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Introductory

A Few Words as to Ordering .

Seeds

Cut Flowers, etc.

Hints on Transplanting

Dropical: RraaitiPlants Wik mets Meee teen aah eon nie
Semi-’Tropical Fruit Plants .

Fruit Trees and Plants Hardy in Warm Temperate Climates
Important Economical, Medicinal and Useful Plants
Bamboos, Grasses and Forage Plants

Hedge Plants .

Conifers

Palms and Cycads

Cacti

Ferns

Orchids ,

Tillandsias and Bromeliads .

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RAVENALA MADAGASCARIENSIS.

The TRAVELER’S TREE of Madagascar. See page 88.

SEASON OF 1887288.

PSNNWAT CATALOGUE

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OF THE

ROYAL PALM NURSERIES

Manatee, Florida.

KEASONER BROTHERS.

Rurserymen and Florists.

Tropical and |e i cl Trees and Plants

RARE EXOTICS FOR THE GREENHOUSE OR LAWN.

Whe Southernmost Nurseries in the United States,

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“ He had gone with him to the woods and rooted up young plants of lemon
trees, oranges and tamarinds, the round heads of which are of so fresh a green,
together with date-palm trees, producing fruit filled with a sweet cream, which
has the fine perfume of the orange-flower. Those trees which were already of a
considerable size, he planted round this little enclosure. He had also sown the
seeds of many trees which the second year bear flowers or fruit: such as the
agathis, encircled with long clusters of white flowers, which hang upon it like,
the crystal pendants of a lustre, the Persian lilac, which lifts high in the air
its gray flax-colored branches, the papaw tree, the trunk of which, without
branches, forms a column set round with green melons, bearing on their heads-
large leaves like those of the fig-tree. The seeds and kernels of the gum-tree,
terminalia, mangoes, alligator pears, the guava, the bread-fruit tree, and the
narrow-leaved eugenia, were planted with profusion, and the greater num-
ber of those trees already afforded their young cultivator both shade and fruit.
Fiis industrious hands had diffused the riches of Nature even on the most bar-
ven parts of the plantation. Several kinds of aloes, the common Indian-jig,
adorned with yellow flowers spotted with red, and the thorny five-angled touch-
thistle grew upon the dark summits of the rocks, and seemed to aim at reach-
ing the long lianas, which, loaded with blue or crimson flowers, hung scattered
over the steepest part of the mountain.”—PAUL AND VIRGINIA.

INTRODECTORY.

IN GENESIS we read—

‘Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight and good for food.”

And many years after, when Milton described the same Garden, he said:

“In this pleasant soil
His far more pleasant garden God ordain’d.
Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow
All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste ;
Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art
In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon
Poured forth profuse on hill,/"and dale, and plain; * *
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm,
Others whose fruit, burnish’d with golden rind,
Hung amiable, (Hesperian fables true,
If true, here only,) and of delicious taste.”’

“But law!”’ Josiah Allen’s wifé or Mrs. Grundy would say, “that was dretfully old-
fashioned!” For in the advanced and enlightened Nineteenth Century, Oscar Wilde and
the modern New York florist have decreed that Sunflowers, Gardenias, Bride roses “ tied
with cream-tinted satin ribbon,” and a few other e¢ ceteras of tulle, plush table covers,
etc., are “most elegant, chaste and fashionable arrangements,” and that the thousands of
other beautiful and fragrant flowers are entirely unsuited to a “mode design;” and Mrs.
Grundy herself has said that an orange grove in Florida is “just too sweet and profitable
for anything, but as for Mangoes and these fancy trees, they’ll do well enough for folks
that can afford it, but give me something substantial, like an orange grove!”

Patient reader, if the modern New York florist and Mrs. Grundy could be tied together
by the heels and ignominiously sunk, like a kitten in a corn-sack, in the deepest part of
the Indian Ocean, and people left to do as their tastes directed for awhile, the world would
improve in manners, morals and good sense.

But we can only work on, “wishing, hoping, waiting” for the Millenium, when even
the devotees of fashion will be allowed to smell Gardenias, fragrant Oleanders, or Skunk’s
Cabbage, as they see fit. For those who can not afford to sit down and wait for the Mil-
lennium, we have prepared our new Catalogue, hoping that the few plants we have been
enabled to “scrape together,’ out of Nature’s abundance, may meet with their approval,
whether Mrs. Grundy approves of all of them or not,

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a / REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA.

A FEW WORDS AS T© ORDERING, ETC.

Please Read Before Ordering.

I. We use every possible precaution to prevent mistakes in the nomenclature
of plants, and never intentionally send out a plant under a wrong name; but as we are
receiving seeds and plants frorn different collectors all over the world, we cannot guarantee
all plants true to name, as it is impossible under the circumstances. This is applicable
particularly to plants of recent introduction from foreign countries.

II. We grow plants both in the open ground andin pots. As it would be practically
impossible to pot the many thousands of plants which we grow, it is our aim to cultivate in
pots such plants as are most difficult to transplant, such as palms, etc. We make no differ-
ence in prices, as to pot-grown or open-ground-grown plants, but have reduced everything
to the prices of plants from open ground. In filling an order we do so with the idea of
giving the purchaser the best possible chance of success with the plants he gets, sending
potted plants of those most difficult to transplant, when we have them.. It will also be a
convenience if purchasers will state whether they prefer pot-grown plants, asa rule, to
those from the ground, or otherwise.

III. Our means of protection for tender plants at present consist of two plant-
houses, one 60xa2i feet, the other 60x18 feet, besides many cold-frames and much space in
sheds constructed of pine tops, etc.

IV. When you order a plant that is marked in the catalogue “small,” don’t expect
it to be as large as a full-grown live-oak. We think we send out as good plants for the
money as most other establishments, but we can’t afford to let everything reach a bearing
size before we send it out. Still, we are not altogether indifferent as to whether we please
our customers or not, as those who have purchased of.-us can testify.

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V. Through the winter and spring we usually have either daily or tri-weekly
communication by steamer with Tampa, tri-weekly with Cedar Keys and Clearwater Har-
bor, and with other local coasting steamers. Plants for Fort Ogden, and all points on the
Florida Southern Railroad and on Charlotte Harbor, are shipped at present via Tampa and
Lakeland. .

VI. Our prices are for plants and trees at the nursery. Wecan not beat the trouble
to quote delivered at different localities here and there. Purchasers are of course respon-
sible for freight and express charges.

In all cases there will be no delay at this end of the line, as plants will not be left at
steamboat wharf until immediately before departure of steamer. Any delay after that is
teyond our power to prevent, and after leaving our hands in good order, we assume no
responsibilities on any package or box.

VII. As to the pains we take in packing, those who have had dealings with us
need no further proofs ; we can only say to others, try us. We ship plants to Texas, Cali-
fornia and all parts of the Union, and also to the West Indies and Europe; in nearly all
cases they are reported received in good order.

In Regard to JYWlode of Shipment, Gte.

VIII. No extra charge for boxing, packing or delivery at wharf on orders
amounting to one dollar and upwards. We cannot afford to fill orders of less amount than
one dollar, unless twenty-five cents additional is sent to cover the expense of boxing, de-

livery at wharf, etc.

ANNUAL CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST: 5

T™, We prefer to ship plants by express, though occasionally when the dis-
tance is short it is comparatively safe to ship trees or large plants by freight. Plants worth
getting at all are usually worth paying express or freight charges on. The trouble and
expense of packing plants for mailing is considerably more than that of packing an ex-
press or freight package, and we do not care todo a mailing business. Those who are not
near an express office, and who wish plants sent by mail, should enclose 15 per cent. of
the price of the plants, extra, to cover postage, packing, etc.

Plants small enough to be sent by mail are usually unsatisfactory, and we do not rec-
ommend the method, although it is so largely in vogue by many prominent florists, espec-
ially in the North.

xX. Prepayment of Freight.—The South Florida Railroad requiring prepayment of
freight on trees and plants, when plants are to be shipped by freight a proportionate
amount should be added to prepay freight on the same; in case more than enough money
is sent the balance will be returned. In case cash is not sent for prepayment, plants will
be shipped by express, or the amount of freight will be deducted from the order, at our
discretion.

XI. We employ no agents whatever. All stock is sold directly from the nur-
sery. Any party who claims to be our agent is an unscrupulous humbug, and we are in no
way responsible for the actions of such nuisances.

XII. Terms, Strictly Cash with the order. No packages will be sent
C.O. D. under any circumstances.

Remittances may be made by Money Order, Registered Letter, Express, or Draft on
New York; Money Order preferred.

In writing, please give full name, post office address, and nearest express office, and
state whether plants are to be shipped by freight or express, and by what route.

XIII. Substitution._—_We do not substitute except with the consent of the purchaser,
(or occasionally in szzes) but it often saves trouble and is more convenient if purchasers will
mention additional plants with which we can substitute if out of any particular variety ; for,
as will happen frequently in any establishment, it is impossible to always have a full stock
of everything, especially where so darge a collection is grown, many of them exotics
with whose culture we are not always familiar. It frequently happens that from some cli- -
matic cause, or from some insect work, we lose nearly our entire stock of some plants
whose habits are not well known; in all such cases it is convenient to substitute, and per-
mission from our customers to do so will be appreciated.

XIV. Not less than 6 supplied at dozen rates, 50 at hundred rates, or
500 at thousand rates.

XV. For those who wish references, we can refer to our postmaster at Manatee,
Rey. E. F. Gates; to Prof. A. H. Curtiss, Editor Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower, Jack-
sonville, Fla.; to H. H. Sanford, Thomasville, Georgia; A. Reasoner, Supt. M. & E. Div.
of D. L. & W.R. R., Hoboken, N. J.; Sipfle, Perkins & Co., Syracuse Pottery Works, N.
Yj Syraciise, etc:

XVI. We are often besieged with applications for pots. We do not deal in pots,
but can refer all such applicants to the Syracuse Pottery Company, Sipfle, Perkins & Co.,
Syracuse, New York, who manufacture the best porous pot in the market, and at ‘the
cheapest prices. See advertisement on back cover of catalogue.

SEEDS.

We do not furnish seeds of anything except of a few forage plants and grasses of quick
growth, as per catalogue. Seeds of most tropical plants lose their power of germinating
in a short time after they are taken from the fruit, and we are seldom able to obtain more
than we want for our own planting. We always plant all seeds as soon as received, and
keep no seeds at all for sale.

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6 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA,

KEMEMBER,

We do not recommend all the plants that we offer for sale for general cultivation in
Florida. Some are not hardy north of the Lower Keys, unless placed where they can be
protected and watched. A few will not stand the sun, and are peculiarly adapted for pot-
culture on shady verandas, or in the house; some are grown especially for greenhouse
culture north and west, our climate and soil enabling us to produce certain classes of plants
much cheaper than they can be grown under glass at the north.

We invite correspondence, especially from those who are preparing to fill entire green-
houses (for the cut-flower trade) with Pancratium Caribbe@um, Gardenia fiorida, Crinum
Americanum or Jasminum Sambac.

OUR CATALOGUES

Are expensive, and we cannot afford to give them away except to dona fide customers, or
else we would gladly do so. At the moderate price for which we sell them, the receipts do
not begin to cover the cost of preparation, printing, freight, mailing postage, etc., and we
feel sure that all will see the justice of the charge.

Cat KhGWERS Ec,

We can supply cut flowers, ferns, designs and bouquets of all sorts; potted palms and
tropical plants for decorative work, etc., at the usual florists’ prices.
Rooms decorated for receptions, etc., at reasonable rates.

= Sweet Poraro plants of the standard sorts, for sale in June, at market prices.

Our Nurseries are located four miles south of Manatee. Visitors are welcome.
Address all communications to

REASONER BROS., Manatee, Fla.

ANNUAL CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST: 7,

RINTS ON. TRANSPLANTING, ETC.

As a general rule, in regard to time of transplanting trees and plants, we prefer Decem-
ber, January and February; or June, July and August, according to the class of plants.

For all Citrus trees—two years old or over, for Mulberries, Peaches, Pears, Persim-
mons, Umbrella China Trees, and all deciduous hardy trees, of course, we prefer the winter
months. Little orange trees, from seed planted in the winter and spring, we transplant
the following summer with the best results, sometimes not losing half a dozen out of a
thousand. They stand the shock better if transplanted while small, and the warm weather
and frequent showers start them to growing in a few days—without even a wilted leaf.

Most tropical trees, too, recover quicker if carefully planted out in the rainy season.
In the case of the Anonas, which are deciduous, the winter months would be preferable,
or rather the dry season, if we were within the tropics. But we are just between “ hay
and grass’’—our dry season of the tropics is also our winter of the temperate zone—and
sometimes transplanting tender plants in the winter, when the ground is cold, tends to rot
the roots and “use up’”’ the plant. This is true, however, with but few plants except the
Anonas, and is more frequently the exception than the rule, even with them. If the tropical
plants are planted out in summer, by the following winter they will be well established,
and better conditioned to withstand a cold snap. With care and attention, the last of
February is also a good time to move them—after danger of killing frosts is over, and be-
fore the long spring’s drouth comes on. The spring’s drouth to us has almost as great
terrors as a “freeze.” We never transplant in March, April and May, if it can possibly be
avoided, as it frequently gets so dry in these months that well-established plants have
trouble to “hold their own.”

Most people, in transplanting, are too much afraid of the use of the pruning knife.
Date palms (or any other palm) that have been grown in the open ground, should be de-
prived of every leaf. (The roots of the palm dislike to be disturbed, and so pot-grown
plants are preferable, as they can be moved without mutilation of the roots.) But deprived
of the leaves, there is no difficulty in transplanting any palm, even from the open ground,
though they are generally slow in starting. We have safely transplanted Oreodoxa and
Thrinax palms from five to ten feet in height in this manner. Very smadZ palm plants, and
very large ones, with considerable trunk, stand transplanting better than medium sized
ones. In the case of the little ones, the roots can be taken up entire, without losing any
of the rootlets; with large trees, the ¢ruwz& seems to sustain the life of the tree for a long
time, until the tree recovers from the shock and sends out new roots.

We have seen a Cabbage Palmetto tree cut down, leaves trimmed off, and trunk thrown
upon a brush-pile; soon after, a new leaf appeared at the top, which was green and alive
nine months after the tree was cut. In the case of the Thrinax palms, they had formed
trunks four to six feet high. They were taken up, on the Lower Keys, in May; the leaves
were all cut off, and in digging up, the roots had been all cut off within six inches of the
bottom of the trunk—making them almost rootless and leafless. The roots were unsatis-
factorily wrapped in grass and grey moss, there being no better packing material at hand,
and after a voyage of more than a week they were set out here at Manatee. By November
each tree had from two to five strong, healthy leaves, one in the meantime having sent out
several blossom spikes. They passed through the two December frosts unharmed, but
were killed by the “big freeze,” January 9th, 1886. In the spring, when sure that they
were entirely dead, we dug them up and found that during the previous summer all the
old roots had rotted, and hundreds of strong, healthy new roots had taken their places.

We have seen Cabbage Palmetto trees fifteen feet high, so heavy that it took ten or
twelve men to move them, transplanted in the same manner. The trees are now flourish-
ing luxuriantly, with a full crown of leaves.

Frequent transplanting, if properly done, tends to increase the number of fibrous
roots, and to make the top more stocky and vigorous. In transplanting orange plants,

8 REASONER BROS,, MANATEE, FLORIDA,

Anonas, etc., from the seed-bed, at a height of six to eighteen inches, we sort and count
out into bundles of one hundred, just about a good handful ; we are careful to make the
bundles as even as possible, with ‘“‘collars’’ of the little plants even; then we hold them
on a block, and with a sharp hatchet cut off about one-half of the tops, and one-third of
the roots (principally tap-roots, as smaller fibrous roots are farther up.) This makes them
easy and convenient to set out, and almost sure to live, in good weather. The trimming
off of the roots encourages the growth of more fibrous roots.

Other plants, such as the Mango and Sapodilla, require but little pruning of the leaves
if transplanted when small—but care should generally be taken to water them when they
are planted out, and to shade for several days afterwards.

Another most important operation is the “‘ firming of the earth” around a plant. In
almost every case, even with quite delicate plants, the dirt should be firmly pressed down
around it with the feet. Too much importance cannot be attached to this operation, so
neglected by many. After this ‘‘firming” of the dirt, we water (if at all) and then cover
the whole with loose, dry dirt, which acts as a mulch, in keeping the ground underneath it
moist.

Most trees are better if set a trifle higher than when growing in the nursery. This is
especially true of Citrus trees, LeConte and Kieffer pears, Mulberries and other trees, grown
from cuttings.

Strawberry plants are put out any time during the fall, winter or spring. For a full
crop the following spring, plant in September or October. Plants set out later produce but
a partial or a late crop.

Our few hints above are not given as anything new, but they will always apply in
horticulture, and may be useful to cultivators.

|. Tropical kRuIt PLANTS.

“But how beautiful they are, all and each, after their kinds! What a joy for
a ian to stand at his door and simply look at them growing, leafing, blossoming,
Jruiting, without pause, through the perpetual summer, in his little garden of the
Flesperides, where, as in those of the Phenicians of old, ‘pear grows ripe on pear

and fig on fig, forever and forever.”

ANTIDESMA Bunius. Java and the

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neighboring islands. ‘‘ Furnishes small fleshy
berry-like fruits, of a bright red color, ripen-
ing into black; they have a sub-acid taste, and
are used chiefly for preserving.” —/. R. /Jack-
son, Curator Kew Gardens. $1 each.

ANONA Africana.

A. amplexicaulis.

A. Asiatica.

A. Cherimolia (4. tripetela, A. Humniboldt-
tana). The CHERIMOYA or JAMAICA AP-
PLE. (Spanish—Cherimoya.) This deli-
cious fruit varies from the size of an apple,
to six inches in diameter. In its native
home (Peru) it is said sometimes to attain a
weight of from fourteen to sixteen pounds.
It has proved hardy in the milder coast re-
gions of Spain (Von Mueller), and is quite
extensively grown, with slight protection,
for the markets of Marseiiles and Paris. A
more upright grower than the Sugar-Apple.
Fruit generally with a bright red cheek,
though this is wanting in some specimens.
Grown commonly in Key West, under the

name of ‘‘Jamaica apple.” Main crop of |

each, $5 per dozen.

fruit ripens in April ae 50 cents
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A. glabra(JA. laurifolia). The POND-APPLE.

(Spanish—Mamon.) The wild ‘‘ Custard-
apple” of South Florida. A native tree,
growing readily on almost any soil ; seldom
killed by frost here, but sprouting up read-
ily when killed down. Fruit ripening in

August ; as large as a pippin apple ; hand- 4+~

some and fragrant; palatable to most peo-

. hexapetala. |
. longifolia.
. Mexicana.

ple. Worthy of extensive cultivation, even,
Nee an ornamental tree. 25 cts. each (small). “K )

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A. paludosa.

\ A. palustris.

\, A. reticulata. The true CUSTARD-APPLE.
75 cents each, $7.50 per dozen.

\y A.squamosa. The SUGAR-APPLE or SWEET-

“Sop. (Spanish—Azon.) A delicious fruit,
much grown in Key West and to some ex-
tent on Manatee river, and in other parts of
South Florida, and has produced fruit as
far north as Putnam county, Fla. Fruit re-
sembling an inverted cone, of a yellowish
green color when ripe, or a small pine-apple
minus the crown. As it grows in the form
of a bush it could be easily managed under
shelters fashioned like those
for the pine-apple at ‘‘ Bel-
air,’’ except in case of such
a blizzard as that of January
9, 1886. It sprouts readily \j
from the roots when killed }\
by frost, however. A Sugar-
Apple bush in this locality
has ripened upwards of
thirty fruits in one season ; the bush itself
being less than five feet high. Larger trees,
of course, are still more productive. Like
most of the Anonas,it is deciduous. Trans-
plants very easily, especially in summer.
Cut back all Anonas when transplanting in
summer. 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen,
¢20 per 100; I to 3 feet, strong, 50 cents
each, $5 per dozen.

A. trilobata.

A. species from Brazil. ‘‘ The BERIBA, a
quick-growing tree with large fruit, the in-
side of which tastes very much like the fill-
ing of cream cakes.’’—£. S. Rand. $1 each.

SWEET-SOP.

ADANSONIA digitata. The famous
BAOBAB tree of West Africa. Often called
““Monkey’s Bread” ‘Fruit nine to twelve
inches long, and about four in diameter. Is

wholesome.’’

ieee ee | eaten with sugar, and is both pleasant and
. Maritima.
(Spanish—

.muricata. The Sour-Sop.
Guanabena.) A large green prickly fruit,
six or eight inches long, containing a soft,
white, juicy pulp, which, in fresh, well-
ripened specimens, is delicious. A favorite
fruit in the West Indies, where also a cool-
ing drink is made from the juice. One tree
in this region was bearing well before the
freeze. This is the most tender of all the
Anonas; also one of the most beautiful, with
shining glossy leaves. I year, 25 cents each,
$2.50 per dozen ; 2 year, so cents each.

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/ARTOCARPUS incisa (A. communis).

THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE. (Spanish—Avdor
dee Pan.)

‘“That awkward-boughed tree, with huge
green fruit and deeply-cut leaves, one foot or
more across—leaves so grand that, as one of
our party often suggested, their form ought to
be introduced into architectural ornamenta-
tion, and to take the place of the Greek Acan-
thus, which they surpass in beauty—that is,
of course, a bread-fru:t tree.’’—Aings/ley.

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REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA,

ARTOCARPUS.— Continued.

“The Bread-fruit tree is the great gift of

a Providence to the fair-
est isles of Polynesia.
No fruit or forest tree
in the north of Europe,
with the exception of
the oak or linden, is its
equal in regularity of
growth or comeliness
of shape; it far sur-
‘passes the wild chest-
nut, which somewhat
resembles it in appear-
ance. Its large oblong
leaves, frequently a
foot and a half long,
are deeply lobed like those of the Fig-tree,

BREAD-FRUIT.

which they resemble, not only in color and |

consistence, but also in exuding a milky juice
when broken. About the time when the sun,
advancing toward the Tropic of Capricorn an-
nounces to the Tahitians that summer is ap-
proaching, it begins to produce new leaves
and young fruits, which commence ripening
in October, and may be plucked for about
eight months, in luxuriant succession.
fruit is about the size and shape of a new-

born infant’s head.’’—Hariwig. ‘|

The tree also grows throughout the West
Indies and Southern Central America, where
it attains immense proportions, the trunk
often being from ten to twelve feet in girth,
and the branches reach out so as to cover a
circumference of one hundred or one hun-
dred and fifty feet. The fruit is prepared by
splitting it open, putting a small piece of fat
salt pork in a natural cavity in the center of
it for shortening and seasoning, and then
baking it. The taste suggests something like
a cross between bread and potato. The fruit
of most varieties is seedless, and the tree
propagated with difficulty from layers, except
in the case of an old tree, which suckers from
the root. According to Von Mueller the fi-
brous bark can be beaten into a sort of rough
cloth, the light wood used for canoes, and the
gum issuing from cuts made into the stem
used for closing the seams of canoes.

Our friend, Mr. Simpson, has given us a
glowing description of a Bread-fruit tree
which he saw in Honduras, the leaves of
which by actual measurement were /wo
Jeet wide by three in length.

A. integrifolia. The JACK-FRUuIT, of In-
dia. Said to ascend the Indian Moun-
tain to 4,000 feet.

AVERRHOA Carambola. “ Conti-

nental and insular India. Not hurt by

The Na

ANANASSA.— Continued.
pale green, but when near ripe changing to
a fine yellow color. Flesh firm, deep yellow
and of exquisite flavor. Strong rooted
N plants, 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

Red Spanish Pine. (The following names
are Synonymous: Strawberry, Scarlet, Cu-
ban, Havana [Speechly, page 251], Key
Largo, Black Spanish.) Low, short fruit,
somewhat tun-shaped. Ruddy yellow when
ripe. Protuberances generally swelled very
large; generally eaten with sugar. The
ordinary Pine-Apple of export, and com-
monest variety grown on the Keys. Strong
rooted plants, 10 cents each, $1 per dozen;
slips supplied during July and August, for
which all orders must be received before
June Ist, accompanied by 1o per cent. of
the price as a bonus. $2 per 100, $15
per 1,000.

Porto Rico Pine. One of the finest varie-
ties grown. Fruit very large, of from six
to fifteen pounds in weight, and of most
delicious flavor. The plants attain very
large size, and are among the most robust
and strong-growing varieties. Strong rooted
plants, $1.50 each.

Egyptian Queen Pine.

ANACARDIUM Occidentale. The
CASHEW-NutT. (Spanish—Maranon.) We
give Col. Codrington’s description (from

Florida Agriculturist of March 12th, 1884):
‘“A tree of the natural order of Anacardiacee ;
a native probably of the tropical parts of both
hemispheres, although it has been commonly
regarded as of American origin. It is a
spreading tree of no great height. It abounds
in aclammy, milky juice, which turns black
on exposure to the air, and is used in India
for varnishing, but it is so acrid as to produce
painful inflammation when it comes in contact
with the skin of persons, or when they are
exposed to its fumes. Tne fruit of the tree
is a kidney-shaped nut about an inch long,
seated on the thicker end of a pear-shaped,
fleshy stalk, from which the botanical character
of the genus is derived. The shell is double,
the outer shell being ash-colored and very

slight frost except when very young. Sir

Jos. Hooker found this small tree on the
upper Indus as far as Lahore. The fruit
occurs in a sweet and acid variety; the
former is available for the table, raw, the

other for preserves.”—Von Mueller. $2
each.
A. Bilimbi. The BLimBLinG. A closely

related species. Fruit valued for tarts,

preserves, etc.

$2 each.
ANANASSA sativ Nee ana-
nas). The PINE-APPLEN (Spanish Pina.)
Too well known to need description.

large and of pyramidal shape. At first

— SS

PINE-APPLE.

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TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS:

ANACARDIUM.— Continued.

N

CARYOCAR nuciferum. The famous

smooth; and between it and the inner is a South American ‘‘ Butter-nut”’ or ‘‘Souari-
layer ofa very caustic black juice. The kernel mut.” > -$3-each:

is oily, and very pleasant and wholesome, bia oe

and is in common use as an article of food in Noa eae oon ie . ae
tropical countries, being made into puddings, Pete See. panish—Cazniio.) =

roasted, and in various ways prepared for
the table. Inthe West Indies it is put into
wine, particularly old Madeira wine, to which
it is thought to communicate a peculiarly |
agreeable flavor. It is also, for the same rea- |
son, sometimes an ingredient in chocolate.
Yet the vapor which arises from it in roasting,
but which is derived from the coating of the
kernel, and not from the kernel itself, is so
acrid as to cause erysipelas and other pain-
ful affections of the face in those who con-
duct the process, unless great caution is used.
The fleshy stalk, sometimes called the cashew
apple, varies in size, being sometimes not
much larger than a cherry, and sometimes as

as large an orange, and is white, red or yel- |
low.
acteristic of the natural order, is acid and
eatable, very pleasant and refreshing, and
much used by the inhabitants of the coun-
tries in which the tree grows. A very pleasant
vinous liquor is obtained from it by fermen-
tation, and this by distillation yields a spirit-
ous liquor highly esteemed for its flavor. A
gum which exudes from the bark of the tree,
quite distinct from the milky juice already
mentioned, is black, and Very similar to Gum
Arabic.’’ The tree thrives well on the very
poorest and lowest of land, and has produced
flowers here, on the grounds of Prof. Chas. T.
Simpson, prior to the freeze—though no fruit |
“*set,’’? owing to the small size of the tree.
Mr. Theodore L. Mead, of Eustis, has fruited it |
in his greenhouses. 4) c. each, $7.50 per doz.

