. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. VIII. '• Grotesqueness of form or habit is rarely foundin combination with floral beauty in the vegetable world. Yet no family affords more remarkable examples of this union of widely divergent qualities than the great and peculiar Cactus order. * * * When the brilliantly colored rose, crimson, purple or yellow flowers were seen, the ob
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. VIII. '• Grotesqueness of form or habit is rarely foundin combination with floral beauty in the vegetable world. Yet no family affords more remarkable examples of this union of widely divergent qualities than the great and peculiar Cactus order. * * * When the brilliantly colored rose, crimson, purple or yellow flowers were seen, the observer would be led to the conclusion that while the platit 7vas advancing to so high a degree of floral beauty, one portion of its constitution must have been strangely altered and stunted by some external long-continued forces. * * * They are easily grown, so easily in fact that the cottager who can devote a small space to them in his window may, and ofte?i does, grow matiy of them as successfully as the greatest magnate in Europe with all the most elaborate horticultural a-pfliances at his ;—Lewis Anhaloniuvi pristnaticum. ANHALONIUM Williamsii, "Plains of Texas and Mexico, Tliis singular plant will not be sought after by those who desire only the beau- tiful in na- ture, but should be in every collec- tion of rare and unique plants. It is not unlike a carrot in shape, two and a-half inches in di- ameter at the top, six to eight inches in length, dark glaucous green, the top de- pressed and irregularly furrowed. Flowers pale rose or flesh ;—Mrs. Nickels. Strong plants, 50 cents each. A. prismaticum. "This exceedingly rare plant well deserves the first place in our catalogue. Our illustration, made from a photograph of a small plant, conveys a perfect idea of its symmetrical shape. It requires very little attention, and will grow and bloom in any sitting-room without being watered for a long time. Found on the mountains of Mexi
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