. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CESTKUM PAKQUI. COFFEE. GestPiinj. Cestrum Parqul—The famous Night-blooming Jessamine, producing in the greatest profusion clusters of beautiful greenish-tinted white flowers, which are overpoweringly sweet at night. It is said to be the most valuable of all per- fume plants. Makes a lovely pot plant, and is of the easiest culture, thriving to perfection in good loam and sand. Blooms almost the'year round and small plants, 12 to 18 inches high, load them
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CESTKUM PAKQUI. COFFEE. GestPiinj. Cestrum Parqul—The famous Night-blooming Jessamine, producing in the greatest profusion clusters of beautiful greenish-tinted white flowers, which are overpoweringly sweet at night. It is said to be the most valuable of all per- fume plants. Makes a lovely pot plant, and is of the easiest culture, thriving to perfection in good loam and sand. Blooms almost the'year round and small plants, 12 to 18 inches high, load themselves with bloom, a spray being produced in the axil of every leaf. Forms a lovely large, dense shrub in Florida gardens. 10c, each: larger, 30c. each. Oestrum Diurnum—Day-blooming* Jessamine. A hand- some quick-growing evergreen shrub, producing quantities of sweet-scented, white flowers, valuable for cut-flower work, and somewhat resembling Candytuft. A fine pot plant of the easiest culture, and for the open ground in Florida. 15c. each ; larger, 30c. each. Cestrum Aurantlcum—A fine orange-colored winter- flowering variety which blooms at night. A choice sort. 15c, each. Glerodeqdroi) Fragraits, fl. pi. The accompanying little cut conveys some slight idea of the beauty of this .much neglected plant. It is of low, shrubby growth, with large, tropical-looking leaves, dull green above and dusty appearing beneath. From the axils of the leaves appear compact heads of the most exquisite waxy white flowers, exactly like miniature Camellia blooms and of the most delicious fragrance, at times giving a pleas- ing banana-like odor. The flowers are produced in such a compact head as to resemble a bouquet. Given a rich soil it itlooms profusely; can he wintered in the cellar or kept up for winter blossoms. If cut down by frost, it sprouts up readily and vigorously from the root. Price, 15c. each ; 3 for 40c. Clerodendron Foetl- dum-A handsome Chi- nese shrub for either pots or the
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