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SlEBRECHT & WaDLEY'S CATALOGUE OF 
XXIII. 
5MQQULENT PmNTS. 
Including Agaves, Yuccas, Aloes, Echeverias, Euphorbias, Mesembryanthemums, Etc., together with 
a Select List of Cactuses. 
SUCCULENT PLANTS are useful in many 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 beaut.y and regularity of "carpet " or "ribbon " beds wrought 
out with. Echeverias as the principal factor is well known. Many of the Cactuses and Mesembryanthemums 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. 
1 00 to 10 00 
I 00 to 5 00 
1 00 to 10 00 
AGAVE. Noble and massive plants, quite familiar as 
" Century Plants " in many parts of the country. They 
are of much value for decorating; in Mexico many 
species are of the greatest economical worth. The 
idea that it takes them one hundred years to flower, 
is erroneous ; the flower spike is produced at the ma- 
turity of the plant, whenever that may be. 
A. Americana. The ordinary form ... -SO .50 to SI 00 
A. Tariegata. Very desirable; the 
foliage is beautifully margined with rich 
yellow 
A, luteo-striata. A striking form 
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 
edges of leaves . . . ' 1 00 to 5 00 
A. Gilbeyi (R'"-2(i'<»((). Very fine .... 1 00 to 10 00 
A. Milleri arg'entea 1 00 to 5 00 
A. Salmiana aureo-marginatis. A very 
distinct gold-margined Agave 1 .50 to 5 00 
A.' stricta. Has very narrow leaves. See 
cut, jjage 135 
A. univittata. A fine species, with rigid 
leaves, having a broad pale band .... 
A. Verschaifeltii, (ilaucous leaves, of a 
distinct character 
A. VictorisB Regina. • Has peculiar short 
and stiff leaves, oddly margined and 
striped ; a handsome little plant, and will 
flower at an earl.y age, affording a curi- 
ous spectacle. (See p. 7; see cut, p. 135) 3 50 to 7 .50 
00 
5 00 
1 00 to 5 00 
1 00 to 5 00 
1 50 to 3 00 
AIiOE. 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 
50 to 3 00 
50 to 2 OO 
50 to 2 00 
A. echinata 
A. maoulata (AhysKinic.a) 
species with a stem 
A. mitrseformis. Ascending lancfeolate 
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 
mai-ked, set with numerous small spines 
on the edges 
A. virens 
A. vulgaris (JlarhadRiisln). A very fine 
decorative species; it resembles an Aunve 
Americana set on a stem a foot high . . 
AFICRA. 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. orbiculat.x 25 to 1 OO 
.50 to 
50 to 
.50 to 1 00 
