New, Rare and Beautiful Plants. 
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II. 
Other Wew and Rare Plants of Recent 
Introduction. 
HERE are included many good, new plants of our own introduction, some promising and popular foster-children 
of other well-known firms, and some fine old plants quite as rare as the novelties, whose beauty and merit 
have not yet been generally recognized. There is presented a brilliant array of decorative plants for both 
greenhouse and garden, noteworthy among the latter being the new hybrid Begonias and Cannas for bedding. For 
the new Orchids offered here we ask especial attention. 
Amomum vittatum. 
A very remarkable and striking plant, much resembling 
the Maranta. It is of dwarf habit, producing tufts of lan- 
ceolate coriaceous green leaves, having whitish bars or 
stripes between the nerves, of which there are six or eight 
principal pairs ; the flowers are rosy red, borne in dense 
spikes at the foot of the leaf-stalk. $1.50 to $5. 
Anthurium Chantrieri. 
An odd and beautiful species, with a spathe of ivory 
white, erect, oblong, acuminate; spadix dark violet ; leaves 
triangular, with widely spreading basal lobes, dark, shin- 
ing green ; a vigorous hybrid. $5 to $7.50. 
For other Anthuriums, see Novelties and General 
Collection. 
Aphelandras. 
APHELANDRA chrysops. One of the handsomest 
specits yet introduced, producing a grand golden inflo- 
rescence a foot in length, composed of four rows of com- 
pound, ovate, pointed bracts, proceeding from which are 
flowers of the same bright yellow color. To add to its 
beauty, this plant has also strikingly variegated leaves, 
thus combining two attractive qualities, and rendering 
it one of the most desirable of ornamental plants. It 
has been imported from Brazil. $1.50 to 83. (See cut, 
page 14.) 
A. fasciiiator. Flowers bright vermilion, in very large 
spikes ; foliage olive-green, beautifully banded with 
silvery white, whilst the under side is purplish violet ; 
fine. $1.50 to $3, 
Ardisia crispa. 
A pretty greenhouse or conservatory plant, of upright 
and symmetrical growth, with glossy foliage, purplish un- 
derneath, and crimped along the edges. It bears an 
abundance of red berries similar to those of ^. crenulala, 
but much larger. Will prove a valuable decorative plant. 
50 cts. to $1. 
New Aristolochias. 
ARISTOLiOCHIA cymbifcra. The flowers of all the 
Aristolochias are curious and comical freaks of nature, 
quite handsome in their way, and strangely colored. 
Cymbifera's flowers are eight or more inches long, and 
of most peculiar shape ; the ground color is creamy 
white, marked and blotched with blackish maroon. A 
strong-growing summer-climber, flowering profusely, 
and attaining a height of 10 or 15 feet in one season. 
50 cts. each, three plants for 
A. ridicula. A very remarkable and most interesting 
new species, introduced from Brazil. The tube of the 
flower is from to 4 'A inches long, abruptly contracted 
and then bent upon itself below the middle, the basal 
part being much inflated, the upper portion somewhat 
conical, widening toward the mouth, which is prolonged 
into two ascending and backwardly directed lobes, di- 
verging from each other at an obtuse angle. The entire 
limb is of a tawny color, closely covered with dark pur- 
ple reticulations on a cream-colored ground ; the lobes 
are dark, with light reticulations. The bright green 
leaves are orbicular reniform, the entire plant, stems, 
leaves and flowers, being covered with hair. $2.50 to -$4. 
(See cut, page 15.) 
/P^r For other Aristolochias, see Stove and Hothouse 
Plants. 
Lemoine's New Hybrid Begonias. 
Especially Adapted for Bedding. 
The Begonias have attracted great attention during 
the last three years, and quite fittingly, since we do not 
know of another class of plants wherein so much progress 
has been made as in this useful and handsome genus. All 
the good qualities of the various types and sections have 
been so manipulated that now we have them combined in 
what might be called an Improved Section. These Be- 
gonias are perfect in habit of growth ; they have beautiful 
(t)liage in all the various shades, from fresh, light green 
through yellowish and brownish greens to rich bronze; 
they have exquisite, waxen flowers, superb in form and 
color, and borne in great panicles abundantly and inces- 
santly ; and they are especially adapted for bedding, be- 
cause they stand the hot sun well. 
Gloii-e de Lorraine. Of dwarf, compact habit, with 
roundish, fresh green, bronze-tinted leaves, and well- 
set, four-petaled flowers of fresh, rosy carmine; an 
ahu <lant bloomer. The French and (Jerman press 
pronounce this the best Begonia ever introduced. I3. 
