. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Tropical plants Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs. MA MM ILL ARIA APPLANATA. MAM MILLAR I A. " It would be very difficult to find any plants in the whole vegetable kingdom which present such beauti- ful examples of symmetry as the Mammillarias. * * A large number of them resemble exquisite pieces of mechanism, finished with the greatest minuteness and accuracy; others, again, might be imagined to have undergone a kind of crystallization, their whole sur- face being frosted over with star-like spiculse
. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Tropical plants Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs. MA MM ILL ARIA APPLANATA. MAM MILLAR I A. " It would be very difficult to find any plants in the whole vegetable kingdom which present such beauti- ful examples of symmetry as the Mammillarias. * * A large number of them resemble exquisite pieces of mechanism, finished with the greatest minuteness and accuracy; others, again, might be imagined to have undergone a kind of crystallization, their whole sur- face being frosted over with star-like spiculse, ar- ranged with geometrical precision; and still others appear as if covered with the finest gossamer. * * Strangely beautiful, indeed, are most of the Mammil- larias. Nearly all are natives of ;—Lewis Castle. K. applanata. 50 cts. each. M. arietina. 50 cts. each. M. bicolor. 75 cts. each. M. Cocassana. SI each. M. carnea. each. M. deflexispina. Flowers bright red. 75 cts. each. M, elephantidens. Flowers rose color. SI each. M. fulvispina. 50 cts. each. X. fuscata. Flowers purple; very handsome. 75 cts. | each. M. Grahamii. A very beautiful species, with slender booked spines and rose colored flowers. 30 to 50 ! cts. each. M. macromeris. Flowers carmine. SI each. M, micromeris. A delicate little silky plant, known as the Button Cactus. 30 cts. each. M, pusilla. Flowers yellowish white, produced in profusion. 25 cts. each. M, stella-anrata. Golden Star. 50 cts. each. MELOCACTUS COMMUNIS. Turk's Cap. West Indies. This has a globular stem, regularly ribbed from base to summit, which is a cylindrical crown six or eight inches high. $1 to 93 each. OPUNTIA. This division of the Cactese, of which our prickly pear is a family example, is well suited to sub-tropi- cal gardening, and very picturesque groups may be formed with them. The flowers of most species are handsome, and several produce edible fruit, which is likely to attain commercial importance. All are vig
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