. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CORAL PLANT. Triie Tea Plaint. (Camellia Thea.) This is the true Chinese Tea Plant, which makes a beauti- ful little evergreen pot shrub, covered with lovely single white nowers, each with a profusion of golden-tipped stamens. Truly beautiful as well as novel, and of the easiest cultivation. It is perfectly hardy thoughout the Gulf States, where it makes fine hedges and good tea may be pre- pared from its leaves. Nice pot-grown plants, 30c. each. The Ton
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. CORAL PLANT. Triie Tea Plaint. (Camellia Thea.) This is the true Chinese Tea Plant, which makes a beauti- ful little evergreen pot shrub, covered with lovely single white nowers, each with a profusion of golden-tipped stamens. Truly beautiful as well as novel, and of the easiest cultivation. It is perfectly hardy thoughout the Gulf States, where it makes fine hedges and good tea may be pre- pared from its leaves. Nice pot-grown plants, 30c. each. The Tonjato Tree. (Solatium Betaceum.) A fine ornamental pot shrub from South America, £of 'r l,C %ttams * he}Sht of 12 or 14 feet. It grows in a fine | tiee-like form, the branches spreading and clothed with large handsome, tropical-looking leaves, making it a showy plant tor the house m winter or lawn in summer. But it is VllJl}ei for it» delicious fruit, which hangs pendent in clusters below the foliage: is the size of a large egg, and of hW^TP^ft? Rolor vvllen riPe- Ithasa delight- tuL subacid taste, slightly resembling the Tomato and is delicious raw, served with sugar and cream, and for ielly or Dam it is very fine. It will keen for weeks as it does not bruise on account of its very tough skin and the solid nature MrtlVSiSSf**1?** seeds 111 Southern California it is »Jva 1™**°T ^3 fruit and in Ceylon and India it is ex- tensnel\ giov^n, and is known as the "PoorMan's ; It is as yet a rare plant in this country, being almost un known outside of Southern California, plants, loo. each. ice seedlings Teconra Stains. Known in this State as Yellow Elder and YeTUiW Bignonia. It is a magnificent shrub which in the winter is a " glory of golden yellow flowers," which .are large, tube-shaped, and completely cover the plant, often weighing the branches to the ground. Something entirely new for a pot or tub plant at the North and sure to become a. grea
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