. Descriptive catalogue of flower seeds, greenhouse and herbaceous plants, roses, ornamental shrubbery, bulbs and decorative floricultural articles. Flowers, Seeds, New York (State), Catalogs; Floriculture, New York (State), Catalogs; Nursery stock, New York (State), Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, New York (State), Catalogs. 58 Michel Bros. & Kern's Descriptive Floral Catalogue. Arundo Donas Variegata. A rampant growing plant, "with variegated foliage. The canes attain the height of 12 to 15 feet; delights in moist situations. Very ornamental. Price, $ PENISETUM LOIV CI ISTI11/173
. Descriptive catalogue of flower seeds, greenhouse and herbaceous plants, roses, ornamental shrubbery, bulbs and decorative floricultural articles. Flowers, Seeds, New York (State), Catalogs; Floriculture, New York (State), Catalogs; Nursery stock, New York (State), Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, New York (State), Catalogs. 58 Michel Bros. & Kern's Descriptive Floral Catalogue. Arundo Donas Variegata. A rampant growing plant, "with variegated foliage. The canes attain the height of 12 to 15 feet; delights in moist situations. Very ornamental. Price, $ PENISETUM LOIV CI ISTI11/1731. (leather Grass.) This is one of the prettiest ornamental grasses. A single plant will, in one season, cover a space"of three feet in diameter, growing about 2J to 3 feet high, the long slender leaves bending very gracefully to the ground, while the whole plant is covered the entire season with large white feathery blooms. Very ornamental, and beautiful for winter or dried bouquets. Price, 25c. each, $ per doz. Colored Foliage Plants. JjTHE introduction of Colored Foliage ^ Plants of late years, has opened a new era in Floriculture. Plants of a foliage varying in color from a silvery white to the deepest shade of scarlet or purple, delighting in the very heat of our summers, of great decorative effect, a mass of the brightest colors at all times in the season, is surely a great relief and blessing to a climate like this of ours, subject to ex- tremes of heat and drought, to which many a floricultural pet must be sacrificed. Those ornamental leaf plants have proved a match to any West- ern drought, retaining their charming character when other favorite flowers fail and cease to bloom. Wherever introd- uced heretofore, these lovely colors would not be missed again. Individual notion and taste in blending various colors has in their arrangement its freest scope. The purple, scar- let, red, and silvery white will ever be pleasing to the eye, when planted in corresponding
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