. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. each. 3 for UAOGER. Clerodendron Fragrans Flore-Pleno. The cut conveys but little idea of the great beauty of this much neglected plant. It is of low, shrubby growth, with large, tropical looking leaves, dull green above and dusty appearing beneath. From the axils of the leaves appear compact heads of the most exquisite, waxy, white flowers exactly like miniature Camellia blooms, and of the mo
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. each. 3 for UAOGER. Clerodendron Fragrans Flore-Pleno. The cut conveys but little idea of the great beauty of this much neglected plant. It is of low, shrubby growth, with large, tropical looking leaves, dull green above and dusty appearing beneath. From the axils of the leaves appear compact heads of the most exquisite, waxy, white flowers exactly like miniature Camellia blooms, and of the most delicious fi'agranee, at times giving off a pleasing Banana-like odor. The flowers are produce din such a compact head as to resemble abouquet Given a rich soil it blooms profusely; can be wintered in the cellar or kept up for winter blossoming. If cut down frost sprouts readily from the root. Price 20c. each; 3 for 50c. /v CLERODENDRON PRAGRANg. Hamelia Patens. Another plant"|of which but little idea of its great beant,y is conveyed the cut. A native of extreme South Florida, and must become a great favorite for open ground planting here, and as a half hardy shrub at the North. Its leaves have a purplish hue at some seasons of the .vear. and its bright orange-red flowers are produced for months during the summer. Prob- could be forced into bloom at any season of the year. Rarely killed down by frost, and when it is, sprouts readily from the root. With age it becomes a woody shrub five to twelve feet high. Price 30c. each, 3 for 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; Pike & Ellsworth; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. [Jessamine, F. L. : Jessamine Gardens]
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