. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. HALF HARDY OR POT SHRUBS. 45. GROUP OF DATURAS. Daturas. Datura Arborea—This grows in a fine miniature tree-form and com- pletely loads itself with pure white drooping bell-shaped flowers a foot long, G or 8 inches wide, of the most over-powering sweetness, and the same flowers opening for several days in succession. 15c. each. Double Datura—This is a very rare sort, entirely distinct from the above. Its leaves are velvety and of -a darker green, and the
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. HALF HARDY OR POT SHRUBS. 45. GROUP OF DATURAS. Daturas. Datura Arborea—This grows in a fine miniature tree-form and com- pletely loads itself with pure white drooping bell-shaped flowers a foot long, G or 8 inches wide, of the most over-powering sweetness, and the same flowers opening for several days in succession. 15c. each. Double Datura—This is a very rare sort, entirely distinct from the above. Its leaves are velvety and of -a darker green, and the double flow- ers look as if one very full flower had been drawn inside of a smaller one. It is a very free bloomer. 20c. each. Datura Cornucopia—The flowers of this sort are shaped much like those of the Double Datum, but the inside white while the outside is a fine lilac spotted darker, which makes a striking combination. 15c. Datura Chromatella—A grand new Datura, which has been verv ap- propriately called Golden Queen. It produces quantities of very large flowers which are of a clear, rich four distinct corollas, looking a? thou Goldeq De\\J D™p. (Duranta Plumieri.) A handsome evergreen pot shrub bear- ing racemes of lovely, delicate blue flow- ers in great profusion. They resemble the flowers of* the Forget-me-not, but are larger, are produced for at least three months and are rapidly followed by clus- ters of beautiful golden berries which ig on. for six months, so the plant is ornamental three-fourths of the year. Price. 15c. each; larger. 30c. each. Hanjelia Pateqs. Almost no idea of the great beauty of either flowers or foliage of this plant is conveyed by the cut. It is a plant which should be as common in Northern win- dows as the Geranium, and have an hon- ored place in every Florida yard where it blooms all the summer and fall. In pots if pinched back occasionally it will make a tine shrubby plant and bloom from one i/car's end to the other. Its bright or
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