. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 6 JESSAMINE GARDENS, JESSAMINE, FLORIDA. Chenille Plant. (Acalypha Sanderi, or Hispida.) A most remarkable plant. Out of the axil of every leaf grows a spike of blossom, glowing crimson-scarlet in color, 20 to 30 inches long, as large around as a person's finger, and looks ex- actly like a long piece of crimson-scarlet chenille cord. They last for weeks before fading, and be- fore they fall off from 1 to 2 or 3 other spikes have started out in the same l
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 6 JESSAMINE GARDENS, JESSAMINE, FLORIDA. Chenille Plant. (Acalypha Sanderi, or Hispida.) A most remarkable plant. Out of the axil of every leaf grows a spike of blossom, glowing crimson-scarlet in color, 20 to 30 inches long, as large around as a person's finger, and looks ex- actly like a long piece of crimson-scarlet chenille cord. They last for weeks before fading, and be- fore they fall off from 1 to 2 or 3 other spikes have started out in the same leaf-axil, and it is thus alwavs in bloom from January to December. It is the most showy pot plant imaginable, and also fine for outdoor planting in summer. Fine plants only 15c each. Sky Rocket. (Clerodendron Siphonanthus.) This is a most striking and distinct plant. Its fleshy root is perennial, but its stems are re- newed annually. These stems grow to a height of 10 or 12 feet in the open ground here in Flor- ida, but under pot culture they grow only 3 or 4 feet. They are clothed from the ground up with long, pointed leaves in whorls of four, overlapping each other like shingles and hiding the stems completely. Each stem is surmounted by a large panicle of creamy- white flowers with very slender, slightly curved tubes from 4 to 5 inches in length, m After the flowers fall, the calyxes turn to a deep dark-red, and the fleshy seeds are w greenish-purple. These seed-heads are highly ornamental, last perfect on the plant fMl for weeks, and are so large and heavy that the stems bend and sway beneath their weight. Grows as freely and easily as a weed, either from the root or from seed; Price, 15c. each. Seed, per pkt, CHENILLE 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; Ellsw
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