. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CHENILLE PLANT (ACALYPHA SAJSTDERl). G^ei>Ille Rlai)t. ( Sancleri). This is the most remarkable and sensational plant- novelty which has been discovered and introduced for a generation. The Acalyphas hitherto known to plant lovers are remarkable for their highly colored and beautifully marked foliage (see page kJ), in which they rival the Coleus; but Acalijpha Sancleri. to which we have given the very fitting name of Chenille Plant, is one of
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CHENILLE PLANT (ACALYPHA SAJSTDERl). G^ei>Ille Rlai)t. ( Sancleri). This is the most remarkable and sensational plant- novelty which has been discovered and introduced for a generation. The Acalyphas hitherto known to plant lovers are remarkable for their highly colored and beautifully marked foliage (see page kJ), in which they rival the Coleus; but Acalijpha Sancleri. to which we have given the very fitting name of Chenille Plant, is one of the most gorgeous and peculiar flowering plants thus far discovered. It grows up a straight, stout stem clothed with large green leaves of good substance, and out of the axil of every leaf grows a snike of blossom, glowing crimson-scarlet in color. So to inches long, as large around as a person's finger and looks exactly like along piece of crimson-scarlet chenille cord. They grow on the plant exactly as our cut shows, and on plants a foot high the lower flower spikes will hang below the bottom of the pot, and they continue to lengthen as the plant grows larger. They last for weeks before fading, and before they fall off from one to two or three- CHEROKEE ROSE (ROSA SINICA) other spikes have started out in the same leaf axil, and it is thus always in bloom —January to December. Even tiny plants in thumb-pots bloom, though of course the spikes are proportionately smaller. This plant was discovered in New Guinea by the botanist Monsieur Micholitz, springing not simply from the f;round, but also from the tops of the mud huts of the savages. He at once col- ected specimens of the plant, and travelled with them three thousand five hun- dred miles to Singapore, to ensure safe shipment, so certain was he that their great beauty would excite admiration among plant lovers. We are propagating It for spring delivery, and will book all orders for it to be filled in rotation as fast «s
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