. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Unfortunately several flower cultivators have confounded this beautiful Ipomcea with a worthless weed and pest, and have warned the public against it through some horticultural and floral publications. While they are undoubtedly honest in their belief, they are badly mistaken, having in mind, probably, the old " Kentucky Hunter," or Bind Weed (Calystegia sepium) which is a pestiferious weed, though bearing a profu
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : season of 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Unfortunately several flower cultivators have confounded this beautiful Ipomcea with a worthless weed and pest, and have warned the public against it through some horticultural and floral publications. While they are undoubtedly honest in their belief, they are badly mistaken, having in mind, probably, the old " Kentucky Hunter," or Bind Weed (Calystegia sepium) which is a pestiferious weed, though bearing a profusion of Ipomoea-like flowers. There is no more danger of Ipomcea Pandurata spreading or becoming a pest, than there is of the Dahlia or Psaeony, as it has tuberous roots the same as they and is propagated the same way. Hoya Gari^osa, op Wax plaint. A beautiful climbing plant with finely formed, thick, waxy foliage. Its beautiful and curious flowers, which are produced in clusters of the most perfect symmetry, have a pearly, wax-like appearance, and are star-shaped, with a pink or crimson center. So sweet are the«flower8 that a honey-like juice drops from them. It is a plant of the easiest culture and continues to increase in beauty for years. It makes an excellent plant for a warm sitting-room, as it grows freely without direct light. It does not re- quire much water, and the dust is easily sponged off its thick, waxy leaves which remain on the plant for years. One peculiarity of the plant is that if the flowers are not cut but are allowed to fade on the plant, they will fall oft the flower-stem, while the stem will remain on the plant and produce another cluster of flowers the following season, Nice plants, 25c. each. Passiflopa Qaadrar^galaris Yai*» This is a beautiful variegated form of the Large Granadilla of South America, and the out gives a very faithful idea of its appearance, except that it cannot show the colors of the beautiful white and gold variegations of the br
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