. Native and exotic plants, trees & shrubs. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Palms Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Bamboos and Grasses 2]. Gynerium argenteum (Silver Pampas Grass). See description, page 22. BAM BUSA violescens, continued China, with leaves green above and bluish gray beneath. Stems much blanched and blackish violet. This is a handsome, hardy and vigorous sort, in habit like 2>. Metake. 30 cts. each. B. vulgaris. * * The Common Bamboo of India, and probably naturali
. Native and exotic plants, trees & shrubs. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Palms Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Bamboos and Grasses 2]. Gynerium argenteum (Silver Pampas Grass). See description, page 22. BAM BUSA violescens, continued China, with leaves green above and bluish gray beneath. Stems much blanched and blackish violet. This is a handsome, hardy and vigorous sort, in habit like 2>. Metake. 30 cts. each. B. vulgaris. * * The Common Bamboo of India, and probably naturalized, although it may be indi- genous to the West Indies, particularly Jamaica. It is of quick growth, and reaches a height of 70 feet in six or seven years here, but can not stand very low temperature. Hardy enough for all of South Florida. It is a magnificent species, with immense, waving, plumy stems, 4 inches through at the base. The growing canes reach a height of 70 feet in less than two months (12 to 15 inches a day). We offer fine, pot-grown plants at 50 cts. each, $5 per doz. CYNODON dactylon var.* * St. Lucie Grass. A fine-leaved grass, adapted for lawns, recently brought into notice from the St. Lucie river. Re- sembles Bermuda Grass, but is easily eradicated, as it does not have underground runners. Grows rapidly ; does best in sunshine. Needs cutting every week or 10 days. 25 cts. per 100, by mail. Large lots by freight or express $ per 2-bushel bag. CYPERUS alternifolius.* * Umbrella Grass. A beautiful tufted grass, admirably adapted for house use. It grows readily, and outdoors can be bedded with great effect over the whole country in summer. Here it makes clumps 5 or 6 feet high in open ground. Fine plants, pot-grown, 15 cts. each, $ per doz. DENDROCALAMUS strlctus.*** An immense Bamboo of India, having solid canes. It reaches an enormous height and forms splendid clumps of great beauty. The strong solid canes are of consid- erable value. It stands more c
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