Archive image from page 73 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1893roya Year: 1892 BRYOPHVLLUM CALvciNUM. (See page 67.) BUXTJS sempervirens. Dwarf Box. A small- leaved evergreen of slow growth, adapted for low hedges. Is hardy all over the Southern states and many of the Northern states, and is well-known. 20 cents each, .|3 per dozen. B. sempervirens argenteus. Variegated form, with creamy white and green leaves. 25cts. each, $ per dozen. C3;SALPINIA regia (Poinciana regia). The Flam- BO
Archive image from page 73 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1893roya Year: 1892 BRYOPHVLLUM CALvciNUM. (See page 67.) BUXTJS sempervirens. Dwarf Box. A small- leaved evergreen of slow growth, adapted for low hedges. Is hardy all over the Southern states and many of the Northern states, and is well-known. 20 cents each, .|3 per dozen. B. sempervirens argenteus. Variegated form, with creamy white and green leaves. 25cts. each, $ per dozen. C3;SALPINIA regia (Poinciana regia). The Flam- BOYANTE or RoTAL PoiNciANA. Madagascar. One of the most beautiful trees we have ever seen. Of extremely rapid growth; immense, decompound leaves of a very dark, rich green; gives a striking ti-opical effect. In groups of ti'opical plants almost as effective as a palm. Specimens in this locality (killed to the ground in winter of 1886) were twenty-five feet in height, with spreading tops of the same diam- eter, at an age of only four years; trunks of the same nearly a foot in diameter; a perfect maze of orange-red flowers in May and June. The effect of the Royal Poinciana in the Park Isabella and other squares, and on the Prado, in Havana, is magnificent beyond description, from April till June. The tree is also com- mon in Key West, and, with the exception of Cocos nucifcra and Cordiasebestena, is almost the only tree that will grow on the bare sand and rocks of the Dry Tortugas. Fine pot-grown plants, cents each, $ per dozen. C. pulcherrima {Poinciana pulcherrima). The Bar- BADOES Floweu Fencb. ' Boyond it, again, blaze great orange and yellow flowers, with long stamens, and pistil curving upward out of them. They belong to a twining, scrambling bush, with finely pinnated mimosa leaves. That is the 'Flovver Fence' so often heard of in past years.''—Kingsley. Flowers of this species, delicate orange and red. Should be more grown in the greenhouse at the North, as it flo
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