. Catalogue of rare Florida fruits and flowers for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Cutler Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. JESSAMINE, PASCO CO., FLA. 13 The Water Hyacinth. [Eichhornia \_Ponte(leria] crassipes major.) One of the most remarkably curious and beautiful plants we have ever grown. Instead of growing- in soil it floats in the water which it is enabled to do by means of itscuriouslyinflatedleaf stalks, which resemble bladders, or balloons, filled with air. A large mass of feathery blue roots grow downward, their ends entering the
. Catalogue of rare Florida fruits and flowers for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Cutler Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. JESSAMINE, PASCO CO., FLA. 13 The Water Hyacinth. [Eichhornia \_Ponte(leria] crassipes major.) One of the most remarkably curious and beautiful plants we have ever grown. Instead of growing- in soil it floats in the water which it is enabled to do by means of itscuriouslyinflatedleaf stalks, which resemble bladders, or balloons, filled with air. A large mass of feathery blue roots grow downward, their ends entering the soil. It forms a lovely rosette of its curious, shining green leaves, and throws up spikes of the most exquisite flowers imaginable, resembling, in form, a spike of Hyacinth bloom, but as beautiful as many of the choicest and most costly Orchids. Each flower is as large, or larger, than a silver dollar, and has six jjetals. instead of five as shown in the cut; color a beautiful, scjfv lilai -rose, sparkling as if covered with diamond dust. The upper petal, which is the largest, has a lai gi' nu tallic blue blotch in the , and in the center of that a small, deep, golden yellow spot. Can be grown in the open air in summer and in the window in wint^^r, in anything which will hold water. The most beautiful effect is produced by using a glass vessel of some sort, with shells and white sand so arranged in the bottom as to con- ceal a small amount of soil. It created a great sensation In Fiurope, where it has re- ceived unstinted praise, and cannot fail to delight everybody who gives it atrial. Fine plants '20{-. each. Water Lettuce. (J'istui Stratiotes.) A Florida plant of the greatest beauty, and grows in just the same manner as the Water Hya<;inth. Itforms a rosette about six inches across, coinj)osed of the most exquisite leaves, which are ribbed and feel and look as if cut out of greenish-yellow velvet, si)rinkled with diamond dust. Its beauty can be appre- ciated only
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