. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Miscellaneous Department. 69 CAMELLIA Japonica. Camellias do well in Florida after once becomin<r established. They prefer a rather moist soil, but not wet; also, a clayey sub-soil; but we have very good success growing them only in sand. The Camellias of Tallahassee and North Florida are immense, which shows their adaptability to our state.
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Miscellaneous Department. 69 CAMELLIA Japonica. Camellias do well in Florida after once becomin<r established. They prefer a rather moist soil, but not wet; also, a clayey sub-soil; but we have very good success growing them only in sand. The Camellias of Tallahassee and North Florida are immense, which shows their adaptability to our state. Fine plants in many varieties. $1 each. CANNA. These splendid, broad-leaved plants are used in semi-tropical gardening with rich effect. In South Florida the roots can be left in the ground the year through, and if the tops are frosted down in winter, in spring the new shoot will soon be out as large as ever. C. flaccida. Native of the Florida swamps, but deserves cultivation universally as a bedding plant. Of dwarf habit, but producing quanti- ties of large, iris-like flowers three inches in diameter, of a rich golden-yellow. When once fairly introduced, we predict for this plant a great popularity, as it will prove invaluable as a foreground in groups and beds of tall grow- ing Cannas, Caladiums, etc.; is grown with the greatest ease, and content with any soil. 10c. ea. 80c. per dozen. (See illustration, p. 29.) C. Indica. Beautiful red and yellovf-flowered varieties. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen. C. Harechal Vaillante. Foliage deep wine-color- One of the best varieties. 25 cents each, C. £mile Le Claire. Orange-yellow, spotted red! resembling an Orchid. 25 cents each. C. Felix CroQSse. Orange-red large showy flow" ers. 25 cents each. C. Premices de Nice. One of the best. Bright j'ellow. cents each. CAFFARIS Jamaicensis. Jamaica Caper. A hand- some shrub of West Indies and extreme South Florida. Flowers yellowish white, transient, but very beautiful. 75 cents each. C
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