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Title: Native and exotic plants, trees & shrubs
Identifier: CAT31285742 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Royal Palm Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Palms Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Oneco, Fla. : Royal Palm Nurseries, Reasoner Bros.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Leaves of Fancy-Leaved Caladiums. (See opposite page.) BAUHINIA, continued. B> Calplnii. A very desirable half-hardy shrub, evergreen, which produces its charming orange-red flowers freely all summer and autumn. A splendid acquisition. Nice pot-plants, 35 cts. each. B. purpurea. One of the finest flowering small trees we have ever seen. Visitors throughout the late winter and spring rave over the exquisite orchid- like flowers, so dainty and yet so rich in color. Flowers are borne in the greatest profusion, 3 or 4 inches across, varying in color from almost white to a rich purple, and marked and shaded with many tones. We cannot adequately describe them; they are grand! The plant is robust and rather hardy, reaching a height of 20 feet or more. Blooms when two years old. Nice plants, pot-grown, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. B. tomentosa. Rather dwarf shrub, somewhat like B. Galpinii in habit. Flowers pale canary- yellow; fine. This is new and rare, our introduction of 1901. Nice plants, 50 cts. each. B. triandra. New species, introduced in 1901. We do not know the color of flowers. 50 cts. each. B. variegata. Strong growor, like B. purpurea, with more pointed leaves, and flowers variegated in white, yellow and lavender-purple, A grlorious flower. Blooms late in autumn and spring. 25 cts. each. BILLBERQIA Liboniana.* * * S E. A rare epiphyte, growing 18 inches high. Purple flowers. A unique plant. Grows well in peaty soil, or soil mixed with moss. 25 cts. each. BICNONIA. The two genera, Bignonia and Tecoma, include many splendid plants, mostly climbers. See, also, Tecoma. B. Adenophylla.*** S E. New. Tall sort. 25 cts. each. B. alba.**VE. A hardy vine with handsome white flowers, freely borne in early spring. Vigor- ous. 25 cts. each. B. argyreo-violascens.* * V E. A pretty climb- ing plant which attaches itself to a wall. The leaves are beautifully marked green, white and purple. Rare. 25 cts. each. B. capreolata. * VE. Our lovely native ever- green species, quite hardy in the South. Flowers orange-red in spring. Leaves compound, dark green; attaches itself firmly to walls, etc. 15 cts. each. B. suaveolens.***T. Bengal. A tropical tree, with dull crimson flowers, very fragrant. Leaves large, compound and spreading. Rare. 50 cts. each. B. Tweediana * * V E. An elegant sort which climbs on wood or stone, and covers walls nicely. Has small evergreen leaves, and splendid, bright yellow flowers, produced in spring. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. B. venusta.*^-V E. This is one of the finest of the genus. The leaves are very dark and shining, and the flowers borne in great masses of splendid orange red, lasting long in perfection, and bloom- ing in winter and spring. It needs a wire trellis, which it quickly covers. Will stand considerable frost. A splendid plant. Strong, pot-grown plants, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. BISCHOFIA Javar'ca. ***TE. An East In- dian tree growing freely in our sandy soil. The foliage is of a bronze-green, distinct and handsome; compound. Fine for avenues in frostless (or nearly so) regions. 25 cts. each. BOUCAINVILLEA glabra. *** V E. A truly magnificent rambling shrub or climber, bearing enormous quantities of pink-purple bracts and small yellow flowers. The bracts pass as flowers, and are simply gorgeous. It is largely grown in all tropical countries, and does well in protected places in Southern Florida and California free from hard frosts. A grand greenhouse plant. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. B. spectabills.***VE. This species is similar in growth to the preceding but has very dark, or royal-purple bracts. The showiest plant imaginable when in full bloom. Strong plants, 35 cts. each. B RU NF E LSI A macrophylla.'^**SDE. A pretty dwarf shrubby plant bearing large purple flowers in winter and spring. Of easy growth. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.

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