. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. VIII. Cacti " Grotesqueness of form or Jiabit is rarely found in combination with jloral beauty in the vegetable world. Yet no family affords more remarkable examples of this union of widely divergent qualities than the great and peculiar Cactus order. * * * When the brilliantly colored rose, crimson, purple or yellow flowers -were seen, the observer
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. VIII. Cacti " Grotesqueness of form or Jiabit is rarely found in combination with jloral beauty in the vegetable world. Yet no family affords more remarkable examples of this union of widely divergent qualities than the great and peculiar Cactus order. * * * When the brilliantly colored rose, crimson, purple or yellow flowers -were seen, the observer wotild be led to the conclusion that -while the plant was'advancing to so high a degree of floral beauty, one portion of its constitution must have been strangely altered and stunted by some external lojig-continued forces. * * * They are easily grown; so easily, in fact, that the cottager who can devote a small space to them in his window may, and often does, grow many of them as successfully as the greatest magnate in Europe, with all the most elaborate horticultural appliances at his ;—Lewis ANHALONIUM Williamsii. " Plains of Texas and Mexico. This singular plant will not be sought after by those who desire only the beautiful in nature, but should be in every collection of rare and unique plants. It is not unlike a carrot in shape, 2*A inches in di- ameter at the top, 6 to 8 inches in length, dark glaucous green in color, the top depressed and Anhalonium prismaticum. irre°"ularlv fur- rowed. Flowers pale rose or flesh ;- Mrs. Nickels. Strong plants, 30 cents each. A. prismaticum. "This exceedingly rare plant well deserves the first place in our catalogue. Our illustration, made from a photograph of a small plant, conveys a perfect idea of its symmetrical shape. It requires very little attention, and will grow and bloom in any sitting-room without being watered for a long time. Found on the mountains of Mexico, where it atta
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