. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. SOLANUM AZUBEUM. Solar>an) W^Pdl^r^dii. As a summer climber this plant is simply glorious. It is doubtful if any other climber will cover so much space in so short a time, while from June until its growth is checked by frost the profusion of its flowers is simply re- markable. The flowers are produced in im- mense cymes at the end of pendulous branches. These cymes, or heads of bloom, are from 8 inches to -a foot in diameter, cont
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. SOLANUM AZUBEUM. Solar>an) W^Pdl^r^dii. As a summer climber this plant is simply glorious. It is doubtful if any other climber will cover so much space in so short a time, while from June until its growth is checked by frost the profusion of its flowers is simply re- markable. The flowers are produced in im- mense cymes at the end of pendulous branches. These cymes, or heads of bloom, are from 8 inches to -a foot in diameter, containing from 25 to 40 flowers, but as buds keep opening in suc- cession, each head lasts perfect for at least a â month, and often much longer. Each individual flower is from 1}^ to 2 inches in diameter, and lasts several days. When first opening the color is dark blue, but this changes to a light lilac in the center, with a darker edge, and gives flow- ers of various shades of blue and lilac at the same time. The hotter the situation given it, the more glorious the display it will make. It should l>e treated as a summer grower only, be- ing deciduous and going dormant in winter. It may be cut down in fall and only the root lifted and wintered. In the lower South the roots are hardy it mulched with trash of some kind. Nice plants, only 15c. each. Trumpet Qreeper, or ?]Tecon>a Radicals. For cultivation in all parts of the country this undoubtedly combines more good points than any other climbing plant at present known. In the first place it is hardy everywhere without the slightest protection. It grows with the greatest rapidity and in anygoil or situation; it clings to wood, stone or brick with atenacity that defies the wildest tempest; produces an abundance of beautiful foliage and for several weeks in summer the ends of every twig and branch are weighed down with great panicles of lovely, bright orange, tubular flowers, of a thick, waxy texture, and remaining in perfect
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