. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 24 PIKE & ELLSWORTH, JESSAMINE, PASCO CO., FLA. Pitcher Plants, or Sarracenias. A highly ornamental and interesting class of plants belonging same order as the Fly Trap, and flour ishing under the same over-arching hood reticulated with purplr veins. Flowers yellow and very large, foui to five inches acro?s. each. Sarracenia Variolaris.—Pitchers from twelve to eighteen inches high, and very curiousl y hooded at tlie top, these hood
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 24 PIKE & ELLSWORTH, JESSAMINE, PASCO CO., FLA. Pitcher Plants, or Sarracenias. A highly ornamental and interesting class of plants belonging same order as the Fly Trap, and flour ishing under the same over-arching hood reticulated with purplr veins. Flowers yellow and very large, foui to five inches acro?s. each. Sarracenia Variolaris.—Pitchers from twelve to eighteen inches high, and very curiousl y hooded at tlie top, these hoods being beauti- fully spotted with white and reticulated with purple veins within. Flowers yellow and two inches wide. A very ornamental sort. and one of the very best. 15c. each. Sarracenia Purpurea.—A native of Northern bogs and pei-fectly hardy. Its pitchers art quite different from the foregoing sorts, oi a deep reddish-purple color and beautifully veined; flowers purple. It is well worthy of a place in any collection. b. fUKfUREA. S. VARIOLARIS. S. RUBRA. S. FLAVA. GROUP OF PITCHER PLANTS. Sarracenia Psittacina.—A dwarf sort -with leaves two to four inches long, the ends shaped like a parrot's beak, marked with white spots and reticulated with purple veins. Very distinct. each. Sarracenia'Drummondii Alba. — An exceedingly beautiful and highly prized sort and so rare that we vvere requested to furnish specimens of it to the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, Mass. The upper portion of the erect, trumpet- shaped pitchers pure white, variega ed with reticulated purple veins. The pitchers grow two feet high and its highly colored flowers are three inches across. 25c. each. SPECIAL OFFER.—TTciC!?! ^end one each of the ahovefim Pitclicr I'hmts, niimn iil i mj la floe, for only 65c. Grown aU Imiilhir in n slnillmr jiol orpan, the tallest grou'ing OHeasct in the ccnti^); thry form one of the most unique, interestiiig and beautifiil ohjeets imafiinahlc. Thalia
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