. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. 5° Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Bauhinia purpurea. (See page 49.) BRUNFELSIA Americana. West Indies. A beau- tiful slirub, four to six feet high. Flowers yellow, then turning white; very fragrant. 35 cents each, B. nniflorasp. (Franciscea imiflora, F. Hopeand). Province of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Corolla with whitish tube and bluish vi
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. 5° Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Bauhinia purpurea. (See page 49.) BRUNFELSIA Americana. West Indies. A beau- tiful slirub, four to six feet high. Flowers yellow, then turning white; very fragrant. 35 cents each, B. nniflorasp. (Franciscea imiflora, F. Hopeand). Province of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Corolla with whitish tube and bluish violet or purple limb. 35 cents each. BRYOPHYLLTIM calycinum. An odd and rapid- growing succulent. Flowers green, in form of bladders. One of those strange plants that are propagated from leaves. Extremely curious. The leaves are frequently pinned on a wall, and the growths noticed as they sprout out from the notches on them. 10 cents each. BTJPHANE toxicaria. A plant nearly allied to Brunsvigia, bearing red flowers. Sometimes called Poison Bulb in Africa. Noted for its precocious habit of having 100 to 200 flowers on an umbel. $2 each. BTJXUS sempervirens. Dwarf Box. A small- leaved evergreen of slow growth, adapted for low hedges. Is hardy all over the Southern and many of the Northern states, and is well known. 20 cents each, $2 per dozen. B. sempervirens argenteus. Variegated form, with creamy white and green leaves. 25 cents each, per dozen. Ca;SALPINIA regia (Poinciana re- gia). The Flamboyante or Royal Poinciana. Madagas- car. One of the most beautiful trees we have ever seen. Of extremely rapid growth; im- mense decompound leaves of a very dark, rich green ; gives a striking tropical effect. In groups of tropical plants almost as effective as a palm. Speci- mens in this locality (killed to the ground in winter of 1886) were twenty-five feet in height, with spreading tops of the same diameter, at an age of only four years; trunks of the same nearly a foot in diamete
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