old and established plants. The 6prays are long 
and the flowers a bright scarlet. 
Bletilla hyacinthina: A hardy terrestrial orchid 
that performs well in any bog garden. It comes 
from China and grows from a bulb. The flower 
is a dainty and beautiful lavender purple. There is 
a white variety. Plants $1.00 each, lavender or 
white types. 
Bromeliaceae: Bromeliads or “air plants”. These 
are beautiful and odd plants of the pineapple fami¬ 
ly much favored by collectors and fanciers. They 
are native of the forests of the tropics and semi¬ 
tropics, including Florida. The Spanish “moss” 
of the Lower South is a Bromeliad, Tillandsia 
usneoides. We have a nice collection of some of 
the better types, including the following: 
Billbergia nutans: The foundation of every 
Bromeliad collection and the easiest to grow as a 
pot plant. Slender rosettes of long gray leaves 
in a cluster like a pineapple top, and producing 
a dainty spike of drooping blue and green flowers 
in the spring, marked by red bracts. Price 25c 
each. 
Billbergia thyrsoides : A large vigorous type, with 
broad flat leaves, yellowish green, and with bright 
crimson flowers in summer. It can be handled as 
a pot plant. The best soil for any bromeliad is 
a mixture of one half leaf mold and one half 
sandy loam. A little sheep manure may be added 
when necessary. Plants $1.00 each. 
Lemons as pot plants 
We have a number of varieties of lemons in 
small sizes, growing in pots. These are cutting- 
grown plants and will do well in greenhouse or 
conservatory, or the window garden.. The varie¬ 
ties we offer are Meyer Chinese; Villa Franca; 
Perrine; Florida Rough lemon; Sperryola lemon 
and Citron. These comprise the best known and 
most widely grown varieties in Florida today. The 
price is 50c each, for all but the Perrine lemon, 
in 3 or 4 inch pots. Perrine lemon is a fine 
new hybrid lemon originated by the United States 
department of agriculture, being a hybrid of the 
Genoa lemon and the Key lime. It is the newest 
development and highly recommended. Price 75c 
per plant. The Meyer Chinese lemon is quite 
hardy for a lemon, while the Villa Franca is the 
standard commercial lemon of years past. 
Choice citrus fruits. 
Winter Park is in Orange county, the center of 
c'trus growing in Central Florida, and some of 
the finest quality fruit in the state is produced in 
our area. We are in a position to ship fancy 
selected oranges, grapefruit, tangerines. King 
Oranges, navels, and Temple oranges in season 
to any part of the United States. The price of 
the fruit will vary according to variety and the 
season, but will average around $4.00 to $5.00 a 
box packed, expressage extra. Try some fancy 
Florida citrus fruit direct from Central Florida’s 
fine groves, with all the sunshine vitamines and 
health giving qualities. Smaller grade oranges for 
juice can be supplied at lower prices. Write for 
definite price and express figures. 
Miscellaneous 
Cortaderia Argenteum: Pampas Grass, fine 
tropical grass producing silvery (or pink) plumes 
in late summer. Divisions, 25c to $1.00, including 
the pink variety, “Roi de Roses.” 
Polianthes tuberosa: The tube-rose, Mexican 
single variety, the most satisfactory under all 
conditions. Strong bulbs, $3.00 per 100. 
Severinia buxifolia: The Timer box-leaved Sever- 
inia, an extra choice sub-tropical and greenhouse 
low and slow-growing hedge plant, a relative of 
citrus. Small plants, 50c. Little seedlings for 
lining out, $5.00 per 100. The leaves are a rich 
green and the plant has short spines, and handsome 
black berries with a sweet taste. A new evergreen 
plant and highly recommended. Will stand a 
few degrees of frost. 
Eurya emarginata: A fine new evergreen plant 
of the Camellia family, bearing handsome green 
leaves something like holly. It is one of the 
most ornamental foliage shrubs known. Strong 
plants $1.50 each. Hardiness not determined. 
Damnacanthus indica: A fine small-leaved and 
small-flowered evergreen shrub from lower Asia. 
Bursts into full bloom in the early spring with a 
host of tiny white blossoms, which make it Very 
effective as a pot plant or for a small specimen 
shrub. Hardiness not tested, but not likely to 
stand freezing. $1.50 each. These last three 
plants are something new, for those seeking the 
unusual and worth while. They are meritorious 
in every way. 
Succulents and cacti 
Stapelia gigantea: This is a most unusual suc¬ 
culent from South Africa, resembling a cactus in 
growth, without any spines. It has curious flow¬ 
ers 6 inches to a foot across, resembling a brown 
marbled star, with an unpleasant aroma. 25c 
each. 
Euphorbia lactea: This is a plant that so close¬ 
ly resembles a cactus that it even has spines, and 
the fine points of differentiation are hardly worth 
explaining to a non-botanically minded person. 
However it has the usual milky sap of the Spurge 
family. 25c each. 
Epiphyllum varieties 
One of these is the best known “Night bloom¬ 
ing cactus”. Photograph of plant in bloom here, 
25c. Epiphyllum phyllanthus is the name. Rooted 
plant, 50c each. (Formerly Phyllocactus latifrons 
or something. The cactus names are never a sure 
thing.) The flowers are nearly a foot across and 
open at night, and fade by morning. A large plant 
may have many blooms. This cactus is easily 
handled in a pot and is sometimes grafteed. Not 
native to Florida. There are interesting horticul¬ 
tural hybrids with red, pink, white, yellow, and 
violet flowers. Information on request. 
Native Florida Cactus Species 
Pereskia pereskia: This is the most interesting 
cactus of them all. It is found in hammocks of 
lower Florida. It has white flowers, edible berries, 
and leaves like any other plant, and forms a 
strong climbing vine. It is sometimes incorrectly 
called the “white Bougainvillea”. Small plants 
25c. Also called “lemon vine” and used in graft¬ 
ing. 
Harrisia Simpsonii: This is a fine Florida na¬ 
tive cactus, liking moisture and rich soil, con¬ 
trary to desert cacti. $2.00 each. 
Selenicereus pteranthus: Snake cactus. Found 
native in Florida. This is a famous variety that 
will climb trees and walls without difficulty. The 
branches are 4 to 5 angled. It is used in grafting. 
Small plants 25c each. 
Rhipsalis cassutha: Mistletoe cactus, a marvelous 
trailing cactus, and the only cactus species also 
native to the old World. Small plants 50c. Should 
be grown on a shelf and the plant allowed to trail 
down. 
Hylocereus undatus: This is a three-angled vine 
cactus, and is one of the plants known as “night 
blooming cereus”, as it produces huge white, showy 
flowers nocturnally. Grows wild in Florida, al¬ 
though probably an introduced plant. 25c each. 
Cephalocereus Deeringii: A splendid Florida cac¬ 
tus from the rocky hammocks of the Florida 
keys. Very scarce. It makes huge plants 30 feet 
high. The plants resemble some of the desert cacti 
in appearance. Rooted sections, $1.50 each. 
Opuntia; Winter Park var. A: This is a fine and 
vigorous opuntia from Central Florida, identity 
of species not ascertained. It produces some of 
the finest yellow flowers of any cactus and in pro¬ 
fusion in midsummer; 25c each. Opuntia Winter 
Park var. B, is similar to the above except that 
it has the best spines of any cactus native to 
Central Florida that we have seen. These spines 
are fine for use in grafting. The plant is very 
decorative with its prickly pads. 25c each. 
Azalea Indica: These are the showy Indian 
azaleas grown in greenhouses in the north and in 
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