DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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Honesty. Hordeum Humea. 
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ingly ornamental seed pods ; of rapid growth, often run¬ 
ning twenty feet in a season. Plant where they are to 
remain, after the weather has become warm, and culti¬ 
vate like common beans, only give support for the vines 
to run upon. Tender annual ; ten to twenty feet high. 
Dolichos lablab, purpurea, purple. io 
“ 41 alba, white.io 
44 mixed, the above mixed.io 
44 giganteus, tall-growing variety, with large, 
purple flowers ; fourteen feet; very fine.io 
IBERIS —(See Candytuft.) 
ICE PLANTMMesembryanthemum). 
Mesembryanthemum, crystallinum (Ice Plant). 
Handsome and curious plant for hanging 
baskets, rock work, vases, and edgings. The 
leaves and steins are succulent and fleshy, and 
appear as though covered with ice crystals, 
and look like rock candy. The whole plant is 
peculiarly brilliant in the sunshine. The flower 
is white, and not conspicuous. Succeeds best 
in dry, sandy loam, and in a warm situation. 
Can be grown in pots or open border, the 
former having preference. Tender annual 
trailer ; six inches high. 5 
44 cardifolium variegatum, the leaves are 
blotched with light yellow and cream-colored 
spots. Fine for hanging baskets or dwarf 
masses. Hardy annual ; six inches high.io 
INDIAN SHOT —See Canna Indica.) 
IPOMEA. 
Beautiful climbers, and exceedingly attractive mixed 
with other climbers. The flowers are of a variety of 
shapes and sizes, and of an endless number of colors, 
many being wondrously brilliant, and of graceful form. 
They are alike good for green-house, for pots and bask¬ 
ets, and for trellis, stumps, arbors, &c. They require 
heat in starting, and some of the vaiieties will not suc¬ 
ceed out of the green-house. Tender annuals; five to 
ten feet high. 
Ipomea, coccinea (Star Ipomea), fine scarlet. 5 
4i bona nox (Good Night), pure white.10 
44 limbata, elegantly blotched and margined with 
white.10 
44 limbata hybrida, great variety of colors; fine.10 
44 elegantissima, large flowers, in form 
of a five-pointed star, with intense purple cen¬ 
ter, and pure white margin.10 
44 rubra ccerulea, immense flowers of bright 
celestial blue ; stove or green-house climber. .10 
44 fine mixed.10 
IPOMEA QUAMOCLIT— (See Cypress Vine.) 
IPOMOPSIS —(See Tree Cypress.) 
J ACOBJE A — (Senecio). 
Remarkably pretty, free-growing, profuse-flowering 
plants, almost unsurpassed for brilliancy and beauty. 
Grow freely from seed, and are easily propagated from 
cuttings, not one in fifty failing. The double are the 
Variegated Ice Plant. 
Hyacinth Bean. 
Ice Plant. 