ACHRAS sapota. (Sapote achra, Sap-
ota mammosa) The SAPODILLA, or SAPODILLA
PLUM. (Spanish—Sapfofe.) In our opinion
almost equal to the Mango. Can be campar-
ed to russet apples, with the taste of a rich,

taste does not have to be acquired, and it
would be appreciated by any one who liked

sweet juicy pear, with granulated pulp. ai

fruit. The tree is perfectly at home on the GOQCOS nucifera.

Lower Keys and mainland of South Florida,
and has borne well prior to the freeze of 1886,
at Tampa, and on the Manatee River. At
the time of this freeze Mr. S. Litchfield, of
Braidentown, saved the trunks and part of
the leaves, branches and fruit of his fine trees
by keeping fires on the north side of them all ‘
night. A spreading tree, with glossy leaves; of
slow growth while young; yields gutta-per-
cha, and the bark possesses tonic properties.
25 cents each, $2.50 per doz., $22 per hundred.

t="For other sapotaceous trees, see A/im-
usops, Lucuma, Chrysephyllum, Sapota, etc.

AEGLE marmelos. The ELEPHANT- |
APPLE, MAREDOO, or BENGAL QUINCE.
““SCHLEIM APPLEBOOM’’ of the Dutch East
Indies. An exceedingly rare plant, related to
the Citrus. Perhaps almost hardy enough to
be called semi-tropical, though the young
plants will not stand much frost. Leaves
trifoliate, resembling those of a lemon some-
what, as does also the new growth. A native
of Continental India. $1.50 each.

ARDUINA grandiflora. “(See Carissa.) |

It is perfectly free of the acridity rand

what is next, like an evergreen peach,*shed-
ding from the under side of every leaf a gol-
den light—call it not shade? A Star-Apple.”’
—Kingsley. This tree finally attains a height
of twenty feet, bearing large quantities of
round, purple (sometimes greenish) fruits,
the size of a small apple, ripening in April
and May. The fruit, cut into halves trans-
versely, discloses a purple pulp, with whitish
star-shaped ‘‘core’’ and from four to ten
seeds. A first-class fruit, and in good de-
mand. 50 cd each, $5 per dozen.

C. oliviform@¢ The SATiIn-LEAF. (Spanish—
Caimitillo.) A low West India brush, or
small tree, occasionally found wild on the
lower Florida Keys, and with most mag-
nificent foliage ; the upper side of the leaves
green, and the under side of the richest
satiny bronze. NTS to be edible.

CICCA disticha (C*¥ racemosa, Phyllan-
thus distichus.) The OTAHEITE GOOSE-
BERRY. A rare, beautiful: tree, bearing
large quantities of waxy-white berries resem-
bling the Surinam cherry in shape and size,
growing in clusters like a currant, and with
a sharp acid taste. Ripening in midsummer,
when fruit is scarce, they are very useful for
pies, preserves, etc. Deserving of exten-
sive cultivation simply as an ornamental tree ;
we know of no more beautiful sight than one
of these trees loaded with the fruit ; the grace-
ful pinnate leaves, a foot or more in length,
with a faint tinge of wine-color on the new
growth, the long racemes of waxy berries
hanging directly from the large limbs and
branches, and the whole tree impressing one
as strangely tropical. The tree sprouts up
readily from the roots when killed down.
There were half-a-dozen bearing trees along
the Manatee river previous to the freeze last
winter. 25 and 50 cents each, $2.50 to $5
per dozen.

Chea.c 2° A-NUT

PALM. See “‘ Palms and Cycads”’

CHRYSOBALANUS Icaco. The Co-
CoA PLuM. West Indies and South Florida.
Of more value as an ornamental shrub than
asafruit. Plant evergreen; leaves rich and
glossy ; flowers and fruit very beautiful; ten-
der. Small plants, 75 cents‘each.

COCCOLOBA uvifera. The SEa-
GRAPE or SHORE-GRAPE. ‘‘We have fan-
cied it (and correctly), to bea mere low bushy
tree with roundish leaves. But what a bush!
with drooping boughs, arched over and
through each other, shoots already six feet
long, leaves as big as the hand, shining like
dark velvet, a crimson midrib down each,
and tiled over each other—‘‘ imbricated,’’ as
the botanists would say, in that fashion which
gives its peculiar solidity and richness of
light and shade to the foliage of an old syca-
more; and among these noble shoots and
noble leaves, pendant everywhere, long, tap-
ering spires of green grapes. This shore-
grape, which the West Indians esteem as we
might a bramble, we found to be, without

bY, sley.

“I

Nabe papaya. The PApaw or MEL- |

The name |

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COCCOLOBA.-— Continued.

exception, the most beautiful broad-leaved
plant which we had ever seen.’’— Chas. King-
50 cents cath

C. Floridiana

he PIGEON PLUM. The

fruit of this species, as well as of the pre- |

ceding, is pleasant tasting, and could
probably be improved by cultivation. dive
tree is a handsome evergreen, with smaller
leaves than those of C. uvifera. 50 c. each.

CEREUS triangularis.
PEAR. (See Caci1.)

ON PapAw. (Spanish—/fPapaya.)
Carica is from Caria, where the tree was first °
cultivated. A native of tropical America,
Asia and Africa. The tree finally attains a
height of twenty feet. The leaves are large,

seven-lobed and terminal, after the manner |

of palms. Dicecious. The plant grows very
fast and strikingly odd and ornamental.
Very tender, but ordinarily survives the South
Florida winter. Specimens here at Manatee
have attained an age of seven or eight years.
Delights in avery high and dry situation, even
ashell mound. The green fruit is said to be

sometimes used as we use the turnip. The |

buds are used for sweet-meats, and the ripe
fruit is sliced and eaten like the muskmelon,
which it resembles in size, color and taste.
But it will be most highly prized in Florida
for its peculiar property of making tough
beef tender! This is uniformly practiced in
the tropics. Thesliceof meat may be placed
between bruised leaves of the Papaw, for
half an hour, or even less; or rubbed with
the rind of the fruit. It will be found to have
a good effect in the case of even the toughest
Florida beef, and that is saying a great deal!
Care should be taken not to bruise the carrot-
like fleshy roots in the least when transplant-
ing, or it will rot from the bottom upwards.
The stem is equally susceptible to bruises.
Will bear and ripen fruit the second year. 15
cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

CYPHOMANDRA betacea.

num betaceuni.)

(See Sola-

CARISSA arduina (Arduina gr Tifora Md

This shrub was introduced by Mr. Theodore
L. Mead, of Eustis, from Australia. It has

proved hardy at Eustis previous to the freeze,

of 1886, when it was killed to the ground, but
has since started vigorously. Theshrubis an
evergreen, with thick, bright green camellia-
like foliage; is very thorny and of slow
growth; bears a profusion of large, fragrant
white flowers and delicious fruits, red, and
the size of a cherry. In Natal, where the
fruit is used to make an excellent preserve,
the plant is called Amateur gulu. (Though
this little plant will bear several degrees of
frost, it is perhaps more suitably classed as
~“tropical,’’? than as semi-tropical.) $1 each.
C. Carandas. The CARAUNDA, of India.
Fruit larger than that of the preceding
species, though but very rarely produced.
An exceedingly handsome plant with white
flowers—locally called the,‘‘ Christ-thorn.”’

DELTONEA luctea. The Copuassu of
the valley of the Amazon. ‘‘ The Delfonea
lucteu belongs to the Cacao family. It is a
medium sized tree with immense thick foli-

STRAWBERRY |

| DELTONEA.— Continued.

age, so thick that in a grove of them it would
be dark at noon-day. The blossoms are
small, the fruit an immense elliptical vessel,
(though often nearly round); a hard woody
shell covered with a russet fuzz, inside a yel-
low mass of pulp surrounding the numerous
' seeds. When ripe one of the fruits will most
deliciously perfume the whole air. The flavor
it is impossible to describe, but to drink the
‘Wine of Copuassu,’ which is simply the
pulp washed off in water and strained, with
a little sugar added, 75 worth a voyage across
the Atlantic.”—Edwar Rand, Jr. $5 each.

Sh

EUGENIA Jambos. EEE vulgaris.)
Sv The ROSE-APPLE or JAMROSADE. (Spanish—
\., Poma rosa.) This beautiful evergreen tree
b. promises exceedingly well in South Florida.
The tree is a native of the East Indies, but
has been long grown in the West India Islands;
is ordinarily very bushy, never growing high-
er than twenty-five or thirty feet. The leaves
are long and narrow, very thick and shining,
in shape much like those of an Oleander.
The flowers come out in late summer,
varying in color from a creamy white to a
greenish yellow, and the fruit ripens from
December to May. The fruit much resem-
bles a very large Siberian Crab-Apple—is
| white or yellowish, sometimes with delicate
red blush on one side; is rose-scented, very
| fragrant, and with the flavor of a ripe apricot.
| The plant bears ordinary white frosts well;
if killed down will sprout as readily as the
Guava. The new growth is of a rich wine-col-
or, like the Mango. One of the handsomest
ornamental trees in existence, and well worth
cultivation simply for foliage. 75 cents each,

$7.50 per dozen.

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EH. Brasiliensis. $1.50 each.
‘ E. raran.
~ | HK. Wildenovii. $1.75 each.

“ B. Zeylanica. A rare species from Ceylon.
The value of this species as a fruit-plant

for Florida is yet to be determined, as in
the case of the two preceding species. $1
\ each.
E. Mitchelli. (See ‘‘Semi-tropical Fruit-
Plants.’’)
FERONIA elephantum, The TEL-
LANGA, of Continental India. ‘‘ Flowers

and leaves of an agreeable anise-like odor.’’
Small plants, 75 cents each.

Vee pictoria. A near relative
N of the famous Mangosteen tree—most beauti-
¢ ful, waxy leaves. Very rare. $3 each.

GLYCOSMIS aurantiaca. A rare plant
nearly related to the Czfvus. Produces small
edible berries in profusion. Willstand sharp
frosts unharmed. Has produced fruit at
Orlando. 75 cents each.

4 G. pentaphylla. From Continental India.

*” 50 cents each.

GUILIELMA specios
“wy Pat.” (See Palms.)

JAMBOSA vulgaris. (See Lugenia.)

LUCUMA mammosa (Achras mam-
mosa.) The MAMMEE SAPOTA or MARMALADE
TREE. (Spanish—Wamey, Mamey Colorado.)
A gigantic forest-tree in its native home
(Central America.) Large, brown, oval fruits,

, > The“ Pever

TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS: 13
LUCUMA —Continued. MYRTUS.-- Continued.
from the size of a goose-egg to that of a musk- and of an agreeable sweetish taste. The

melon; one large seed in the center, extend-
ing the whole length of the truit. The fruit
is sliced, and eaten like a muskmelon, but
without pepper or salt. Pulp_a rich saffron
color, tasting very much like pumpkin-fie.
Excellent, has not yet fruited in Florida so
far as we know, unless, perhaps, on the Low-
er Keys. Thetree sprouts readily from the
roots. 75 cents each, $7.50 per dozen.
L. cainito. The Adzo of the Amazonian
delta. ‘‘Fruit clear orange yellow, with a
smooth skin like a nectarine; one of the
best fruits we have. A very ornamental
tree.
large plum to that of an apple, and I have
3 in Eastern Peru seen it as big as a small
melon.”’—Z£. S. Rand. $2.50 each.

MAMMEA Americana.
APPLE, or ST. DOMINGO APRICOT. (Span-
ish—Mamey de Santo Domingo.) A talltree,

In size the fruit varies from that of a |

The MAMMEE |

with oval, shining leathery leaves (resembling |

those of the Red Mangrove); one-flowered

peduncles, producing sweet, white flowers |
one and one-half inches in diameter, follow- |

ed by large round brown fruits three to six
inches in diameter, and containing one to
four rough seeds as large as a black walnut
without the husk, surrounded by a yellow,
juicy, delicious pulp, for which a taste does
not have to be acquired. The taste is not un-
like that of the Apricot. It is eaten raw
alone, or cut in slices with wine and sugar, or
sugar and cream, or preserved in sugar.
The tree is a native of the Caribbee Islands.
Fine specimens are growing and fruiting, we
believe, on one of the southeastern Keys. $1

each.

MALPIGHIA glabra. The BARBADOES
CHERRY. (Spanish—Cerezas de Barbadoes.)

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MONSTERA deliciosa.

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flowers are pink, five petalled, and resemble
in size those of the dog-rose. The plants can
be grown after the manner of currant bushes ;
worthy of cultivation as an ornamental ever-
green. Small, 15 cents each, $1.50 per doz-
en; 2 years, 50 cents each, $5 per dozen, $40
per Ioo.

(Phtlodendron
pertusum.) The CERIMAN of Trinidad; a
rare and celebrated fruit-bearing aroid plant.
Here is Kingsley’s description as he saw it in
the High woods of Trinidad: ‘‘Up the next
the Ceriman spreads its huge leaves, latticed
and forked again and again. So fast do they
grow, that they have not time to fill up the
space between their nerves, and are conse-
quently full of oval holes; and so fast does
its spadix of flowers expand, that (as indeed
do some other aroids) an actual genial heat,
and fire of passion, which may be tested by
the thermometer, or even by the hand, is given
off during fructification.’’ And here are the
more recent remarks of the Key West Demo-
crat, over a specimen of the fruit grown by
Dr. Harris: ‘The fruit is peculiar in appear-
ance, resembling very much an elongated
green pine cone. It is about six inches long,
and when ripe the skin comes off easily in
small octagonal sections, leaving the fruit
with the appearance of ripe banana. The
fruit has the combined flavor of pine-apple
and banana, and is superiortoeither.’’ $2.50
each.

| MANGIFERA Indica. The Manco tree.

A beautiful evergreen tree bearing quantities |
of a pleasantly acid fruit resembling the Suri- |
nam cherry in color, general appearance and |

taste. We are not aware that this has been
introduced into Florida before. Wesaw but
two trees in Havana, one in the ‘Jardin
Chappi,’’ the other in the Botanical Gardens.
50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

MELICOCCA bijuga.
SPANISH LIME. (Spanish—WMomoncilio.)
*A sapindaceous tree with peculiarly odd foli-

The GINEP or)

age, compound leaves with winged petioles— |
very much resembling those of Sapindus |

Saponaria. This plant has proved the most
hardy of any West Indian tree we have tried
yet. The tree is of slow growth while young,
but eventually attains a height of thirty or
more feet. It produces a yellow, plum-like
fruit; pulp of a pleasant grape taste, and
enclosing a large seed, which is often roasted
and eaten like the chestnut, Fine bearing
trees are growing in Key West. Small,

\ i cents each, $2 per dozen, $18 per 100; 1

foot ar over, 40 cents each, $4 per dozen.

MYRTUS tomentosus. (Rhodomyrtus
tomentosus.) The DowNy MyrRTLe.
This pretty evergreen shrub is a native of

Northern India, and has been succesfully |

cultivated for several years by Mr. E. H.
Hart, of Federal Point, where it fruits well.
The fruits are red, of the size ofa gooseberry,

We cannot speak too highly of this delectable
fruit, destined, we hope, to become as plenti-
ful in South Florida as the orange. In spite
of the “‘ big freeze’”’ we still have unbounded
faith in the culture of the Mango; most of the
trees killed down by the freeze already have
good sprouts from the roots, (especially those
that had a diameter of from one-half to two
inches.) Ripening in mid-summer, it fills an
important gap in our succession of fruits;
for the small boy, also, it fills an important
gap; we have in mind several who do not
hesitate on twenty-five Mangoes at a sitting.
In productiveness and rapidity of growth it
surpasses any fruit tree we have ever seen,
either temperate or tropical. Give it high,
well-drained Jand, and watch it grow.

A friend (Prof. Chas. T. Simpson) has de-
scribed to us an avenue of Mango ‘trees on
the Island of Utilla, one of the Bay Islands
of Honduras, whose trunks are four feet in
diameter. The trees were set sixty feet apart,
and now the branches touch. Five to eight-
year-old trees in South Florida bore thous-
ands of Mangoes.

We quote Kingsley’s description of this
beautiful tree: ‘‘ That round-headed tree,
with dark, rich Portugal laurel foliage, ar-
ranged in stars at the end of each twig, is the
Mango, always a beautiful object, whether in
orchard or park. Inthe West Indies, as far
as I have seen, the Mango has not yet reached
the huge size of its ancestors in Hindoostan.
There, to judge, at least from photographs,
the Mango must be, indeed, the queen of
trees, growing to the size of the largest En-
glish oak, and keeping always the round oak-
like form. Rich in resplendent foliage, and

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MANATEE, FLORIDA,

MANGIFERA.— Continued.

still more rich in fruit, the tree easily became
encircled with an atmosphere of myth in the
fancy of the imaginative Hindoo.”’

Two and three-year-old seedling trees have
frequently borne fruit in this locality.

Common, or Turpentine Mango.
dinary sort ;

The or-
large, with red cheek; deli-
cious. 30 cents each, $3.25 per dozen, $25
per 100; large, 50 cents each, $5 per dozen,

~ $40 per 100.

“ Common Yellow Mango. Rather smaller

than the ordinary Mango, bright yellow ;

flesh very firm and full of fibre ; quality
good. 75 cents each.
Manga.” This variety, called in Cuba the
‘“Manga’’ (feminine form of Mango’, is
nearly round, of fair size; color of pulp
and skin, light yellow. Contains plenty of
the objectionable fibre, but is very sweet
and fine flavored. Preferred by many to
any other Mango. $1 each.

Apricot Mango. One of the best varieties.
Was much grown on Point Pinellas before
the freeze. Size, small to medium; yellow,
with bright red cheek, and no black spots
on theskin. Taste, that of a delicious Apri-
cot, only much better, very spicy, and
almost entirely lacking in the ‘‘turpentine”’
taste, objected to by some. $1 each.

Ning Mango. (Mango de Manzans.)
Very large and pulpy; irregularly apple-
shaped, stem end depressed in most cases ;
color of the ordinary Mango, almost with-
out fibre, and of good quality. $1 each.

‘~ Lobed- Apple Mango.
decidedly the best we tasted in Cuba, dur-
ing a stay of four weeks in the height of the
Mango season; long, with deep furrow or
crease on one side, and red blush; few
fibres, and of very fine flavor ; very scarce,
even in the Havana market.

Purple Apple-Mango. Long, medium
sized ; color, green, with rich dark purple

*, blush ; an excellent Mango, entirely free

Vv from fibre. $1 each.

Guatemala Mango. We have a number of
plants from Guatemalan seed, of a variety
ripening very early—in March and April.
$1 each.

J The above varieties do not differ es-

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xX sentially in foliage, especially when small. ’

Curacoa Mango. Grafted plants. $2 each.

,/ No. 11. Introduced to the West Indies from
the South Sea Islands. Perhaps the most
delicious Mango grown, at least in Tropi-

cal America. Single specimens are said to
often weigh four pounds. Skin green; pulp

of exquisite flavor, rather acid near the,

seed.
EAST INDIA SORTS, GRAFTED.
Kakria. ‘‘So named from Kak7r1, the native

name of a kind of cucumber. The fruit is
pale green when ripe, and very long, hence
its name from a supposed resemblance to
this cucumber.”’

Kallia. ‘From the native word kala-black.
The fruit of this Mango is very dark col-
ored, hence its name of ‘ Blackie.’ ”’

Lafsia. ‘‘From /afs1, a native mixture of
flour, sugar and clarified butter. The flesh
of this Mangois supposed to resemble this
compound, or native sweetmeat ; hence its
name.”—W. Gollan.

This variety was,

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MUSA CAVENDISHII.

MANGIFERA— Continued.

Jes-In transplanting the Mango, as with
any other plant, do not neglect to tramp the
earth firmly about the roots, water and
shade for a few days; pinch off young ten-
der growth if there is any, but otherwise do
not cut back unless the top of the stem and
upper bearer begin to shrivel.

MUSA Cavendishii. Lambert. (Musa

regia, Rumph. ; Musa Chinensis,sweet ; Musa

nana, Loureiro.) The CHINESE or DWARF

BANANA; also called DWARF JAMAICA or

MARTINIQUE BANANA. Comparatively dwarf,

though very strong and robust, reaching a

height of onlysix or eight feet. Particularly val-

uable for exposed locations, hence is preferred
on the Florida Keys. Yield of fruit enormous,

(sometimes as many as two hundred or three

hundred in a bunch), and flavor excellent.

Should here be cut before the. fruit is fully

ripe, as by so doing the taste is not impaired,

and if left on until ripe the bananas are liable
to split. 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

M. paradisiaca. L. The true PLANTAIN
or Pisinc. The fruit of this species is.
usually improved by cooking, and in the
tropics constitutes a staple food. Leaves
spotted with purple, broader and shorter
than leaves of the ordinary Banana. Fruit.
very large, from six inches to a foot in

y¥ length. $1.50 each.

M. paradisiaca, var. sapientum. The
HORSE or ORINOCO BANANA. (£7 Bobo.
of the Spanish.) Very hardy, and com-
monly cultivated in Florida. Fruit large,
but comparatively few in a bunch. Should
be grown as an ornamental plant, even
where no fruit is expected. The fruit of this.
variety should never be cut while green,
but allowed to turn yellow on the stalk,
when it will be found to have a most deli-
cious flavor. 10 cents each} $1 per dozen.

M. paradisiaca, var. —? The BARACOA
or RED JAMAICA BANANA. The large red
Banana of commerce ; tender, but produces

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fruit in ordinary seasons here. One of the
most magnificent of all the Musas, reaching
a height of 20 feet or more, with a stem-
diameter of a foot or more at -the base.
Stem and leaf-stalks richest wine-color ;
leaves very large and handsome, attaining,
a length of 8 or 10 feet, and a width of two
feet. The suckers of this variety should
be carefully removed, leaving but two or
three stalks to the hill, to obtain bes€ results.
50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

| PLATONIA

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| PEIRESKIA aculeata. The BARBADOES

GOOSEBERRY. (See Caciz.) +

insignis. The Bacury
of the Amazonian delta. ‘‘ The Platonia
insignis is a very popular fruit. The tree is
large, with broad dark green foliage and large
rose colored blossoms. The fruit has a hard
smooth bright yellow shell; is as big as a very
small cocoa-nut, and contains a “few large
seeds imbedded in a semi-acid pulp of deli-
cious flavor. The choicest and most expensive

M. paradisiaca, var. Orientum. Hart’s | Preserve inthis part of Brazil is made from
CHOICE CUBAN, LADY-FINGER, or GoL- |} this fruit.’"—Hdw.S. Rand, Jr. |
DEN EARLY. (Often erroneously called \ P. species. BacurrMiri. Brazil.
‘““Fig-Banana.”) Stalk and mid-rib tinged | PERSEA gratissima. The Avocapo

with red; plant of medium height. Bears
early and is very hardy for a Banana; |
fruit a clear golden yellow; skin soft,
and thin as a kid-glove; flesh firm, yet
melting and buttery in texture ; judges from
all parts of the tropics have tasted it, and |
pronounced it unsurpassed in flavor. 35 |
cents each, $3.50 per dozen.
M. paradisiaca, var. ? The GOLDEN

BANANA. Brought from Nassau by John |
Gomez, to Pumpkin Key, (‘near Cape |
Romano.) A most magnificent plant,

equalling the Red Jamaica in height. Fruit
described to us as large (as large as the
Horse Banana), very round and plump, |
blunt at the end; color, yellow; flavor
surpassing that of any Banana ever tasted
on the South Florida Keys. In appearance
the plants are ‘‘ Hart’s Choice”’ on a large
scale. $2 each.
M. Ensete, and other ornamental varieties.
(See Miscellaneous Department of this Cat-
alogue. )

A-rare sapotaceous |
tree resembling the Sapodilla, and producing |
edible fruits. $1 each.
M. Sieberi. The WILD SApPODILLA or |
“ DILLY” of the West Indies and South |
Florida. Tree large and handsome. Fruit
relished by many. S 11,25 cents each.
ORA edulis. The GRANADILLA.
(Spanish+Fassionaria or Granadilla.) A
beautiful climbing herbaceous plant with
shining lobed leaves. Very quick-growing
bearing fruit the second year; one of the bes
of the eight or ten edible specics of Passion \ /
vines, and one of the most ornamental of all
the genus (which includes two hundred
species.) ‘‘The Passion flowers were so
named by the early Roman Catholic Mission-
aries to South America, who found in them
symbols of the Crucifixion—the crown of
thorns in the fringes of the flower, nails in
the styles with their capitate stigmas, ham-
mers to drive them in the stamens, cords in
the tendrils.’’ The Granadilla fruit isaslarge |
as a goose-egg, and of a purplish color.
Petals of the flower, white ; crown, whitish,
with a blue or violet base. The plant is a
native of Brazil. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.
P. macrocarpa. The Granadilla of Jamaica;
a native of Peru and Brazil. Fruits some-
times attain a weight of eight pounds. 75 c.
P. quadranugilaris. The LARGE GRANA-
DILLA cf Brazil.
P. incarnata. (See Semi-tropical Plants.)
(For ornamental Passifloras see Miscella_
neous Department.

_PSIDIUM Guayava. Raddi.

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PEAR or ALLIGATOR PEAR. (Spanish—Agua-
cate.) Sometimes known as “ Midshipman’s
Butter.’? Large brown (or purple) fruits,
eaten with pepper and salt, and in much de-
mand. ‘“‘And that young thing which you
may often see grown into a great timber-tree,
with leaves like a Spanish Chestnut, is the
Avocado or, as some call it, Alligator pear.’
—Kingsley.

This tree has been grown quite extensively
in Tampa and on Point Pinellas, and here in
Manatee, previous to January, 1886. Until
then large bearing trees had not been injured
by the cold to any serious extent since 1868.
The fruit is marketabie, and is said to stand
transportation as well as the orange. The
tree thrives best in a very high, well-drained
situation. 50 cents and $1 each.

ACHIRA aquatica. (Carlinea prin-
ceps.) The PROVISION TREE of Guiana and
Central America. ‘‘ The fruit of this tree is
round, about the size of a child’s head, and
contains numerous chestnut-like seeds, some-
times used for food by the natives during
times of scarcity.”--Worris. This is without
doubt the tree refered to by Kingsley in the
following paragraph: ‘‘A flush of rose was
rising above the eastern mountains, and it
was just light enough to see overhead the
great flowers of the “‘ Bois chataigne’”’ among
its horse-chestnut-like leaves — red flowers
as big as a child’s two hands, with petals as
long as its fingers; children of Mylitta, the
moon goddess, they cannot abide the day,
and wili fall, brown and shrivelled, before the
sun grows high, after one night of beauty and
life, ‘and probably of enjoyment.’ $2.50 each.

