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Title: Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants
Identifier: annualillustrate00amer (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: American Exotic Nurseries; Hoyt, Robert D; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Tropical plants Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs
Publisher: Seven Oaks, Fl. : American Exotic Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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42 THE AMERICAN EXOTIC NURSERIES, SEVEN OAKS, FLORIDA. CEREUS, continued. C. Pemvianis. A magnificent and stately species? with fine prominent ribs; color dark bluish green. Grand specimens, three to five feet high. 86 to $12 each. C. splendens. The Candle Cactus of the South Florida Keys. We have listed this species heretofore as G. serpentinus, with which it is almost identical. Flowers large, creamy white; night-blooming. 15 cts. to So each. C. serpentinus. 25 cts. to 82 each. C. triangularis. (Strawberry Pear.) Mexico and the West Indies, where the scaly buds are used as an ingredient in soups and the fruit for preserves. Flowers handsome, white and straw-colored, eight inches in diameter. The plant is a climber, and will cling firmly to anything against which it may be placed. 15 and 50 cts. each. C. tuberosus. Mexico. A delicate tuberous-rooted species. 50 cts. each. C. variabilis. West Indies and south Florida. Stems two to six sided, dark shining green; spines set wide apart: flowers white, nocturnal. A very hand- some plant. 15 cts. to 81 each. ECHINOCACTUS. The Echinocacti are mostly natives of Mexico, where they are known as the Hedgehog Cactus. In form they are globular and oval and more or less •overed with sharp spines. All are good bloomers.
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CEREUS GRAND1FLORUS E. bicolor. 75 cts. each. E. brevihamatus. 50 cts. each. E. candicans. (Rainbow Cactus.) Very handsome: flowers very large red, with white center. 40 to 50 cts. each. E. cornigerus. One of the handsomest of all, and quite rare. 82 each. E. helophorus. 82 to 86 each. E. multicostatus. 75 cts. each. E. pilosus. 81 to 83 each. E. Escheeri. 35 cts each. E. Simpsonii. 50 cts. each. E. setispinus. 75 cts. each. E. Texensis. (Devil's Pin-Cushion.) 50 cts. each. ECHINOCEREUS. E. Berlandieri. Mexico, as are most of the following. 50 cts. each. E. caepitosus. 50 cts. each. E. dasyacanthus. 75 cts. each. E. Longisittus. 75 cts. each. E. pictinatus. 50 cts. to 83 each. E. procumbens. 50 cts. each. E. stramineus. Very handsome; flowers bright pur- ple, three or four inches in diameter. 75 cts. each. E. viridiflorus. 81 each. ECHINOPSIS. This group is remarkable for the size and beauty of its flowers, which are funnel-shaped, six to twelve inches long and three or four wide, and in some species very fragrant. E. Eyriesii. Flowers white. 81 each. E. multiplex. One of the best flowers; delicate rose. 50 cts. to 83 each. E. Mulleri. Flowers double: delicate satiny rose. $1.50 each. (See cut, page 44.) EPIPHYLLUM. There are only a few spe- cies of this genus. They are handsome natives of Brazil, with solitary flowers, large and showy. Of these few species there are numerous varieties, nearly all of which are of rich color and among the most attractive of win- ter flowering plants. E. truncatum. (Crab's Claw Cactus.) A well-known trailing species; flowers brilliant scarlet. 10 cts. each; the same grafted on Cereus, 1 to 3 feet high, • 50 cts. to 81 each. Last summer we imported some grand new sorts of Epiphyllums, all of which come most highly recom- mended, but as they have not flowered for us yet, we cannot describe them. E. Russellianum Gaertneri. $1 each. E. aurantiacum. 81 each. E. Altensteini. 50 cts. each. E. tricolor. 50 cts. each. E. violaceum superbum. $1 each. All of these are grafted on Pereskia stock, and are fine plants.

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