. Annual catalogue and price list of the Royal Palm Nurseries : tropical and semi-tropical trees and plants and rare exotics for the greenhouse or lawn. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. iLOOMING CEREUS. CEREUS—Cu»//h^/p(/. C. grandiflorus. The Nk;ht-Blooming Cereus. West India and Mexico. Flow- ers often a foot in diameter, deliciously fra- grant. 25 cents to $1 each. C. grandiflorus McDonaldii. Producing the largest flowers of all night-blooming species
. Annual catalogue and price list of the Royal Palm Nurseries : tropical and semi-tropical trees and plants and rare exotics for the greenhouse or lawn. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. iLOOMING CEREUS. CEREUS—Cu»//h^/p(/. C. grandiflorus. The Nk;ht-Blooming Cereus. West India and Mexico. Flow- ers often a foot in diameter, deliciously fra- grant. 25 cents to $1 each. C. grandiflorus McDonaldii. Producing the largest flowers of all night-blooming species, with one exception. 50 cents each. C. Farnacaru. C. Monoclones. This is rarely met with, even in large collections of Cacti. So far as we know it is rare except on the islands of Key West and Upper Matacomba, and here the finest specimens have been de- stroyed by unappreciative land clearers " and " improvers " (?). It is tall and col- umnar, in this respect resembling some of the south-western species, and sometimes reaches a height of twenty feet. Flowers white, rather small. 50 ce'nts to $15 each. C. Nycticalus. Night-blooming. Flowers almost yellow, and of very large size. 25 cents each. C'E'R'EJJS—Continued. C. rostratus. 50 cents each. C. serpentinus. 50 cents each. C. triang-ularis. The Strawberry Mexico, West Indies. The scaly buds 01 this Cactus are used as an ingredient in soups, as formerly they were in the cele- brated "pepper-pots" of the West Indies. The fruit is known as "Strawberry Pear.'' and contains a pleasant, sweet pulp, en- closing numerous black It very rarely produces fruit in Florida, though flow^ering abundantly. The blossom is one of the handsomest of the night-blooming Cereus, white and straw-colored, eight inches in diameter. First brought to Flor- ida and New Orleans, fifty years ago, by Dr. Perrine. A valuable species of the genus. 25 to 75 cents each. C. sp. I. Name undetermined. From Gaute- ma
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