Beautify your home with 
flowering Trees 
Last week in these pages we listed a 
selection of Subtropical Fruit Trees—the 
first of such lists in a series suggesting 
various types of dooryard plantings to en- 
hance the beauty and value of your home 
property. This week our second list, set 
forth below, takes up the subject of Flow- 
ering Trees, offering a number of espe- 
cially choice varieties. Additional lists of 
recommended plantings are planned for 
the near future, covering such categories 
as Shade Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Vines, 
Salt-resistent Seaside Plants, etc. 
Most of the varieties are growing on 
our three-acre Demonstration Lawn we 
maintain as part of our Nursery operation. 
This Lawn (as well as our collection of 
colored photographs of many of the plants 
in bloom) is available for your inspection 
at any time. Please feel free to come in 
and have a look around without obli- 
gation. 
Again we invite you to consult our 
Landscaping Department headed by Mr. 
Charles Preston, a graduate Landscape 
Architect. Well qualified to discuss any 
phase of your horticultural problems, Mr. 
Preston is further prepared to advise you 
about your home plantings, all the way 
from helning you select a single tree or 
shrub to fill out your existing design, right 
on through to laying out and executing 
a complete landscaping plan for you. 
MAGNOLIA 
Vigorous plants, air layered 
from our heavy bearing mature 
trees to give you blooms years 
earlier than seedling plants of 
the same size—18 to 24 ins. at 
$3.50; 2 to 3 ft. at $5.00; 3 to 5 
ft. at $7.50. 
BAUHINIA 
“Mountain Ebony,” orchid-like 
blooms, pale yellow flowers, 
heaviest in spring—5 to 7 ft. at 
$7.50. Brick red Galpini variety 
spreading small trees, blooms all 
summer long, 4 to 5 ft. at $5.00. 
Also regular white and purple 
spring blooming varieties and, 
available later, pink autumn flow- 
ering variety (now in ful] bloom 
on our Demonstration Lawn). 
CASSIA 
“Shower trees,” pink flowering 
Nodosa and Grandis varieties 4 
to 6 ft. at $5.00; pale yellow, Fis- 
tula variety, large leafed, sum- 
mer blooming — bushy, field 
grown 7 ft. plants, at $15.00. 
BRACYCHITON 
Australian “Flame Tree,” tum- 
bling cascades of rich red flowers 
in loose racemes covering whole 
tree in late spring. (This is the 
tree that attracted so much at- 
tention last spring when it 
bloomed on St. Armands Key.)— 
2 ft. plants at $15.00. 
ROYAL POINCIANA 
Florida’s best-known spring 
and early summer bloomer. 
Spreading canopy of foliage for 
shade in summer, deciduous for 
sunlight in winter. All sizes from 
3 to 4 ft. container-grown, to 
magnificent field-grown  speci- 
mens 15 ft. tall with 20 to 30 ft. 
spread ,to $50.00. 
JACARANDA 
Fabulous blue-flowered un- 
brella in spring time. Magnifi- 
cent specimen on Sarasota High 
School lawn—4 to 6 ft. at $1.00- 
$2.00. Also larger. 
AUSTRALIAN SILK OAK 
Handsome large trees heaping 
dark yellow blooms in spring. 
SPECIAL—4 to 5 ft. at $1.45. 
YLANG - YLANG 
Exotic as its name. Chinese 
“Perfume Tree,” drooping habit 
of growth and noted for the frag- 
rance of its summer-blooming 
heavily scented greenish-yellow 
flowers—4 to 6 ft. at $7.50. 
ONCOBA SPINOSA 
From Arabia, sometimes called 
the “Fried-Egg Tree” from the 
appearance of its white flowers 
with yellow centers. Blooms 9 
months of the year, heaviest in 
spring time. 4 to 6 ft. at $7.50. 
SHAVING BRUSH 
Technically a Pachira, nick- 
named for its fantastic brilliant 
fuschia-pink flowers, fresh ones 
exploding each evening from ci- 
gar-shaped buds during a four- 
week period around April—8 to 
10 ft. tall spreading plants, field- 
grown at $25.00 to $35.00. 
DILLENIA 
From India, heavily foliaged, 
with long, serrated loquat-like 
leaves, and huge white magnolia- 
like blooms in May. 3 to 4 ft. 
air-layered plants at $3.50. 
AFRICAN TULIP 
Fast- growing big luxuriant 
trees with large flower heads of 
brilliant red — blooms intermit- 
tently throughout the warmer 
months. Small plants from $2.50; 
large field-grown specimens 14 to 
18 ft. at $25.00 to $35.00. 
BOMBAX 
Thorny-trunked spreading tree 
with spectacular heavy fleshy 10- 
inch red blooms in February- 
March — air-layers 3 ft. high, 
6 ft. across—$10.00. 
TABEBUIA 
Familiar yellow, spring-bloom- 
ing “Gold Tree” with pale silver- 
green leaves—small plants from 
$1.50; field-grown specimens 14 
ft. to 18 ft. at $25.00 to $35.00. 
Available later: white — pink — 
magenta varieties, with striking 
massed, all-over spring bloom. 
TIBOUCHINA 
Purple “Glory Bush,” grows to 
small tree with velvety, brilliant 
violet, 3-inch flowers in spring. 
3 ft. at $3.50. 
FRANGIPANI 
“Temple Tree” of India, widely 
used for leis in Hawaii where it 
is known as Plumeria. Bizarre, 
spreading, thick-limbed growth 
habit with dinner-plate sized 
terminal clusters of 2-inch frag- 
rant flowers, rich and delicate. 
White with yellow clusters and 
red with yellow centers, 5 to 6 ft. 
at $10.00. (Available later: a 
wide selection of white, yellow, 
red hybrids, recently imported 
from Hawaii.) 
CLUSEA ROSEA 
Shapely leathery-leaved native 
of the Florida Keys with 2-inch 
pink blossoms, for accent plant- 
ing. The early Spanish settlers 
are said to have used the fallen 
dried leaves as playing cards. 3 
to 4 ft. field-grown at $15.00. 
CREPE MYRTLES 
Available later, a collection oi 
many varieties, common “pink” 
and showy “Queen’s” varieties, 
as well as new types seldom seen 
growing in Florida. 
PALMER NURSERIES 
OSPREY, FLORIDA 
