. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The American Florist. 1197 Pereskla Godsefflana. I'l-rliaps tlie most strikiiii; iiovrlty wliicli Sander & Sons, of St. Albans, Eng., and Bruges, Belgium, are offerins the Amer- ican trade this season is the new Pereskia Godsjffiana. The firm's American rcprc- resentative, T. Jlellstrom, is showing only colored drawings of the brilliantly colored foliage, however, which convey no idea of the real character of the i)!anr. This pereskia was one of a notable group of plants shown by the concern at ihe great
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The American Florist. 1197 Pereskla Godsefflana. I'l-rliaps tlie most strikiiii; iiovrlty wliicli Sander & Sons, of St. Albans, Eng., and Bruges, Belgium, are offerins the Amer- ican trade this season is the new Pereskia Godsjffiana. The firm's American rcprc- resentative, T. Jlellstrom, is showing only colored drawings of the brilliantly colored foliage, however, which convey no idea of the real character of the i)!anr. This pereskia was one of a notable group of plants shown by the concern at ihe great quinqU'^nnial and centenary exhibition held at Ghent last April. We reproduce herewith from the Gardeners' Chroni^'lc an illustration of the plant, with descrip- tion : "This strikingly decorative plant is ;:up- posed to have originated in Qu-jeusland ; at any rate Sander & Sons obtained it from that country. Botanically it is prob- ably a sport from the West Indian P. ac- uleata, known as the Barbados gooseberry bush, which has been in cultivation for at least 200 years, and is large- ly grown in tropical countries as a fence ijlant. Hero it is grown only as a stock on which cpiphylkims are grafted. It rarely iiowers; indeed, al- though it has been cultivated at Kew ever since the foundation of that estab- lishment, it has never been known to flower there except once, and that was in 1SS9. The flowers, which aro pretty, are cactus-like, two inches across, yellow- ish-white tinged with rose. The plant, al- though very variable in habit and foliage, is known only as ,a straggling bush or small tree, with more or less hooked spines in tufts. It grows very freely in tropical countries, as freely as hawthorn does with us. For this reason P. Godsefiiana. ?with its rich leaf coloration, is certain to become a popular garden plant in tropical countries. We can imagine a fence of it in such a place as Jamaica, where, ?when making fresh growth under the in- fluence of bright s
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