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F. WEINBERG, WOODSIDE, L. I. 
SUCCUliEJlTS 
From "Succus" latin, meaning "Sap" or thick fleshy-leaved plants. 
To those who delight in the unique forms and singular habits displayed 
in the vegetable kingdom, there still remains a vast number of succulents to 
choose from. They are grouped into various families, all of which are large 
and each of which is noted for the widely divergent forms, markings and 
modes of growth and reproduction displayed by individual members. Only a 
most general idea of their characteristics can be given in the brief space of 
an ordinary catalogue. Among the most massive and prominent of these are 
the 
AgaveSjZ., commonly called Century Plants. 
All armed with strong terminal thorns, keen as darning needles. 
Many of them are further fortified with equally sharp thorns straight 
or recurved along the entire leaf margins. They flower from the centre 
of the plant, which dies, upon maturing its seed. Probably the best 
known type is "Agave Americana," the American agave or century plant. 
The latter name is most misleading, for the plant blossoms within eight 
to fifteen years in its native habital, and under cultivation may be made 
to blossom at almost any period thereafter, so that no one, owning a 
well-grown plant, need despair of seeing its great spike of blossoms which 
often attains a height of twenty feet or more, and never fails to atract atten- 
tion. Very many of these plants are handsomely striped and lined in white 
or yellow, or blotched in light and dark shades of green and brown, and all are 
noticeably attractive and unexcelled for co^nservatory, bay window, hall or 
parlor. During the summer they make the most striking groups in the gar- 
den, or as a single plant on the lawn, and lend themselves admirably to the 
decoration of more pretentious grounds. They delight in almost any kind of 
a more sandy soil and stand all sort of neglect and abuse. Not all agaves 
obtain such enormous sizes as "Agave Americana," for "Agave Pumilla" will 
be almost fullgrown at the size of a wallnut. I list the folowing: 
Agave. 
americana 
americana fol. variegata. . 
americana fol. aur. marg 
pricta 
applanata 
applanata Parryi (hardy) 
atrovirens 
aurea 
Celsiana .< 
coerulescens 
densiflora 
ferox (true) rare 
Agave. 
.10 to 5.00 
.15 to 7.50 
.35 to 5.00 
.50 to 12.00 
.50 to 7.50 
.25 to 2.50 
.50 to 3.00 
•75 to 3.00 
.25 to 2.50 A. Verschaffettii 
1. 00 
1. 00 filifera 50 to 2.50 
