. Descriptive supplemental catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. New, Rare and Beautiful CROTON ELEGANTissiMus. (See page iS.) CALADIUItIS, Continued. Trahiras. Very pure white variety. Triumpho. Large leaf, with much red. Tutoya. Similar to Comtesse de Condcxia. Vuiva Sant Anna Nery. Strong growiufj variety like Miraceiiia; rib zone sharply marked. CAMCBNSIA maxima. One of the most gorgeously beautiful of tropical climbers; a native of West Africa. The splendid bunches of pendulo
. Descriptive supplemental catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. New, Rare and Beautiful CROTON ELEGANTissiMus. (See page iS.) CALADIUItIS, Continued. Trahiras. Very pure white variety. Triumpho. Large leaf, with much red. Tutoya. Similar to Comtesse de Condcxia. Vuiva Sant Anna Nery. Strong growiufj variety like Miraceiiia; rib zone sharply marked. CAMCBNSIA maxima. One of the most gorgeously beautiful of tropical climbers; a native of West Africa. The splendid bunches of pendulous milk-white flowers, tinged with gold on the edges of the iietals, grow in drooping racemes from the axils of the leaves; the petals are white, venose, frilled at the margin, where they are tinted with a golden yellow. Price on appli- cation. (See cut, page 1.').) Ghiesbreghtii. Variegated leaves, rich dark velvety green above, under surface dull purple-red. blotched with creamy white, yellow and red. &.'>() to ^:>. CLERODENSBON macrosyphon. A very elegant stove shrub from Zanzibar. The leaves are about an inch broad and from two to three inches long. The pure white flowers have slender tubes about 4 to 5 inches long, the limb being about IJo inches in diam- eter and five lobed. $ tr. $i. C. nutans. A very desirable stove shrub, introduced fi'om India. It is quite distinct from other Clei'oden- drons, being much branched and dwarf, with long narrow leaves. The flowers, which are produced in drooping racemes from the tijjs of the young shoots, are large, pure white, with reddish purple calices, being followed in due course with indigo blue berries. $ to -St. C. Biumphiana. A distinct flowering stove plant, intro duced from .Java. The flowers, which form erect pyra- midal panicles at the ends of branches, emerge from sanguineous bracts, and are long tubed, and are at first flesh colored, deepening to a pleasing tint of red; red stamens. to 4^5.
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