. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Shrubs, Catalogs. ACHANIA MALVAVI8CU8. no one would be without it if its great beau- ty and many points of excel- lence were uni- versally known It is as decora- tive as a Palm, cheap as a Ger- anium and makes a fine specimen in one season. In the open ground in Florida it makes a superb lawn or street tree, growing with wonderful rapidity and to a great size, producing a profusion of golden yellow flowers which are exceedingly rich in honey and attract bees through
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Shrubs, Catalogs. ACHANIA MALVAVI8CU8. no one would be without it if its great beau- ty and many points of excel- lence were uni- versally known It is as decora- tive as a Palm, cheap as a Ger- anium and makes a fine specimen in one season. In the open ground in Florida it makes a superb lawn or street tree, growing with wonderful rapidity and to a great size, producing a profusion of golden yellow flowers which are exceedingly rich in honey and attract bees through several months of the year. It should be extensively planted as a street tree throughout South Florida. Price of fine pot-grown plants, 15c. each. Larger and very fine, 30c. each. Batiljiiua purpurea. An elegant pot shrub with curious two-lobed leaves which close at night, and exquisite Orchid-like flowers from three to five inches across, varying in color from almost white to a shade of rich purple, marked and shaded with many tones. It blooms in the greatest profusion all the winter and spring. 20c. each. Cherokee Bear*, or Erytl^rii^a. (Erythrina Herbacea.) A Florida plant having a large, fleshy, carrot-like root which sends up strong shoots bearing beautiful leaves and immense racemes of the most intense fiery scarlet flowers; these are followed by brown pods which burst, revealing the bright red "beans," and remaining on the plant for months. If desired the root can be put in the open ground in the spring, and wintered in a box of dry soil. Fine pot-grown tubers, 20c. each. Goffee. (Coffca Arabica.) Camellia Tnea. (Tlie True Tea Plant.) This is the true Chinese Tea Plant, which makes a beautiful little evergreen pot shrub, covered with lovelv single white flowers, each with a profusion of golden-tipped stamens. Truly beautiful as well as novel, and of the easiest culti- vation. It is perfectly hardy throughout the Gulf States, where good tea may be prepared from
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