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Title: Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants
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Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Seven Oaks Nurseries; Hoyt, R. D; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical crops Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Bay View, F. L. : Seven Oaks 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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BAMBOOS AND OTHER GRASSES. 15 Bamboos anb Sther Grasses. Ornamental and Useful. ANDROPOGON CITRATUS. The Lemon Grass of India. An ornamental grass, forming large clumps. From the blades steeped in water a tea is made that is found beneficial in cases of fever. It also yields an essential oil for perfumery. 10 cents each. ARUNDINARIA. A. gigantea. The large cane or Bamboo of Flor- ida and Georgia, at times attains a height of 20 feet; in common use for fishing rods, etc. 35 cents each. A. tecta. A dwarf, slender growing species, and also very ornamental. The stems are used for pipe- stems. 20 cents each. ARUNDO. A. doiiax. A tall growing reed like grass, with rich green foliage. 25 cents each. A. d. variegata. A variegated form of the above. Foliage beautifully striped with yellowish white. The tallest of all the variegated grasses, growing to a height of 10 to 12 feet. 35 cents each, 3 for 90 cents. BAMBUSA. B. argeiitea striata. "A clump of this is a graceful and picturesque object; at first the canes are short and slender, but each crop of new ones is larger than the preceding, until they are as thick as cornstalks of the largest size, some of them with the foliage beautifully striped with green and silver. The stalks are fifteen or twenty feet long, spreading out like a fan, so that the top must be twenty-five to thirty feet across. It has never been injured in the slightest degree by frost."—E. H. Hart. 75 cents each, 3 for $2. B. aurea. A dwarf species ; native of China and Japan. "This very handsome species forms elegant tufts, with its slender, much branched stems, which attain a height of from 6 to 10 feet, and a light green color in a young stock, ultimately changing to a yel- lowish hue."—Dictionary of Gardening. 75Cts. each. B. Metake. A very handsome dwarf species from Japan. It throws up numerous stems during the season, which form a dense clump. It also flowers very freely. 60 cents each. • B. nana. A handsome broad-leaved dwarf species, rarely exceeding ten feet in height. 50 cents each. B. sensensis. This is easily distinguished from the other Bamboos by its large leaves, and by having its stem flattened on one side. This is the Giant Bamboo of Japan. $1 each. B. sensensis variegata. A variety of the above in which the leaves ate beautifully striped with white. Very choice and rare. S2.50 each. B. Siinonii. Leaves very long and narrow ; a quick growing dwarf species that makes an elegant pot plant. $1.50 each. B. vulgaris. "The large unarmed Bamboo of Bengal. It rises to a height of seventy feet, and the stems may attain a length even of forty feet in one season, though the growth is slower in cooler climes. It has proved to be capable of resisting occasional night frost. It is the best for building Bamboo houses." — Von Mueller. Medium size plants, $1.50 each ; ex- tra large, $2 to %t, each. Large roots of this species weigh about 35 pounds each. SPECIAL OFFER. For $5 we will send 12 spe- cies of Arundinaria, Arundo and Bambusa, and for f I extra we will put in a plant of the Giant Bamboo, B. vulgaris, and send by express at our expense. CYNODON DACTYLON. The "Bermuda Grass." A well-known lawn and pas- ture grass. Care should be taken that it does not get established where it is not wanted, as it is rather hard ti) eradicate. $3 per 1,000 sets. Our northern friends can always have a liberal quantity of this packed with their orders if they desire it, and without extra cost. CYPERUS. C. alternifolius. A grass-like plant, throwing up stems to the height of about two feet, surmounted at the top by a cluster or whorl of leaves, diverging hor- izontally, giving the plant a very curious appearance. A splendid plant for the center of baskets, vases or Wardian cases, or as a water plant. 25 cents each, 5 forjji. C. alternifolius var. A variegated form of the above ; leaves and stems elegantly marked with white, and sometimes entirely white ; one of the most ele- gant plants for baskets or acquariums. 75 cents to 51.50 each.
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