(P. pom-
tferum, Linne. ; P. pyriferum, Linne.) The
COMMON GUAVA. The Guava has become a
necessity to South Florida ; istoSouth Florida
what the peach is to Georgia. This species
includes many distinct varieties of pink, yel-
low and white-fleshed Guavas of the ordinary
tender sort. From three inch pots, or from
open ground, large, 15 cents each, $1.50 per
dozen.
Maz: Saharanpur Large Round.
cribed as a superior sort. $1 each.
Var. from Calcutta. Foliage distinct. 50
cents each. es
P. Guiniense. “The GUINEA GUAVA. ‘“‘A
shrub of the height of eight to twelve feet;
native of Guinea; said by Don to bear a
berry, fulvous, rather pubescent, red inside,
about the size of a nutmeg, and of an ex-
quisite taste.” —Firminger. 75 cents each,
$7.50 per dozen.

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_ PSIDIUM.— Continued.

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P. aromaticum.

P. cujavillus. $1 each, $10 per dozen.

P. Araca. The ARACA GUAVA, of Brazil.
~ A) beautiiulistree.) unlike anya ether”
‘“ Berry greenish yellow, of exquisite taste.”
J&S-For hardy Guavas, Psidium Cattley-

anum, P. Chinense, etc., see Semi-Tropical

Fruit Plants.

“PHYLLANTHUS emblica. “Knownas

bw

SAPOTA elongata.

the Emblic Myrobalum. A tree of the dry
forests of India and Burmah. The fruit is
about the size of asmall Damson. Thé na-
tives eat it raw, preserved, or made into a
sweetmeat, while it is used by Europeans for
tarts and jellies. It is stated that a half-ripe
fruit, if chewed, has the effect of making
water taste sweet.”--/. R. Jackson, Curator
Kew Gardens. We have had plants of this
very beautiful tree growing now for two sea-
sons, and though not entirely hardy, they may
be safely set down as likely to succeed wher-
ever the common guava will. They sprout
up readily from the ground if tops are frozen
down, and grow very fast. (Wecan hope to
fruit this rare tree, and many others, in our
ordinary seasons, by taking precautions to
protect on cold nights, at least while young,
and when of larger size, by banking up earth
around the trunk, or better still by knocking
out the heads of barrels and drawing down
over the branches until they rest on the
ground, or on top of each other, around the
trunk, and filling up with earth, thus protect-
ing the trunk, and sometimes lower limbs,
from a hard freeze. As soon after a frost as
the damage to the top can be well determined,
it is usually best to saw off the frozen branches
immediately—down into uninjured wood—
and cover the ends with grafting wax, as if
left on the sap in the frozen branches will
sometimes sour, and kill the whole tree.) 50
cents each.

ine eh ee-Lrwisn
or ‘“TI-ES.’’ (Spanish—Cantste, canistel.)
This is the ‘‘ new fruit’ over which there was
such a breeze in the State papers a few years
ago. The tree or shrub has borne fruit in
Tampa, and we have seen other fine speci-
mens in the State, notably at Mr. Collier’s
place, at Caximbas. The fruit is like a min-
iature Mammee Sapota; taste said to be like
that of a hard boiled egg. Very scarce, and
brings a high price in Havana and Key West.
$1 each. ‘

SOLANUM Guatemalense (?) (.S. sur-

icatum, L’Heritier?)¥ The PEPINO or MELON
SHRUB. From Central America, by way of
California. We give below the introducer’s
description from an article in the Pacific
Rural Press, of San Francisco:

‘The Melon Shrub, as it grows in the Cen-
tral American highlands, is, as the name de-
fines it,a shrub. It reaches at its best two
or three feet each way, but is generally
smaller, and recalls in many respects the
Chili pepper vine, the tomato or the night-
shade. The flowers resemble those of the
Chili pepper, are very numerous and of a
beautiful violet color, most charming when
used in floral decorations. When planted the
plants should be set in rows four feet apart
and two feetin the rows. A month and a half
after being set out the fruit will begin to set,

| SOLANU M.— Continued.

and in three months after planting the fruit
will ripen and continue to ripen until checked
by frost. The fruit is of the size of a hen or.
goose egg, or even larger, and very much of
the same shape. The color is lemon or pale
orange, with streaks or waves of bright
violet, the whole making a fruit unrivaled in
beauty. The interior of the fruit is a solid
pulp, similar to that of a pear, also of a pale
yellow color, and of a taste resembling that
of a fine musk melon, but which has besides
a most charming acid, so wholesome and so
delicious that when the fruit is partaken of
on avery warm day, it allays the thirst for
several hours.

‘“The plant is an enormous yielder. I have
seen plants of small size, say two by two feet,
bear thirty large fruits, which, from their size
and weight, pressed the branches to the
ground, and thus formed a most beautiful
border all around the plant.

** The Melon Shrub canstand light frost, but
heavy frost will cut it to the grouud. The
dead branches should then be cut off, the
plants covered with an inch orso of soil or
straw, and will, if so protected, start up in the
spring as vigorously as before.

“Having decided upon the merits of this
plant and its fruit, and being satisfied that it
will become a most welcome addition to the
fruit, not only of Califonia, but of all the
MiddJe and Southern States of the Union, we
decided to bring the same with us to Califor-
nia and try it here. After a good deal of
trouble, and, I must say, no little expense
and anxiety, we have now eminently suc-
ceeded. The Melon Shrub grows in Cal-
ifornia even better than in Central America,
and the fruit is decidedly superior.”’

The above description can be taken for
what it is worth. Our first few months’ ex-
perience with the Melon Shrub was quite fav-
orable—but later the plants scalded, were
eaten up with the leaf rollers, and frozen out.
Some of our neighbors, however, are fruit-
ing it quite successfully. In Florida, a slight
frost will kill the plants, root and branch.
In California it is said to fare better. Due
allowance, however, must be observed, as
the introducer is a Californian, and went to
“no ttle expense and anzxiety’’ to intro-
duce it. 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

ys. betaceum (Cyphomandra betacea.) The
=~_j LREE TOMATO of: Jamaica.

A native of
“Central America. Cultivated as far south
as Buenos Ayresand Valparaiso, also on the
Mediterranean sea, for the sake of its
tomato-like berries. The plant is of shrub-
by habit, growing five or six feet high, with
large shining leaves, often a foot long. The
flowers are fragrant, of a pale flesh color,
with yellow stamens, followed by fruit the
shape and size of a hen’s egg; at first of a
purpletint, but gradually assuming a warm
reddish color as it ripens. It answers in
every respect the purposes for which the
ordinary tomato is esteemed. The plants
come into bearing in two years. ‘‘If the
fruit is allowed to ripen on the plant it may
be eaten raw, when it has a gooseberry-
like flavor. If the skin is removed, and
the fruit (without the seeds) stewed with
sugar, it resembles an apricot, but with a
sub-acid flavor that is very refreshing.”’

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SOLANUM .— Continued.

With the preceding also we have had but
indifferent success, as, like most of the Sola- |
nums, it seems to prefer a cooler atmos-
phere than that of a Florida summer, |
though it will stand no hard frost. The
leaf-roller is the enemy of the Solanums,
and the plants must be watched carefully |
during July and August. 50 cents each. |

4S. pubescens. From seed received from |

Calcutta. 50 cents each.

ge For ornamental Solanums, see Mis- |
cellaneous Department.

SPONDIAS lutea. The TApEREIBA of
Brazil, and MompBin of the French West |

TERMINALIA.— Continued.
journey, probably, in the pocket of some Por-
tugese follower of Vasco de Gama.’’—King's-
ley.

‘‘A glorious tree with very large, oblong,
glossy leaves, which at this season of the
year are gorgeous in foliage with the crimson
tints of autumn—autumn leaves without
frost.”’—Chas. T. Simpson.

The tree is common in Key West and on
some of the other Keys, A few good speci-
mens have been grown as far north as this,
and they promise well. The tree reaches a
height of sixty or seventy feet. 50 cents
each, $5 per dozen.

je For other Terminalias, see Miscella-

Indies; the celebrated HoG PLum of CoN neous Department.

West Indies. This tree, or a nearly allie
species, is grown in Key West and on Key
Largo toa slight extent, and has fruited as
far north as Manatee. Fruit scarlet, plum-
like, delicious. $2 each.

S. Amara. (?) A closely related species from
\ Gautemala; rare. $1.50 each.

TAMARINDUS Indica. The TAMARIND.
(Spanish— Tamarindo.) A beautiful tree,
with delicate acacia-like foliage, and small
pinkish-white blossoms, followed by pods en-
closing a pleasant acid pulp, much used pre-
served in syrup or sugar, as the basis of a |
cooling drink, and in medicine, being rich in
formic and butyric acids. One of the most |
magnificent trees known, when full grown. |
Trees have been bearing in this locality for |
years, prior to the “ big freeze.’? One tree in
the neighborhood measured exactly four feet
in circumference at the base, when killed
down. The tree seems to be more hardy
than the guava. It is the most common street
tree of Key West.

and $2.50 per dozen, $12 per hundred.

TERMINALIA catappa. TheTrRopicaL
‘‘ALMOND.” (Spanish—Almendro.) ‘‘ With
its flat stages of large smooth leaves, and oily
eatable seeds in an almond-like husk, is not
an almond at all, or in any kin thereto. It |
has been named, as so many West Indian
plants have, after some known plant to which |
it bore a likeness, and introduced hither, and |
indeed to all shores from Cuba to Guiana,
from the East Indies, through Arabia and
tropical Africa, having begun its westward

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15 and 25 cents each, $1.50 |

TRIPHASIA trifoliata, De Candolle. ‘‘A
spring shrub, native of Southern China, but
now naturalized in India and the West Indies.
The fruits are about the size of a large black
currant, with a reddish skin; in an unripe
state they are said to have a sticky, tenacious
pulp, and a turpentine flavor, but when fully
ripe they have an agreeable sweet taste and
are preserved in syrup. They occasionally
come to this country in this form, under the
name of ‘‘Lime berries.”—/. R. Jackson,
Curator Kew Gardens.

This little shrub is sometimes used as a
hedge-plant in Key West and Cuba. The
fruit is profusely produced, and the plant is
very beautiful when covered with the ripe

fruit. In Key West it is known under the
name of ‘‘ Bergamot.’’ Small plants, 50 cents
each,

VANGUERIA edulis (Commersonzi.)
The VoA-VANGA of Madagascar. Produces
round, luscious berries an inch anda half in

y diameter. Small plants, $1 each.

XIMENIA Americana. Tropical Asia,
Africa and America, passing the tropics, how-
ever in Queensland, and also into South
Florida. In Mexico knownas Alvarillo del
Campo ; here called the HoG PLum. The
yellow, plum-like fruits are pleasant tasting,
and might doubtless be improved by cultiva-
tion. The plant is the Amatunduluku, of
Natal, where the fruits are generally eaten.
Collected to order. 25 c. each, $2.50 per doz.

COLLECTIONS OF TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS—OUR SELECTION.

I. Ten distinct species. $2.

II. Twenty-five distinct species or varieties, embracing many new and

rare sorts, $10.

Ill. One hundred plants in no less than five species, $25.

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SEMI- TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS.

‘““ There are quaint courts inclosed with jealous high coquina-walls, and giving
into cool rich cool sxardens where lemons, oranges, bananas, Japan plums, figs,
date-palms, and all manner of tropic flowers and greeneries hide from the north-
east winds, and sanctify the old Spanish-built homes.’—S1DNEY LANIER.

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ARBUTUS unedo. The STRAWBERRY | CITRUS (Sweet Orange.)— Continued.

TREE. Rhind describes the tree as “A | YArcadia. Size large; form somewhat flat-

hardy and elegant looking evergreen. The tened; skin smooth; grain coarse, pulp
leaves oblong lanceolate, and serrated at the melting, juice slightly sub-acid; quality,
edges, the bell-shaped flowers, forming a de- |\ good; tree prolific, vigorous, somewhat

pending panicle, and the ripe berries, both of ‘\ thorny. Native seedling.
which are in profusion together in the end of hy Beach’s No. 1. (See £g¢2.)
autumn, render this shrub very ornamental

Europe, and is also found in a wild state |

near Killarney in Ireland, where it has prob- somewhat thorny. Native seedling.

ably been brought originally from Spain or Beach’s No. 4. (Syn., Old Vini, Buena

Italy. It, however, flourishes there in a cal- Vista.) ‘‘Is one of the best late ripening ;
careous soil, in greater luxuriance than is large in size, often weighing one pound ;
often to be met with in the woods of Italy. shape, round ; sub-acid when ripe ; a beau-
In both countries the fruit is eaten, and in tiful, leathery rind; will keep longer than
Spain both a sugar and spirit are extracted any apple in any country.”—A. /. Beach.
from it. There are three varieties of this An exceedingly vigorous grower.

species: the red-flowered, double-flowered, |. Beach’s No. 5.

and the entire-leaved.”’ The tree is perfectly Bell. Large, pear or bell-shaped; skin firm,

hardy, and at home in North Florida.
CITRUS aurantium dulcis. The SwEET —

» bly imported, but long grown in Florida.

ORANGE. Botelha. Rind thin, pulp rich. Imported.

Sweet Seedling Orange Trees. We grow |\\ Gircassian. Imported.
a large quantity of as fine Sweet Seedling, Cc
Oranges as can be found in the State. All hw
grown from seed of the best Gazes, Foster points at the New Orleans Exposition.
and Whitaker Oranges. cents each.

Je In ordering seedling Oranges or Dr. May’s Best.

50 cents each.

lemon trees, purchasers will please state |. Dummitt. Large, bright, juicy, sweet,
whether they are to be cut back or not, for sugary; a first-class orange, except the
skin is thin and tender, which renders it

convenience in shipping.
difficult to ship. Native seedling.
PRICES OF SEEDLINGS. .

Four years, extra large, six to nine feet,
75 cents each, $7.50 per dozen, $65 per I00;
three years, four to six feet, bushy, 50
cents each, $5 per dozen, $40 per 100; three
years, three to five feet, 30 cents each, $3
per dozen, $25 per 100; two to four feet, 25
cents each, $2.50 per dozen, $20 per Ioo.

BUDDED VARIETIES.

(For many of our descriptions of budded
varieties, we are indebted to Mr. A. H.
Manville’s excellent work on “‘ Orange Cui-
ture.’’)

Acis. Large, roundish, ovate; quality good,
tree strong growing. Imported. SWEET ORANGE.

Beach’s No. 3. _ Size medium, shape flat-

at that season. It isa native of the South of tened, color light orange, pulp tender, juice

\ sub-acid; quality good ; tree vigorous,
f

juicy ; tree prolific, a strong grower, having |
fewer thorns than some varieties. Proba-

unningham. One of the best of the native
seedling varieties. Scored ninety-nine

SEMI=TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS,

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ITRUS (Sweet Orange.)—Continued.

ouble Imperial Navel.

oranges grown. Imported. $1 each.
Vou Roi. Size medium, round, skin firm ;
juicy ; quality good; plainly marked, being
ribbed like a muskmelon; tree very pro-
lific, vigorous; few thorns. Probably im-

: ported, “though long grown in Florida.

. Dulcissima.

xquisite. One of the best of all; thin-
rinded, rich and very juicy fruit; very |
*/ thorny.

Early Spanish. 50 cents each.

VEge. (Beach’s No. 1. Early Oblong, Thorn-
less Bell.) A good early Orange; medium
size ; very sweet; rich, high flavor; ripens
from September 15th to October Ist. Shape,
nearly round; fine shipping qualities ;

\ color, very dark orange.

Excelsior. :

‘wFoster. One of the old-time seedlings,
growing in the orchard of Colonel C. H.
Foster, Manatee, and known far and wide
as “ The Old Sweet Tree.”’ Fruit is sweeter

than the Whitaker, and perfects its juices |

earlier in the season. Is good in October,

and perfect in November and December.
\ 50 cents each.

Homosassa. One of the best native sorts.
™ Indian River. Long celebrated as the best
Orange grown, but really no better than
many others. Tree very thorny.
ert
Jaffa. Recently from Syria. Thornless or
nearly so, and a very early bearer and
strong grower. We have fruited this vari-
ety, and find it excellent; one of the best;
foliage distinct. This variety scored very
high at the Orlando fair last spring.
ong.

Maltese Blood.
a blood-red color. This appears in the
form of flakes when the fruit begins to
ripen, which gradually increase until the
entire pulp is colored. Prolific; nearly
thornless; foliage peculiar. Imported.”
(The above description does not always
hold good in Florida, as some specimens

\, a color at all, and others only flakes
¥ of it

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Maltese Oval. Nearly thornless, resembling
the Maltese Blood in habit of growth. Fruit

Bhs or elliptical.
elitensis. Another Maltese Orange (as the
name implies); said to be first-class. Im-
. ported by the Department at Washington.
VA very early bearer, and a strong grower.
Majorca. One of General Sanford’s impor-
Y eons: said to be very fine; nearly thorn-
ess
Magnum Bonum. Size, large to very large ;
flattened ; color, light, ‘clear orange; skin,

smooth and glossy ; grain, fine, tender and -

melting; fruit, heavy and juicy; juice,
sweet, rich, vinous; quality, best; tree pro-
lific, vigorous, thorny. Native seedling.
Mediterranean Sweet. Medium size; skin
smooth, pulp melting, quality best; tree
thornless (or nearly so} and bears young;
y foliage peculiar. Imported. One of the
standard sorts; habit of growth reclinate.
Mediterranean ‘Sweet, Sanford’s.
Madame’s Vinous. A choice native sort
from Rockledge, Indian River. 50 cents
each.

One of the best |

‘“Medium round; pulp of.

“ CITRUS (Sweet Orange.)—Continued.

Marquis. New; from Malta. 50 cts. each.
Nonpareil. Size above medium, somewhat
flattened ; color, ordinary ; grain fine, pulp

melting and tender, juice sub-acid and
VY and very thorny. Native seedling.
Navel, Sanford’s. From Belgium.
tree shy bearer; known also as Embiguo
\ or Umbilical Orange.
to name.) Scored the highest number of
points at the Orlando Exposition. Intro-

vinous ; quality best ; tree prolific, vigorous
Navel, Parson’s. Size of fruit very large;
Navel, Washington or Riverside. (7rue
duced from Brazil by the Department at

\ Washington. Original name, Bahia. 75
* cents each, $7.50 per dozen.
\ Nicaragua.

Osceola. Native seedling ; first-class.

| y Orange Lake. A good native sort.
Old Vini. (See Beach’s No. 4.)
Paper Rind St. Michael’s.
Parson Brown. Another native variety,
‘ with a good reputation.
Prata. (Syn., Silver Orange.) Rind pale
yellow and thin; flesh pale, flavor piquant
and delicious. 50 cents each.
bride of Malta.

Portugal. Introduced by way of California.
Tree vigorous.
Peerless. (Remberi’s Best.) ‘‘ The original

tree of this variety grewin Rembert’s grove
on Drayton Island (from whence many of
the improved varieties have been brought)
until destroyed by water several years ago.
It is one of the very best kinds grown. The
tree is a strong grower, of beautiful form,
dense foliage and nearly thornless; an
early and prolific bearer and the fruit is of
. good size and excellent quality.’’—Aaron
\ Warr.
Pine-Apple. 50 cents each.
Queen. A new orange, imported by way of
California.
Queen of the Halifax.
be Rio. ;
. Selecta. From Brazil. 50 cents each.
Star-Calyx. A good sort which should be
more grown on account of its peculiar
“Stade mark,’
Stark’s Seedling.
\) Sustain Navel.
its sweet juices.
V Sweet Seville.

Large, and remarkable for

(Syn., Sugar Sweet, Gol-
den Angel.) Small, thin-skinned, tender,
juicy ; very sweet and delicious early in the
season; worthless later; tree prolific, vig-
orous, somewhat thorny.

VSt. Michael’s. Medium-sized, round; thin
skinned ; nearly seedless, and juicy; qual-
ity good ; tree bears young and is prolific,

with few thorns. Imported.
Sweet Blood, John Saul’s.
Sweet Blood, Sanford’s. 50 cents.
Sirinaggar Cindra. An Orange of our own

introduction from Northern Hindostan. $1.
Tahiti. Large size, round, pale yellow, skin

very thin, grain fine, pulp tender and melt-

50 cents.

\

ing, juice sub-acid; quality good; tree
_ vigorous, prolific and very thorny. Im-
\) ported.

Tardiff, Hart’s. (Syn., Hari’s Late.) Me-
dium sized, round, skin smooth and thin,
grain fine, with a brisk and racy flavor. In
quality above the average. Retains its

20 _REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA.

CITRUS (Sweet Orange.)— Continued.
juices until the middle of July, or even
later, and is especially valuable on this
account. Tree prolific, a strong grower;
branches thornless or nearly so; foliage
somewhat distinct. Imported from Thos.
Rivers, of England, by Mr. Parsons, of"
‘ Flushing, Long Island, for Mr. E. H. Hart,
‘of Federal Point.
Variegated. Leaves beautifully variegated
» with creamy white and green. A handsome
ornamental tree. 50 cents.
Velvet Peel.
Valencia Late. Imported. 50 cents.

of the most celebrated imported and seed
ling oranges in the state, and we must con-

CITRUS (Mandarin Orange.)—Continued.
is seedless. Habit reclinate and dwarfish.
A slow grower. Most hardy of all oranges.
Ne 50 cents each, $5 per dozen, $40 per hundred.
Extra large, 2 years, $1 each, $10 per dozen.
Mary Bement. A verythorny orange. Fruit
said to be of good quality. 75 cents each.

Spice Mandarin. Tree very hardy; fruit

Ng small. 60 cents each.

Spice Tangierine. 60 cents each.

\Bouquet des Fleures. A variety much
grown by florists, for its profusion of flow-
ers. Very beautiful and distinct foliage.

freely while very small. Fruit nearly worth-

Whitaker. We have tasted a great feed Thornless tree of dwarf growth, flowering

fess that this Orange and the Foster, sur-
pass them all except the Washington Navel.
We are not propagating from these trees to
make a ‘‘boom,”’ but because we honestly
think they are the best oranges we ever ate
in our life. The tree from which we have
propagated this Orange is growing in the
Whittaker grove on Sara Sota Bay, all of
which was planted over forty years ago,
from Havana seed, by Colonel Snell, now
of Gainesville. There is not an orange
tree in the grove that does not produce deli-
cious fruit, but this is the best of all. The

\ fruit is at its bestin January and February:.
50 cents.

Whitaker No. 2. Of more sprightly eet
and preferred by some to the Whitaker.
50 cents.

White. Large, pale yellow; flesh, pale;
flavor, rich and good; bears when very
young.

CITRUS aurantium nobilis. The Man-
DARIN ORANGE. Varieties :—

. China. (Syn., Willow-leaved, Tomato, Kid-
glove, Mandarin, etc. Small, flattened,
deep yellow color, thin skin; skin and seg-
ments loosely adherent ; flesh dark orange
color, spicy and aromatic. Tree dwarf,
bears young, prolific, vigorous ; willow-like

\. foliage, having few thorns. 60 cents ION,

¥ $6 per dozen, gso per hundred.

\Y King. 75 cents.

Cleopatra. 75 cents.

“ Dancy’s Tangierine. (Syn., Bzjow, Mo-
ragne’s Tangierine.) Fruit a little larger
than the China, which it resembles, except
in its deep crimson color. Tree, unlike the
other varieties, resembles the sweet orange

. in size and foliage, though it retains the

\ aroma peculiar to the species; thorny. 75
cents each, $7.50 per dozen.

_ Emperor Mandarin.

‘\Y Satsuma. A native of the island of Kiusiu,
Japan, and named after one of the chief
cities of that island by request of Mrs. Gen-
eral Van Valkenburg. The fruitis medium
sized, flattened, deep orange color ; smooth
thin skin, which is sweet, aromatic and
easily detached from the pulp. Color of
pulp, dark orange; segments part freely ;
fine grain, tender, juicy, sweet and deli-
cious. There is none of that peculiar rank
odor which characterizes most other varie-
ties belonging to the same class and spe-
cies. The tree is perfectly thornless, the
leaves peculiarly thick, lanceolate, ser-
rated, medium, paulo’ linear, and the fruit

r

less. 40 cents each, $4 per dozen.

CITRUS aurantium Bigaradia. The
SOUR ORANGE. A few largestocks for sale ;
price on application.

Var. Phillip’s Bitter-Sweet. An improved
¥ variety of the Bitter-Sweet Orange; valua-
ble as a summer fruit. 50 cents each.

CITRUS aurantium Bergamium. The
BERGAMOT. Known also as the Bergamot
Orange or Bergamot Lemon. Fruit pear-
shaped, pale yellow, with green marks; sub-
acid, firm, fragrant pulp; fruit and foliage
distinct. Grown in Europe, where the fragrant
Oil of Bergamot is obtained from the rind. 40
cents each.

CITRUS aurantium decumana. The
SHADDOCK, Native of China and Japan;
brought to the West Indies by one Captain
Shaddock, from whom it has taken its name.
Also known as Pumpelmouse and Pomolo.
About forty varieties of the Shaddock are
. known to exist. 40 cents each.

‘Mammoth Shaddock. Very large; skin

smooth and glossy; rind thick, ‘white,

VY spongy and bitter; pulp green, watery and
sub-acid.

Blood, or Pink Shaddock. Very large,
with pink pulp. Tree very handsome and
\ a strong grower. :
Horton’s Shaddock. Large, with green
pulp. Habit of tree more spreading.

‘‘Forbidden Fruit.’”’ This tree was intro-
duced from South Africa by Col. Church,
of Orlando. Its habit of growth is distinct
from any other Citrus we have seen. The
new growth is slightly tinged with red, as
is the lemon. The extraordinary quality
claimed for this fruit is that even in the
hottest day the pulp is very cold, almost as
if it had been kept on ice. It has not yet .
fruited in Florida.

White-fleshed Pomolo. Var. from Sahar-
anpur, India. 50 cents each.

‘VWRed-fleshed Pomola. Var. from Saharan-
pur. 50 cents each

‘‘Grape-fruit.”” Much larger than an orange
and smaller than a Shaddock. A delicious
fruit, and preferred by many to the orange,
especially when it becomes sweet in the
spring. Skin smooth, pale yellow; sub-
acid. The membrane dividing the pulp is
bitter, and must be removed before eating
the pulp. Called ‘‘Grape-fruit’’? from its
habit of growing in clusters. Same prices
as seedling orange trees.

SEMI=TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS. 21
CITRUS (Grape-fruit.)—Continued. | CITRUS (Lemon.)—Continued.
| ugust Lemon. Seedling of the Sicily

“Improved Grape-fruit.

Pernambuco Grape-fruit. Said to be a
very superior variety of Grape-fruit. Intro-
duced by the Agricultural Department at

\, Washington. A spreading, bushy tree.

CITRUS Japonica. Wfhe Kumouat. A
small species, much cultivated in China and
Japan. The plant is a shrub, sometimes six
feet high, but in cultivation is not allowed to
exceed the height of a gooseberry bush. The
fruit is oval, about the size ofa large goose-
berry; the rind is sweet and the juice acid.
It is delicious and refreshing. The Chinese
make an excellent sweetmeat by preserving

™/ it in sugar. 60 cents each, $6 per dozen.

CITRUS medica cedra. The CITRON.
This fruit produces the prepared Citron of
commerce. Fruit very large, often weighing
five pounds or more. Inner skin 1 to 1% inches

thick. A low-growing shrub, rather more
tender than the orange. 30 cents each, $3
per dozen.

