. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. PIKE & ELLSWORTH, JESSAMINE, PASCO CO., ABRUS, OR CRAB S-EYE VINE. Choice Climbing Plants. SOME of the most beautiful creations of nature are wrought in vines. They beautify whatever thev touch, be it the mansion of the wealthy or some dead and decaying monarch ot the forest. The following assortment is a choice one, embracing per- fectly hardy sorts for out-door planting, and delicate, tender sorts for the window garden. If you ha
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. PIKE & ELLSWORTH, JESSAMINE, PASCO CO., ABRUS, OR CRAB S-EYE VINE. Choice Climbing Plants. SOME of the most beautiful creations of nature are wrought in vines. They beautify whatever thev touch, be it the mansion of the wealthy or some dead and decaying monarch ot the forest. The following assortment is a choice one, embracing per- fectly hardy sorts for out-door planting, and delicate, tender sorts for the window garden. If you have a window or piazza to shade, a summer house to beautify, an unsightly fence to screen, or an old stump to hide, you cannot find anything in the way of perfectly hardy plants better for the purpose than the two Clematis, the Honeysuckles, Yellow Jessamine and Trumpet Creeper. Plant vines in abundance, their airy gracefulness and beauty will prove a perpetual delight to all who behold them. Abrus Precatorius, or Crab's Eye Vine. This is the so-called " Wonderful "Weather Plant," which has created a great amount of interest, both in this country and Euroi)e. Aside from whether it does or does not cor- rectly forecast the state of the weather, it is certainly a mott beautiful climber, either for pot culture or the open ground in summer. It is covered with delicate pinnate leaves, and clusters of yellow flowers followed by bunches of pods which, when dry. burst open disclosing brilliant red seeds with black eyes, these are used for making various articles of jewelry, etc., and for mixing with baskets of sea-shells. The beauty of the bright yellow flowers and gleaming red seeds on the back-ground of feathery green foliage is better imagined than described. Fine, strong plants, 15c. each. Climbing Asparagus, Tenuissimus. The fine foliage of the common vegetable Asparagus has always been admired. Imagine that plant transformed into a delicate climber with far finer an
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