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SlEBHECHT & WaDLEY'S CATALOGUE OP 
XXIII, 
5UCCULENT FmNTS. 
Including Agaves, Yuccas, Aloes, Echeverias, Euphorbias, Mesetnbryanthemums, Etc., together with 
a Select List of Cactuses. 
SUCCULENT PLANTS are useful in manj- situations, both in-doors and in the garden or on the lawn. They 
are especially available for rockeries, and lend themselves to out-door bedding in sunny places in a most dis- 
tinct and effective way. Nearly all of the Agaves and many of the Aloes, and others of robust habit, make 
handsome ornamental plants on lawns, or for decorating entrances, balconies, etc., affording a most admirable con- 
trast to the tropical foliage plants, while the extreme beauty and regularity of " carpet " or "ribbon " beds wrought 
out with Echeverias as the principal factor is well known. Many of the Cactuses and Mesembi-yanthemums are 
noted for their brilliant and beautiful flowers, of great range of color and form, and often richly fragrant; while the 
strange and wonderful shapes and habits of the Euphorbias, Stapelias and Crassulas win for them much favor. 
This class of plants is rapidly returning to public favor, and has the great merit of requiring a minimum of cara 
and attention from the planter. We have, in addition to those here catalogued, many rare and curious specimens, 
which will be described and priced on application. 
AOAVZS. Noble and massive plants, quite familiar as 
"Century Plants " in many parts of the country. The.y 
are of much value for decorating; in Mexico many 
species are of the greatest economical worth. The 
idea that it takes them one hundred j ears to flower, 
is erroneous ; the flower spike is produced at the ma- 
turity of the plant, whenever that may be. 
A. Americana. The ordinary foi-m . . . ^lO 50 to $1 00 
A. varieg'ata. Very desirable; the 
foliage is beautifully margined with rich 
yellow 1 00 to 10 00 
A. luteo-atriata. A striking form . 1 00 to 5 00 
A. medio-picta. In this the yellow 
stripes are in the centre of the leaf . 
A. applanata. Most excellent decorative 
plant ; the leaves are in a dense rosette 
form 1 .50 to 
A. celsiana. A very beautiful Mexican 
species 1 00 to 
A. filifera. A short-leaved, dwarf Agave 
with peculiar thready formations at 
1 00 to 10 00 
00 
00 
1 
00 
to 
5 
00 
A. Qilbeyi (Riirzliiiiin). Very fine . 
1 
00 
to 
10 
00 
1 
00 
to 
5 
00 
A. Salmiana aureo-marginatis. A 
very 
distinct gold-mai-gined Agave . . . 
1 
50 
to 
5 
00 
A. striata. Has very narrow leaves. 
Sec 
1 
00 
to 
5 
00 
A. univittata. A fine species, with 
rigid 
leaves, having a broad pale band . 
1 
00 
to 
5 
00 
A. VerschaiFeltii, Glaucous leaves, 
of a 
distinct character 
1 
50 
to 
.3 
00 
A. VictorisB Be^na. Has peculiar 
short 
and stiff leaves, oddly margined and 
striped; a handsome little plant, and will 
flower at an early age, affording a curi- 
ous spectacle. (See p. 7; see cut, p. 135) 
A^OI!. Very interesting and curious plants, with thick 
and fleshy leaves, frequently in a rosette. They re- 
quire about the same treatment as should be given the 
Agaves, and like all plants of this class, stand any 
amount of sunshine with but little moisture. 
A. albocincta. A beautiful species, with leaves ob- 
scurely lined and spotted, and margined red or 
white $1 00 to $5 00 
A. arborescens. A tree-like form, with a 
dense rosette of glaucous green pointed 
leaves 50 to 3 00 
A. ciliata. A species of graceful habit . 50 to 3 00 
A. dichotoma. The "Quiver Tree;" a pe- 
culiar species, with a very stout stem or 
trunk 1 00 to 5 00 
50 to 
An excellent 
S 50 to 7 50 
50 to 2 00 
50 to 3 00 
50 to 3 00 
A. echinata 
A. maciilata ^Ahyssinica) 
species with a stem 
A. mitresformis. Ascending lanceolate 
leaves of light glaucous green, concave 
on face and convex on back 
A. saponaria. Leaves very distinctly 
spotted and lined on the back 
A. serratula. Pale green leaves, faintly 
marked, set with numei-ous small spines 
on the edges 
A. virens 
A. vulgaris (liarbadensis). A very fine 
decorative species ; it resembles an At/ave 
Americana set on a stem a foot high . . . 
APICBA. A genus of succulent plants closely allied 
to the Aloes. Several species, each, 35 cents to $1. 
COTYLEDON. Elegant succulent plants, having hand- 
some flowers; very desirable. 
C. arboreum $0 25 to $1 00 
C. orbiculata ' 25 to 1 00 
50 to 
50 to 
3 00 
3 00 
.50 to 1 00 