CITRUS medica Limonium. The LEem-
ON. Varieties :—
‘communis. Imported from Italy by the
Agricultural Department at Washington.
~ Suacco. The Suacco Lemon. This and the
following variety also imported by the Agri-
~~ cultural Department.
Tuberculata.
“Belair Premium Lemon. A superior lem-
on of Gen. Sanford’s importation.
“NekEureka. From California. Is practically
identical with the Genxoa lemon.
rench’s Seedling. A native variety fully
equal to the imported Sicily, which it closely
“resembles.

Genoa. This tree was introduced into Cal-
ifornia from Genoa, Italy, about ten years
ago. It is an early bearer, ever-bearing,
and fruit of dest guality as a market lemon.
Rind sweet, standing the test of both hot
and cold water for twenty-four hours with-
out developing bitterness. Tree described
as thornless, and in most cases is nearly so,
but we have found that when budded on
thrifty, strong growing stocks, the first
_ year’s growth is sometimes quite thorny.
\ Trees in this neighborhood have been in

bearing for three or four years.

Lamb. A native variety resembling the im-

Vv ported Sicily. One of the best.
Malta. Our introduction, by way of India.
Very strong grower. 50 cents each.
Neapolitan. Described favorably. Intro-

duced by the Department of Agriculture.
Sicily. (Imported.) Size medium; rind
sweet ; skin smooth, thin, tough and dense ;
membrane covering segments of pulp thin
and small in quantity; pulp juicy, acid,
fine; quality best. Not a Florida raised
NY seedling, but the genuine imported lemon
of commerce.
Villa Franca. In very high flavor as a Lem-
on for market and home use. Quality of
a the very best. Said tostand more cold than
Waring’s Seedless.

other varieties.

‘Ni Variegated. Leaves mottled with white,
pale straw color and several shades of
green; fruit said to be superior. Very or-
namental.

Lemon. Imported; medium size; smooth,
thin skin, elongated; of good shipping
qualities; fine acid; ripens in August.

Jes In spite of the more tender nature of
the Lemon and Lime we think their culture
will prove a more profitable industry for
South Florida than that of the orange, for
the main reason that their production is
confined to a more limited territory, while
the fruit is both a necessity and a luxury
throughout the United States and all civil-
ized countries.

,/ _ As astalk for the choice varieties of bud-

ded Lemons, we are much in favor of the
French or Florida Rough Lemon, on ac-
count of its quick growth, and better adap-
tibility for low or poor lands. This Lemon
has been grown for many years in Florida
and the West Indies, so long that time and
manner of its introduction are forgotten.

Fruit also very valuable for home use, and

quite palatable in early summer, if the

outer oily skin is thinly peeled off and the
lemon sliced and sprinkled with white
sugar; eat immediately. 25 cents each.

Price on application for large quantities.
Variegated French Lemon. 40 cts. each.

CITRUS medica Limetta. The Lime.
The Lime succees well on soil where an orange
tree would starve. Is perfectly at home, with
judicious cultivation, on ‘‘hard-pan’’ land

\, or on the rocky Southern Keys. Varieties:

“ Florida. Seedlings from the best selected
fruit, nearly aslarge as lemons, and very
juicy. 425) cents cach, $2.50 per dozen ;
smaller plants, 15 cents each, $1.50 per doz.

Tahiti. A strong grower and a very early
and heavy bearer. Fruit’ larger than the
florida, and has a strong rich acid. Nearly
thornless, or becomes so with age.

Valentine. Astrong-growing Lime, imported
by the Agricultural Department.

The following eight varieties of Indian
Limes we have introduced during the past
’ vear from the Himalaya region, where prob-
L ably the best Limes in the world are grown.
X Knatta. $1 each.
Kaghazin. $1 each.
- Sour Turanj, !} Show exceptionally

be

strong

Sour Kurna. § growth. 75 cents each.
Sour Rangpur. $1 each.
Sour Galgal. $1 each.
\, Sour Jamberi. $1 each.
-Sadaphal. $1 each.

ITRUS Sinensis myrtifolia. MyrtTLe-
LEAVED ORANGE. A handsome dwarf tree,
with small, dense, dark green glossy leaves ;
bearing a small flattened fruit of little use.
A beautiful shrub for ornamental grounds.
50-cents each.

CITRUS medica trifoliata. (Lzmonia
trifoliata.) A very hardy, dwarf species,
often used as a stock for dwarf orange trees.
Trifoliate, thorns very stout. (Entirely dis-
tinct from 7riphasia trifoliuta, for which see
Tropical Fruits.) 50 cents each.

PRICES OF BUDDED CITRUS TREES,
WHERE NOTED.

Diameter of stock, one-half to one inch;
buds, from one foot to two and a-half feet in

EXCEPT

22

~ supply, as earlyya
\
Nhe! ey Brown,, Excelsio
t

‘Y Variegated and

CITRUS (Lemon.)— Continued.

height, 30 cents each, $3 per dozen, $25 per
too. Diameter of stock, three- quarter inches
to one and a-half inches ; buds, two to four
feet high, 40 cents each, 4 per dozen, $30 per
100. For extra large trees, price on applica-
tion.

TES We carry a large stock only of the fol-
lowing sorts—Mediterranean Sweet, Majorca,
Jaffa, Tardiff, Dummitt, St. Michael’s, Sat-
suma and Mandarin Oranges; Genoa, Villa
Franca, Suacco, Communis and French’s
Seedling Lemons ; Tahiti Lime.

Je&= Sizes not guaranteed of those Citrus
trees that are specially priced.

To parties desirous of making collections of
Citrus fruits as complete as possible, we can
s June or July, 88, small
buds of the following varieties of Citrus :

Drake’s Star,

hael’s, Egg, vesestion Drak Tangie-

rine, er Tangierine,Dulcis sanguinea de

Calma uby nd Paper R St. Michael’s

Oranges ; Bahantg Shaddock, Canton Pomolo ;

olden Variegated Sour

Oranges™ Bijou andyBergamot Lemons, and
other varieties.

'CERATONIA siliqua. The Carop TREE

NM

or ST. JOHN’S BREAD. (Spanish—A/garoba.)
This beautiful tree has proved hardy in
South Florida. We condense a description
from that of Mr. D. Morris, Director of the
Government Botanical Gardens, Jamaica:
‘‘ This tree is extensively cultivated in coun-
tries bordering on the Mediterranean, and
especially in such as suffer from periodical
drouth, its long roots penetrating to a great
depth in search of water. It is calied a/ga-
roba by the Spaniards, and karoub by the
Arabs, whence comes our English name.
The pods contain a large quantity of agree-
ably flavored mucilage and saccharine matter,
and are commonly employed in the south of
Europe for feeding horses, mules, pigs, etc.,
and occasionally in times of scarcity for
human food.’’ 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.
C. siliqua longissima. $1 each.

ERIOBOTRYA Japonica. (Syn., Pho-

tinta or Mespilus Japonica.) The LoQuartT,

“Sw JAPAN “PLuM’’ or JAPAN MEDLAR. One of

our most valuable fruits. Blossoming in
winter, the fruit ripens in early spring, and
brings fancy prices in any large city. Is fre-
quently shipped to New York in strawberry
boxes. Has been long cultivated in the south,
where it seldom attains a height of more than
fifteen feet, though in its wild state it forms a
lofty tree. Was introduced into Kew Gar-
dens in 1787. The fruitis of the size;of a
plum, yellow and of delicious taste. One of
our most beautiful broad-leaved evergreens.
I year, 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

EUGENIA Mitchelli. The CAVENNE or

SURINAM CHERRY. Also known as PITANGA.
This valuable plant is hardy all over South
Florida, and should be more grown--(an
instance of a plant taken from the heart of
the tropics being capable of standing several
degrees of freezing unharmed). It forms a
bush or small tree and produces quantities of
a beautiful cherry-like fruit with a delightful
acid taste. 50 cents each.

REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA,

FICUS Carica. The Fic. The fig de-

serves far more attention in the South. It is
one of the most delicious of fruits, and has
been much neglected. Will give best satis-
faction in a dry and (in Florida) a rich
location. Varieties :—
v Blue. Fruit very large. I year, 25 cts. each.
Brown Turkey. Very productive, giving
y two and frequently three crops annually.
Cuttings, 10 cents each, $1 per dozen.

\v Celestial or Sugar Fig. Fruit small, but
very sweet. In favorable weather they
often preserve themselves on the tree. I
year, 25 cents each, $3 per dozen.

*Lemon. Nearly round, straw color; of
large size, and a heavy bearer. 25 cents
each, $3 per dozen.

“San Pedro. (Fico de San Pietro.) The
largest and handsomest fig in existence,
with excellent flavor and sweetness; skin
white and thin; meat white. Asatable fig
this one is unequalled, and wili exclude all

\ other figs in the market ; bears early and
.. profusely. Imported, vza California. Cut-
tings, 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

White Adriatic. This is a local name for
for one of the most celebrated Figs of the
world, producing the finest Smyrna figs
of commerce, identical or similar to the
brand known as £Eyrdelli. It has been
introduced into this country from South
Italy, and is there esteemed the finest of
all Figs. The tree attains an enormous
size, forming a large, dense head, of an
umbrella shape. The growth is very
rapid. The foliage is dense; the leaves
deeply and evenly lobed and glossy, of
a fine lustrous, not somber, green. As a
shade tree it is unsurpassed, and a finer
avenue tree cannot be imagined. In
growth, foliage and color it is entirely
different from any known as Smyrna.
The Adriatic is equally fine for the table.
It is eaten fresh, and is a most delicious
fruit. The fruit is of the very finest qual-
ity ; the skin is thin like tissue paper—
thinnest at the base of the Fig, and not
like most other figs, thicker at that
point. In examining the finest dried
fruit of commerce they will all be found
to be split at the base, caused by the thin-
ness of the skin. The Adriatic, when
dried and subjected to strong pressure in
boxes, acts similarly. The pulp is like a
quantity of oily honey. The seeds are
small. There is no hollow space in the
center of the Fig, but the whole fruit is a
solid pulp. The size of the fruit is large
—as large as any imported Fig. The
fruit begins to ripen in July, and figs
ripen from that time continully until frost.
The principal crop is in August and Sep-
tember. The color of the fruit when dried,
is amber, and, similarly to imported figs,
it covers itself with a fine flowery bloom.
The quantity of Figs produced is enor-
mous. The branches are actually loaded
down with fruit ; no tree could bear more.
It will bear tons of fruit when old. The
tree begins to bear the year after it is
planted, some trees bearing a few Figs
the first year. From the second year the
crop continually increases. I year, 75
cents each, $8 per dozen.

SEMI=TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS; 23

CATTLEY GUAVA.

V

FICU S— Continued.

White Celeste. A small white Fig with
fair flavor and sweetness. The tree is
said to be especially useful as a shade-
tree, its crown forming a fine umbrella,
with densest shade; it is thus both or-
namental and useful. Cuttings, 15 cents
each, $1.50 per dozen.

White Marseilles. Large, greenish white;
quite hardy. Cuttings, 15 cents each,
$1.50 per dozen.

jz Cuttings from a great variety of Him-
alan seedling Figs, none of which have yet
fruited here, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.

OPUNTIA Ficus Indica. The INDIAN
Fic Cactus. (See Cacti.) r
O. Tuna. The PRICKLY PEAR. (See Cacti.)

PHGENIX dactylifera. The=DATE PALM.
(See Palms.)

PSIDIUM Cattleyanum. The CATTLEY
or STRAWBERRY GUAVA. This hardy Guava
was introduced to England from China by
Messrs. Barr & Brooks, nurserymen, and first
fruited by W. Cattley, F. H.S., in 1820, ac-
cording to Loudon, who ought to be good
authority. But authors differ as to its origin,
some giving Brazil as its native country. The
fruit is smaller than an English walnut, of a
fine claret color, and with a flavor resembling
that of a strawberry. Much better, to our
taste, than the ordinary Guava, and likely to
be held in better repute by those of the north
to whom the “‘musky”’ flavor of the ordinary
Guava is objectionable. Asa jelly fruit, too,
it is said to surpass the common Guava.
Should be grown in rows, like the currant,
from four to eight feet apart. Foliage
thick and shining, resembling that of the
Camellia. 25 and 35 cents each, $2.50 and
$3.50 per dozen, $20 and $30 per hundred.

24 REASONER BROS.,

, PSIDIU M— Continued.

\ Adams’ Purple Cattley. Probably a super-
“ ior strain of the Cattley Guava. {Fruit larger
than the ordinary Cattley, of a rich purple
color, produced in clusters. Foliage very
rich and dark green. Oneof the handsom-
est ornamental shrubs we have ever seen.
f WVeryhardy. Same prices as Cattley Guava.
P. Chinese. (?) The hardy YELLOw or CHI-
NESE GUAVA. (Probably identical with P.
Helenanum Hart, the “Yellow Cattley.’’

50 cents each.

PUNICA granatum. The POMEGRAN-
ATE. (Spanish—Gvranado.) Well known
and deservedly popular fruit and ornamental
shrub. Attains the size of a small peach
tree ; flowers red (except in one variety), and

Wey showy. Varieties :

Sweet. 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

‘% Sour. Fruit used in compounding a cool-
ing drink. More hardy than the Sweet
Pomegranate. 30 cents each.

‘vy Spanish Ruby. (New.) Wecopy descrip-
tion of its introducer: ‘‘ Fruit very large,
as large as the largest apple; eye very
small; skin thick, pale yellow with crim-
son cheek ; meat of the most magnificent
crimson color, highly aromatic and very
sweet. Of all fruits we have ever tasted
in our temperate climate, the Spanish
Ruby Pomegranate and the Adriatic

MANATEE, FLORIDA,

PUNICA—Continued.

Fig are thetwo finest. This Pomegranate
is simply magnificent, and people who
never before did like the Pomegranate,
have praised this fruit as unequaled.,
The Spanish Ruby is a fine grower and
good bearer, and the fruit is a fine ship-
per and ripens shortly before Christmas
time. It could be laid down in New
York during holidays, and would there
on attracts great attention. This fruit will
| Vv prove one of our coming export fruits.”
| Small, 50 cents each.

| Paper-Shell. Also recently from Califor-
| \ nia, and highly recommended. Small,
| 50 cents each.

| \ Hermosillo. From Mexico, by way of
| California. Described as an excellent
| variety. Small, 50 cents each.

Saharanpur Red. Small, 50 cents each.
Small, 60 cts. each.

~ ‘
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| N

. Saharanpur White.

'Y Alba Plena. )
/Jas. Vick. | See Miscellaneous Depart-

_ Nana. ( ment.

Sy Legrelliz. ;

ZIZYPHUS jujuba. The Jujuse. Im-
proved variety from India. This wholesome
frnit should be more largely cultivated. It is

very popular with the Chinese, who recog-
nize a great number of varieties. Treethorny.
' 50 cents each.

FICUS CARICA.

FRUITS FOR WARM TEMPERATE CLIMATES.

25

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FRUIT | REES

AND IPLANTS

HARDY IN

Warm TEMPERATE CLIMATES.

‘“__On bending orchard trees, apples of Hesperides.’—WHITTIER.

CARYA oliveformis. The PECAN. Pe-

cans succeed well in Florida, and many have |
Plant in rich, |

made their culture profitable.

well-drained situations.

ego er Texas.
very prolific.

\y Paper-Shell. Produces a good-sized nut,
of fine quality ; shell very thin, as its name

indicates. 35 cents each, $3.50 per dozen. |

A fine ornamental |
bs Haycheya.

ATAIGUS flava.

tree, producing sweet edible fruit; said to

be a good stock for the fine varieties of |

pears. 50 cents each.

IOSPYROS Kaki. The JAPAN PERSIM-
MON or DATE PLUM. This tree has now been
fruited in the South long enough to determine
its value. The fruit is delicious, the tree

grows and bears well, almost irrespective of |
quality of land. Ripens from August to No- |

vember. The surplus fruit can be dried, in

which state it is considered superior to figs.

The nomenclature of the Japan Persimmon is

still very much confnsed, owing to the many
Ng

JAPAN PERSIMMON.

One of the best varieties: |

DIOSPYROS.— Continued.

different importations from Japan, in which
the same name has often been given to
several varieties, or one variety been bur-
dened with several distinct labels. We have
endeavored to obtain our original stock from
the most reliable sources, but cannot guaran-
tee our nomenclature to be entirely correct.
‘\ Varieties :—
Among. (Syn., 7eming.)

(Syn., lmperial Tomato.)
Large, oblong, rich color; one of the best.

Hyakume. (Syn., TZanenashi, Seedless,
Pound, Dardat Marn, etc.) ‘Large,
nearly globular, deep orange red; keeps
very late.’’

Kurokume. (Syn., Daimio.) Slightly ob-
long ; of reddish color, with dark point ;
medium size ; flesh soft.

Yedo Ichi. Introduced by the Agricultural

nf Department.

Zingi.

5oycents to $1 each, according to size.

~ D. Virginiana. Native PERSIMMON.

\ _ 15 cents each.

N D. Montana. } See Economic and

D. calycina. |} Useful Plants.

FRAGARIA. The STRAWBERRY.
But .few varieties of the Strawberry
have been found that stand our Flor-
ida summers without scalding, and
that are a complete success, as re-
gards shipping qualities, etc. The
following variety is acknowledged to

. bethe destin every respect for gen-

Via) culture in Florida.

Nunan.or Charleston Seedling.
A first-class berry, though not
large; does not scald, and is very
prolific ; plants should be set out
from September to December.
These plants will commence fruit-
ing inthe following February, and
continue to blossom and ripen fruit
until July. No family should be
without strawberries through the
spring and early summer, when
other fruit is scarce. 50 cents per
100, $4 per 1,000.

Vv

5G REASONER BROS., MANATEE FLORIDA.

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MORWUS alba Multicaulis. The WHire MORUS—Continued.
or MULTICAULIS MULBERRY. The Mulber- »& M. rubra. The RED MULBERRY. Our na-

ries are well known and valuable trees for | tive Red Mulberry is one of the most valu-
shade, timber and fruit, besides furnishing | able shade and fruit trees that we have,
the food of the silk-worm. This variety is | and more should be planted. 25 cts. each.
the best or one of the best for silk-worms. | The Mulberry tree transplants easiest of
Leaves very large; tree a very rapid grower. — any known fruit tree.

One year, 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen; | Large Mulberry trees will be considerably
two year, 50 cts. each, $5 per doz.; verylarge. | cut back to redude bulk in shipping, unless
M. alba Downingi. DOWNING’S EVERBEAR- by special requestito the contrary.

ING. One of the most valuable for fruit. | PRUNUS > The MEXICAN APRICOT
; : f 5 ‘
Flavor uch and sub-acid. 25 cents each, _“ CHABACAN or CHABACANO. Under this name
ey SORE aeN, F The C inte ik Ss received last year some seeds from a friend
~, ate eee cece een seen care 2 | in Mexico, the plants from which have made
f : : : ; ‘ a fine growth this season. He describes the
M. alba Moretti. The RussiAN MULBERRY. fruit (it is grown on the highlands of Central
Extensively planted throughout the north | Nlexico) as) follows Tien @habnenemene
and west or wind-breaks, silk-worms and | about the size and shape of a loquat ; the skin
the fruit, which is not first-class, but is pro- | ig about like a peach-skin, but there is not so
duced in great quantities and used to feed lunch * faze? -foa them ae atberetien Gace
pigs, etc. Grows luxuriantly here. Habit, = jeaches; the color is pale yellow, some al-
very bushy and spreading. One year, 15 most white. They are both freestone and
cents each, $1.50 per_dozen; two year, 25 clingstone. The flavor is like that of a peach,
cents each, $2.50 per dozen ;_ three year, 50 and though not so good as the finest New
hoe each, $5 see, dozen—this size is valua- Jersey peaches, in my opinion it is better
Moa ie bi 3 Saeme oe Bes heb than the Peen-to.”” The foliage and habit of
“English” Mulberry. Producing the best |. orowth resembles the apricot. 75 cents each.
fruit, and in the greatest profusion, of any |* ;
Mulberry we have seen. Ripens formany | PRUNUS Chicasa. The CHICKASAW
weeks in succession. 25 cents each, $2.50 | PLUM grows luxuriantly and fruits abundantly
per dozen. | in South Florida. Fruit sour, but very valua-

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KELSEY’S. JAPAN PLUM.

PRUNUS - Continued

ble when cooked, in various forms. The fruit
meets with a ready local sale here at ten cents
per quart. Will stand more water than the
peach, but prefers high dry land. Valuable
as a stock for grafting finer varieties. 10 to 25
cents each. Improved varieties :—
Wild Goose. May possibly succeed here ;
large; bright vermilion red; good qual-
4 ity. 40 cents.
~Helm. Froma seedling of unknown origin,
growing onthe grounds of Mr. J. M. Helm,
of Manatee. Fruit produced in profusion ;
medium-sized ; of good flavor, ripening in
April and May. 50 cents each.
Marianna. A native of Texas; highly rec-
ommended. 50 cents each.

PRUNUS domestica. The PLum. Va-

rieties :—

\vy Lombard. 50 cents.

\, Dawson. We can furnish a few trees of
these fine Northern varieties to those who
wish to try them here. 50 cents each.

Vv Kelsey’s Japan Plum. Good reports from
this plum continue to be heard all over
Georgia and Florida and the South in
general. Many good qualities are claimed
for it, not the least important of which is
its habit of early bearing, trees beginning
to bear when only two or three years old.
The fruit is described as of excellent qual-
ity, very beautiful, large, and a good ship-
per. All the young trees in this vicinity
are doing well. 5ocents each, $5 per doz.

Vv OTHER ORIENTAL VARIETIES.

Botan. This and the following seem to be
of the same general character as the Kel-
sey’s, but have not been long tested yet.

Ogan. 50 cents each.

\ Peen-to.

RUNUS Pissardii. The PERSIAN Pur-
PLE-LEAVED PLUM.) This beautiful and pop-
ular ornamental tree is said to produce ex-
cellent fruit. The variety promises well in
Florida. 30 cents each.

PRUNUS Persica (Syn., Amygdalus Per-

sica, Persica vulgaris. The PEACH. The Per-
sian type does not succeed in Florida, but
from the more newly introduced Chinese varie-
ties general success is reported. The Peach
delights in rich, well-drained land and in con-

stant cultivation through the growing season.

Don’t send for peach trees in the summer
time, when the leaves are on ; and when you
get them, don’t set them out on low land
where the water will ever be closer than two
feet to the surface. Better throw them away
than do that. Varieties :

The FLAT PEACH OF CHINA.
This variety has succeeded well, so far,
wherever planted in Florida. ‘‘ Fruit two
to two and one-half inches in diameter,
very flat ; skin pale greenish white, with a
beautiful mottled red cheek ; peels readily
at maturity, flesh very finely grained,
juicy and dissolving, with a delicate al-
mond aroma; quality best; clingstone.
Maturity from April 15th to May troth.’’
This peach was introduced into the United
States by Mr. P. J. Berckmans, from seed
sent from Australia in 1869, but had been
long known and fruited in English hot-
houses. Loudon wrote of it many years
ago: ‘‘ Knight has fruited it, and consid-
ers that from the early habits of the tree
it will prove a valuable acquisition. He
has ‘found excitability of habit to be
hereditary in the seedling offspring of
plants, and to be transferable by the pol-
len ;? and therefore imagines there will be

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"REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA.

Bidwell’s Late.

PRUNUS (Peach.)— Continued.

no difficulty in obtaining from the Flat
Peach other varieties of similar habits,
free from the deformity which has recom-
mended it to the Chinese.’’’? The proph-
ecy of this veteran English horticulturist
is at Jast being fulfilled in Florida at the
present date, the developer of the first
superior variety being Mr. A. J. Bidwell,
the well known nurseryman, who has ob-
tained from seeds of the Peen-to the

Bidwell’s Early, the description of which

we quote from the Florida Dispatch of
June 6, 1887 : ‘‘General appearance good ;
size, medium; skin smooth ; shape round,
slightly oblong, with moderate suture and
short recurved point; color, pale yellow,
washed with carmine, deepest around the
stem; half cling, with small, short, thick
seed, having a sharp slightly curved point ;
flesh white, fine grained, melting and
juicy; sweet, sprightly, with slight noyeau
or bitter almond flavor; quality good.
The flavor suggests the parent /een-/o ;
it is a Sweeter Peach than the latter, and
although it has marked almond flavor, it
is an agreeable noyeau rather than the
objectionable bitter so often present in the
Peen-to until it reaches the point of per-
fect ripeness. The two original trees, for
there aretwo Bidwell’s Early treesamong
the nine seedlings, identical in every re-
spect, are now but little over five years
old ; they measure five inches in diameter,
are thirteen feet high, with spread of
about fifteen feet. The trees each held
at least four bushels of fruit at the time
of our visit, and some had been gathered.
The first ripe Bidwell’s Early were gath-
ered on May 7th, the same day the first
Peen-to ripened in the adjoining orchard.
On the 25th, all the Bidwell’s were ready
for market. The young orchard of this
variety, planted the spring of 1886, little
more than a year ago, bore a few peaches
this year.’’

We give description
from same number of the Dispatch: “At
the time the foregoing descriptions were

PRUNUS SIMONI.

KIEFFER PEAR.

PRUNUS (Peach.)— Continued.

made (May 25th) the largest specimens of
this variety were about half grown. It
ripencd its first peaches last year, July
5th, and is said to resemble the Bzdwell’s
farly in everything save that it is not as
highly colored. This tree has a different
habit of growth from the az/y, being an
upright compact grower, with round sym-
metrical head, quite different from the
usual straggling habit of the Peach.’’

Honey Peach. The Honey Peach is an-

other variety which promises well for
Florida. Trees have fruited well here
for two or three years. Mr..Berckmans
describes this Peach as ‘‘ medium, ob-
long, with a sharp recurved point, creamy
white, washed and mottled carmine ; flesh
of a peculiar fine texture and a honey
sweetness ; tree very thrifty, distinct
grower and prolific. Ripe about June
25. The fruit is apt in some soils to
be devoid of flavor. Originated by
Charles Downing, Esq., about 1854
from pits sent from China.”

PRICES OF PEACH TREES.

Peen-to and Honey, 25 cents each,
$2.50 per dozen, $18 per 100; Honey,
2 year, 40 cents each, $4 per dozen;
Bidwell Early and Late, 4o cts. each,
$4 per dozen.

PRUNUS Simoni. The APRICOT

PLUM. 40 cents each.

PY RUS——? The YELLow Haw.

A fine ornamental tree, producing sweet
edible fruit ; said to be a good stock for the
fine varieties of pears. 50 cents each.

PYRUS communis. The PEAR. The

following varieties have done well in South
Florida as far as tried :

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DEWBERRY.
PYRUS (Pear.)—Continued. PYRUS Cydonia. (Cydonia vulgaris.)
jLe Conte. Supposed to be a hybrid be- The QuINCE. Some varieties of the Quince
tween the old China Sand Pear anda grow and bear fruit exceedingly well in South
cultivated variety. Fruit large, pyriform ; Florida. The best we have seen is of the fol-
skin smooth, pale yellow, quality good ; lowing variety :
tree of remarkable vigor and rapid Orange. Fruit large, round; valuable for
growth. Maturesin July and August. 40 preserving ; luxuriant grower. 25c. each.
__ cents each, $4 per dozen. RUBUS trivialis. The DEwserry. This
\V Keiffer. A supposed cross between the native fruit has been much neglected, and, it
China Sand and Bartlett. Tree resem- is our opinion, will pay better than the straw-
bles the above; fruit superior to the Le berry. The fruit is delicious, better than the
Conte. Maturity September to October. best blackberry, and as large or larger. I0
Very prolific, and frequently blossoms at cents each, $1 per dozen.
two years old. Two year old Keiffer yLucretia. This new Dewberry, of Virgin-
bloomed this year for us in the nursery ian origin, has succeeded exceedingly
row, profusely, and one little tree is hold- well with us during the past summer, and

ing a pear, which, at this writing, July 25, will doubtless prove of great value. 20
is nearly full grown. 75 cents each, $7 fe cents each, $2 per dozen.
per dozen, strong. Mammoth. 25 cents each.

