PLHNT DEPARTMENT. 
Select List of Seasonable Decorative and Flowering Stock. 
ABLTILONS. 
(Chinese Bell Flower, or Flowering Maple.) 
Most desirable free-.lowering plants for the conservatory or 
window garden. We can supply in six distinct colors, viz.: 
White, yellow, orange, pink, red and carmine. 10 cts. each; 
$1.00 per doz. 
ACACIA. 
Armata. A most desirable house plant, succeeding under the 
same conditions as an Azalea or Camellia ; the bright canary- 
yellow globular flowers are produced in March and April. 
$1.00 each., 
AGLAONEMA. 
Versicolor. An Aroid of dwarf growth suited to the warm 
conservatory ; foliage light green, irregularly blotched with 
patches of grey and deep green. 50 cts. each. 
Costatum. A dwarf, compact variety with heart shaped 
leaves of dark, shining green, with white midrib and scatter¬ 
ing blotches of white. 50 cts. each. 
ALLAMANDA. 
Williams]!. This handsome variety is quite dwarf, and forms 
a compact bush, with trusses of flowers of a very rich, yet deli¬ 
cate, tint of yellow, deliciously scented and in bloom during 
the greater part of the year. 25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz. 
Henderson!. A strong-growing variety, with very large yellow 
flowers. 25 cts. and 50 cts. each. 
Aralia Elhgantissima. 
ALOCASIAS. 
Macrohiza Variegata. Bright green leaves, blotched and 
mnbled with white. $1.00 each 
We can also supply a limited number of rare varieties, such as 
Lowi, Sanderiana, etc. Complete li>t and prices on application. 
ALPINIA SANDERS. 
A handsome new species from New Guinea of this useful 
class of stove plant, with erect stems and short-stalked glabrous 
leaves, 4 to 5 inches long by J to 1J- inches wide, tapering at 
both ends; of a rich, shining green, regularly s.riped at close 
intervals witlt broad, while bands diverging from lhe midrib to 
the margin. $1.00 each. 
APHELANDRA. 
AM'HIRIUMS. 
(Flamingo Flower.) 
Tretty greenhouse plants that have many good qualities. Their 
peculiar-shaped flowers of rich colorings frequently last on the 
plant from two to three months. 
Andreanum Hybrids. A fine collection of seedlings, in 
scarlet, red, rose and white. $1 00 and $1.50 each. 
Scherzerianum. Brilliant scarlet, 50 cts. and $1.00 each. 
— Album. White. $2 00 each. 
— Grandiflorum. Large scarlet. $1.00 each. 
— Mme. Dalliere. Soft salmon-pink. $1 00 each. 
— Roseum. Salmon-rose. $1.00 each. 
— Rothschildianum. White spotted crimson. $1.50 each. 
— Sanguineum. Rich crimson. $1.50 each. 
Worocqueanum. Grown for its ornamental foliage, which 
is deep green, with lighter veins and midrib. $1.00 each. 
Roezlii. A pretty, hot-house plant, with silvery-green foliage 
and showy terminal spikes of bright, red-bracted flowers, pro¬ 
duced principally during the late autumn. 25 cts. each ; $2.50 
per doz.. 
ARALIA. 
Handsome decorative foliage plants lor the stove or warm 
conservatory ; elegant for exhibition purposes. 
Long, narrow, deep-gteen foliage, with crimson-bronze mid- 
$1 00 each. 
Finely-divided, metallic green foliage. $1.50 each. 
Foliage rather broad, of a deep, glossy green, relieved by 
with narrow leaflets of a dark green above 
$1.50 each. 
Chabrierli. 
rib. 
Elegantissima. 
Kerchoveana. 
a pale midrib. $1.50 each. 
Veitchii. A handsome species 
and red underneath. $1.50 each. 
Gracillima. Similar to above, but with narrower foliage. 
ARAUCARIA. 
(Norfolk Island Pine.) 
Excelsa. As a decorative plant for the house this is one of the handsom¬ 
est and most serviceable plants in our collection. 
4 inch pots, 6 inches high.$0.50 each. 
5- inch pots, 12 inches high. 100 each. 
6- inch pots, 18 inches high. 1 -50 each. 
6-inch pots, 24 inches high. 2.00 each. 
Excelsa Glauca. Identical with the above, except in the color of the 
foliage, which is of a bluish or glaucous color. 
5- inch pots, 10 inches high ... .$1 00 each. 
6- inch pots, 15 inches high. .. 2.00 each. 
Robusta Compacts. Compact growth, producing even a more symmet¬ 
rical plant than Exctlsa ; the c>lor is a rich, deep green. Strong plants, 
in 5-inch pots, 10 inches high, $1.50 each ; 6 inch pots, 15 inches high, 
$2.00 each. 
ARIIISIA CRENULATA. 
A very ornamental greenhouse plant, with dark green foliage, producing 
clusters of brilliant red berries. 25 cts., 50 cts., $1.00 and $1.50 each. 
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Araucaria Excelsa. 
