Tro;^ical Greenhouse Plants 
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TROPICAL GREENHOUSE PLANTS 
HIS Important Department includes all the best genera, species and varieties of flowering and foliage plant! 
wliich are grown under glass, either in a stove or warm-house temperature, or in a greenhouse or cool-house 
temperature. The majority of tender flowering bulbs forms a sub-department ; the bulbous and tuberous forms, 
grown for their beautiful leaves, are classed here with other foliage plants. 
Plants requiring a stove or warm-house temperature are marlted with s. Those that grow best in a cool or 
greenhouse temperature are marlied with g. 
ABUTIIiON. A class of showy flowering plants, with 
bell shaped flowers, produced in profusion. They 
are of good liabit and very decorative in any sit- 
uation. 
gA. Boule de Neige. White flowers $0 25 
gA. Prince of Orange 25 
f^A. Thompsonii. Richly variegated 25 
ACACIA. A large genus of flowering plants and tress, 
with exqui.sitely beautiful and delicate flowers, 
mostly of yellow tints and fine fernlike foliage. We 
offer only the best kinds useful for cut flowers and 
as decorative plants. 
gA, cordata $0 50 
gA, cultrif ormis 50 
gA, dealbata floribunda 50 
^A. Drummondii. Lovely prfle lemon yellow 
flowers; plants of dwarf habit 1 00 
gA, oruata 50 
gA, paradoxa 50 
gA. pnbescens. Very fine and showy, with yel- 
low flowers .$1 00 to 2 50 
JBCnyVEA. Very handsome stove plants, with grace- 
fully disposed straplike leaves, and flowers of rich 
and brilliant colors in panicles on erect scapes. 
s2E, coelestis $1 00 
coernlescens 1 00 
sIE. fulgens 1 00 
s Luddemanniana 1 00 
s SS, miniata 1 00 
Begina-Amalia 1 00 
sJE. spectabilis 1 00 
s.a!. VeitcMi (Chcvallicria) 1 00 
AGIiAONEMA. Pine Aroids, with beautiful foliage. 
Only the best species are given below. 
gA, costata $2 CO 
gA, picta. Of dwarf habit, with fine, dark-col- 
ored and wliite leaves 1 50 
AIiOCASIA, These beautiful stove decorative plants 
are of comparatively easy growth, and all have con- 
spicuous and liandsonie foliage, beautifully marked 
and blotclied. 
sA. Chantrieri $5 00 
sA. Chelsonii $2 50 to 5 00 
sA. intermedia 2 00 to 3 00 
s A. Jenningsii 1 00 to 2 00 
sA. Johnstoni 2 50 
$A. Lowii 1 00 to 2 00 
sA. iiiacrorhiza fol. var 50 to 1 00 
sA. metallica 1 00 to 1 50 
sA. princeps. A species from the Malay Archi- 
pelago " 5 00 
s A. Reginse 5 00 
sA, Sanderiana. A very remarkable plant, 
with deeply sinuated leaves of a dark slate 
color, with ivory white bands, midrib aud 
nerves $2 50 to 5 00 
« A. Sedenii. A very fine hylirid between A. 
JjOicii and A. nictalUca, combining the mer- 
its of both these fine species. A first class 
exhibition plant $2 00 to 3 50 
ALOCASIA METALUCA 
^Alocasia Thibautiana. A very imposing 
plant, with immense leaves of elegant form 
and rich coloring $2 50 to$4 00 
sA. Veitchii 1 50 to 2 00 
sA. violacea 50 
sA. zebrina 1 00 to 2 00 
'/ALPINIA vittata. An ornamental perennial, with 
gingpr-liUe roots, pink flowers, and smooth, lanceo- 
late leaves, beautifully striped with white. 
?1 00 to $2 00 
AMORPHOPHALLUS. A very curious and remark- 
able genus, with odd foliage and very large flowers 
formed like a Oalla lily, but the spadix greatly en- 
larged and prolonged ; the flowers appear before the 
leaves. 
(tA. campannlatns $0 75 to $1 50 
pA. Rivieri .^)0 to 1 00 
ANANASSA. The genus to which belongs the Pine- 
apple : all are handsome, strong plauls of a very in- 
teresting cliararter. 
<A. Forteana fol. var. Leaves deep olive 
green, with a broad band of pale vellow. . 
■tl 50 to $5 00 
»A, sativa fol. var. A variegated form of the 
ordinary Pineapple, and a very handsome 
plant ; leaves beautifully striped with 
white, green and creamv yellow, and tinged 
with red $2 50 to 5 00 
The Most Complete Collection of Plants in America. 
