. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. GYNTTRA, OR VELVET PLANT. Melop PapaW. (Carica Papaya.) The economic qualities of this remarkable tropical fruit plant will be found described on page 41. It is introduced here as a mag- nificent bedding plant for all parts of the country—North and South—and as easy lo grow as a Castor Bean. It forms a branch- less, Palm-like trunk clothed with the grandest leaves, each 2 to 3 feet in diameter, deeply cut and divided, of a rich dark green col- or, with w
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. GYNTTRA, OR VELVET PLANT. Melop PapaW. (Carica Papaya.) The economic qualities of this remarkable tropical fruit plant will be found described on page 41. It is introduced here as a mag- nificent bedding plant for all parts of the country—North and South—and as easy lo grow as a Castor Bean. It forms a branch- less, Palm-like trunk clothed with the grandest leaves, each 2 to 3 feet in diameter, deeply cut and divided, of a rich dark green col- or, with white midribs and veins, forming a beautiful contrast. If set out in good soil after all dan- ger of frost is past, it will grow with amazing rapidity, attaining a height of 10 feet or more and Standing the longest droughts with impunity, always looking fresh and vigorous. The male and female flowers are produced on different plants; those on the male plants are produced in long racemes, are pale yellow and wax-like and exquisitely fra- grant. As a pot plant the Melon Papaw is highly decorative and very unique. It grows from seed with perfect ease; they should be sown carl)/ in the window "and frown on in pots until time to ed out. I)i transplanting he care- ful not to bruise either the roots or Velvet Plant. (Gynura Aurantiaca.) a his is a plant of the greatest beauty and just as easy to grow as a Coleus, yet it is very scarce and but little known. No other name could be so appropriate as Velvet Plant, for so close is the resemblance that on first sight the plant is almost invariably taken to be artificial. Its stems and leaves are entirely covered with glistening purple hairs and to the touch are as soft and downy as a piece of rich velvet. They shine and glisten and reflect many shades of col- or, every time the plant is moved tbe color of the foliage seeming to change. The leaves are about the shape and size of those of the Coleiis. but sev- eral times thicker and l
Size: 1408px × 1774px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorhenryggilbertnurserya, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890