30 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA,

MARTHA GRAPE.

VITIS. The GRAPE.

V. ASTIVALIS. Varieties :—

“™./ Cynthiana. This Grape and the following
are described as the best wine Grapes in
America, besides being excellent table

ae grapes.

~~ Norton’s Virginia.

Rulander. (Louwtsiana.)

V. RIPARIA. Varieties :—

Elvira. Highly spoken of by Prof. Dubois,

the vineyardist of Tallahassee.
V. LABRUSCA. Varieties :—

Concord. Too well known to need de-
scription.

Champion. (7Zalman.) ‘The earliest of
American grapes; vine vigorous and
healthy.

Martha. A white Concord, though some-
what inferior in quality to the latter.

Northern Muscadine. Red or amber.

VITIS (Grape.)— Continued.

Ny Pocklington. A handsome new white

grape.

HYBRIDS :—

«Goethe. (Rogers? No. 1.) Undoubtedly
one of the very best grapes for Florida,
succeeding wherever good care is given
it. A magnificent vine of this variety
may be seen at Mr. Collier’s—as far south
as Marco, on the Gulf Coast. Grapes
very handsome, pale red or whitish green

“y when ripe. 20 cents each, $2 per dozen.

Lindley. (Rogers’ No.9.) Grapes brick
red, of peculiar aroma. Vine a strong

f_. Srower.

Salem. (Rogers’ No. 537.) A popular

_, . market grape and a good shipper.

™~ Triumph. Hybrid of V. Labrusca and V.
vinifera.) A vigorous growing, beautiful
and fine flavored white Grape.

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Type of the productive qualities of varieties of V. Labrusca.

VITIS (Grape.)— Continued.

VITIS (Grape.)—Continued.
and pulp quite tender. Ripens in Sep-

umelan. A hybrid of Aestivalis and vi- |
nifera. A good black grape, but said to | tember.
be an irregular bearer in Florida.
V. ROTUNDIFOLIA or VULPINA. Varie- | PRICES OF GRAPE VINES.
ties :—
lowers. Bunches composed of from fif- Except where noted, 25 cents each,
teen to twenty-five berries, dark black, $2.50 per dozen.
and of sweet vinous flavor. Four to six V. lanata. This species of Grape is from
weeks later than Scuppernong. | the Himalaya region of Northern India,
Scuppernong. Succeeds everywhere in | and has shown a wonderful growth for us
the south. Grows to an enormous size | during the past year. Should at least be
and bears abundantly. Fruit white or | experimented with by those whoare making
Ns bronze color, and of good quality. Ripens | a study of viniculture in the south; there
in August. may be great possibilities in the variety.
Thomas. Color, reddish purple. Ripens | The two following species are from the
in August. same locality:
An improved seedling of | . V. Himalayensis. $1 each.
V. pedata. $1 each.

“Tenderpulp.

the Flowers. Berries large, very sweet,

32

REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA,

IV.

IMPORTANT ECONOMICAL, MEbic-

INAL «° USEFUL PLANTS, -
TROPIGAL »® SEMI-TROPIGAL.

“ Ha! physic—certaimly! Salts, rhubarb, senna, coloquintida, scammony, gam-
boge.’—CoLMAN in “ The Poor Gentleman.”

AGAVE rigida, var. Sisalana. The

SisAL Hemp. The Cabulla or Sosquil Jene-
guin of Central America and Yucatan. Pro-
ducing one of the most valuable known fibres
for rope, cordage, etc. Introduced from Yuca-
tan by Dr. Perrine in 1838, now naturalized,
and found wild in some localities on the
Keys.

When capital and manufacturing enterprise
shall have been more directed towards the
fibre interests of Florida, and people have
begun to consider other sources of wealth
than the all-pervading orange, thousands of
acres of otherwise worthless land will be
planted out in Sisal Hemp, in South Florida,
and its manufacture and culture will undoubt-
edly become one of the leading industries of
the State. The Fibre Manufacturing Com-
pany, at Sanford, isa start in the right direc-
tion. 10 and 25 cents each; sinall plants, $4
per hundred.

A. Mexicana. The PULQUE PLANT or MAG-
uUEY of Mexico. Well known for its many

-uses—wise and otherwise. 75 cents.

ges For general, collection of Agaves,
Dasylirions, Fourcroyas, Yuccas, etc., both
useful and ornamental, see Miscellaneous
Department.

ALOE vulgaris. One of the best of the

medicinal Aloes. (Bitter, Socotra, Cape or
Barbadoes Aloes.) ‘‘ The simple inspissated
juice of the leaves of the various species of
the genus constitutes the Aloe drug. Itis best
obtained by using neither heat nor pressure
for extracting the sap. By re-dissolving the
aqueous part in cold water, and reducing the
liquid through boiling, or other process of ex-
siccation, to dryness, the extract of Aloes is
prepared. The bitter sap is used for dressing
wounds, keeping off flies effectually. All
species are highly valuable, and can be used,
irrespective of their medicinal importance, to
beautify any rocky or otherwise arid spot.’’—
Von Mueller.

ALOE— Continued.
We see no reason why, ona small scale,
Aloe-culture could not be profitably carried
onin South Florida. The plant is quite hardy,
though severe frosts will kill the leaves.
Small plants, 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen ;
larger, 25 cents and upwards.

jes For general collection of Aloes, see
Miscellaneous Department.

AMOMUM cardamomum (/letteria
cardamomum). The true Cardamom-plant,
producing the cardamom-seeds of commerce.
Native in Ceylon, where it is extensively cul-
tivated. Also much cultivated in Jamaica.
Prefers a moist, half-shady spot. 50 cents
each, $5 per dozen.

ALSTONIA macrophylla. India. “The

Sap of all Alstonias should be tried for caout-

chouc.’’—Von Mueller. $1 each.
ACACIA Arabica. The GumM-ARABIC
Acacia. ‘‘ The ‘ Kikar’ or ‘Babur.’ North

and Central Africa, also in Southwest Asia,
growing in dry calcareous soil. This small
tree can be utilized for thorny hedges ; it fur-
nishes the best gum-arabic for medicinal and
technical purposes. The lac insect lives also
on the foliage, and thus in Sind the lac is
mainly yielded by this tree. The stem at-
tains a circumferance of ten feet. The astrin-
gent pods are valuable for tanning, also the
bark, whichis knownas ‘ Babott’ bark. The
wood, known as ‘Sunt,’ is very durable if
water-seasoned ; extensively used for wheels,
well-curbs and many kinds of implements,
also for the knees and planks of boats.’’—
Von Mueller. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.
A. Catecanu. ‘‘India, Africa, up to 3,000

feet. The extract prepared from the bark

and heartwood is the Catechu of medicine

or Cutch of tannery. Pure cutch is worth

425 per ton: four tons of bark will pro-

duce one ton of Cutch or terra japonica.’’-—

Von Mueller. 50 cents each.

s

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ACACIA— Continued.
A. Farnesiana. ‘‘DIOSCORIDES’ SMALL
AcACcIA. Indigenous to South Asia ; found

westward as far as Japan; a native also of |

the warmer parts of Australia, as far south
as the Darling River ; found spontaneously
in tropical and sub-tropical America, but
apparently not in tropical Africa. Profes-
sor Fraas has recognized in this Acacia the
ancient plant. The scented flowers are
much sought for perfumery. This species
may be utilized as a hedge plant; a kind
of gum-arabic may also be obtained from
it. Thescentis perhaps obtainable from the
fresh and slightly moist flowers by gentle |
dry distillation under mere steam oS |
- ordinarily the odorous essential oil is with-
drawn from the flowers by the Saieaee |
process.’’—lV’on Mueller. This graceful
shrub is locally known as the Popinac. 25
cents each.

Je For general collection of Acacias, see
Miscellaneous Department.

ARALIA papyrifera (Fatsia papyrifera,
Decaisne and Planchon.) The CHINESE
RICE PAPER TREE. The pith of the stem of
this curious plant furnishes the ‘‘ rice paper’’
of China. The plant is of most value, how-
ever, aS an ornamental shrub or tree, and is

admirably adapted to the soil and climate of |

Florida. Perfectly hardy as far up as Put-
nan Co..Mr. E. BH: Harkisays jel, it: ‘Tt
delights in a moist, half-shady spot; it is a
good plant to screen the unsightly spot by
the kitchen door ; when in bloom it issuperb,
and every one stops to admire it.’’ A native
of the shady swamps of Formosa. Alwaysa
handsome plant, whether in bloom or not, on
account of its magnificent leaves. 5oc. each.

J See Miscellaneous Department for
collection of Aralias.

BROUSSONBETIA papyrifera. The Pa-
PER MULBERRY. Islands of the Pacific,
China and Japan. From the fibrous barks of
this tree a kind of cloth was formerly pre-
pared by the natives of South Sea Islands.
It can also be used in the manufacture of a

CINNAMOMUM Camphora (Zaurus

Camphora.) The CAMPHOR TREE, or CAM-
PHOR LAUREL of China and Japan. This
tree and the Dryobalanops Camphora of
Sumatra furnish the Camphor Gum of com-
merce. The tree is hardy in the lower Gulf
states and inthe south of Europe. It is a
handsome broad-leaved evergreen. To pre-
pare the Camphor of commerce ‘‘the root,
trunk and branches, broken up, are treated
with water in closed vessels, the volatilized
camphor being sublimated upon rice straw.
It is further refined on its arrival in Europe.’’
Small, $1 each.

CRESCENTIA cujete. The CALABASH

TREE. ‘‘A little further on was a tree witha
round dense head of glossy foliage which in
some respects was the most curious I had
ever seen. The leaves were almost fiddle-
shaped, and right out of the enormous trunk
and lower branches there sprouted out on
very short stems the drollest of lurid purple
ill-scented flowers, three or four inches long,
with the corolla cut and twisted in a most
grotesque fashion. And these flowers were
followed by smooth round green fruits, larger
than the largest field pumpkin! It was a
wise provision of nature then, that the blos-
soms grew on the trunk and main branches,
for such a burden could never be borne by
the smaller limbs. This could be no other
than the wonderful Calabash tree, which I
had read of and seen in pictures ever since I
was a little boy, and had been told by trav-
ellers how the natives of hot climates use the
shells of this same fruit for all kinds of ves-
sels. And right there at a house on a bench
before my eyes, were buckets, dippers and
ladles, made from calabashes from this very
tree.’’—Chas. T. Simpson. <A native of the
West Indies and South America. Tender.
$1 each.

COFFEA Arabica. The ARABIAN COF-

very strong paper. 25 cents each, $2.50 per |

dozen.

BIXA orellana. The true ANNATTO
plant. The pulp of the seed-vessels of this
plant produces the Annato dye, so much used
in coloring red. Known by the South eee
ican Indians as Rowcou. 50 cents each, $5
per dozen.

CAMELLIA Thea (Thea PBohea.) The
The CHINESE TEA PLANT. The only hind-
rance to successful tea-culture in the United
States seems to bea lack of cheaplabor. The
tea-shrub is a handsome evergreen—hardy
throughout the Gulf States—and produces a
profusion of white flowers. 25 cents each.

CINCHONA officinalis. The CINcHONA
or BROWN PERUVIAN BARK. This is one of
tne best quinine producing species. $1 each.

C. condemnia.

C. hybrida magnifica.
C. Ledgeriana.

C. Ledgeriana hybrida.
C. robusta.

C. succirubra. $1 each.

FEE PLANT. Native in the mountains of
Southwestern Abyssinia. Several bearing
coffee-shrubs on the Manatee River were
killed by the freeze of 1886; they had at-
tained a height of 10 or 12 feet. These large
specimens sprouted again, and are now of
good size. First fruited in the United States,
at least in the open air, by Mrs. Julia Atzeroth,
of Manatee. The shrub is a beautiful ever-
green, with white flowers. 50 cents each.

C. Liberica. The LIBERIAN COFFEE-PLANT.
‘This species attains the size of a real
tree, isa rich bearer, and the berries are
larger than those of the ordinary coffee-
bush.” Growing in favor in coffee produc-
ing countries. $1 each.

C. Bengalensis. The BENGAL COFFEE
PLANT. $1 each.

_CASSALPINIA Sappan. An ornamental

plant from South Asia. The wood also furn-

ishes a red dye. Sometimes used as a hedge

plant in Jamaica. 30 cents each.

C. sepiaria. Another red dye wood from
South Asia. Used much as a hedge-plant
in Japan, being very ornamental. 75 cents
each.

-CORDIA Sebestena. The SrsesTEN

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PLtumM. (See Miscellaneous Department. )

34 REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA:

COLOCASIA esculenta. The TanyvAaH

or TARO. (See Miscellaneous Department.)

CANNA flaccida. Available for arrow-
root, as are most of the other Cannas. (See
Miscellaneous Department. )

CASSIA fistula. (Cathartocarpus fis-
tula.) A handsome flowering tree from South
Asia. The long pods also contain an aperient
pulp of pleasant taste and of medicinal value.
It is also used in the manufacture of cake-
tobacco. 25 cents each.

Many of the numerous species of Cassia
produce sexna. (For general collection see
Miscellaneous Department. )

DIOSCOREA pentaphylla. One of the

edible Indian yams. 75 cents each.

DIOSPYROS montana. One of the
true Ebony woods. From the Himalayas,
therefore probably hardy here. A near rela-
tive to our native persimmon. ‘‘ The price of
Ebony wood in England ranges from £8 to
410 per ton, from 700 to I,o00 tons being im-
ported into Britain annually for piano-forte
keys, the string-holders of musical instru-
ments, the finger-boards and tail-pieces of
violins, sharp note-pieces of pianos, har-
moniums and cabinet organs, and other select
purposes.’’—Von Mueller. 75 cents each.
D. calycina.

EUPHORBIA antiquorum. (77rigona.)
Yields the true Huphorbium. (See Miscella-
neous Department.)

EXCAICARIA Sebicera. (Stllingia
seovjera.) The CHINESE. TALLOW DREE-
“The fatty coating of the seeds constitutes the
vegetable tallow, which is separated by steam-
ing. The wood is so hard and dense as to be
used for printing-blocks ; the leaves furnish a
black dye.’—Von Mueller. This tree is said
to have been sparingiy planted out in the
coast district of South Carolina. $1 each.

ERIODENDRON anfractuosum. The
WEsT INDIAN SILK COTTON TREE. (Cez0a.)
The silk cotton produced by this gigantic
tree finds a ready market in Holland, where
itis known as ‘“‘Kakop”’ and used for stuf-
fing beds, mattresses and furniture. $1 each.

GUAZUMA tomentosa. India. 75 cts.

GOSSYPIUM religiosum. The wild
NANKIN COTTON of the Southern Keys. Atrue
perennial shrubby Cotton, worthy of culture.
10 cents each.

G.
Cotton, from North India. Bolls said to be
very large. Seeds, per pkt., 25 cents each.

HEVEA Braziliensis. The true PARA
RUBBER.

HIBISCUS Sabdariffa. JAMAICA INDIAN
SoRREL. This plant furnishes the “ Roselle
hemp ”’ of the Madras territories, where it is
called ‘‘Rozelle”’ or ‘‘Rouselle,” although
the name is a corruption of Osezlle. In India
its fleshy calyxes, of a pleasant acid taste,
are much employed for making tarts, as well
as excellent jelly, and in the West Indies for
making cooling drinks; scarce. 50 cts. each.

Jee Several other species of Hibiscus fur-
nish valuable fibres ; see Miscellaneous De-
partment.

? Garo Hills’ Cotton. A superior -

HAIMATOXYLON Campechianum.
The true LoGwoop TREE. (Spanish—Pa/lo
de Campeche.) It is quite probable that this
celebrated tree will thrive in many parts of
South Florida. Of very slow growth. $1
each.

INDIGOFERA atropurpurea. The IN-
DIGO PLANT. From this species and the two
following are prepared, the choicest Indigo of
commerce. Indigo was formerly cultivated
in the south to a considerable extent, but its
culture has declined of late years. Plants
quite ornamental, and desirable also as conser-
vatory plants north.

I. violacea.

I. tinctoria.

I. Caroliniana. Native. Prices of Indigo
plants, 10 cents each, $1 per dozen.

J&- Those who are intending to try the
culture of Indigo will do well to correspond.

JATROPHA. The Puysic-Nut of the
West Indies. (See Miscellaneous Depart-
ment.)

KIGELIA pinnata. The African FETISH
TREE. A magnificent tree with purple tulip-
like flowers. $1 each.

LAWSONIA alba. The HENNE or
HENNA BusH, of North and Middle Africa,
South Asia, and Northwestern Australia.
Described as producing a superior hedge-
plant; valuable as an orange pigment from
the:ground foliage. 25 centseach.

L. inermis. India. 50 cents each.

LAURUS CAMPHORA. See Cinna-

MOomum.

LUFFA fcetida. One of the STRAINER-
VINES, or ‘‘ DISH-RAG’’ GouRDS. The inside
of the fruits are cleaned, bleached, and used
for a variety of useful articles, brushes, orna-
mental baskets, etc. 25 cents each.

MALACHRA capitata. A tall-growing
plant, a native of tropical America; fibre
obtainable to a lengtk of nine feet; itis of a
silky lustre and equal in technical value to
jute. 25 cents each.

MARANTA arundinacea. The BErR-
MUDA, or true ARROW-RoorT. Should be more
cultivated in Florida, as with proper manage-

“ment it is a paying crop. ‘“‘ More correctly
‘aru-root,’ inasmuch as aru-aru is the
Brazilian word for flour according to Martius.
Native in West Indies, Mexico to Brazil.’’—
Von Mueller. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen.
$5 per hundred.

MUCUNA pruriens. The “Cow-ITCcH ”
plant of Tropical America, undoubtedly the
Dolichos pruriens of Humboldt, of which he
says: ‘The games in which the common
people indulged were occasionally not of the
most pleasant kind, * * while others, carry-
ing bags fullof the hairs of the Dolichos
pruriens, which excite great irritation of the
skin blew them into the faces of those who
were passing by.’—Humoboldi’s Travels,
page 157. 25 cents each.

MOMORDICA balsamina. BALSAM

PEAR, Io cents each.
M. mixta. 25 cents each.

ECONOMICAL, MEDICINAL AND USEFUL PLANTS. 35

MORINGA pterygosperma. The
HORSE-RADISH TREE. Sometimes known as
ie tee of Paradisce:’’. “Any extremely
quick-growing, useful and ornamental tree.
From the seeds is prepared the finest ‘‘ oil of
Benn’’ for jeweler’s use. Asa horse-radish,
the thick, fleshy roots will be found equal or
superior tothe genuine. Graceful, ternately-
decompound leaves, clusters of delicate
flesh-colored blossoms, followed by large
pods, said to be edible in soups, etc., while
young and tender. A native of India. 25
cents each.
M. aptera.

MENTHA piperita. PEPPERMINT. Grows

well in Florida. 10 cents each.

MARTYNIA diandra.

some, gloxinia-like.

MELALEUCA Cajepute. (JZ Jleuca-
dendron.) A valuable and useful Australian
tee. 75,cerits each: :

MALLOTUS Philippinensis. (Ro/ftlera
tinctoria.) South Asia and East Australia.

Very rare.

Flowers hand-

capsules, constitutes the Kama/a, which can

be employed not only as an orange dye, but |

also as an anthelminthic remedy. The Hin-
doo silk-dyers produce the color by boiling
the Kamala with carbonate of soda.’’—Von
Mueller. 75 cents each.

PHORMIUM tenax. The FLAx LILy of
New Zealand. A valuable hardy ornamental
and fibre plant.

RAVENALA Madagascariensis. (See |

Miscellaneous Department.)

RICINUS. Castor O1t BEAN. Very or-
namental foliage plants, especially in groups
with other large-leaved plants. Perennial in
South Florida.
R. communis.

duce the oil of commerce.
R. Duchess of Edinburgh.
wine color; very handsome.

SAPINDUS saponaria. The Tropica
SOAP-BERRY. ‘‘ The seed-vessels, known as
soap-berries are largely employed for wash-
ing purposes. Also the round black seeds

This is most used to pro-
Io cents each.

Foliage rich
Io cts. each.

are made up into rosaries and articles of or- |

nament. They might very well, I believe,
be utilized as buttons, being very hard and
of a glossy appearance when _polished.’’—
D. Morris. Tree a strong grower, leaves
very ornamental. Will stand sharp frosts.
25 cents each.

SIDA tomentosa.

SANSIEVERA Guineensis. The Ar-
RICAN BOW-STRING HEmp. A superior fibre
plant, and a very ornamental plant also. 25
cents each.

S. Zeylanica. The Bow-STRING Hemp. As
a fibre plant this plant has been known and
prized in India from remote antiquity un-
der the name of Murva. Is extensively
cultivated in Ceylon, India, and the West
Indies, where it grows toa height of five
or six feet. Leaves long and sword-shaped,
mottled green and white. Very beauti-
ful. 25 cents each.

Probably valuable for
fibre. Grown singly it isa handsome orna-
mental plant. India. 50 cents each.

S. Indica. 50 cents each.

STERCULIA sp. North India. A tree
with large, handsome leaves. A fibre is ob
tained from several species of Sterculia. 75
cents each.

_SCILLA maritima. SouvlILt.

‘‘The powdery substance investing the seed |

STRYCHNOS Nux-vomica. The
STRYCHNIA or Nux-Vomica plant. South
Asia. Nux-Vomica is the pure drug—

Strychnine the alkaloid. $1.50 each.

SWIETENIA Mahogani. The Manuoc-
ANY TREE, celebrated for its valuable timber.
West Indies, Central America and Mexico;
Lower Florida Keys, where, however, it has
never yet attained the vast size of its Central
American congeners. Said to be of exceed-
ingly slow growth, ‘‘hardly undergoing a
perceptible increase of size in the narrow
span of man’s life.’’ It has been calculated
that it requires 300 years wherein to attain a
growth proper for cutting. ‘‘The small
plants are very handsome, and with plenty
of head and pot-room will flower under
greenhouse culture at the north.’’—#uzst.
Flowers white, very pretty. 25 cents each,
$2.50 per dozen.

THROBROMA cacao. The CHOCOLATE
or CACAO tree. The Chocolate of commerce
is prepared from the seeds of this famous
and beautiful tree.

VANILLA planifolia. See Orchids.
V. aromatica. See Orchids.

ZINGIBER officinalis. GINGER.

_ZAMIA integrifolia. See Palms.

36 REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA,

V.

BAMBOOS, GRASSES «° FORAGE

PLANTS,
ORNAMENTAL OR USEFUL.

‘“ Maud Muller, on a summer's day,
Raked the meadow sweet with hay.”

—WHITTIER.

ANDROPOGON citratus. The LEMon
Grass of India. Yields an essential oil for
perfumery. 10 cents each.

ARUNDO donax variegata. A beau-
tiful bamboo reed. The tallest of all the
variegated grasses. Foliage beautifully
striped with white; leaves broad. 50 cents
each.

BAMBUSA arundinacea. The THOoRNY
BAmBoo of India. Attains a height of forty
or more feet. $2 each.

B. argentea 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 preced-
ing, until they are as thick as corn stalks
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.’’—Z. A. Hart.

B. vulgaris. ‘‘The large unarmed Bam-
boo 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. $2 each.

CENCHRUS montanus. A rainy sea-
son fodder grass from North India. Seeds,
25 cents per packet.

CYNODON Dactylon. BERMUDA GRASS.
Well known as a lawn and pasture grass. $3
per 1,000.

CYPERUS alternifolius. UMBRELLA
PLANT. This beautiful hot-house grass at-
tains a height of three or four feet. Is at
home in Florida, in a moist (not wet), shady
spot. 25 cents each.

COIX lachryma. Jos’s TEARS. 10 cents
each.

BULALIA Japonica zebrina. “ This
is one of the most beautiful and distinct
hardy plants in cultivation. Unlike all other
variegated plants, this has its striping or
_marking across the leaf, instead of longitu-
dinally. It grows from five to seven feet in
height, forming a most striking and graceful

EULALIA JAPONICA ZEBRINA.

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37

EULALIA— Continued.

DESMODIUM trifiorum.

plant, resembling nothing else that we know
of. The expanded flower spike resembles
the ostrich plume, and when dried will last
for years. Plant entirely hardy. Whether
used as a single plant or for groups on lawns
it has no equal.’’ 30 cents each.

EK. Japonica variegata. ‘‘A hardy peren-
nial from Japan, with long, narrow leaves
striped with green and white, throwing up
stalks four to six feet high, terminating with
a cluster of flower spikes on which the in-
dividual flowers are arranged; the flowers
are surrounded with long silky threads,
which, when fully ripe or placed in a warm
room, expand, giving the whole head a
most graceful and beautiful appearance,
not unlike that of an ostrich feather
curled.’’? 30 cents each.

INDIAN
CLOVER. A naturalized plant destined to
become very useful asa pasture plant. ‘‘A
humble little plant which we think can be
made to supply the place of the northern
White Clover, not as a honey plant, but for

covering lawns, and perhaps for pasture.’’— |

Prof. A. H. Curtiss.

(For further descrip- |

tion see Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower |

of April 6, 1887.)

tember. $1 per 100.

Supplied from June to Sep- |

D. Gangeticum. ) Indian species of our in- |

D. umbellatum.; troduction. toc. each.

D. gyrans. (See Miscellaneous
ment.)
GYNERIUM argenteum. PAmpas

PANICUM molle.

Grass. Grows luxuriantly in Florida.
cents each.

50

(Syn. 2° species, P.
sarmentosum.) The PARA GRAss. In our
opinion one of the best fodder grasses for
South Florida, especially for low land, rich
or poor. A piece of low waste ground
planted to Para Grass inthe spring (grass
planted four feet apart each way) will give a
good cutting of hay by July or August, and
can be pastured the rest of the year. The
grass spreads and covers the ground quickly,

but is easily controlled. Prepare the ground |

well before planting; the grass will do

better if ploughed up once every year or

two. If not pastured, several crops of hay

can be cut in one season. $1 per 100, $7.50

per 1,000.

P. maximum.
GRASS.

(P. Jumentosum.)

six weeks during the summer. Succeeds
best when planted in rows and cultivated.
Does not spread fast like the Para Grass,
but throws out numerous stolons, and
forms large bunches, growing six or eight
feet high. 25 cents per doz., $1.75 per 100.

POA Abyssinica. The Terr or TCHEFF

of Abyssinia.

Depart- |

GUINEA |
Another good fodder plant, es- |
pecially for higher land. Can be cut every

‘““Among the vegetable arti- |
cles of diet of the Abyssians, the first place |

PENNISETUM holioides.

SORGHUM vulgare.

