. Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical crops Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 42 R. D. HOYT, SEVEN OAKS NURSERIES, BAY VIEW, AGAVE. ACHANIA MALVAVISCUS. This is a good plant for Florida. We have seen a specimen here ten feet high, which, when covered with its abutilon-Iike scarlet flowers, was worth going some distance to behold. 15 cents each. ACHYRANTHES. Colored-leaved
. Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical crops Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 42 R. D. HOYT, SEVEN OAKS NURSERIES, BAY VIEW, AGAVE. ACHANIA MALVAVISCUS. This is a good plant for Florida. We have seen a specimen here ten feet high, which, when covered with its abutilon-Iike scarlet flowers, was worth going some distance to behold. 15 cents each. ACHYRANTHES. Colored-leaved plants that are valuable as a back- ground for coleus or as pot plants. Several varie- ties. 10 cents each. /ERVA SANGUINOLENTA. A good basket plant; dark wine-colored foliage. 15 cents each. ADENANTHERA PAVONINA. The Circassian Bean. A handsome ornamental and useful tree of the East Indies. Seeds brilliant scar- let, highly polished, edible, and of great equality, each one weighingybz/r ^g-razwi/ in consequence of this last quality they are often used as weights by jewelers and goldsmiths. 50 cents each. AGAVE. The agaves have long been used wherever a trop- ical effect is desired, as they are among the most striking of scenic plants, not only for the immense size of some varieties, but for the striking colors and variegations of their leaves. Nearly all are valuable for their fiber, while some indeed produce the finest and most valuable fiber known. A. Americana. The Century Plant. This species and its several varieties are pretty well known throughout the state ; are entirely hardy, growing to an immense size, and are unsurpassed for decorative purposes. 50 cents each. A. Americana milleri-picta. Center of leaves green, with broad white stripes on the margin ; one of the handsomest of all. 50 cents to %\ 50 each. A. recurvata. A very handsome species with light bluish-green leaves, gracefully recurved ; of more rapid growth than some of the others ; flowering when about ten
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