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Title: Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants
Identifier: descriptivecata1891seve_0 (find matches)
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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MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 57 TRADESCANTIA. T. discolor. A very handsome plant; valuable for basket or rock work, or as a specimen pot plants, growing also in the open ground. Leaves upright, dark green above, richest purple beneath. 25 c. each. T. multicolor. A hardy variety, with leaves striped and variegated white, green and pink ; very liandsome. 15 cents each. T. repens vittata. Trailing; leaves striped green and white. 15 cents each. T. vulgaris. Wandering Jew. Leaves green. 10 cents each. T. Zebrina. Leaves striped purple and green. 10 cents each. TRITOMA GRANDIFLORA. The Red-Hot-Poker Plant. Handsome bulbous plants from south Africa, producing large spikes of bright red flowers. 30 cents each. VINCA. The Madagascar Periwinkle. Red and white flow- ered varieties. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., $6 per 100. , VITEX. V. agnus castus. The Chaste Tree. A handsome hardy tree from southern Europe; flowers in spikes, dark blue. 50 cents each. V. incisa. India. 75 cents each. WISTARIA. W. ft-utescens. American Wistaria. Too well known to need description ; one of our best decidu- ous climbers. 15 to 50 cents each. W. sinensis. Japan and China. Said to live to a great age, and may be trained over a very large area of trellis. Flowers blue, in immense racemes ; very fragrant and ornamental. 50 and 75 cents each. W. sinensis alba. A white flowered variety ; very handsome. 75 cents and jti each. YUCCA. The Yuccas are among the most valuable decora- tive plant for Florida ; their foliage is handsome, and the flowers very attractive. Y. aloifolia. Spanish Bayonet. Native of our southern sea coast and the West Indies; hardy throughout the state. Splendid plants for decorative purposes ; flower stalk two feet, densely covered with its greenish white flowers; these make handsome pot plants, while small, for the conservatory. 10 to 25 cents each. Y. aloifolia variegata. Leaves striped white. $1 and $2 each. Y. filamentosa. Adam's Needle. Hardy through- out the United Sates as far north as New York. Hand- some plants ; the leaves are covered with thread-like Aliments ; flower spike eight to ten feet high, sur- mounted with panicles of white, bell-shaped flowers. 10 cents each, %i per dozen. Y. gloriosa. Perhaps the handsomest of our native species ; leaves broader and thinner than those of Y. aloifolia and with a bluish tint; flower spike very large. Large plants, fi each. ZINGIBER OFFICINALE. Tlie Ginger Plant of commerce. This plant is grown in large quantities in many of the West India Is lands, from which most of the supply comes ; it might perhaps be grown with profit in Florida. 25 cents each, $2.25 per dozen.
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