POA— Continued.

is taken by ‘‘Teff,’’ a herbaceous plant, whose
grains are as small as a pin’s head ; the meal
from this forms the bread in general use.’’—
Tropical Agriculturist.

The Teff is also cultivated in India, and
is said to produce excellent bread. Our trial
of it during the rainy season of the past sum-
mer gives us great hopes that this may prove
the ‘‘wheat of Florida.’’ Per packet. of
seeds, 25 cents.

A low, quick-
growing fodder-grass from India. Promises
well. $1 per dozen.

P. species. This plant has made the most
remarkable growth of any forage plant we
have ever seen, even on the richest north-
western prairie lands. A few seeds were
planted about the middle of April—in the
seed-beds with other Indian seeds—not
knowing to what a height and with what
rapidity the plants would grow. It has
since been necessary to remove all the
plants around it, to make room. No cul-
tivation has been given it, except pulling
the weeds, though the ground was origi-
inally well prepared. At this writing (July
28,) the clump is a luxuriant mass of green
6 feet in height, and with a spread of 7 or
8 feet. In habit and appearance it resem-
bles Guinea grass, but grows with twice
the rapidity. It sends out stolons from the
roots something after the manner of Guinea
grass. Whether perennial or annual we
cannot yet say, having had no opportunity
to judge. Roots, 50 cents per dozen.

SESBANIA Aigyptica. A tall perennial

herb from India. Highly praised asa fodder
plant. The green pods, as well as the seeds,
are said to be nutritious, wholesome, and of
pleasant taste. 50 cents each.

Improved variety
from Saharanpur, India. Seeds, 25 cents

per packet.

STENOTAPHRUM glabrum (8S. Amer-

icanum.) ST. AUGUSTINE GRASS. A native
of the warmer parts of Asia, Africa and
America. Called in Australia the Buffalo
grass. Promises to be of much value as a
lawn grass in Florida, though of not especial
value as a pasture grass. Will grow on any
land, rich or poor, high or low. Is green all
winter, and naturally does not grow tall
enough to demand frequent cutting with the
lawn-mower. Is not difficult to get rid of;
can be easily killed or controlled with the hoe.
Would undoubtedly prove valuable for bind-
ing sea-sands or river banks. ‘“‘It was this
grass which Mr. John C. Bell reared with so
much advantage for fodder on the bare rocks
of the Island of Ascension.’’—Von Mueller.
50 cts. per 100 cuttings, $4 per I,o0o cuttings.
S. glabrum, fol. var. Leaves beautifully

variegated with white and green. 25 cents

each.

SS

38 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA,

Wile

HEDGE-PLANTS.

Old garden rose-trees hedged it in,

Bedropt with roses waxen white,

Well satisfied with dew and light,
And careless to be seen.

And gladdest hours for me did glide

In stlence at the rose-tree wall:

A thrush made gladness musical
Upon the other side.

—Mrs. BROWNING.

AGAVE. Of the many Agaves suitable
for almost impenetrable hedge plants, A. Szs-
alana and A. Americana are perhaps the
best. (See Economical Plants, also Miscella-
neous Department.)

ACACIA Farnesiana. We can recom-
mend this and the following species for trial
in South Florida, especially the latter. (See
Economical Plants.)

A. Arabica.

CASSALPINIA. (See Economical Plants

and Miscelianeous Department.)

EBEUPHORBIA antiquorum. (See Mis-

cellaneous Department.)

GARDENIA florida. Make a beautiful
ornamental hedge. (See Miscellaneous De-
partment.)

LAWSONIA alba. (See Economicai
Plants. )

NERIUM. The OLEANDER hedges of the
Bermudas are famous, Of value only as or-
namental hedge-plants. (See Miscellaneous
Department. )

OPUNTIA Leucotricha. (See Cacti.)
O. Tuna. (See Cacti.)

PARKINSONIA aculeata. (See Miscel-

laneous Department. )

ROSA bracteata. The MACARTNEY
HEDGE ROSE. With proper attention this
beautiful evergreen rose makes a perfectly
impenetrable and very ornamental hedge in
a short time. A wire or other support should
be stretched above the row of cuttings, at a
height of about three feet, to which the first
long shoots should be fastened. They will
soon become self-supporting and will serve as
a support for the shoots that follow. Flowers
single, pure white. 50 cents per Ioo cuttings,
$4 per 1,000 cuttings.

ROSA Sinica. The CHEROKEE ROSE.
Too well known to need description. 50 cts.
per Ioo cuttings, $4 per 1,000 cuttings.

THUJA Orientalis. CHINESE ARBOR
Vite. A valuable ornamental hedge plant.
(See Conifers.)

TECOMA stans. Valuable as a quick-
growing plant for ornamental screens. (See
Miscellaneous Department. )

TRIPHASIA trifoliata. (See Miscella-

neous Department. )

YUCCA aloifolia. (See Miscellaneous
Department.)

CONIFERS: . 5)

VII,

CONIFERS.

“Ho! ho! the burly pine! Hurrah! Hurrah for the pine! The oak
may be king of the lowlands, but the pine ts the king of the hills—aye, and moun-
tains too.

“Fo! ho! the burly pine! How he strikes his clubbed foot deep into the cleft
of the rock, or grasps its span with conscious power! There he lifts his haughty
front like the warrior monarch that he is. No flinching about the pine, be it ever
so stormy. His throne is the crag, and his crown 1s a good way up in the heavens ;
and as for the clouds, he tears them asunder sometimes, and uses them for robes.
Then hurrah again for the pine! say I. ip 3 ss %

“ Fle adorns his crown with a vich wreath caught from the sunset, and an hour
after, he wears the orbed moon asa splendid jewel upon his haughty brow. The
scented breeze of the soft evening breathes upon him, and the grim warrior king
wakes his murmuring lute,and oh! such sounds—so sweet, so soothing! Years
that have passed live again in the music, tones long since hushed echo once more
in the heart, faces that have turned to dust—but how loved in the old time !—glim-
mer among the dusky boughs, eyes that years ago closed on earth to open in
heaven smile kindly upon us. We lie down in the dark shadow upon the mossy
roots and are happy—happy ina sad, sweet, tender tranquillity that purifies the soul,
and while it makes us content with earth, fills us with love for heaven.”’—ALFRED
Be SrrBEt.

CASUARINA— Continued.
sand, and is much used as fuel for railway
locomotives. It yields a lasting wood for
piles of jetties and for underground work,
and is much used for knees of boats and
for tool-handles.”-—-Wilcoz. ‘‘ The cost of
raising Casuarinas in India has been from

CEDRUS Deodara. The GREAT CEDAR |

of the Himalayas.

CASUARINA. The AvuSTRALIAN PINE.
Also known as the She-Oak, Beef Wood or
Swamp-Oak. In our opinion these trees will
become, in time, one of the commonest |

shade, ornamental and avenue trees in South |

Florida. Mostly natives of Australia, but
now naturalized in many tropical and. sub-
tropical countries. Very rapid growing ; fol-
iage resembles the tamarix or cedar; form
of tree slightly more spreading than the

Lombardy poplar. All the Casuarinas can

be pollarded for cattle-fodder.

C. equisetifolia. (This is the variety planted
out in Key West and Cuba.) ‘‘Attains a
maximum height of one hundred and fifty
feet. Splendid for fuel, giving great heat
and leaving little ashes. The timber is
tough, nicely marked. The tree will live

in somewhat saline soil at the edge of the |

sea. Captain Walker-Campbell estimates
the yield of fire-wood from this tree as four
times as great as the return from any tree
of the forests of France. Known to have
grown in ten years to a height of eighty
feet, but then only with a comparatively
slender stem. In India it grows on pure

44to £10 per acre, and the return, after
only eight years, £13 to £32.’’—Von
Mueller. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

C. tenuissima. This most beautiful species
has never suffered from cold here in the
least, though plants not six inches high
passed unprotected through the freeze of
January, ’86, without harm. With cultiva-
tion and care the rapidity of their growth
is almost marvelous. From Australia, as
are most of the other species. $1 each.

C. muricata. From India. $1.75 each.

CyGistyla. ~<A ‘shrubby. species, well
adapted for fixing the sand-drifts of sea
coasts.’’—Von Mueller.

C. leptoclada.

C. quadrivalvis. ‘‘The Coast SHE-OAK of
S. E. Australia. Not living merely in coast
sand, but also in barren places reaching
the inland hills. Height attaining sixty
feet. The foliage of this species is droop-
ing. The male tree is very eligible for

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CASUARIN A— Continued.

avenues, but the female less sightly. Cat-
tle are fond of the foliage. For arresting
the ingress of coast-sand by belts of timber
this is one of the most important trees.’’?—
Von Mueller.

C. stricta.

C. suberosa. ‘‘ The erect She-Oak of S. E.
Australia. Height reaching forty feet. A
beautiful shady species.’’—Von Mueller.

JUNIPERUS Virginiana. The Red Ce-
dar. A handsome ornamental tree, especially
if judiciously clipped to induce a thick bushy
growth. 25 cents each.

PINUS excelsa. The Lorry or BHOTAN
PINE. ‘‘ Himalaya; forming large forests,
at from 5,000 to 12,500 feet elevation ; also in
Macedonia and Montenegro. A fine tree, at
length 150 feet in height.”—Von Mueller. 40
cents each, $4 per dozen, pot-grown.

P. longifolia. The EmMopi PINE or CHEER
PINE. A tree from the same locality, but
stands the heat better, and promises better
here than P. excelsa. ‘A handsome tree,
with a branchless stem for fifty feet, the
whole tree attaining a maximum height
somewhat over one hundred feet, the girth
of the stem twelve feet. The tree stands

PINUS— Continued.
exposure and heat well.’’-—Von Mueller.
40 cents each, $4 per dozen, pot-grown.

P. Kasya. ‘‘ Kasya and also Burmah, from
2,000 to 7,000 feet. Allied to P. longifolia.
Attains a height of 200 feet.”’—Kurz. 50c.

P. Australis. LONG-LEAVED SOUTHERN
YELLOW PINE. The young two and three
year old trees of this Pine form one of the
most elegant and novel lawn decorations, in
summer, at the north, that we know of.
The long leaves are very distinct from those
of most northern Pines. Selected plants,
25 cents each.

P. Cubensis.

P. inops., var. Clausa. The FLORIDA
SPRUCE PINE. Very handsome while
young.

TAXODIUM distichum. Cypress.

Je The three preceding native species col-
lected to order. Price on application.

TORREYA taxifolia. STINKING CEDAR.

THUJA orientalis. (iota orientalis.)
CHINESE ARBOR ViT#. Succeeds well in
almost any location. Almost indispensable
in decorative work. Several varieties. One
year, 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen; two
year, two to four feet, 4o cents each.

PALMS AND CYCADS.

4I

VIII.

PALMS AND CyYcaAbs.

“ For itis a joy forever a sight never to be forgotten, to have once seen palms
breaking through, and as it were, defying the soft rounded forms of the broada-
leaved vegetation, by the stern grace of their simple lines , the immovable pillar-
stems looking the more immovable beneath the toss, and lash, and flicker of the
long leaves, as they awake out of their sunlit sleep, and rage impatiently for a

while before the mountain gusts, and fall asleep again.

Like a Greek statue in a

luxurious drawing-room, sharp-cul, cold, virginal, shaming, by the grandeur of
mere form, the voluptuousness of mere color, however rich and harmonious ; so
stands the palm in the forest—to be worshipped rather than to be loved.’—

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

(All Palms Pot-Grown.)

ARENGA saccharifera., The celebrated
SuGaArR, PArw of Indias. biis) sealm, sat-
tains a height of 40 feet. The black fibres of

the leaf-stalks adapted for cables and ropes |
intended to resist wet very long; the juice

converted into toddy or sugar; the young

kernels made with syrup into preserves. This |
Palm dies as soon as it has produced its fruit; |

the stem then becomes hollow and is used

for spouts and troughs of great durability. |

The pith supplies sago, about 150 lbs. from a
tree.’—Von Mueller. $3 each.

ARECA Baueri. (Seaforthia robusta).

A. Sapida. (Rhopalostyls.)

A. nobilis.

A. Madagascariensis. This choice Palm
is rarely seen in America outside of the
collection of wealthy amateurs. Thespecies
shows its character when quite small. $2.50
each.

A. triandra.

ATTALEA Cohune. The rare and beau-
tiful COHUNE PALM of Central America.

' A species scarce in greenhouse cultivation.
$2.50 each, $25 per dozen.

ASTROCARYUM Tucuma.

BACTRIS sp.
B. sp. from Cuba. Probably identical
with the ‘“‘ Black Roseau’’ of Trinidad.
B. sp. from Guatemala.

CORYPHA Australis. “The best of the
foreign fan-palms is Corypha (Livistona)
Australis, of Australia, which grows rapidly,
attains a height of a hundred feet, and is
nearly as hardy as our cabbage palmetto.’’—
EE kd. VATE,

‘‘ A fan-leaved Palm of great beauty. Be-
ing of robust constitution, it withstands with-

CORY PHA- Continued.

out injury a low temperature ; it is well suited
for the decoration of apartments. The fan-
like leaves are dark green, supported upon
brown petioles, which are armed at their
edges with stout spines.’’—Saw/. $1 each.

C. elata. A rare species from India. $2

each.
C. humilis.

CYCAS revoluta. The so-called SAGo-
Perfectly hardy in Florida.

PALM. Rare, of

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—~_ scram
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CARYOTA urens.

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COCOA-NUT PALM.

CYCAS - Continued.

slow growth, acd very beautiful. Sometimes
called the Japanese Fern Palm. The trunks
of Cycas admit of translocation, even at an
advanced age, and like the stems of many
kinds of tree-ferns they can be shipped on
very long voyages packed as dead goods in
closed wood cases, deprived of leaves and
soil, for subsequent revival in conservatories.
$2to $10 each.

CHAMAIDOREA sp. from Guate-
mata. The Chamedoreas are beautiful little
dwarf Palms, mostly natives of Mexico, and

Central America, with pinnate leaves and —

graceful stems. This species comes to us
without name, but is as beautiful as it is rare.
$2 each.

C. elegans.

The Toppy-PALM
of India ; derives its name from the wine and
sugar made from the flower-spikes. The
tree is said to be large and very beautiful.
The species of this genus are favorites in
cultivation, as this is one of the few with bi-
pinnate leaves. Specimens, $5 each.

C. sobolifera. India.

C. maxima.

COCOS nucifera. The Cocoa-NuT PALM.

Cc

. Campestris.

aagaaaa

Well known for its nuts, oil and fibre.
Intra-tropic around the globe, and extend-
ing outside of the tropics in many cases.
Found wild at Biscayne Bay and on some
of the Florida Keys. Thousands of trees
are being planted out on the Keys, and up
along Indian River, also along the west
coast. Will bear but little frost, and is only
available as an ornamental plant north of
Charlotta Harbor. Quick growing, and
elegant for the conservatory and house
decoration. From open ground, 2 years,
75 cents each. In spring, newly sprouted
nuts, 50 cents each.

This choice exotic Palm
has proved perfectly hardy in middle
Florida, and is without doubt one of the
most desirable of pinnate-leaved palms for
open-air planting in Florida. 50 cents to
$1 each.

diplothemium maritimum.

. Geertneri.

Yatai.
Bonneti.

. botryophora.

Australis.
Petrea.

PALMS AND CYCADS,: 43
CHAMAROPS hystrix. (Rhapido-
phyllum hystsiz, Wend.) “A_ stemless

species growing sparingly on moist spots in

portions of Florida and lower Georgia.

Around the bases of the petioles bristle num-

erous slender, keenly-pointed brown spines

about fifteen inches long, a wise provision of
nature to preserve from harm the flower bud,
which just before the bursting of the spathe,
resemble a large snowy white egg, nestling
among the hairy fibres, and which but for this
protection would probably be eaten by ani-
mals. The leaf, of a green above, and silvery
gray below, is deeply slit into narrow ribbons,
the points of which, spurred on one side, are
slightly bifid, and the edges of the slender
petiole are roughened with minute prickles.

It is a beautiful leaf.’’—Z. H. Hart. This is

one of the most hardy of Palms, and in

European catalogues is priced extremely

high, on account of its comparative scarcity,

50 cents to $1 each.

C. Humboldti-farinosa. We offer a number
of small plants from seeds of C. Humboldti
fertilized from C. farimosa. This hybrid
will undoubtedly prove very valuable,
especially for open-air planting in Florida,
as both the parent species flourish in North
Florida. Our plants are from Florida-
grown seed. $2.50 each.

C. Humboldti-hystrix. Is another hybrid
which we can recommend as a choice and
hardy Palm. $1 each.

C. Ritchieana, (or Griffithiana ; also known
as Nannorhops Ritchieana.) ‘*A singular
Asiatic species, still rare in cultivation,
which grows on the elevated
Afghanistan and Beloochistan, where the
winters are very severe. Reports represent
it as attaining a lofty stature, with the
unusual characteristic of a stem often divid-
ing into several branches. The bud or
cabbage and the berries are used as food,
and the timber, leaves and fibre are of great
value to the inhabitants, particularly as
other trees are scarce.’’—£. A. Hart
“Seemingly the only native Palm there ex-
tensively used for cordage; leaves also
made into baskets and mats; fruit locally
used like dates. Has proved hardy even
in England.’’—Von Mueller. $5 each.

CATOBLASTUS przemorsus.

mala.

ELASIS Guiniersis. The AFRICAN OIL
PALM.

EUTERPE edulis. The Assar PALM
‘of Brazil, extending northward to Trinidad
and Central America. ‘‘ But near are two or
three younger ones only forty or fifty feet
high, and you see their delicate feather heads,
and are told that they are ‘ Manacques,’
the slender nymphs which attend upon the
forest queen, as beautiful, though not as
grand as she.”—Kingsley. $1 each, $10 per
dozen.

GLAZIOVA insignis.

GUILELMA speciosa. (Aactris Tasi-
pes.) The PirijAo or PEACH PALM of the
Amazon. “ This most picturesque and elegant
Palm has the stem slender, cylindrical, and
thickly set with long needle-shaped spines
disposed in rings or bands. It reaches sixty

Guate-

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_LIVISTONA sp. from Cuba.

LIVISTONA.

GUILELMA— Continued.
feet in height, and grows quite erect, though
in exposed situations it becomes curved and
waving. The leaves are very numerous, ter-
minal, pinnate and drooping, forming a near-
ly spherical crown to the stem; and the leaf-
lets growing out of the mid-rib in various
directions and being themselves curled and
waved, give the whole mass of foliage a sin-
gularly plumy appearance. The fruit is the
size of an apricot, of a triangular oval shape
and fine reddish-vellow color. In most in-
stances the seed is abortive, the whole fruit
being a farinaceous mass.’’—Wéadllace, in
Palms of the Amazon.

‘Tt is one of those few vegetable produc-
tions (including three kinds of manioc and
the American species of banana) which the
Indians have cultivated from time immemo-
rial, and brought with them in their original
migration to Brazil! From whence? It has
never yet been found wild; ‘its native home
may possibly,’ Mr. Bates thinks, ‘be in some
still unexplored tract on the eastern slopes of
the Equatorial Andes.’ Possibly so; and possi-
bly again, on tracts long sunk beneath the sea.
He described the tree as ‘a noble ornament,
from fifty to sixty feet in height, and often as
straight as a scaffold pole. The taste of the
fruit may be compared to a mixture of chest-
nuts and cheese. Vultures devour it greedily,
and come in quarrelsome flocks to the trees
when it is ripe.’ * * * ‘It is only
the more advanced tribes,’ says Mr. Bates,
‘who have kept up the cultivation eS
Bunches of sterile or seedless fruits ’—a mark
of very long cultivation, as in the case of the
plantain,—‘ occur. It is one of the principal
articles of food at Ega when in season, and is
boiled and eaten with treacle or salt.’ ’’—
Kingsley. $15 each.

KENTIA Belmoriana (Honea Pelmor-
tana.) The CurRLY PALM) of Lord Howe’s
Island. Reaches a height of forty feet. -

K. Fosteriana. (Griesebachia. ) ~

K. Canterburyana. (Hedyscepe Canter-
buryana.) The UMBRELLA PALM of Lord
Howe’s Island.

A choice
Livistona which we are unable to name; has
come to us from Cuba, where it has been
probably introduced years ago, though it is
perhaps native there. 50 cents each, $5 per
dozen.

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LATANIA Borbonica,

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LATANIA BORBONICA.

(Livistona St1-
nensis.) One of the most popular and hardy
of the Fan-Palms. Should have partial shade
while young, as the hot sun yellows the foli-
age. Large plants, $2.50 to $10 each.

ORHODOXA regia. The “Glory of the

Mountains.”? The Palma real of the Spanish
West Indies. RoyAL PALM. One of the
grandest of pinnate-leaved palms.

“Close by the cotton-tree stood another
giant of the forest—rivaling the former in
height, but differing from it as an arrow from
its bow. Straight as a lance, it rose to the
height of an hundred feet. It was branchless,
as a column of polished malachite or marble
—up to its high summit, where its green,
feather-like fronds, radiating outward, droop-
ed gracefully over, like a circlet of reflexed
ostrich plumes. The noble ‘mountain cab-
bage’ of Jamaica, the kingly Oreodoxa.”’—
Mayne Reid.

The Royal Palm stands light frosts un-
harmed, but the freeze of January, ’86, was
fatal to good-sized plants in this latitude.
Native in several localities of extreme South
Florida. Three noble trees once stood on
Cape Sable, visible eighteen miles out at sea,
but were destroyed by the gale of 1872. The
Royal Palms of Cape Roman reach a height
of 150 feet. Very valuable as a decorative
palm when small. 50 cents to $10 each.

PSHUDOPHGNIX Sargentii. Flor-

ida’s newly discovered Palm. Discovered in
the summer of ’86 on Elliotts’ Key, by Prof.
Sargent, of England, and named (as it was
sufficiently distinct to constitute both a new
species and a new genus) in honor of the lat-
ter, by Prof. Wendlandt, of Germany. It is
known nowhere else in the world, and in but
two small groves on the Keys—containing in
all not over two hundred specimens. It is a
half-dwarf species, never exceeding 20 feet
in height. The palm is pinnate-leaved, and
somewhat resembles some species of Phenix.
The !eaf-stalks drop off as soon as the leaves
die, leaving a free, clean-looking trunk, the
upper part marked with alternate rings of
green and brown. Perhaps the rarest Palm
in cultivation, and destined to be so for
years—as the trees rarely perfect seeds. (See
cut, made directly from a photograph, on the
back cover of this catalogue.) $25, $50 and
$100 each.

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PHGINIX. The Date PAtms. We un-

hesitatingly recommend the genus Phenix
for the most extensive cultivation in the open
air in the lower south, and for the conserva-
tory and greenhouse north, Allare of exceeds
ingly rapid growth comparatively, are strong,
healthy and beautiful palms, bearing several
degrees of frost in most cases and standing

a great deal of neglect.

P. dactylifera. The common Date Palm
of North Africa and Southern Asia. This
species has produced fruit on Cumberland
Island and in St. Augustine for many years;
is well adapted to the soil of Florida. It
ordinarily reaches an age of ten to twenty
years before producing fruit, but we have
known rare instances of trees three and
four years old producing fruit. According
to Von Mueller, trees from 100 to 200 years
old continue to produce their annual crops
of fruit, and it is asserted that in the mo-
nastic garden of Bordighera (Italy), there
exist living specimens of the Date Palm
planted over a thousand years ago. 15 cts.
each, $12 per Ioo.

P. Canariensis. From the Canary Islands,
as the name indicates. Is a favorite species
in cultivation for scenic effect. 50 cents
each, $5 per dozen.

P. reclinata. Natal and Zululand. This
species produces an edible fruit; leaves
gracefully reclinate. Very hardy.

. Zanzibarensis.

. paludosa.

leonensis.

glaucescens.

. cycadifolia.

Sahariensis picta-nigra.

Sylvestris. India. The WILD DATE.

Natalensis.

pumila.

tenuis.

. farinifera. Another favorite in green-

house cultivation. $1 each.
rupicola. ‘‘ This is one of the most ex-

quisitely graceful amongst palms, and in
elegance takes a similar place to that of

Cocos Weddelliana. It is of acaulescent

ha‘it, with wide-spreading arching pinnate

leaves; a most valuable acquisition.”’—

Saul. 75 cents each, $7.50 per dozen.

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45

PHO NIX— Continued.

P. Zeylanica.
most cold, unharmed, of any Phenix in

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our collection. A small plant passed through |

the freeze of January, ’86, without so much
as browning a leaf, though totally unpro-
tected. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen, $40
per 100.

P. rupicola, fol. var.

PRITCHARDIA filamentosa (rahea
filamentosa, Washingionia filifera.) The
Fan-Palm of Southern California. Attains a
height of fifty feet; is very hardy and hand-
some, and succeeds well in Florida. A fav-
orite conservatory species. 35 to 75 cents
each, $3.50 to $7.50 per dozen.

SABAL Palmetto. The CABBAGE PAL-
METTO. Famous from well known historical
associations, and for the imperishibility of
its wood under water. Gulf and Atlantic
coasts of the southern states, also extending
to the Bermudas. It exceptionally, with
great age, attains a height of 80 or go feet.
Until it reaches 10 to 20 feet in height, the
bases of the leaf stalks remain upon the
trunk, forming a unique chevaux de /rise,
adding much to its picturesqueness. As the
tree advances in age its growth is slow, and
the leaf-stalks fall off, leaving a rough trunk
of 8 or Io inches in diameter. This palm,
when pot-grown, is valuable for greenhouse
culture at the north.
dozen, $12 per hundred.

S. serrulata (Serena serrulata, Hooker.)
The SAW PALMETTO. Acreeping species—
too well known in Florida, but valued for
pot-culture in the north, and in European
greenhouses. Ready in spring. 15 cents
each, $1.50 per dozen.

15 cents each, $1.50 per |

THRINAX parviflora.

SABA L—Continued.

S. Adansonii. The DwArRF PALMETTO of
Georgia and Florida. The stem is short,
very slow growing, and entirely under-
ground. Leaves of a dark, rich green,
reaching a height of four to six feet, with
smooth edged petioles, in which they dif-
fer from the Saw Palmetto. The graceful
flower-spike rises above the leaves, to a
height of six or seven feet. This Palm
resists severe cold unharmed, even as low
as 10° to 17° Fahrenheit. A favorite dwarf
Palm in greenhouse cultivation. 25 cents
each, $2.50 per dozen.

S. dealbata. A hardy and beautiful species,
succeeding well in Florida.

S. longipedunculata.

S. mocini.

S. umbraculifera.

S. glaucescens.

Ss.

? Dwarf sp.

‘Phe,. PRICKLY
THATCH. West Indies and extreme South
Florida. A most beautiful Fan-Palm with
slender, graceful stem and leaves. Attainsa
final height of 30 feet. 35 cents each, $3.50
per dozen.

T. argentea. SILVER THATCH. West Indies
and South Florida. Of greater final size
than its congener, as respects stem and
leaves. Leaves silvery white on the under
side. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

T. species.

ZAMIA integrifolia. The FLorIpA ArR-

ROW-RooT. (‘‘Coontie’’ or ‘‘ Comptie.’’) A

true Cycad, admitting of translocation and
dry shipment.
Cycas revoluta.
$10 per dozen.

