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Title: Descriptive catalogue and price list of tropical and semi-tropical fruit trees : vines, shrubs and greenhouse plants
Identifier: descriptivecatal1890seve (find matches)
Year: 1890 (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. 39 CANNAS, Continued. C. flaccida. Our native variety, deserving of much more attention than it has received. Of dw^arf habit ; foliage light green ; flowers large, iris-like, and of a rich golden-yellow. lo cents each, 75 cents per dozen. C. glauca. Broad, rich green foliage ; narrow-petaled, yellow flowers, dashed with red. 15 cents each. C. Guillauin Couston. Light green foliage ; flowers golden yellow, spotted violet crimson. 50 cents each. C. Indica. Handsome red and yellow flowered varie- ties. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen. C. President Fave. Foliage bronze-maroon ; large crimson flowers. 25 cents each. C. Revol Massot. Blue green foliage ; flowers crimson, shaded orange 3'ellow. 50 cents each. C. robusta perfecta. The grandest of all the new Cannas. The leaves are immense, from twelve to eighteen inches wide and three to four feet long, of a rich bronze color ; unsurpassed for tropical effect. 75 cents each. C. Victor Ijemoine. Foliage bronze green ; flowers yellow, of large size. 25 cents each. This set of twelve varieties, $3.50. CARNATION. Carnations succeed very well here, either as bedding plants or in pots. We ofter the following varieties: Columbia, Dawn, Grace Wilder, Meteor, Portia, Snow- don. 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen. CAPPARIS SPINOSA. The Caper tree of Southern Europe, producing the capers used for pickling. 25 cents each. CASSIA. The Cassias, are many of them, rich in flower and foli- age, while some possess medicinal properties. C. fistula. A handsome flowered variety from Southern Asia .The long pods contain an aperient pulp of pleas- ant taste. 25 cents each. C. florida. A handsome plant, the new growth of which is a delicate wine color. 50 cents each. C. grandis. The choicest of all; the delicate leaves are dark green above, while beneath they are a rich ma- roon color. 50 cents each. C. glauca. Foliage large, glaucous green; flowers large, bright yellow. 25 cents each. CATALPA. The Catalpas all grow well here, and are valuable for both shade and timber, as well as being very ornamental. C. liignonioides. Southern and southwestern states, growing to a large size. 35 cents each, $3.50 per doz. C. Ksempferi. Japanese Catalpa. A handsome dwarf growing species. 35 cents each, $3.50 per dozen. C. speciosa. The Western Catalpa. The largest of all, and one of the handsomest flowering. 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen. C. Teas' Japanese Hybrid. A very handsome variety of compact growth. CEPHALANDRA. C. Indica. India. 25 cents each. C. palmata. Natal. 25 cents each. CBRATOTHECA TRILOBA. Natal. A tall perennial, producing quantities of pur- ple, fox glove-like flowers. OESTRUM. C. laiirifolium. A day-blooming species, very quick growing, and producing quantities of very fragrant white flowers. 25 cents each. C. nocturnum. The Night-Bloomin Jasmine. The flowers are very fragrant at night. 25 cents each. CHIONANTHUS FRAGRANS. A handsome evergreen from Southern China; foliage thick and glossy. Has not flowered for us yet. 75 cents.
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JAPANESE CHRYSANTHEMUM. OHIOCOOCA RACEMOSA. The Snow-Berry. A handsome shrub; its long ra- cemes of waxy white berries remain on a long time; very ornamental. 25 cents each. CHORIZEMA VARIUM. Handsome greenhouse climber. Flowers freely pro- duced, in erect racemes, varying in color from red to yellow. 25 cents each. CHRYSANTHEMUM. These most popular fall and winter flowering plants are entirely at home here in Florida, and will grow year after year in the same spot, putting up with all sorts of neg- lect; but, like everything else, amply repaying good culture. Our collection embraces the best of the new varieties, and to describe their beauties, varied colors and shapes, would require much more space than we can allow them. We therefore omit names. Plants should be ordered from April to July, and placed where the)' are to remain. Named Sorts, 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen. Unnamed, choice, 10 cents each, ;i per dozen. CINNAMOMUM. C. Camphora (Camphora officinalis). The Camphor Tree of China and Japan. This tree, together with sev- eral closely allied species, yields the camphor gum of commerce. The tree is a handsome broad-leaved ever- green, hardy throughout most of the Gulf states ; the leaves and berries are very aromatic. 25 cents, 50 cents and Si each. C. Zeylanicum. The Cinnamon Tree. The bark,from the young shoots of this tree, is the cinnamon of com- merce. Small, $2.50 each.

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