FLORIDA NURSERY GARDEN NEWS 
Plant your home to make Florida more beautiful 
VOL. I 
OCTOBER, 1955 
NO. ll 
SELF HEADING PHILODENDRONS HAVE DUAL PERSONALITY! 
OTHER TROPICAL 
ARALIA ELEGANTISSIMA. New tropical beauty with narrow foli- 
age of an unusual reddish maroon color when young and having large 
palmate leaves when mature. $1.00 up. 
AGAPANTHUS. Blue Lily of the Nile. Strap type foliage and tall 
flower spiked with umbels of lovely blue flowers in the spring. $2.00 
up. 
CLIVIA. Lush green strap foliage and umbels of bright blossoms 
ranging from soft salmon pink to deep orange red. Spring bloomer. 
$3.50 and up. 
DRACENA: 
Mme. Eugene Andre. Bright maroon foliage. $1.00 and up. 
Warnecki. Green with narrow white stripe along the leaf blade. 
$1.50 up. 
Massangeana. 
$2.50 up. 
Marginata. Narrow shiny dark green foliage with maroon edge. 
$1.50 and up. 
Godseffiana. Small leathery deep-green leaves spotted with white. 
Broad yellow center stripe in dark green leaf. 
Slender stems. 50c and up. 
Virens. Shining green foliage. Slender growth. Very attractive. 
$1.50 up. 
CROTONS. Many beautiful varieties ranging in shades from creamy 
white thru deep bright pinks to deep maroon. Many green and 
bronze variations, and many forms and shapes of foliages. Wonderful 
for pots, patio, or planter box use. 75¢ up. 
DIEFFENBACHIA. 
Amoena. Large leathery shining green leaves spotted with white. 
$2.00 ea. 
Roerhsi. Leaf blade almost entirely yellow, with green border 
and blotches of ivory. $1.00 and up. 
FATSHEDERA. (Fatsia-Ivy hybrid). Upright growing semi-vine 
with large ivy shaped leaves of waxy texture. $1.00 up. 
VERY TROPICAL IN THEIR APPEARANCE, YET 
HARDY TO CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN FLORIDA! 
“Self heading” Philodendron means that it spreads from 
a central head and makes a shrub, rather than a vine as 
many do. This beautiful tropical plant has withstood 
temperatures down to 18 degrees without damage! 
There are many varieties of selfheading Philodendron — 
Selloum, McNeillianum, Fosterianum, Species No. 1, Bi- 
pinnatifidium, and others. Their foliages vary from pale 
green to deep olive and are variable from solid to very 
deeply cut segments. 
Wonderful for foundation plantings, patio plant, or in- 
door or outdoor planter boxes! It’s easy to grow, too! 
FOLIAGE PLANTS 
FICUS ELASTICA. Broad leaf rubber plant; dark green foliage. 
$1.00 and up. 
FICUS DOESCHERI. 
gations. $1.50 up. 
FICUS PANDURATA. Fiddle Leaf rubber plant with mammoth 
foliage shaped like fiddle. Excellent for interior use. $3.50 up. 
NOEREGELIA SPECTABILIS. (Fingernail plant). Elegantly shaped 
plant with metallic green leaves with reverse maroon with symmetri- 
cal gray crossbands. Red fingernail tips. $2.50 up. 
ORCHIDS. 
Cattleyas, various varieties. 
Vandas, strap leaf, $12.50 up. 
Vandas, terete type leaf, $2.50 up. 
Broad gray green foliage with creamy varie- 
$5.00 up. 
Epidendrums, many species including hybrids, $1.50 up. 
PHAIUS GRANDIFOLIUS. Nun’s Lily Orchid. Terrestrial or earth 
growing orchid producing heavy spikes of beautiful blossoms. Warm 
brown petals flecked with silver and magenta, and a purple lip mar- 
gined with yellowish brown. Very easy to grow. Blooming size, 
$3.50 and up. 
SPATHIPHYLLUM. Long narrow shining green foliage, growing 
from center roots. Spathe and spadix white, resembling small calla 
lily bloom. Flowers last for weeks. $1.50 and up. 
SCHEFFLERA. Australian Umbrella Tree. Large digitate glossy 
leaves with six to eight leaflets. Very attractive foliage plant for tub, 
planter or patio use. When mature produces terminal spike of maroon 
flowers. $1.50 and up. 
NEANTHE BELLA PALM. Slender dwarf growing palm with at- 
tractive foliage. Colorful seed pods add to beauty. 50c and up. 
STRELITZIA REGINAE. Beautiful Bird of Paradise with the gor- 
geous bright blue and orange blossoms resembling bird in flight. 
$3.50 and $5.00 sizes. 
