. Floral gems for 1896. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Springfield; Flowers; Bulbs (Plants); Roses; Plants, Ornamental; Commercial catalogs. Ithe orchid 7i\ ^ * (PONTEDERA GRASSIPES.)7R TKTKT^KtKTK %\7^7R7K7K7R 7$^\^7K™\7f\ A Most Odd, Beautiful and Valuable Plant of Easy Growth. THIS is undoubtedly the plant of all water plants for th« masses, not only on account of its uniqueness and great beauty, but the limited amount of space it occupies and the perfect ease with which it is grown. It floats
. Floral gems for 1896. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Springfield; Flowers; Bulbs (Plants); Roses; Plants, Ornamental; Commercial catalogs. Ithe orchid 7i\ ^ * (PONTEDERA GRASSIPES.)7R TKTKT^KtKTK %\7^7R7K7K7R 7$^\^7K™\7f\ A Most Odd, Beautiful and Valuable Plant of Easy Growth. THIS is undoubtedly the plant of all water plants for th« masses, not only on account of its uniqueness and great beauty, but the limited amount of space it occupies and the perfect ease with which it is grown. It floats on th« water by means of its curiously inflated leaf stallis, which re- semble bladders or balloons filled with air. A mass of beautiful feathery blue roots grow downward in the water. It forms a lovely rosette of its curious shining green h aves, and throws up spikes of the mest exquisite flo vers imaginable, resembling in form a spike of Hyacinth bloom, but as bountiful as many of the choicest and most costlv Orchids. Each flower is as large or larger than a silver dollar, in color a beautiful soft lilac rose, sparkling as if covered with diamond dust. The upper petal, which is the largest, has a metallic bluo blotch in the center, and in the center of that a small, deep, golden yellow spot. Our cut conveys no idea of the beauty of the spilt'-of flowers, which is often six or eight inches in length and three inches in diame- ter. Can be grown in the open air in Summer and in the win- dow in Winter in anything which will hold water. In the win- dow the most beautiful effect is produced by using a glass vessel of some sort, with shells and white sand so arranged in the bot- tom as to conceal a small amount of soil. In Summer it can be grown in the vard in a pool or tub of soil and water, and will bloom most profusely. Price. 20 cents each ; three for 50 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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