 nate, nearly as broad as long, and have a drooping contour ; and the pinnules or segments 

 are very variable in size and form, presenting the appearance of a complex head of foliage 

 in which the lanceolate lobes or pinnules have the preponderancy. $ 1.00. 



