. Annual catalogue 1899 native and exotic plants, trees, shrubs. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Palms Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. BAMBOOS AND GRASSES. 21. (See description, page 20.) B. viridi-glaucescens (Phyllostachys).* * A hardy Japanese or Chinese species, resembling B. aurea, but with greener color and of larger size. Will reach a height of 20 or 30 feet in good soil, with stems an inch thick, and almost solid. Very valuable for
. Annual catalogue 1899 native and exotic plants, trees, shrubs. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Palms Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. BAMBOOS AND GRASSES. 21. (See description, page 20.) B. viridi-glaucescens (Phyllostachys).* * A hardy Japanese or Chinese species, resembling B. aurea, but with greener color and of larger size. Will reach a height of 20 or 30 feet in good soil, with stems an inch thick, and almost solid. Very valuable for manufacturing purposes. It spreads from underground runners, like B, aurea or B. nana, and makes immense masses. Fine plants, 30 cts. each, $3 per doz. B. vulgaris.*** The Common Bamboo of India, and probably naturalized, although it may be indigenous to the West Indies, particularly Jamaica. It is of quick growth, and reaches a height of 70 feet in six or seven years here, but cannot stand very low temperature. Hardy enough for all of South Florida below Leesburg. It is a magnificent species, with immense, waving, plumy stems, 4 inches through at the base. The growing canes reach a height of 70 feet in less than two months (12 to 15 inches a day). We offer fine, pot-grown plants at 50 cts. each, $5 per doz.; small, at 35 cts. each, $ per doz. CYNODON dactylon var.* * St. Lucie Grass. A fine-leaved grass, adapted for lawns, recently brought into notice from the St. Lucie river. Resembles Bermuda Grass, but is easily eradicated, as it does not have underground run- ners. Grows rapidly; does best in sunshine. Needs cutting every week or 10 days. 25 cts. per 100, $2 per 1,000. CYPERUS alternifolius.** Umbrella Grass. A beautiful tufted grass, admirably adapted for house use. It grows readily, and out- doors can be bedded with great effect over the whole country in summer. Here it makes clumps 5 or 6 feet high in open groud. Fine plants, 20 to 40 cts. each. ERIAvNTHUS Ravennae.
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