. Catalogue of seeds, plants rare flowers. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Cactus Seeds Catalogs. 58 THEODOSIA B. SHEPHERD COMPANY. when they loosen and hang like heavy gray strings. The flowers are superb; immense size, fine creamy-white, with magnificent clusters of silky stamens and a light yellow pistil. Blooming plants, 25c, 50c, 75c and $1 each ; cut- tings, 15c to 25c each. Gemmatus or Organ Pipe Cactus. A most interesting variety, with very smooth stems, divided into six deep ridge
. Catalogue of seeds, plants rare flowers. Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Cactus Seeds Catalogs. 58 THEODOSIA B. SHEPHERD COMPANY. when they loosen and hang like heavy gray strings. The flowers are superb; immense size, fine creamy-white, with magnificent clusters of silky stamens and a light yellow pistil. Blooming plants, 25c, 50c, 75c and $1 each ; cut- tings, 15c to 25c each. Gemmatus or Organ Pipe Cactus. A most interesting variety, with very smooth stems, divided into six deep ridges by long lines of short spines, re- sembling beading. The flowers are small, brownish-red, one inch long, and are very close together. The beauty of the plant lies in its massive grandeur and bead- like lines of spines. It resembles, when well grown, a great organ pipe. Small plants are handsome. Our largest speci- men is 30 ft. high. 15c to 25c each. Rostratust It is a strong, vigorous grower of the Grandiflorus type. The stems have four or five very deep angles which are ornamented at the eyes with handsome tubercles. The stems are a beautiful green with a shiny luster. The flowers are large with short broad petals of a beautiful rich greenish-white. Small plants, 25c; second size, 50c; cuttings, 15c each. Colubrinus and Splendens. We have a splendid stock of all sizes of C Colubri- nus and Splendens, two varieties having the same habit of growth, both profuse bloomers, giving on old plants fifty to one hundred flowers through the early spring and summer. They grow upright six to eight feet high with stems 1% to 3 inches diameter, having eleven shallow ribs set closely with spines at first red, afterwards turning gray. The flowers of Colubrinus have pinkish brown sepals and creamy white, incurved petals. Splendens has flowers one-third larger, funnel-shaped, deep brownish red sepals, petals creamy white; it is a rapid grower, and will branch freely if cut back. It is stronge
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