. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. A C11 .\ .\ I .\ M .\ LVA \ 1SL L b. there it was found almost impossible to propagate it, except by seeds'which are very rarely produced, and it was pi edicled that this would make it so high priced that it would always be a rare plant. Strange to say, we find it very easy to propagate here, and are therefore ahle to offer it at a low en .ugh price to bring it within the reach of all. The leaves are like those of the Locust, only smaller, a
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. A C11 .\ .\ I .\ M .\ LVA \ 1SL L b. there it was found almost impossible to propagate it, except by seeds'which are very rarely produced, and it was pi edicled that this would make it so high priced that it would always be a rare plant. Strange to say, we find it very easy to propagate here, and are therefore ahle to offer it at a low en .ugh price to bring it within the reach of all. The leaves are like those of the Locust, only smaller, and tlie under side a silvery color. Every night at the approach of sundown the plant goes to sleep—that is, its leaves fold up bringmg the silvery underside into view and giving the i)lant a very curious appearance. Its flowers are produced in racemes, are much like those of the I^ocust plant only smaller and a bright golden yellow and cover the plant like a golden sheen, so freely are they produced. It instantly arrests the attention of all beholders and is a ))lant which will give the greatest satisfaction. Fine plants, l.')c. each ; larger and finer, 30c. each. months. If desired the root can he put in the open ground in the spring, and wintered in a ti IX of c. Crape Myrtle. (^Lagerstrcemia hidica.) What the Lilac is to the North the Crape Myrtle is to the South. It thrives anywhere and everywhere and blooms all summer long. Were it but known what a grand plant it is everybody in the North would grow it. Our cut shows the appearance of one in- dividual flower, but we leave it to our customers to imagine the appearance of a bush completely covered witn large panicles con- sisting of scores of such flowers. The petals of the fiowers look like crape, and the panicles of bloom are larger than those of the Lilac. It can be set in the open ground in the spring, where it will bloom freely, and in the fall be dug up, put in a box, and wintered in a cellar. Or it can be kep
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