Archive image from page 90 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 BOCCONIA FBUTESCEN8. BOCX:ONlA. Nat. Ord., Pnpaveracm. A new and beautiful foliaged greenhouse plant, and one of the rarest plants yet introduced for the decoration of oeds and lawns in summer. 659 Bocconia Frntescens. A splendid novelty; very rare 60 CACTUS. Nat. Ord, Cactacea. An extremely curious and interesting genus, many of the varieties producing magnificent flowers of the most brilliant color
Archive image from page 90 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 BOCCONIA FBUTESCEN8. BOCX:ONlA. Nat. Ord., Pnpaveracm. A new and beautiful foliaged greenhouse plant, and one of the rarest plants yet introduced for the decoration of oeds and lawns in summer. 659 Bocconia Frntescens. A splendid novelty; very rare 60 CACTUS. Nat. Ord, Cactacea. An extremely curious and interesting genus, many of the varieties producing magnificent flowers of the most brilliant colors. Succeeds best in sandy loam, mixed with lime-rubbish and a little peat or rotten dung. Greenhouse perennial. 660 Cactus, Mixed. A choice collection; from Africa -26 CALCEOLARIA. Nat. Ord., Scrophulariaeea. Plants of a highly decorative character; an indispensable ornament for the draw- ing-room or conservatory. The shrubby variety is sometimes grown for in-door and sometimes for out-door decoration. Half-hardy perennials. 661 Calceolaria Hy)>rida. Mixed. Saved from a named collection . . . .25 663 Superba Grandiflora. Extra fine, spotted and striped, large-flow- ered; saved from the prize flowers; superb. 1 foot 50 663 Nana. A new dwarf variety from Germany, beautifully marked, close, compact habit,free-bloomer; one of the best. Mixed. J foot . .60 664 Rueosa Tifrrini. New; spotted and striped of the above; very fine . .50 665 Scabioiu-Ieaved. Sulphur-yellow flowers, in great profusion. 2 feet . .10 CALLA Nat. Ord., Aracea. A very handsome plant, either as an aquatic or for the ornamentation of the drawing-room or conservatorv. Half-hard v perennial. 666 Calla thiopica. White; from Cape of Good Hope. 2 feet . . . . M 61 I k
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