SELECTED LIST OF SPECIMEN TREES OF SUBSTANTIAL SIZE 
(Only a very few of these available for immediate planting). 
SOLANUM MACRANTHUM. This is one of the few members of the 
potato family that makes a tree. Native of Brazil, it grows often to 30 
feet, has spiny hairy leaves that are a foot long and bears large purplish- 
blue and white flowers with conspicuous yellow anthers. In clusters to 5 
inches long. It thrives best in sheltered and party shaded locations where 
its soft wood will be protected from high winds. It is fast growing and 
rather tender. Specimens 5 feet. $5. 
BAWHINIA MONANDRA. One of the finest of the orchid trees, a gov- 
ernment introduction from the Philippines, but native of Burma. It blooms 
here in Florida in November. On opening, the upper petal of the large 
flowers shows a great deal of red on a bright yellow background, one of 
the adjacent petals shows some red and yellow on a white and pale pink 
background, and the other three petals are white and a very pale pink with 
many fine red dots splattered over them. As the flower grows older, the 
red, yellow and white all change to pink. This tree drops its leaves in De- 
cember, puts on its new dress in May. Specimen 4 years old, about 6 feet 
tall. Will bloom again in November. $6. 
TABEBUIA PENTAPHYLIA. Beautiful mature 6-foot specimen tree which 
is fully described elsewhere in this catalog. $6. 
ADENANTHERA PAVONINA. Fine 6-foot examples of this red bead 
tree, described elsewhere in this catalog. Ready to plant in your yard for 
ornament. $3, 
ORMOSIA COCCINEA. A blue-flowered bead tree. Very tender. Un- 
known in the United States. Bears large sprays of butterfly-like flowers. 
S-gallon can. $4. 
BAUHINIA SP. This variety of Bauhinia purpurea bears large flowers 
of a deep rose color, and the parent tree in my yard is the most beautiful mem- 
ber of this group I have ever seen. Plant 6 feet tall, 3 years old. Blooms in 
Wovember and keeps on flowering for a month. $5. 
BAUHINIA RETICULATA. The flowers of this West African species are 
in many-flowered sprays, rather than singly, and although not particularly 
showy, they make this tree a satisfactory lawn specimen. It never gets very 
big and the flowers are down where you can see them. 4-feet. $4. 
BAUHINIA TOMENTOSA. This is the bushy shrub or small tree with 
clear golden yellow, tubular flowers, quite unlike other Bauhinias. It is 
quite showy in bloom and flowers several times a year. 5-feet. $4. 
KOELREUTERIA SP. I am offering three different species of this Gold- 
enraintree. First, the hardiest and showiest K. panniculata, used as an avenue 
tree in Memphis and elsewhere; completely deciduous in Florida. 6-feet. $3. 
Second, K. bipinnata, which W. B. Clarke of San Jose, Calif., calls: ‘‘One of 
the most showy and beautiful trees that can be grown in this climate.’’ Yellow 
flowers. Retains some foliage in Florida winters. 3-feet. $2. Third, the 
more tropical K. formosanus which is tender, keeps its foliage, carries large 
sprays of yellow flowers at the end of the branches. Gallon cans $1. 
PTERCSPERMUM ACERIFOLIUM. This is a large Indian tree with most 
beautiful foot-square, maple-like leaves, green above and white beneath, and 
bearing very large fragrant white flowers which are somewhat hidden by the 
pig rine A striking specimen, tender to cold, evergreen, rare in Florida. 
-feet. 3 
CALPURNIA AUREA. A small African evergreen tree bearing yellow 
butterfly-shaped flowers in 6-inch strings. Pretty as a specimen against massed 
shrubbery, but not particularly showy. 6-feet. $3. 
ALEURITES MONTANA and A. MOLUCCANA. These two more tropical 
relatives of the tung oil tree, have beautiful big leaves and put on a considerable 
show at blooming time, followed by oil-bearing nuts of commercial value. 4- 
feet. $3 and $2. 
NOTE: By mistake I have raised some rare tropical trees that do not have 
showy. flowers, such as Blighia sapida, Khaya nyassica, Swietenia mahogani, 
Annona muricata, Quercus suber, Pleiogynium solandri, Flacourtia ramonchi, 
ete. If interested, write. 
