. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. FICUS AUREA. Arundo Donax Variegata. A magnificent Bamboo-reed, as easy to grow as a Dahlia and quickly producing a splendid, oriental effect when standing singly on the lawn or near water. It succeeds perfectly in ordinary garden soil, hut if manured heavily it will shoot up stout canes from 8 to 10 feet tall, clothed their entire length with long and broad leaves most beautifully striped with different shades of white and cream color. It i
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. FICUS AUREA. Arundo Donax Variegata. A magnificent Bamboo-reed, as easy to grow as a Dahlia and quickly producing a splendid, oriental effect when standing singly on the lawn or near water. It succeeds perfectly in ordinary garden soil, hut if manured heavily it will shoot up stout canes from 8 to 10 feet tall, clothed their entire length with long and broad leaves most beautifully striped with different shades of white and cream color. It is particularly fine and valuable for sub-tropical garden- ing, but wherever or however it is employed it produces a peculiar scenic effect and invariably attracts attention. The canes can be used for fishing rods, for light props, rustic pipes, dlstaflCs, baskets, etc. Every year the roots will grow larger and stronger, producing taller canes and more of them. If desired, it may be grown in a tub or good-sized box, with fine effect, and be removed to the cellar over winter. Heavily man- ured and plentifully supplied with water in dry seasons it wiU shortly form a strikingly beautiful object. Jt is perfectly hardy in the latitude of Washington, I). C, without protection, .and also in New Jersey and on Long Island, N. Y., if manure, or litter of some 1-011, is heaped above the roots. Farther north, in late fall, cutoff the canes and lift the clump of tuber-like roots, place them in a box of sand or soil and winter in a cellar or shed where there is not much frost. Fine mailing plants, 20c. each; strong large roots by express, 35c. each. Pleroma Splendens. A rare and exceedingly beautiful )iot-sbrulii flowering almost the entire year round and espec- ially valuable for winter decoration. The plant grows in fine symmetrical shape, like a miniature tree, covered w ith beautiful leaves, whiclilVel and look as if cut out of lovely green velvet, and bears in great, profusion the most s
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