. Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical crops Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. MISCELLANEOUS DEPAR TMENT. 55 POINCIANA, Continued. P. pulcherrima flava. Flowers clear bright yel- low. 35 cents each. P. regia. Royal Poinciana. Flamboyante of Mad- agascar and the West Indies. One of the most beau- tiful flowering trees of the tropics, but unfortunately too tender to stand much frost.
. Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical crops Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. MISCELLANEOUS DEPAR TMENT. 55 POINCIANA, Continued. P. pulcherrima flava. Flowers clear bright yel- low. 35 cents each. P. regia. Royal Poinciana. Flamboyante of Mad- agascar and the West Indies. One of the most beau- tiful flowering trees of the tropics, but unfortunately too tender to stand much frost. It is of very rapid growth, and if it should be killed before blooming, it would still have amply repaid for all the care bestow- ed upon it ; its immense decompound leaves alone are worth growing it for. We have plants in all sizes from six inches, at 15 cents each, to 10 feet at f i each. For others, nearly related species see Ccesal- pinia. POLYGONUM PLATYCAULON. (Coccoloha platyclada}j A curious flat-stemmed plant, with small pointed leaves ; rapid growing, and invaluable in basket and rock work. 20 cents each. PSYCHORTIA UNDATA. A handsome little native plant with dark green un- dulated leaves, and bearing pretty, bright red berries. 15 cents each, per dozen. QUERCUS VIRENS. {Live Oak.) One of the handsomest of our forest trees ; of much more rapid growth than generally supposed ; valu- able in any situation when a shade tree is of use. Small, nursery-grown trees, 10 cents each, $1 per dozen ; other native species, 15 to 25 cents each. RAVENALA MADAGASCARIENSIS. (Syn., Urania speciosa.) The Traveler's Tree of Madagascar. A magnifi- cent plant with palm-like trunk, crested with im- mense banana-like leaves, which are borne in a two ranked series, opposite. The sheathing bases of the petioles are so formed as to hold a quantity of water, which is always fresh and pure, and the natives ob- tain it by thrusting a spear through from the under side, and catching it in som
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