. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. JESSAMINE, PASrO CO., FLA. 25 NOVELTIES OF DECIDED MERIT. The plants and seeds included under this head are of the most decided merit, having been thor- oughly tested, both here and at the North, so that their culture is no longer experimental. We call attention to our prices for these Novelties, which are lower in many cases than is charged for the most common stock. Fire-on-the-Mountain. (Euphorbia heterop
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. JESSAMINE, PASrO CO., FLA. 25 NOVELTIES OF DECIDED MERIT. The plants and seeds included under this head are of the most decided merit, having been thor- oughly tested, both here and at the North, so that their culture is no longer experimental. We call attention to our prices for these Novelties, which are lower in many cases than is charged for the most common stock. Fire-on-the-Mountain. (Euphorbia heterophylla.) This splendid half-hardy annual, native of Mexico and South Florida, is undoubtedly one of the Tery finest acciuisitions that has been introducedfor years, and we predietfor it an immense popularity- The plants grow ,t or 4 feet tall, very branching, with very deep green and glossy fiddle-shaped WHITE KAIRV The leaves are at first all green, but about mid-summer flower heads appear at theend of every branch, and the bases of all the leaves surrounding these heads are of the most brilliant vermillion-scarlet, so that the whole plant is a perfect blaze of color entirely unlike anything else we know of. The effect of a mass, or bed, of these plants is simply indescribable, and the display is kept up until frost. It is also a grand pot plant for house culture, seeds sown in summer making plants that will continue to bear their scarlet and green leaves all winter. South of the latitude of New York theseeds may. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jessamine Gardens; Pike & Ellsworth; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. [Jessamine, F. L. : Jessamine Gardens]
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