. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Tropical plants Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs. GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS. ECHITES, continued. E. Andrewsii. Matacomba and Long Key, probably also on some of the adjacent islands. Leaves wax-like; flowers rich golden yellow, resembling the Allamanda, but a little smaller. Large plants, 50 cts. E. paludosa. Flowers white, tinged with pink, very delicate and beautiful; in cultivation it requires an abundance of water. 50 cents each; one of each for S5 cents. ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER. This is a very popular plant
. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Tropical plants Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs. GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS. ECHITES, continued. E. Andrewsii. Matacomba and Long Key, probably also on some of the adjacent islands. Leaves wax-like; flowers rich golden yellow, resembling the Allamanda, but a little smaller. Large plants, 50 cts. E. paludosa. Flowers white, tinged with pink, very delicate and beautiful; in cultivation it requires an abundance of water. 50 cents each; one of each for S5 cents. ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER. This is a very popular plant in the south, where it is known under a variety of names, Trumpet Vine, Bignonia, etc. Flowers scarlet orange, produced in profusion from the ends of the branches; leaves pinnate, and of a beautiful dark green. This is an elegant plant for training in front of a piazza. 50 cents each. FICUS. F. barbata. An elegant plant for covering walls in conservatories, or maybe trained around inside a bay-window; the leaves are long, pointed, and of the richest green. 40 cts. each. F. stipulata. The correct name of the little creeping plant usually sold under the name of Ficus repens. A very useful plant in any collection, as it will attach itself to anything it is given to climb on. 10 cts. each. GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS. (Carolina Yellow Jessamine.} Exactly why this—one of the most elegant ever- green climbers we know of—has not been introduced to the public, we are at a loss to know. Probably some big northern florist is holding it in reserve to bring out sometime as a leading "novelty" at big prices. Our cut represents the plant and flowers much better than we can describe it. The flowers are the very richest golden yellow, and the foliage is thick and glossy and of the deepest green. A speci- men vine which we have on our place is completely covered in spring with thousands of its beautiful flowers, which last several weeks. At the north it may be grown in a large pot or
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