RTew, Rare and Beautiful Plants. 
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XVI. 
5ELEQT DeCOR/ITIVE Fl/INTS. 
Including Aroideae or Cereceee, Bromeliacae, Pandaneae, Musaceae and Scitameneae. 
IN THIS DEPARTMENT we have grouped, under three sub departments, a selection of hot-house decorative 
plants of great beauty and value. In connection with the Palms, Ferus and Orchids, they serve to give bright- 
ness of color and richness of effect to many sub-tropical and tropical houses, and are, some of them, also very ex- 
cellent for out-door summer adornments. In this, as in other departments, our tropical nurseries give us great ad- 
vantages in growing the plants to perfection. 
/1R0IDE/15 OR CER/ICE/15. 
This natural order contains many plants of extreme beauty — some are new and rare, and others of a most im- 
posing and majestic habit. They are all tine decorative plants. 
AIiOCASIA. These beautiful stove decorative plants 
are of comparatively easy growth, and have all con- 
spic:uous and handsome foliage, beautifull.v marked and 
blotched . 
A. cuouUata SO 75 to §1 00 
A. cuprea (('. Koch) 50 to 1 00 
A. gigantea 1 00 to 2 00 
A. intermedia 2 00 to 3 00 
A. Jenningfsii 1 00 to 2 00 
A. Lowii 1 00 to 2 00 
A. macrorhiza fol. var .50 to 1 00 
A. marginata 1 00 to 5 00 
A. Marshallii 75 to 1 00 
A. metallica 1 00 to 1 50 
A. odorata {mlora ) 1 00 to I 50 
A. picta 1 00 to 1 50 
A. Portei 1 00 to 3 50 
A. reginaa 2 50 to 5 00 
A. Sanderiana. A magnificent form. See 
cut, page 4 2 50 to 5 00 
A. Thibautiana. See special description, 
page 5 1 .50 to 4 00 
A. tigrina 1 00 to 2 50 
A. Veitchii 1 50 to 2 00 
A. Zebrina 1 00 to 2 00 
AMORFHOFHAIiI>US. A very curious and remarka- 
ble genus, with odd foliage and very large /lowers form- 
ed like a Calla lily, but with the spadix greatly enlarged 
and ijrolonged ; the flowers ai)pear before the leaves. 
A. Campanulatus $0 75 to $1 50 
A. nivosus 75 to 1 50 
A. Rivieri 50 to 1 00 
A. virosus 1 00 to 2 c 0 
ANTHUBIUra. A lai-ge genus of valuable plants, many 
of which are remarkably beautiful in both foliage and 
flower. No stove house collection is complete without 
Anthuriums. 
I ANTHtJBIUJVI Andreanum. See special description 
and cut, pages 5 and 0 
$■3 
00 
to 
§5 
00 
1 
00 
to 
2 
00 
1 
00 
to 
3 
00 
1 
00 
to 
2 
50 
1 
00 
to 
2 
00 
A. Perrierense. See description, page 5 . 
2 
50 
to 
4 
00 
1 
00 
to 
2 
00 
1 
50 
to 
3 
00 
0 
00 
to 
5 
00 
1 
50 
to 
,1 
00 
1 
50 
to 
3 
00 
1 
50 
to 
3 
00 
1 
00 
to 
2 
00 
A. Scherzerianum. A beautiful plant, 
and unexcelled for conservatory decora- 
tion ; the beautiful bright crimson spathe 
and the striking orange spadix last in per- 
fection for months 
50 
to 
1 
00 
1 
50 
to 
2 
00 
A. Bennettii. See description, page 5 
5 
00 
to 
10 
00 
A. Cjrpherii. See description, page 5. 
1 
00 
to 
2 
50 
A. maximum. Very large spathes. 
1 
50 
to 
3 
00 
A. Bothschildianum. See descrip- 
2 
■50 
to 
5 
00 
A. Wardii. Large and brilliant 
2 
00 
to 
4 
00 
1 
50 
to 
2 
50 
CALABIUni. The delicate beauty and varied tints of 
the Caladiums make them indispensable for all decor- 
ative arrangements. No doscrii)tion can do justice to 
the extreme elegance of their leaves. 
C. argyrites. Small leaves, with silvery spots; of 
dwarf growth, and makes elegant specimens for table 
decorations $0 25 to $0 50 
