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Miss Ella V. Baines, The Woman Florist, Springfield, Ohio,
21
Inch No. of
Pots. Leaves.
3 4 too..
4 4 to 5..
5 4to5..
6 4to5..
7 5tofi..
7 6to7..
LATANIA
BORBON-
ICA.
The well-known
Chinese Fan
Palm. This is
one of the most
exquisitely
graceful among
Palms. Its wide-
spreading, grace-
fully arching
leaves are ele-
gant and effect-
i^gHs. ive for apartment
decoration. It is
considered the
handsomest and
most valuable of
all the Palms.
Price
Each.
10tol2 $ 50
12tol5 75
15 to IS 1 00
16 to 20 1 50
18to24 2 00
24 to 30 3 50
L1VISTONIA ROTUNDIFOLIA.
LIVISTONIA
ROTUNDIFOLIA.
The Miniature
Fan Palm.
One of the prettiest Palms.
Especially suited for table
decorations. The foliage is
similar to that of Latania
Borbonica, but smaller and
gracefully recurved, forming
an almost globular plant.
Always scarce. Admired by
everybody.
V onus; plants, four-
inch pots, four to five leaves, ten Indies high, 75
cents each.
PHOENIX
RECLINATA.
One of the hardiest of
the Date Palms, with dark
green, feathery foliage, of
strong growth, and is es-
pecially valuable for out-
door decoration, as it
stands sun and wind with-
out the least damage, even
in most exposed positions.
Six-inch pots, twen-
ty - four to thirty
Inches high, Sl.'-.'i
each.
Seven Inch pots,
thirty-six to forty
Inches high, $2.00
each. phcenix reclinata.
PITTOSPORUM TOBIRA.
An elegant hard-wooded shrub. Hardy in the South. Makes
handsome specimens, growing into a small tree in a few years.
It bears small, white flowers in large bracts, or heads, which are
so delicious in fragrance as to remind one of orange blossoms.
Fine plants, 15 cents each.
POMEGRANATES.
These make shapely ornaments for the lawn, growing into
large, shapely shrubs. They are used extensively in the South
for hedges. The foliage is small, flowers double and very pretty.
I have three varieties — Double White, Double Scarlet
and Double Variegated. 5 cents each.
PANDANUS UTILIS. (Screw Pine.)
This is a charming plant and is one of our most useful of orna-
mental plants. The foliage is green, edged with red; when the
plant is fully developed, the leaves describe a perfect screw on
the stem, hence the name, Screw Pine. This will go nicely with
your Palms and requires the same culture. Give very little
water during the Winter season. Price, fine plants, 30
cents each.
EMPEROR PANSIES.
My Emperor Pansies are the best the world produces. They
combine the choicest large flowered sorts, both of European and
American growers. It has been my aim to make this the finest
strain of this favorite flower in existence. Price, 35 cents
per dozen; $2.50 per hundred. Seed of the Emperor
Pansies, 10 cents per packet.
PHRTNIUM VARIEGATUM.
It is impossible to
convey by descrip-
tion or cut anything
like a correct idea of
the great beauty of
this new ornamental
foliage plant. Its
habit of growth is al-
most precisely like
the Canna, and it
grows from a tuber,
which may be win-
tered dry — like a
Gladiolus— if desired,
or it may be kept
growing the year
round as a pot plant.
The Canna-like
shoots grow from a
foot or eighteen
inches to three feet
high, and the leaves,
which are spreading
blades of oblong-lan-
ceolate form, are
from six to ten inch-
es long and two to
five inches broad.
They are bright, pale
green, beautifully
variegated with pure
white and rich
cream, the variega-
tions being extreme-
ly diversified; in-
deed, in my beds of
thousands of the
plants it is almost
impossible to find
two leaves exactly alike. In some leaves the whole area is pure
white or rich cream color, in others only one-third or one half,
in others again it is reduced to a few stripes or faint lines— and
all of these variegations in one plant. It is very free-growing,
and one of the most ornamental plants imaginable, either for
pot culture or for bedding out. It is a grand plant to border
Canna beds with, standing the full force of the sun'srays. In-
deed, the fiercer the sunshine the more perfect are the variega-
tions of the leaves. The variegations grow constantly better
and more varied as the plant grows older and larger. Iti3
managed with the most perfect ease, and is absolutely sure to
delight all who grow it. Fine plants, 15 cents each.