. Dreer's garden book 1915. The plant grows luxuriantlyfrom 8 to 12 feet high. During the hot summer, whenplanted out, it grows rapidly and attains gigantic pro-portions, producing a tropical effect on the lawn or flowergarden. (See cut.) Good plants, 30 cts. each; strongplants in ,5-inch pots, 50 cts. each; very strong plants in 7-inchpots that will give a quick effect, and $ each; heavyplants in 12-inch tubs, $ each. NEPHTHYTIS. Picturata. An interesting, ornamental hothouse plant, re-quiring a moist atmosphere; dark-green, pointed, heart-shapedfoliage, with fern-like variegati
. Dreer's garden book 1915. The plant grows luxuriantlyfrom 8 to 12 feet high. During the hot summer, whenplanted out, it grows rapidly and attains gigantic pro-portions, producing a tropical effect on the lawn or flowergarden. (See cut.) Good plants, 30 cts. each; strongplants in ,5-inch pots, 50 cts. each; very strong plants in 7-inchpots that will give a quick effect, and $ each; heavyplants in 12-inch tubs, $ each. NEPHTHYTIS. Picturata. An interesting, ornamental hothouse plant, re-quiring a moist atmosphere; dark-green, pointed, heart-shapedfoliage, with fern-like variegations in silvery-white. $ NEPENTHES (Pitcher Plant). These interesting plants, with their curious pitchers, requireto be grown in a high, moist atmosphere, and in dense sorts offered are among the choicest of the Atrosanguineum .. .$2 00 Courtii 3 00 Dominiana 2 00 Henryana 2 00 Intermedia 3 00 Mastersiana Pattersonii . 2 60 ... 2 502 00 Splendida ... 2 00. 3IARAXTA. Valuable decorative hothouse plants, re-markable for the richness and beauty oftheir varied foliage. Each. Classoni $0 75 Goveniana 25 Illustris 75 Insignis 50 Kerchoviana 25 Makoyana 50 Rosea Lineata 75 Sanderi 1 00 Van den Heckei 75 Vittata 1 00 One each of the 10 varieties for $ Musa Ensete. The Medinillas here described are among the most gorgeous tropicalflowering plants in cultivation, and most desirable for the amateur who hasthe facilities ot a hothouse. They are natives of the Philippines, with hand-some, broad, shining, leathery foliage. The plants continue in flower fromApril to July; the flowers are of a coral-red color, five-pelalled, each aboutan inch across, and are borne in immense p)ramidal racemes, frequently afoot long, and bearing from 100 to 150 flowers. A large well-floweredspecimen is a sight never to be Flowers in pendulous racemes. $ 5uperba. Very large pendulous rac
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