. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 16 JESSAMINE GARDENS, JESSAMINE, FLORIDA, Tile " B^e Spir^a. (Caryopteris Mast acanthus.) 99 Not a Spiraea at all, but belongs to the Verbena family, though it is a hardy Sptrcea-like shrub. It is a Chinese plant, and unmistakably one of the finest shrubs introduced in recent years. The flowers are a rich lavender-blue, a color- so rare among flowers, and are closely clustered around the stems, as shown in the cut. The leaves are strongly aro- matic
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 16 JESSAMINE GARDENS, JESSAMINE, FLORIDA, Tile " B^e Spir^a. (Caryopteris Mast acanthus.) 99 Not a Spiraea at all, but belongs to the Verbena family, though it is a hardy Sptrcea-like shrub. It is a Chinese plant, and unmistakably one of the finest shrubs introduced in recent years. The flowers are a rich lavender-blue, a color- so rare among flowers, and are closely clustered around the stems, as shown in the cut. The leaves are strongly aro- matic, and the flowers are also slightly fragrant, and bees are exceed- ingly fond of it. It is perfectly hardy in the latitude of Philadelphia, and in dry and favorable positions it has survived ordinarj7 winters as far north as Boston. But wherever the top will not survive, it may be treated as a hardy herbaceous perennial. While it will succeed as a pot plant, flowering profusely in 2)4 inch pots, it is as a hardy shrub that it will give the greatest satisfaction. It finally attains a height of 6 feet or more, and is one of the last shrubs to come into flower, opening out about the first half of September, and lasting several weeks. Heat and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jessamine Gardens; Ellsworth, W. J; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Jessamine, Fla. : Jessamine Gardens
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