. John Saul's Washington nurseries catalogue of plants for the spring of 1888. nd form of the blotches. $ PEPEROMA PROSTRATA. A very ornamental basket plant, with slender, creeping stems, and alternate round variegated leaves. 25 cents. ARDISIA OLIVERI. Ardisia Oliveri is a Stove shrub of remarkably striking appearance, with recurved foliage and large globularheads of flowers like those of an Ixora, but of pink color. The plant was introduced from Costa Eica by thelate M. Endres. 40 cents. 14 JOmH SAULS DESCRIPTITE CATALOGUE NEPENTHES, PITCHER PLANT. Each.*Nepenthes,Coccinea(Hamiltoniana\
. John Saul's Washington nurseries catalogue of plants for the spring of 1888. nd form of the blotches. $ PEPEROMA PROSTRATA. A very ornamental basket plant, with slender, creeping stems, and alternate round variegated leaves. 25 cents. ARDISIA OLIVERI. Ardisia Oliveri is a Stove shrub of remarkably striking appearance, with recurved foliage and large globularheads of flowers like those of an Ixora, but of pink color. The plant was introduced from Costa Eica by thelate M. Endres. 40 cents. 14 JOmH SAULS DESCRIPTITE CATALOGUE NEPENTHES, PITCHER PLANT. Each.*Nepenthes,Coccinea(Hamiltoniana\ pitchersabout 6 inches long by 3 in width, crimson,slightly speckled with yellow, flask-shaped,pointed at the base, distended below the mid-dle, broadly cylindric above; rim broad, finelyribbed, ribs particolored, red aiid blackish;throat greenish, speckled with red; lid ovateoblong, smaller than the mouth, greenish, striped and speckled with red 2 50 *Dominii, a beautiful pitcher plant, producingits large pitchers freely; color green, marbledand spotted reddish brown 2 50. PITCHER PLANT, *Courtii, a hybrid pitcher plant of exceptionalmerit. The leaves are margined with hairs;the pitchers, which are freely produced, areflask-like, deep green in color, densely spottedor clouded with deep crimson and attain alength of from 6 to 8 inches 82 50 to 5 00 Patersonii, the pitchers, which are producedabundantly, are marked with numerous red-dish brown spots; a distinct and handsomevariety 2 50 , Distillatoria, one of the oldestvarieties, but one of the most distinct and valuable 2 50 *Hookerii, a magnificent species of robusthabit; the leaves are long and broad, sup-porting fine large pitchers upwards of 4 inchesin length and 2 inches in diameter; the groundcolor is dark green, which is profusely streaked and blotched with dark red 2 50 *Laevis, of very free growth, producing its pitch-ers Ireely of moderate size, of a brigbt green color, shaded with reddish brown 75 cts.
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