Very beautiful, resembling
25 cents to $1 each, $2.50 to

46 REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA.

IX.

CACTI.

“The Cactus family contains many of the most singular and grotesque produc-
tions of the vegetable world. The flowers of many of the species are the most
gorgeous; of others, the most delicate and beautiful known to botanists. Of dis-
tinct and striking forms there 1s no end tn this strange family. The Cereus tube-
rosus has slender, graceful stems, hardly half an inch in diameter, while the Cereus
giganteus towers to the height of fifty feet, a gaunt, wierd column two feet in
diameter, rising like a giant telegraph pole out of the sands of the Mexican desert.
The pretty littte Mamillaria micromerts ts a top-shaped plant, three-quarters of an
inch in height and half an inch in diameter, covered with a delicate lace-work that
might have been woven by fairy fingers, while the Echinocactus Lecontei thrusts
its sturdy form from out the crevices of rocks, a solid globe more than three feet in
diameter, armed with stout, forbidding thorns several inches in length.

“ Nearly all the species are found in exposed situations tn a country where not
a drop of rain falls for months ata time; hence, in cultivation, they require little
care, will endure any amount of ill-treatment and will thrive and blossom where
other plants starve. The plants themselves are a bright, living green, summer and
winter, while their individuality 1s so marked, and their manner of growth so
curious and unique that no one who has ever cultivated them can fail to appreciate
and admire them.’—Mrs. ANNA B. NICKELS.

As is well known, Cactus cuttings, when properly dried off and calloused, are as
sure as rooted plants; therefore, in most cases, except with some Mamillarias, etc., our
prices are for cuttings instead of plants.

ANHALONIUM Williamsii. “ Plains of
of Texas and Mexico. This singular plant
will not be sought after by those who desire
only the beautiful in nature, but should be in
every collection of rare and unique plants.
It is not unlike a carrot in shape, two and
a-half inches in diameter at the top, six to
eight inches in length, dark glaucous green,
the top depressed and irregularly furrowed.
Flowers pale rose or flesh color.” —¥rs. Nick-
els. -$1 each.

CEREUS Baumanni. 50 cents each.

C. Bonplandi. 50 cents each.

C. Cavendishii. 75 cents each.

C. Beeckmanni. 75 cents each.

C. columbrinus flavispinus. A _ yellow-
spined variety of C. columbrinus—cylindri-
cal, tall growing; flowers creamy white ;
night-blooming. 75 cents each.

C. erectus. 75 cents each.

C. flagelliformis. Mexico. ‘‘ A species with
numerous slender cylindric trailing branch-
es, not jointed. Petals pink; free bloomer;
flowers remain open several days. A splen-
did plant for hanging baskets. Called by
the Mexicans ‘Flor de Querno.’ They
grow it in an ox-horn hung at the door.”’—
Mrs. Nickels. 50 cents each. COLLECTION OF CACTI.

CACTI: | 47

NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS.

CEREU S—Oontinued.

C. grandifiorus. The NiGuHr-BLOOMING
CEREuS. West India and Mexico. Flow-
ers often a foot in diameter, deliciously fra-
grant. 25 cents to $1 each.

C. grandiflorus McDonaldii. Producing
the largest flowers of all night-blooming
species, with one exception. 50 cents each.

C. Farnacaru.

C. Monoclonos. This is rarely met with,
even in large collections of Cacti. So far
as we know it is rare except on the islands
of Key West and Upper Matacomba, and
here the finest specimens have been de-
stroyed by unappreciative land “ clearers”’
and “improvers”’ (?). It is tall and col-
umnar, in this respect resembling some of
the south-western species, and sometimes
reaches a height of twenty feet. Flowers
white, rather small. 50 cents to $15 each.

C. Nycticalus. Night-blooming. Flowers
almost yellow, and of very large size. 25
cents each.

CEREU S— Continued.

C. rostratus. 50 cents each.

C. serpentinus. 50 cents each.

C. triangularis. The STRAWBERRY PEAR.
Mexico, West Indies. The scaly buds ot
this Cactus are used as an ingredient in
soups, as formerly they were in the cele-
brated ‘“‘pepper-pots”’ of the West Indies.
The fruit is known as ‘‘ Strawberry Pear,”
and contains a pleasant, sweet pulp, en-
closing numerous black seeds. It very
rarely produces fruit in Florida, though
flowering abundantly. The blossom is one
of the handsomest of the night-blooming
Cereus, white and straw-colored, eight
inches in diameter. First brought to Flor-
ida and New Orleans, fifty years ago, by
Dr. Perrine. A valuable species of the
genus. 25 to 75 cents each.

C.sp.I. Name undetermined. From Gaute-
mala. Stems triangular, but very small
and delicate as compared with C. triangu-
laris. 25 cents each.

48 REASONER BROS.,

CEREU S— Continued.

C. sp. II. Name _ undetermined. South
Florida Keys. CANDLE Cactus. It is
of upright or partially recumbent growth,
night-blooming ; flowers straw colored, rich
and creamy, five or six inches in diameter.
Stems frequently attain a length of fifteen
or twenty feet, one and a-half to three
inches in diameter. Fruit bright red when
ripe, spherical, two inches in diameter;
sometimes eaten. Io cents to $10 each.

C. tortuosus. 75 cents each.

C. validus.

C. variabilis. South Florida and West In-
dies. Upright or scrambling. Stems stout,
one to three inches in diameter, three to six

sided. Spines few, but very stout and long ;

flowers handsome, white, nocturnal. We
can furnish this species in quantity. 15
cents to $2 each.

C. variabilis, var. from Cuba. With
shorter and more delicate spines than the
common form. 50 cents each.

EPIPHYLLUM truncatum. CRAB’S

CLAw Cactus. One of the best of the whole
Cactus family for general cultivation. Flow-
ers brilliant scarlet; plant continuing in
bloom for a month or more. A native of
Brazil. 10 cents each.

EB. McDonaldi. 50 cents each.

ECHINOCACTUS setispinus. “Texas

and Mexico. Often called PINE-APPLE CAC-
Tus, which fruit it somewhat resembles in
size and shape. Flowers lemon yellow, pro-
duced throughout the whole summer. Fruit
a small bright red oval berry. A very free
bloomer.’’—WMrs. Nickels. 75 cents each.
E. sinuatus. Flowers two to three inches
in diameter; yellow. Mexico. 75 c. each.
E. Texensis. DEvIL’sS PIN-CUSHION. “‘ Glo-

bose. Spines very broad, stout and rigid. |

Flowers rose-colored. Fruit red, ovate,
one and a-half to two ipches long, set with
little tufts of white wool.”

HE. mamillosus.

ECHINOCEREUS cespitosus. Texas.

Flowers double, bright magenta. Very free

bloomer.

E. cinerascens. (Depfei.)

EB. EHEhrenbergi.

we BS BE. lamprochlorus.

E. Poselgerianus.

EH. procumbens.
Flowers three
inches across;
bright rosy pur-
ple.

BH. papillosus.

E. Salm-Dyckia-
nus.

BE. stramineus.
The flowers are
bright. purple,
three to four
inches in diame-
ter. Fruit an edi-
ble oval berry,
two inches in
length.

EH. Sangre de
Christo. A very
rare species. 75
cents each.

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ECHINOPSIS oxygona. “The flowers,

in good examples, are eight inches by four
inches in diameter. In color the outer part
of tube is curiously marked with green and
red, the petals being white, stained with red
on the margins.’’—A. Blanc.

BE. multiplex.

KE. Zuccariniana. Flowers large, Jessamine-

like, white, and very fragrant.

MAMILLARIA senilis. A very rare and

valuable species from Saltillo, Mexico. $1.50

each.

M. ariacantha. .

M. conopsea. (Neumanniana.)

M. centricirrha.

M. elephantidens. A very choice species.
with dark rosy carmine flowers. Mexico.

M. echinata. Flowers rosy-purple.

M. elongata.

M. Forsteri.

M. gracilis.

M. Heyderi. Mexicoand Texas. 75 c. each.

M. hystrix. Spines pure white.

M.macracantha. (Recurva.)

M. nigricans.

M. pusilla. ‘‘ Mexico and West Indies. A
rapid-growing little plant, with yellowish
white flowers produced in profusion, fol-
lowed by scarlet club-shaped berries, which
remain on the plant till the next season.’’—
Mrs. Nickels. 25 cents each.

M. pusilla Texensis.

M. Pfeifferi.

M. uberiformis.

M. sub-angularis.

M. Wildiana.

OPUNTIA. The Opuntias are the most

suitable of all the Cacti
for open-air cultivation in
Florida. Most of the
species grow vigorously
and are perfectly hardy
here, while many form
peculiarly picturesque
specimens for the lawn
or flower garden.
O. Atacamensis. South
Ameniea. t50%cts. each.
O. Boliviensis. 75 cts.
O. Comanchica. 50 cts.
O. coccinelifera. The COCHINEAL CACTUS.
O. bernardina.
O. frutescens, var. longispina. A very free-
blooming species, attaining a height of three
to five feet. Mexico. 25 cents each.

345 s

OPUNTIA.

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OPUNTIA FRUTESCENS.

OPUNTIA—Continued.

O. frutescens. 25 cents each.

O. Ficus Indica. The INDIAN-FIG CACTUS.
An exceedingly hardy and ornamental spe-
cies of Cactus. The plant reaches a height
of ten feet, and is very striking as a scenic
plant. The fruits are yellow, and are
eaten raw, or used for jellies, etc. Perfectly
hardy here. The fruit issometimes shipped
to New York from the West Indies. The

plant has but few spines. 25cts. to$1each. |

O. filipendula.

O. glomerata.

O. Kleiniz. Mexico. A very hardy sort,
with cylindrical joints, resembling some
species of Cereus. 50 cents.

O. lurida. Very rare. California.

O. leucotricha. This perfectly hardy and
quick-growing species will undoubtedly
prove a most valuable hedge plant for
Florida, attaining a height of two to four
feet in two years from the cutting. The
oval flat branches are closely covered with
long white spines, which are deflected to-
wards the base of the plant, giving it a
most unique appearance. Very ornamental,
and destined to become very useful in re-
gions afflicted by Florida ‘‘ razor-backs.”’
25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

O. Monacantha.

O. polyantha. Found in Florida on Upper
Matacombe Key only.

O. Pentlandii. A species with Cereus-like
stems; very hardy, though dwarf-growing
and delicate. 15 to 50 cents each.

OPUNTIA— Continued.

O. pulvinata microphylla. A very rare
species, beset with thousands of minute yel-
low spines. 50 cents each.

O. pee-corvi.

O. Tuna. One of the strongest growing spe-
cies. A native of Mexico, West Indies and
South Florida, also of Ecuador and New
Grenada. Employed extensively in Mexico
as a hedge-plant, and also one of the prin-
cipal cochineal plants. Non-inflammable,
as are many of the allied species.. Branches
long, flat and elliptical, with numerous
strong spines. Flowers large, yellow, often
with tinge of wine-color ; fruit purple, two
inches in length, edible ; often used in jel-
lies, preserves, etc. Plant perfectly hardy
here; said to attain with age a height of
twenty feet. We can supply cuttings by
the hundred or thousand, or plants of any
size that can be handled. to cents each;
prices for larger sizes and per hundred sent
on application.

O. rufida. So named from the many minute
red spines. A handsome species ; perfectly
hardy. Mexico. 25 cents.

| O. vestita.

| O. vulgaris. Common PRICKLY PEAR. One

of the most handsome-flowered species of

the genus. Flowers rich golden yellow,
produced in great apundance. to cts. each.

PILOCEREUS sublanatus. Very rare.
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| PERESKIA aculeata. The BARBADOES
GOOSEBERRY or BLAD-APPLE. A climbing
Cactus with true leaves and producing edible
fruit. Stems fleshy, with spines at the base
of each leaf. Very fast-growing and quite
ornamental. Much used as a stock upon
which to graft Epiphyliums and other low-
growing Cacti. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen ;
rooted plants, 50 cents each.

PHYLLOCACTUS latifrons. “A very
strong-growing species, quite the giant of its
family, producing stout, flattened stems, four
to five inches broad, deeply crenated, and
eight or ten feet high. The flowers, which
bloom at night, seem to share the dimensions
of the plants, for they measure seven to nine
inches across; the petals are of a delicate
creamy white, the sepals and tube of a red-
dish hue.”’—A. Blanc. 25 cents each.

P. sp. from Honduras. ;

RHIPSALIS mesembrianthoides. Rice
CACTUS. 25 cents each.

fe We can also furnish cuttings of many
species of Cacti with names yet undetermined,
some of them very rare.

Collection of Cacti, 10 Species, All Distinct, Our Selection, for $1.

50 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA:

X.

FERNS.

(FILIGES.)

‘¢Ferns naturally grow in shaded and moist woods; few grow in marshes, and few are
found in dry soils exposed to the sun. As a rule all like to grow between stones. The
transplanting of these plants should be done in the spring before they start to grow. The
soil should consist of equal parts of loam, leaf-mold and peat, with a liberal addition of
sand. The ground should be well drained and set with stones, as recommended for alpine
plants.’’—W. A. MANDA, in American Garden.

ACROSTICHUM aureum. The Swamp
FERN. ‘“Astately and showy fern, with large

thick fronds.’’—Wanda. :
This fern is a native of mangrove swamp

CYATHEA nigra.

CHIELANTHHES microphylla. A most

graceful species fom the shell-mounds of South
Florida. 50 cents each.

Beautiful Central

and salt marshes of the West Indies, Central
America and South Florida, and in its native
swamps forms “‘thickets’’ 6 or 7 feet in height.
Very handsome as a single specimen. 25
cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

ADIANTUM cuneatum. The ‘‘ Maiden

Hair’’ ferns are always in favor with lovers
of the beautiful, and at present are made ad-
ditionally popular by being in favor with
‘“‘fashion.’’ A. cuneatum is a choice West
Indian species, and one of the most beautiful

of all. 50 cents each.
A. Farleyense. Fronds large.
A. fulvum.

ASPIDIUM trifolium. A stately West

Indian Fern, well adapted for centers of fern

eries, etc. 50 cents each.

A. unitum-glabrum. A rare native
fern, with fronds resembling those of
Woodwardia Virginica. Three or
more feet in height. 25 cents each.

A. sp. from Honduras.

ASPLENIUM ebeneum. This
delicate little Fern should be in every
collection, as but few species surpass
it in beauty. 25 cents each.
A.lanceum. Exotic. 25 cents each. ¢
A. filix-foomina. The graceful “‘ Lady- *

fern.’ Two varieties. 15 cts. each.

ALSOPHILA aspera. (?) Splendid
Tree-Fern from Gautemala. We can ¢
supply plants of various sizes. $2 to Ph
$25 each.

BLECHNUM serrulatum. An
erect tropical fern—native from Trini-
dad to South Florida. 15 cents each,
$1.50 per dozen.

B. Occidentaie. A very handsome
species. The new leaves of the
Blechnums are of a rich wine-color,
turning green withage. 25 cts. each.

B. Brasiliense. BRAZILIAN TREE-
FERN.

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American Tree-Fern. $3 each.

DICTYOGRAMME Japonica.
HYMENOPHYLLUM sp. from Gaut-

emala. A rare little Fern with translucent
fronds. 50 cents each.

NEPHROLEPIS exaltata. The beautiful
SWORD FERN of choice conservatories, where
it is often grown in wire baskets of damp
moss and soil. The fronds attain a length of
6 or 7 feet in old and well-grown specimens.
As this fern is native in parts of South Flor-
ida, we are enabled to offer large, fine plants
in guaniily, cheaper than they can elsewhere
be purchased in the United States. 15 cents
each, $1.25 per dozen, $10 per hundred.

NEPHROLEPIS DUFFII. (See next page.)

FERNS:

51

NEPHROLEPIS— Continued.
N. Duffii. Our exotic species, with smaller
fronds. 25 cents each.
N. cordifolia. Another choice Fern, resem-
bling WV. exaltata. 25 cents each.

OPHIOGLOSSUM palmatum. An ex-
ceedingly rare tropical Fern with palmate
fronds.

OSMUNDA cinnamomea. The CIN-
NAMON FERN. This and the following species
are hardy throughout the north. 25 cts. each.
O. regalis. The RoyAL FERN. And royal

it is, among Ferns: the bipinnate fronds
stand from two to four feet in height. The
very best of the large hardy Ferns. 25 cents
each.

POLYPODIUM incanum. A half hardy
species, climbing on the bark of oaks, hick-
ories, etc., fronds curling up in a dry time
like the ‘‘ Resurrection plant’’ of Mexico,
to open again after a rain. 10 cents each.

P. aureum. A tropical species found grow-
ing in South Florida in the rotten fibre of
palmetto trees, on rotten logs, etc. It is
best grown artificially, in pots of sphagnum
mixed with a little soil and rotten wood.
“* Polypodium aureum isa noble plant, with
large glaucous fronds.’’—Manda. 25 cents
each, $2.50 per dozen.

P. Phylitidis. The HartT’s-TONGUE FERN of
tropical America. It has straight, undivided,
lanceolate fronds of the richest, darkest
green, and is very striking and unique ina
collection of Ferns, differing so much in
form. It prefers a moist spot on limestone
rocks or rotten logs. 50 cents each.

P. sp. from Honduras. Climbing.

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POLY PODIUM— Continued.

P. pectinatum. One of the most beautiful
Ferns of South Florida. Found sparingly,
in moist woods, usually on limestone rocks,
but will grow in any situation where most
Ferns flourish. Fronds much resemble those
of Nephrolepis exaltata, but are broader and
of darker green. 25 cents each, $2.50 per
dozen.

P. vaccinifolium. A rareclimbing Fern from
Guatemala, with very small fronds. 50
cents each.

P. lycopodioides. Another choice climbing
species from Central America. 50 cents.

PTERIS aquilina. 15 cents each.
P. Cretica albo-lineata. Fronds beauti-
fully striped with white. 50 cents each.
P. Argyrea. White striped fronds.
P. serrulata.

PLATYCERIUM alcicorne. $1 each.
PLATYTONIS rotundifolia.

each.

VITTARIA lineata. A most curious
grass-like Fern, with long linear pendulous
fronds. It is found growing on the palmetto
trees in South Florida, though quite scarce.
50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

WOODWARDIA Virginica. This and
the following species are both handsome
hardy Ferns. 25 cents each.

W. angustifolia. 15 cents each, $1.50 per
dozen.
JES We have also in stock many species of
rare and beautiful tropical ferns, with names as
yet undetermined.

75 cents

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Xl.

ORCHIDS.

‘« Even to look up at them perched on bough and stem, as one rides by, and to guess
what exquisite and fantastic form may issue, in a few months or weeks, out of those fleshy,
often unsightly leaves, is a strange pleasure—a spur to the fancy which is surely whole-
some, tf we will but believe that all these things were invented by A Fancy, which desires
to call out in us, by contemplating them, such small fancy as we possess ; and to make us
poets, each according to his power, by showing a world in which, if rightly looked at, all

is poetry.’ KINGSLEY. *

AEBRIDES odorata.

East Indies.
BRASSIA caudata. $2 to $5
each.

BRASSAVOLA cordata. West Indies.
$2 to $5 each.

BROUGHTONIA sanguinea. Jamaica.
$5 each.

BLETIA. Shepherdii. West Indies. The
Bletias are terrestrial Orchids, with beautiful
flowers, which remain in bloom a long time.
$1.50 each. bas
B. Tankerville. (Phajus grandifolius.) Ja-

maica. The beautiful VEILED-NUN FLOw-
ER. $1 each.

CATTLEYA superba.
C. Eldorado.

CATASETUM tridentatum.
C. gnomus.

CYRTOPODIUM punctatum. West
Indies, and very rarely extreme South Flor-
ida. Flowers yellow and chocolate, in large
spikes. $2.50 each.

DENDROPHYLAX Lindenii. The
humble satellite of the Ovrveodoxa regia.
This strange and beautiful little Orchid is
the campanion of the Royal Palms of Tropical
America and South Florida. We do not find
it offered for sale in any Orchid catalogue at
hand. The plant is leafless, a starfish-like
radiation of fleshy roots from a central point,
from which issues the flower spike, bearing
one or two beautiful and fantastically shaped
white flowers, one to two inches in diameter.
$1.50 to $5 each.

EPIDENDRUM bidentatum (?) A beau-
tiful Orchid with flattened pseudo-bulbs and
neat glossy leaves, recently discovered on
Key Largo, by Prof. Curtiss, and thought by
Prof. Sereno Watson to be £&. bidentatum. $1
to $5 each, $10 to $15 per dozen.

E. conopseum. Very hardy, but not a
showy Orchid; of the Southern States. 50
cents each.

Jamaica.

EPIDENDRU M— Continued.

HK. cochleatum. West Indies, and rarely
in South Florida. Flowers beautiful pur-
ple. $1 to $2 each.

EB. fragrans. + West Indies.
species. $2 each.

E. nocturnum. (QOdoratissimum.) Central
America, and rarely in the Palm Hammock
of Florida. Stem one foot to eighteen
inches in height. Flowers white, not very
showy, but most exquisitely fragrant az
night. $2.50 each.

EK. polybulbon. Jamaica. $2to $5 each.

EH. rigidum. South Florida (Palm Ham-
mock). Leaves beautiful glossy green.
Flowers small, not showy. 50 to $1 each,
$5 to $10 per dozen.

E. venosum. South Florida. For those
who wish a beautiful and cheap Orchid,
that will stand a low temperature and much
neglect, this species can be highly recom-
mended. In the first place, it is very rare
in cultivation, the Orchid collectors of
America often preferring to send to Aus-
tralia and the ‘‘Isles of the Sea” for Or-
chids much less beautiful than to look at
their own door fora little gem. We have
never seen it so much as mentioned by any
other American Orchid catalogue or Or-
chid culturist, except by Mr. Manda of the
Botanic Garden at Cambridge, who appre-
ciates the beautiful, even though not from
the antipodes. The Orchid is of neat habit,
producing in summer, showy spikes of
flowers three-quarters to one inch in diam-
eter, of beautiful shades of pink and green-
ish chocolate color, changing with age to
rich yellow and chocolate. Io cents to $1
each, $1 to $10 per dozen. The cheapest
Orchid in the market, and immensely su-
perior in beauty to many a $5 species.

GYMNADENIA nivea. (Orchis, Habe-

maria.) A native terrestrial species with
beautiful spikes of white flowers. (Collected
in May.) 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

IONOPSIS utricularioides. Jamaica. $5
each.

A beautiful

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CATTLEYA.

ONCIDIUM luridum. West Indies and
Central America. Leaves very large, often
two feet long. The spikes of showy yellow
and chocolate flowers are from one to two
yards in length. $2 to $4 each.

O. triquetrum. Beautiful little species from

Jamaica. $2.50 each.
PLATANTHERA ceiliaris. (Hadenaria
ciliaris.) One of our most beautiful hardy

terrestrial Orchids. Flowers bright orange
yellow, in large spikes. 25 cents each, $2.50
per dozen.

POLYSTACHIA luteola. South Flor-

ida. Flowers yellow. 75 cents and $1 each.

PLEUROTHALLIS sp. Guatemala. $5

each.

RODRIGUEZIA secunda.
SCHOMBURGHIS Lyonsii. Jamaica. $5.
STANHOPEA eburnea.

VANILLA aromatica.’ ‘‘ And what is

this delicious scent about the air? Vanilla?
Of course it is; and up that stem zigzags the
green fleshy chain of the Vanilla Orchis.
The scented pod is far above, out of your
reach, but not out of the reach of the next
parrot, or monkey, or negro hunter who
winds the treasure.’’-Kings/ey. 75 cents to
$5 each.
V. planifolia. $2 each.

Je Our collection also contains many spe-
cies of rare Orchids, which have not yet
flowered, and with names yet undetermined.

54 : REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA:

Xl.

TILLANDSIAS »° BROMELIADS.

“ These, as with all great trees in the tropical forests, were loaded with parasites—
vriestas, long ragged-looking cact , bromelias, epiphytal orchids, and the like. Tilland-
sias, too, of the kind known as ‘wild pines’ sat snugly in the forks, or on the upper sur-
faces of the great limbs, flourishing as luxuriantly as if their roots rested in the richest

soul.’—MAYNE REID.

ANANASSA sativa. (See Tropical

Fruit Plants.)

BILLBERGIA splendens. ¢1 each.
TILLANDSIA Bartramii. A small neat

species, with brilliant red bracts and purple

flowers. 25 cents each.

T. bracteata. One of the largest WILD
PINES or AIR PLANTS. Full-grown plants
are one to two feet in diameter and height,
spikes often eighteen inches or more in
length ; the large brilliant crimson bracts
and flower stalk, and purple blossoms, are
very showy, and remain beautiful for weeks.
A most valuable plant for conservatory or
bay window, enduring a low temperature,
(though but little frost,) requiring no care
except an occasional spraying. Attach to
wood, or hang in a small wire basket. Very
small, 5 cents each, 50 cents per dozen;
large, 25 cents each.

T. bulbosa. Not native above the Caloosa-
hatchie river. Very odd and pretty. Leaves
six to ten inches in length, often faintly
striped cross-wise like the rare Zebrina ;
base of the plant bulb-like. 25 cents each.

T. ceespitosa. A species with long grass-
like leaves, varying in color from grey to
red ; usually found in swamps and moist
places, most frequently on the “Pop-Ash’’
or Swamp Ash. to cents each.

T. Cubana (?). A grand species from Cuba,
with leaves like an immense Billbergia,
the plant two or more feet in height, and
often with a spread of three feet. Will flour-
ish in air or soil. $1 to $3 each.

T. juncea. ‘‘A stout and very neat species,
with polished stems a foot or two high, of a
brilliant red color.’’—A. H. Curtiss. 50 cts.
each.

TILLANDSIA — Continued.

T. recurvata. A small species, differing
but little, except in size, from seedlings of
T. usneoides. 15 cents each.

T. usneoides. The LONG Moss, BLACK
Moss or SPANISH Moss of the South. Very
effective in decorations. Now used to a
great extent in the North. $1.50 per bushel
crate, price of crate inclusive.

T. Utriculata. The largest native species.
Leaves an inch or two in width, and two
feet or more in length in full-grown plants.
Stems very tall, three to five feet, branched
and many-flowered, but not so showy as 7.
bracteata. 25 and 50 cents each.

T. Zahnii. (Zebrina.) A smallexotic species,
very rare. Leaves striped cross-wise with
distinct bars of purple and gray. $1 each.

T. sp. from Guatamala. Leaves green,
serrated. $1 each.

iN es .
TILLANDSIA BRACTEATA.

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT: 55

XIII.

MiIscELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT.

EMBRACING TENDER s® HARD TREES, SHRUBS, CLIMBERS AND HERBACEOUS
PLANTS, ORNAMENTAL, ECONOMICAL AND USEFUL, OF ALL DESCRIP-
TIONS—OLD AND FAMILIAR, NEW AND RARE LANTS.

‘‘ There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue for you, and here’s some
for me: we may call it herb-grace o? Sundays: O, you must-wear your rue with a
difference. There’s a daisy: I would give you some violets, but they withered all.’’—
OPHELIA, 7” Hamlet.

