. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Bamboos, Grasses 33 jBAMBUSA, continued. tion of rooms, etc. The leaves are thick and strong, and very beautiful. Very choice plant, and quite hardy in Florida. 25 cents each, $ per dozen. B. vulgaris. "The large unarmed Bamboo of Bengal. It rises to a height of seventy feet, and the stems may attain a length even of forty feet in one s
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Bamboos, Grasses 33 jBAMBUSA, continued. tion of rooms, etc. The leaves are thick and strong, and very beautiful. Very choice plant, and quite hardy in Florida. 25 cents each, $ per dozen. B. vulgaris. "The large unarmed Bamboo of Bengal. It rises to a height of seventy feet, and the stems may attain a length even of forty feet in one season, though the growth is slower in cooler climes. It has proved to be capable of resisting occasional night frost. It is the best for building Bamboo ;— Von Mueller. A five year old plant in the nursery is one of the most conspicuous of our beautiful trees, and the largest exotic of any sort we have. The present height is about forty feet, and the season's canes are just ris- ing upward; they will probably reach fifty feet or more within the next thirty days, for as perhaps you do not know, the stalks average a growth during the summer of a foot a day! This should be in every plantation of South Florida. Rare as yet, and difficult to propa- gate. §1 each. (See illustration, preceeding page.) B. Senaensis. The Giant Bamboo of Japan. A hardy sort, reaching a height of 100 feet. A poor and slow grower for us. Perhaps needs clay soil. Quite hardy. $'Z each. We have a few new and rare unnamed Bamboos from Japan and West Indies. Price, §1 to $3 each. CYPERUS alternifolius. Umbrella Plant. This beautiful hothouse grass attains a height of three or four feet. Is at home in Florida. 25 cents each. C. alternifolius var. Variegated Umbrella Plant. Leaves and stalks variegated with white. 50 cents each. DENDROCALAMTJS strictus. One of the mightiest of Bamboos. "Grows on drier ground than Bamboos generally. Its strength and solidity render it tit for many technic pur
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