. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CHOICE SPECIALTIES IN PLANTS AND BULBS. Ti)e Chenille piaijt. {Acalypha Sanderi, or Hispkla.) 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 US), in which they rival the I'oleus; but Acalypha Sanderi, to which we have given the very fitting name of Chenille Plan
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CHOICE SPECIALTIES IN PLANTS AND BULBS. Ti)e Chenille piaijt. {Acalypha Sanderi, or Hispkla.) 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 US), in which they rival the I'oleus; but Acalypha Sanderi, to which we have given the very fitting name of Chenille Plant, is one of the most gorgeous and peculiar flower- ing plants thus far discovered. It grows up a straight, stout stem, clothed with large, green leaves of good substance, and nut of the axil of every leaf grows a spike of blossom, glowing crimson-scarlet in color, 10 to 30 inches long, as large around as a person's linger, and looks exactly like a long piece of crimson-scarlet chenille cord. They grow on the plant exactly as our cut shows, and on plant- a foot high the lower flower spikes will hang "oelow the bottom of the pot, and they continue to lengthen as the plant grows larger. They last for iceefts before fad- ing, and before they fall off from one to two or three other spikes have started out in the same leaf axil, and it is thus al ways in bloom January to December. Even tiny plants i)i thumb-wots bfoom, though of course the spikes are proportionately smaller. It proved the past summer to be splendidly suited for planting out-of-doors in the climate of the United States. Will stand a good deal of feeding-. This plant was discovered in New Guinea by the botanist Monsieur M icholitz. spring- ing not simply from the ground, but also from the tops of the mud huts of the savages. He at once collected specimen* of the plant, and traveled with them three thousand five hundred Singapore, to ensure safe shipment, so certain was he that their great beauty would ex
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