. Garden annual 1902. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. FARCY LEAVED CALADIUMS. For window boxes, house or greenhouse growing, this is one of the most deco?ative plants. Their rich, thrifty leaves, hand- somer than Be2:onias, are spotted, marbled, veined and striped with white, pink and da:-lc red. These bulbs, though compara- tively rare, are easily grown, and their handsome foliage is much admired. Out of doors use a shaded location, with light soil, watering often as needed. Bulbs should be dried down and stored
. Garden annual 1902. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. FARCY LEAVED CALADIUMS. For window boxes, house or greenhouse growing, this is one of the most deco?ative plants. Their rich, thrifty leaves, hand- somer than Be2:onias, are spotted, marbled, veined and striped with white, pink and da:-lc red. These bulbs, though compara- tively rare, are easily grown, and their handsome foliage is much admired. Out of doors use a shaded location, with light soil, watering often as needed. Bulbs should be dried down and stored in a warm place during the Winter. They should be started into growth in a warm place by April 1st. Mixed, All '^olors. Our mixture is superb and contains many valuable and expensive varieties. 15c. each, 2 for 25c., 4 for 50c., 9 for $, 12 for $ PHRYNIUM V^RIEGATUMI. Variegated Leaved Canna. This is without doubt the grandest orname'^tal foliage plant in cultivation; its habit of growth is precisely like the Canna; it grows from a bulb or tuber, and may be winterpd dry, like a gladiolus, or kept growing the year round as a pot plant. The Canna-like shoots grow from 18 inches to 23^ feet high, and the leaver, which are spreading and oialong in shape, are from 6 to 10 inches long and from 2 to 5 inches broad; they are a bright green, beautifully variegated with pure white, the variegations being extremely diversified. It is almost im- possible to find two leaves exactly alike; in sqme leaves the whole area is pure white, while in others only half and in some one-third, and in others again only a few faint stripes. Price 15c. each, 3 for 30c., 6 for 50c., 80c. per dozen. CALADIUM ESCULENTUM. (Elephant's Ears.) A grand sub-tropical foliage plant, grow- ing four feet high and bearing immense shield-shaped leHve=; of the smoothest, rich- est green. Extra fine for groups or single specimens upon the lawn, or as borders to tropical beds, or to plant at the margins of ornament
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