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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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20 Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Florida SANSEVIERA Cuineensis.* * * E S. African Bowstring Hemp. A quick-growing and valuable fiber plant of an exceedingly ornamental character. Leaves are sword-shaped, 4 or 5 feet high when fully grown, beautifully mottled with greenish white. Fine plants, )0 cts. each, 85 cts. per doz., $5 per 100; larger, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.
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Sanseviera Gnineensis. S. Zeylanica.* ** E S. Ceylon Bowstring Hemp. As a fiber-plant this has been prized from remote antiquity. This will prove, as well as the foregoing species, a remunerative crop in frostless situations. Same prices as S. Gnineensis. SANTALUM album.** E T. A half-hardy evergreen tree from India, which yields the precious sandal-wood. We find it will stand hard frosts, and forms a dense, quick-growing tree. Small pot- plants, 25 cts. each. SAPINDUS Rarax (?).* E T. A hardy shade tree. A medicinal oil is obtained from the seeds, which are also valuable for soap. The leaves are compound. Fine, pot-grown trees, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz.; larger, 40 cts. each. SEMECARPUS anacardium.* * * E T. Mark- ing-nut Tree from the East Indies. The black acrid juice of the nut is used for printing cotton cloth. A curious and useful plant. 25 cts. each. SWIETENIA mahogani.* ** E T. This is the tree which furnishes the world-famous mahogany wood. Of slow growth, yet under favorable condi- tions likely to be planted for timber. It is orna- mental, and has compound leaves and white flowers. Blooms when comparatively small. Nice pot-plants, 20 cts. each, $2 per doz.; seedlings, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. TECTONA grandls.*** D T. The Teak Tree of India. The very hard, useful timber is invalu- able for ship builders. It forms an immense tree; large, egg-shaped leaves and white flowers. A valuable acquisition. Pot-plants, 40 cts. each, $4 per doz. VANILLA planifolia.* * * E V. This peculiar Climbing Orchid is the only Orchid possessing economic value. The vanilla beans, from which the flavoring extract is made, are only commercially produced by hand fertilization of the flowers. The plants are "trained on walls, tree-trunks, or other solid support, to which the fleshy air-roots adhere. Pot-plants, 25 cts. each. ZINGIBER officinalis.** E S. Ginger Plant. A small plant, not over 2 feet high, thriving in rich soil in partial shade, producing the ginger root abundantly here in Florida. It can be dug and used at anv time. Fine roots, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz., $8 pe*r 100. CORK-WOOD TREE, of Central America. Botanical name unknown. 2-year-old, pot-grown plants, 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. (t^^ A collection of 9 of the Economic plants will be mailed for $1. We do not hold to a set list for any of our special collections, but use our judgment in sending the various plants to the location of each purchaser. Customers may state what they already have in this particular line, whether economic plants or palms, etc., and we will endeavor not to send duplicates. lU^^Nearly the entire list of plants in this department may be planted at any convenient time of the year. Most of them are pot-grown. We take pains to avoid sending Plants of any sort at unsuitable times of the year. NOTE RULE 8, PACE 3, FOR DISCOUNTS. COMMENTS FROM FLORIDA PATRONS Plants have arrived in fine condition. Please accept thanks for extras.—Mrs. W. S. TURCK, Dunedin, Fla. The plants arrived in good condition.—F. Schultz, Gardener for 2, A. Snider, Esq., Hobe Sound, Fla. Your plants have invariably reached me in perfect condition.-Morris Carnegie, "Dungeness " via Fernandina. The trees came all right, and seem to be in fine condition. Thank you for your promptness.—C. H. Tidd, Tampa, Fla. Thank you very much for Palms; they are very much better for the money than I had expected to get.—Mrs. Jerome Bruce, Sanford, Fla. Your goods arrived last eve in good shape.—J. F. Trout & Sons, Daytona, Fla. Trees came in best of order. Am well pleased with them. Many thanks for promptness.—F. M. Hartman, Para- dise, Fla. Plants arrived today in perfect order.—Judge A. E. Heyskr, Miami, Fla. Tlie plants ordered for Thos. A. Edison arrived in splendid condition. Your mode of packing plants is verj' satis- factory.—Ewald Stulpner, Gardener, Fort Myers, Fla. Received my consignment of Palms all right and in good order. All were good plants and satisfactory.—Henbt BiLTON, Gardener, Ponce de Leon Hotel, etc , St. Augustine, Fla.

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