. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants and seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs. Faifiigiurn gra> EUPHORBIA. E. Havanensis. A cactus-like plant, with three-sided stems, mottled and marbled with white on a dark-green ground. A very handsome decorative plant, and val- uable in collections of cacti, although not a true cactus. 30 cents each, large specimens, §1. E. H. monstrosa. A "sport" from the preceding, the ste
. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants and seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs. Faifiigiurn gra> EUPHORBIA. E. Havanensis. A cactus-like plant, with three-sided stems, mottled and marbled with white on a dark-green ground. A very handsome decorative plant, and val- uable in collections of cacti, although not a true cactus. 30 cents each, large specimens, §1. E. H. monstrosa. A "sport" from the preceding, the stems of which are wrinkled and compressed in flat, coxcomb-like shapes. It is a strange, odd-looking plant, and the form is very rare. $ to $3 each. E. heterophylla. (Hypocrite Plant.) This half-hardy annual makes a very pretty and interesting pot-plant for the house in winter, or as a bedding plant in sum- mer. The dark green leaves resemble those of the poinsettia in shape, and like it, the whorls of leaves at the ends of the branches become brilliant vermilion at tlie base by midsummer, making the bed a blaze of color. Plants 10 cents each, 75 cents per dozen ; seeds, 5 cents per packet. E. pulcherrima {Poinsettia pulcherrima). A well-known greenhouse plant, native of Mexico; grown for the scarlet bracts which surround its flowers, which are freely produced in winter, and which i-emain bright for months at a time. 25 to 50 cents each. E. splendens. A thorny shrub from Mauritius, well- known in greenhouse cultivation; its showy, flower- like bracts are bright scarlet; succeeds well here in the open ground, 15 cents Ficus e/asliia. FARFUGIUM GRANDE. A handsome plant, with large, round, dark green leaves, spotted yellow. Succeeds best in a partially shaded situation; is popular and successful as a house plant. 25 cents each. FICUS. •^F. aurea. Our native Rubber tree; the Wild Fig of South Florida. A magnificent broad-leaved evergreen, almost equaling the famous Ficu
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