ABRUS precatorius. CRAB’s-EVYE VINE.
“The delicate Crab’s-Eye Vine, with beautiful
light green pinnate leaves, and bunches of

ABROMA augusta. India. socts.eac . |
ABUTILON. These choice greenhouse | pods, which, opening, displayed the loveliest
|

A. fastuosa. India. 50 cents each.

plants succeed well in Florida, either in pots little scarlet beans, with jet black eyes, you
or in the ground. 25 cents each. ever saw. These beans are shaped just like
A. Boule de Niege Pape stent free the eyes that most of the sea-crabs have, on

bleomee : 2 | long stalks, and when I saw them the name

ces : : ings
Darwini Deeporange, veined withpurple; | 22's ago, lien I was litfle boy, put among
a good bloomer. y 80, t y, Pp g

: me = small sea-shells to heighten their color.’’—
fies aaa Powell... Bright deep golden | C. 7. Sempsen. So cents each, $5 per dozen.

Sensation. Flowers very large ; color, deep | ACACIA. “And will they all grow in
orange red, veined with crimson. |. Florida? Indeed will they ; and with greater

Pink Perfection. Of dwarf and compact | jyxuriance and rapidity, perhaps, than else-
habit of growth ; flowers light rosy pink. | where under the sun; for the conditions of
Robert George. A free and continuous sandy soil, showery climate, and bright sun-
bloomer; flowers large; color, orange, shine are precisely those in which Acacias
veined with crimson. ' . | revel. No difficulty either in suiting the
say eda Flowers bright rose-color; dis- | various whims or tastes of everybody, since
. : . ' the varieties areas diverse in sizeand appear-

The Gem. Flowers deep red, slightly tinted = ance as are seen in the canines and Spiiaicie
with yellow, veined with deep crimson. of the animal kingdom. Someare lowshrubs,

others immense trees hundreds of feet high,

often furnishing the most durable timber and

precious gums, like the gum arabic of com-
merce, useful alike in medicine and the arts;
and all are beautiful in leaf and flower.’’—

Ee. Ft, Fare.

A. acicularis.

A. acuminata. ‘‘A kind of Mya from
Western Australia, attaining a height of
forty feet. The scent of the wood compara-
ble to that of raspberries. It is the best of
the West Australian woods for charcoal.
The stems much sought for fence-posts ;
very lasting, even when young.’’—Von
Mueller.

. acutissima.

affinis.

alba.

albicans.

. angustifolia.

. anceps.

. Arabica. (See Economical Plants.)

.armata. The KANGAROO THORN. Much

ABUTILON. grown for hedges in Australia.

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ACACIA—Continued.

. Bartheriana.

. brachybotrya.

. calamifolia.

. Californica sempervirens.

. Catechu. (See Economical Plants.)

. Cavenia. The ESPINo or CAVAN of Chili.
A small, hard-wooded tree, resisting under-
ground moisture. Well adapted for hedges
and valuable as a dye-plant.

. celastrifolia.

. coccinea.

cornigera.

. cultriformis.

. cyanophylla.

. cyanophylla magnifica.

. Cyclopsis.

. dealbata. The SILVER WATTLE of Aus-
tralia. ‘Plants of Acacia dealbuta thrive
admirably in our section. I set out a plant
a few inches high, which in five years grew
30 feet, with a diameter of almost a foot.’’—
£. H. Hart. This tree reaches a height of
150 feet in Australia, and yields a valuable
and tough wood.

A. dealbata hybrida.

A. decurrens. The BLACK WATTLE. Aus-
tralia. ‘‘In California Acacia decurrens
has grown over fifty feet in eight years, and
is useful as a wind-break, besides being very
rich in faznin, and furnishing a gum, which
exudes copiously wherever a branch is cut,
equal to gum arabic.’’—F. H. Hart. Wood
also valuable for fuel and for coopers’ and
turners’ work. Is hardy in the south of Eng-
land.

. decussata.

dictyocarpa.

discolor.

. diversifolia.

dodoneifolia.

dumosa.

. elata.

. elliptica.

. falcata.

. farinosa.

. Farnesiana. ‘‘ From the golden balls of

which is distilled a delightful perfume.”’—

EE. H. Hart. (See Economical Plants.) 25

cents each.

. floribunda.

. genistefolia.

glandulosa.

glauca.

glaucescens.

glomerata.

. glutinosa.

grandifiora. An elegant species with

very large compound bipinnate leaves.

graveolens.

heteroclada.

. heteroyhylla.

. homalophylla.

Hudsonii.

Hugeli.

. iteaphylla.

. ixiophylla.

A. Julibrissin flore roseo (Albizzia /Jul-
brissin.) ‘From the Caucasus to Japan.
A favorite ornamental shade Acacia of
Southern Europe.”’

A. juliflora.

A. juniperina.

A. latifolia.

A. Leichhardati.

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ACACIA— Continued.

A. Lebbek. (Albizzia Lebbek.) ‘‘ The Siris-
Acacia of Southern and Middle Asia and
Northern Africa.’? Valuable as a shade
tree. Called ‘‘Woman’s Tongue”’ in Jam-
aica.

A. leiophylla. ‘‘Southern Australia, where
it is the principal tree chosen for tanners’
bark. It is a wide-spreading small tree, fit
for avenues. The bark contains nearly
thirty per cent. of mimosa-tannin, and is ex-
tensively used by tanners in West Austra-
lia.”’— Von Mueller.

. leptophylla.

. leucocephala.

. linearifolia.

. linifolia.

YY glauca.

longiflora.

. longifolia. South-eastern Australia. Of
very quick growth, and said to be valued
for planting on coast sands.

A. longifolia intermedia.

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A. longissima elegans.

A. oe glauca pendula.

A. lophantha (Albizzia lophantha.) South-
west Australia. ‘‘One of the most rapidly

growing plants for copses and first tempo-
rary shelter in exposed localities. For the
most desolate places, especially in desert
tracts, it is of great importance, quickly
affording shade, shelter and a copious veg-
etation. Cattle browse on the leaves.’’—
Von Mueller.
‘‘This is a very handsome plant, with
fern-like foliage. It if always attractive for
window decoration. Pot into soil composed
of three parts sandy loam and one part
leaf mould. Cut back once or twice during
summer to make them branch. By autumn
they will be beautiful little plants for deco-
rative purposes.’’—Ladies’ Home Compan-
1On.
A. lophantha Borboniensis.
brachycephala.
us gigantea.
aE magnifica.
ge Neumanni. Flowers pale to
deep) ned:
a speciosa.
Ug oo nana compacta.
fe superba.

. lunata.

. Mmacrademia.

. macrophylla.

Meissneri.

. melanoxylon. ‘‘South-eastern Austra-
lia. Generally known as BLACK-WooD
TREE. In irrigated glens of deep soil the
tree will attain a height of eighty feet, with
the stem several feet in diameter. The
wood is most valuable for furniture, rail-
road cars and carriages, boat building (stem
and stern post, ribs, rudders,) for tool hand-
les, crutches, some portions of the work of
organ builders, casks, billiard tables, piano-
fortes, (for sound-boards and actions,) and
numerous other purposes. The fine-grain-
ed wood is cut into veneers; it takes a fine
polish, and is considered almost equal to
walnut. The tree has proved hardy in the
Isle of Arran.’’—Von Mueller.

A. Mexicana.

A. Mirbelli.

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ACACIA— Continued.

. Molissima.
. mucronata.
. multijuga.
. myriobotrya.
. nematophyla.
- “s hybrida.
A.Nemu. The JAPAN SILK TREE.
in middle Europe.
nigra. From Tasmania.
. obscura.
obtusata.
oleifolia.
ovalifolia.
“< glauca.
ovoidea.
Oxycedrus.
. Pandorea (?)
penninervis.
Wales and Queensland.

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ACACIA— Continued.

Hardy |

A small tree, so |

hardy as to occupy sub-alpine localities.” —

Von Mueller.

A. peregrina.

A. petiolaris.

A. pinifolia.

A. precox.

A. procera. (A/lbizzia procera.)

A. procumbens.

A. prosopoides.

A. pruinosa. (Pithecolobium pruinosum.)

A. pterophylla.

A. pubescens.

A. pugioniformis.

A. pycnantha.

A. reclinata.

A. retinodes.
small tree yielding a good tanners’ bark
and much gum.

India.

and very fragrant.”—£. H. Hart.

. retinodes glaucescens.
s latifolia.

ef latisiliqua.

se precox.

ruscifolia.
rubicunda.
rupicola.
rupestris.
. Salicifolia.
. Salicina.
. Saligna.
Senegalensis.
West Africa.
A. sentis. Interior of Australia.
this species are eaten by the natives.
A. setosa.
A, Sophora
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Species from Anam.

? Species from Australia.
? Narrow-leaved species.
? Species from Yarrow.

? Species from Mulga. .
speciosa.

spectabilis excelsa.

spinosa.

suaveolens.

sylvestris.

. tenuifolia.

tenuissima.

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elliptica.

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South-eastern Australia. A |

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may mention A. vetinodes, always in bloom |

ACER dasycarpum.

ACHANIA malvaviscus.

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except where noted. Our selection, Io
sorts, all distinct, $2.50; 20 sorts, all dis-
tinct, $5.50.

ACHIMENHES. These are among the

handsomest of summer-blooming or gesneri-
aceous plants. They are constantly in bloom
for many weeks inthe summer. The tubers
can be potted to advantage in a mixture of
powdered sphagnum and rich soil—and when
in bloom an occasional watering with weak
liquid manure will be of benefit.

A. Royal purple. 25 cents each.

SILVER-LEAF or

SorT MAPLE. 50 cents each.

A. rubrum. RED or SWAMP MAPLE. A
good shade-tree. Grows well on high or low
land. Nursery grown trees, 25 and 50 cents
each.

ACHYRANTHES. Handsome colored-

leaved plants, much used for bedding with
Coleus, or as pot plants.

A. Caseii. Golden yellow, veined with green.
A. Emersonii. Leaves bright red, lance-

shaped.
A. Lindenii. Foliage deep blood red.
A. Woolseyii. Rich dark wine-color.
Price of Achyranthes, 10 cents each.

This fine old
plant succeeds admirably in Florida. Grows
best ina partially-shaded situation, but will
stand the sun well. Abutilon-like, with bril-
liant scarlet flowers. Two varieties; 15 cents
each, $1.50 per dozen.

ACER RUBRUM.

58 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA:

ACALYPHA tricolor. With our ordi-
nary seasons these
magnificent plants
will attain a height
of five or six feet
here; usually sprout
up well after tops
are killed down by “S$
frost. Theleaves of yg
these species are *
green, yellow, red
and white. 25 cents
each.
A.marginata.
Leaves beautifully
margined, often
with several
shades. 25 cents
each. ACALYPHA.

A. Macafeeana (?) Leaves turning a rich
dark crimson in cool weather. Always a
handsome plant. 15 cents each.

ADENANTHERA pavonina. The Cir-
CASSIAN BEAN. A _ handsome ornamental
plant. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

AGATI grandiflora. (Sesbania.) Flowers

red and white. 50 cents each.

AGAPANTHUS umbellatus. ArrIi-
CAN BLUE LILY.

AGERATUM Mexicanum. Ageratums
can be bedded out here in almost any situa-
tion. They are quite hardy, and sprout readily
from the roots when frosted back.

Blue Tom Thumb. Dwarf growing and of
compact habit. Good bloomer; flowers
blue.

Cope’s Gem. One of the handsomest sorts.

White Cap. Flowers white. Height, one
foot.

Price of Ageratums, 1o cents each, $1 per
dozen.

AGAVE. The Agaves are among the
most valuable and striking plants that can be
used in tropical and semi-tropical gardening.
Many of them are useful as hedge plants, and
the genus contains several of the most valua-
ble fibre-plants in existence.

A. Americana. The CENTURY PLANT. This
species and its varieties are perfectly hardy
in Florida. Known also as the American
Aloe; in Central America as Carata and
Pita, in India as Cutthaler nar or Bans-
keora. Besides being asplendid decorative

plant, is very valua-
ble for its fibre.
Grows here in the
open ground to an
immense size. In
Mexico the pulque
beverage is prepar-
ed from the young
flower-stalks of this
speciesand A. Mex-
tcana. 50C. each.

A. Americana
medio-picta. This
variety has a broad
white stripe in the
center of each leaf.

A. Americana stri-
ata. Leaves beau-
tifully striped white

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A. Americana Milleri-picta. One of the
handsomest varieties. Center of leaves
green, with broad white stripes on the
margin. The exact reverse of A. medio-
picta. 50 cents each.

. angustifolia.

. applanata.

. Caribbeea.

. Ceislana.

. coccinea.

. conduplicata.

. Corderoyi.

. Cubensis(?) This magnificent species

has very broad leaves and is very hand-

some. Used asa hedge plant near Havana.

50 cents each.

A. densiflora.

A. filifera.

A. grandidentata.

A. horrida.

A. Ixtli. Nearly related to A. rigida Sisa-
Zana, which was introduced to Florida by
Dr. Perrine. One of the Sisal Hemp plants,
know as PirA in Yucatan. Fibre superior.
A sub-variety of A. rigida.

A. Lechuquilla.

A. lophantha.

A. maculosa.

A. Manila. $1 each.

A. Mexicana. The PULQUE PLANT. (See
Economical Plants.)

A. Miradorensis. 50 cents.

A. Ortgiesi.

A. Regeli.

A. recurvata. A very handsome species,
hardy in South Florida. This species flow-
ers in Florida when about ten years old,
and when the plant has attained a height of
six or eight feet. The flower-spike rises to
a height of thirty or forty feet. Leaves
very broad, gracefully recurved. A quick-
growing species. 25 cents, 50 cents and $1
each, $2.50, $5 and $10 per dozen.

A.rigida. The only indigenous Agave of
South Florida. A handsome plant, forming
at length a short stem or trunk, after the
manner of Yucca alotfolia. 10 cents to $1
each, $1 to $10 per dozen.

A. rigida Sisalana. TheSi1sAL HEmp. (See
Economical Plants.)

A. Salmiana latifolia.

A. Shawii.

A. striata.

A. stricta.

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MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, 59

AGAVE— Continued.

A. univitata recurvispina.

A. Salm-dyckii(?). We obtained this hand- |
some species in Cuba lastsummer. Leaves |
narrower, and quitedistinct from A. Amert-
cana, which it resembles in form and color
of leaves. $1 each.

A. Verschaffelti.

A. Verschaffelti rarispina. $1 each.

A. Xylacantha.
Price of Agaves, except where noted, 75

cents each.

AKEBIA quinata. Handsome hardy |
Japanese climber, with reddish-brown flow-
ers. Said to ripen its fruit occasionally here ;
fruit said to be edible.

ALBIZZIA bigemina. (/yga or Pithe- |
colobium bigeminum.) India, up to Sikkim
and Nepal. Wood peculiarly dark and hard.
A. dulcis (Jnga dulcis, Pithecolobium dulce).
““Mexico. A valuable hedge plant. The
sweet pulp of the pod is regarded as whole-
some.’’—Von Mueller. $1 each.

A. Julibrissin. (See Acacia Julibrissin.) |

A. Lebbek. (See Acacia Lebbek.)

A. lophantha. (See Acacia lophantha.)

A. lucida. Anexceedingly handsome Indian |
species. Young growth of a rich wine- |
color. 75 cents each.

A. procera. Another quick-growing and
beautiful species. India. 75 cents each.

A. stipulata. South Asia to the Himalayas
and China. A _ rapid growing shade-tree.
Some young trees eighteen months old have
already attained a height of six to eight
feet for us. 25 cents and $1 each, $2.50 and |
$10 per dozen.

A. species from Cuba. A most beautiful |
ornamental tree, with very delicate foliage |
and fringed white flowers twoinches across. |
75 cents each.

A. Saman. (Pithecolobium Saman.) The
famous RAIN-TREE or GUANGO, indigenous |
from Mexico to Brazil and Peru. ‘It at-
tains a height of seventy feet, with a trunk
six feet in diameter, the colossal branches
expanding to 150 feet ; itis of quick growth,
and in outline not unlike an oak; it forms
a magnificent feature in a landscape. In
India it attained in ten years a stem- girth of
about six feet at five feet from the ground,
its ramifications by that time spreading out |
to ninety feet. It thrives in the dry salt |
pond districts of the West Indies, and likes |
the vicinity of the sea. Not ascending to |
above 1,000 feet altitude in Jamaica, re- |
sisting drouth. Rain and dew fall through
its foliage, which is shut up at night, thus
allowing grass to grow underneath. One
of the best trees in mild climates for shade
by the roadside. The wood is hard and
ornamental, but the principal utility of the
tree lies in its pulpy pods, which are pro- |
duced in great abundance, and constitute |
a very fattening fodder for all kinds of pas-
toral animals, which eat them with relish.”
—Von Mueller. $1 each, $10 per dozen.

ALLAMANDA cathartica. A magnifi- |
cent climber; can be grown in bush form if
desired. Covered almost all year with clus-
ters of great velvety yellow flowers, three |
inches in diameter. 35 cts. each, $3.50 per doz.
A. Hendersonii.

ALPINIA nutans.

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ALOCASIA ILLUSTRiS.

ALOCASIA. Splendid ornamental-leaved

aroid plants, closely related to colocasia and
caladium ; of easy culture and management,
growing in any soil, but preferring a low,
moist situation. Splendid tropical effects can
be obtained by groups of the different varie-
ties of bananas, cannas, Alocasias, caladiums
and ‘dracenas. The Alocasias, especially
metallica and arborea, are very effective as
single specimens on the lawn. Like those of
the caladium, the varieties and species are
much confused with regard to names, even
among the most reliable and largest growers.

A. gigantea. Foliage green; forms a large
plant, sometimes attaining a height of six
or seven feet. 25 and 50 cents and $1 each.

Alberto Chappi. Resembling metallica, a
shade lighter ; probably a hybrid between
A. metallica and A. arborea. Stem purple
spotted. $2 each.

A. Illustris. Leaves heavily blotched with
black purple. One of the most striking
and beautiful of all. Attains a height of
three or four feet. Will grow in the water,
or in a very wet place. 50 cts. cach, $5 per
dozen.

A. violacea. Large, thick, shell-like leaves
of a bronzy copper color ; very striking and

distinct. $1.50 each.
Veitchii. Leaves broadly splashed with
white. Very choice. $2 each.

One of the grandest
tropical scitaminaceous plants when fully
developed that we have ever seen. Ina low
marshy corner of the Jardin d’ Aclimatacion,
Havana, may be seen a great mass of it, ten
or twelve feet in height, with large, deep
green leaves, and terminal racemes two feet
long of brilliant yellow, orange and white
flowers. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

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REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA:

ALOYSIA citriodora. The LEMon VER-

BENA. Succeeds wellin Florida. Grown for
the exquisite fragrance of its foliage. 15 cents
each.

ALOE. This genus of highly beautiful

plants should be more grown. They furnish
the ‘bitter aloes’? of medicine. The juice
of the leaves (of any species) is valuable for
dressing wounds, cuts or bruises, and all are
handsome and odd in leaf and flower. All
require perfect drainage, but are not partic-
ular as to soil.

A. arborescens. A beautiful variety, much
resembling A. fruticosa.

A. angustifolia. A choice species with
leaves in two ranks, opposite.

A. attenuata. Rare.

A. elegans.

A. erecta. A beautiful miniature species;
leaves curiously spotted.

A. fruticosa. One of the choicest and most
ornamental of all. The thick, fleshy leaves
are recurved and serrate; flower-spike two
or three feet high, bearing a terminal
racemes of orange red flowers resembling
those of the 7r’foma or ‘‘ Red Hot Poker
Plant.’? 25 cents to $1 each.

A. granata.

A. grandidentata. The PARTRIDGE-BREAST
ALOE. Leaves broad and very handsome.

A. incurva.

A. lingua. Another species with curious
two-ranked leaves.

A. paniculata.

A. prolifera. A handsome miniature species.

A. Saponaria. ;

A. suberecta.

A. verrucosa var. Leaves two-ranked,
handsomely spotted with white.

A. vulgaris. (See Economical Plants.)

Price of Aloes, except where noted, 75 cts.
each.

ANTHOLYZA. Cape bulbs of easy cul-

ture; flowers resembling the gladiolus. 25
cents each.

AMARYLLIS JOHNSONII.

ANTHERICUM VITATUM VARIEGATUM.

ANTHERICUM vitatum variegatum.
A good basket or pot-plant with handsome
recurved leaves, which are dark green, mark:
ed with broad stripes of white. Flowers small,
in long racemes. A good ornamental-leaved
plant and will stand much neglect. 25 cents
each.

ANTHURIUM. Magnificent tropical
aroid plants, many of them epiphytal, but
will succeed well potted in powdered sphag-
num and soil, or grown’in wire baskets of
sphagnum.

A. tetragonum. Leaves very large, often
two or three feet in length, with square
petioles. Central America and West Indies.
¢1 and $3 each.

IX ? sp. from Guatemala. $1.50each.

? sp. from Honduras. $1.50 each.

JE We have many other species of An-
thuriums in our collection, whose names are
yet undetermined.

ANISOCHILUS disticha. India. 25

cents each.

AMARYLLIS. Among the
handsomest and most satisfactory
of summer-flowering bulbs for the
open ground in the lower south.

A. Atamasco. (Zephyranthes At-
amasco, Amaryllis Treatea.)
The ATAMASCO or FAIRY LILY.

lowers small, pink and white,
changeable. 1oc.each, $1 per doz.

A. Atamasco rosea. Flowers
large, bright pink. 15 cents each.

A. Belladonna.

A. Belladonna major.

A. fulgida. Large flower; scarlet,
tube striped ; two flowers to the
stem. $1 each.

A. Johnsonii. Crimson, striped
with white; flower very large.
Profuse bloomer. $1 each.

A. longifolia rosea.

A. ? Flowers crimson, sin-
gle. 25 cents each, $2.50 per doz.

o A. ? Flowers very large,

double crimson. 75 cents each.

ANTIDESMA Bunius. (See
Tropical Plants.
A. Gheesembilla. $1 each.

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61

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ANTIGONON LEPTOPUS.

ANTIGONON leptopus. The Rosa
DE Monrana, of Central Mexico. A beautiful
climbing plant, with tuberous roots; ordina-
rily hardy here, but when the tops are killed
down by a freeze it springs up with unim-
paired vigor from the root; produces long
racemes of rose-colored flowers; one of the
most beautiful climbers we have ever seen ;
grows and flowers freely all through Florida.
Strong plants, 25 cents each, $2.50 per
dozen.

ALTERNANTHERA. Alternantheras
are among the best of the colored-leaved bed-
ding plants for Florida, standing drought
and sunshine exceedingly well.

Ameena. Foliage yellow, brown and pink.

Spathulata. Leaves tinted carmine and |
green.

Versicolor. Green, rose and carmine.

Price of Alternantheras, 10 cents each, $1
per dozen.

AMPELOPSIS quinquefolia. The well
known VIRGINIA CREEPER or WOODBINE.
The very best climbing plant where quickness
of growth is desired, irrespective of location,
from Florida to Canada, on ground wet or dry,
rich or poor. Here in South Florida it is
sometimes nearly evergreen; leaves a bril-
liant crimson during the fall months.
cents each.

A. tricuspidata. (A. Veitchit.) JAPANESE
Ivy. A miniature-leaved species; very
popular North; not thoroughly tested here
yet. 25 cents each.

A. Royali. 75 cents each.

ANOGHISSUS pendula. A beautiful
shrub from Hindostan, with weeping habit.
50 cents each.

ANDROCHNEHE trifoliata.

each.

India.

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AMARANTHUS atropurpureus.
Showy bedding annual.
A. tricolor. JOSEPH’s COAT.
ing annual.
A. salicifolius.
bedding plant.

Prices of Amaranthus, 10 cents each, 80
cents per dozen.

_ APIOS tuberosa. A beautiful hardy na-
tive climber, with edible tuberous roots, and
chocolate or brownish purple flowers borne in
short racemes, in late summer and fall.
Flowers violet scented; leaves compound,
pinnate. A good climber, especially for low
grounds, 15 cents each.

_ARUM sp. from Cuba. A good plant

| for shallow water or low ground. Leaves

green, caladium-like. Spathe large, cream
colored. Plant one foot to eighteen inches in
height. 25 cents each.

A. sp. from Honduras. A climbing aroid
plant, firmly attaching itself to a tree or
any solid structure, making a growth of six
or eight feet in a season. Sprouts readily
from the root if killed back by frost. Rare
and curious. 75 cents each.

ARDISIA Pickeringia. A beautiful trop-
ical broad-leaved evergreen shrub (native of
South Florida); leaves laurel-like; the fra-
grant white, purple tinged flowers produced
in delicate panicles, in fall and early winter,
followed in spring by small glossy black edi-
ble berries, often called ‘‘spice berries.”
Will flower when only a few feet high. 15
cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

A. solanacea. ‘‘ Has large oblong leaves,
narrowed at each end, and bears purple
berries.”’—Buzist. 50 cents each.

A. umbellata. (4. litloralis.) ‘‘Is alsoa
fine plant for an abundance of flower and
beauty of foliage. The flowers are pink, in
large decompound panicles.”—#Buzs¢. 50 c.

ARGEMONE Mexicana. Annual. toc.

ARISAMA triphyllum. INDIAN TurR-
NIP. Valuable in half-shade in clumps of
ornamental-leaved plants. Native. Io c. each.

ARALIA filicifolia (?). A beautiful
species with ternately decompound leaves.
75 cents each.

A. Guilfoylei. This choice plant reaches a
height of eight or ten feet in frostless re-
gions. Leaves compound, leaflets edged
with creamy white. 75 cents each.

A. papyrifera. (See Economical Plants.)

ARISTOLOCHIA grandiflora. This
rare species comes to us from Guatemala. A
very curious and beautiful climber, sure to
attract admiration when in bloom. $1 each.

ARGYREIA nervosa. From Calcutta.
We know nothing of this plant, except that
the young specimens have a most interesting
look. Leaves very large, white on the under
side. Climber. $1 each.

AZALIA Indica. Grow in a half shady
place, in rich soil.
Comtesse de Flanders. Single purple.
Flag of Truce. Best double white.
Price of Azaleas, $1 each.

Showy bed-

FOUNTAIN PLANT. Showy

62 REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA:

ASPARAGUS TENUISSIMUS.

ASPARAGUS tenuissimus. <A new
ornamental Asparagus, much used for bou-
quets and cut-flower work. 25 cents each.

ASCLEPIAS tuberosa. BUTTERFLY or
PLEURISY WEED. This native plant when
brought into cultivation is exceedingly showy.
The clump increases in size each year, and is
brilliant with its orange red flowers in early
summer. A splendid plant forthe lawn. 15
cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

A. Curassivica. Flowers brightest vermil-
ion red. Very handsome. Found wild
sparingly here, but in choice greenhouse
cultivation North. 25 cents each.

A. alba. 50 cents each.

A. —? Flowers red. 50 cents each.

ASPIDISTRA lurida variegata. A fine
plant for decorative work. Leaves eight to
twelve inches long, and four to six inches
wide, of a deep green color, broadly striped
with creamy white. 50 cents each.

AUCUBA. Handsome evergreen shrubs,
hardy here, and among the choicest and best
of colored-leaved foliage plants.

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ASPIDISTRA LURIDA VAREIGATA.

AUCUBA—Coutinued.

A. Japonica. GOLD DUST TREE. Leaves
large, distinctly specked with golden yellow.

A. mascula-maculata. Leaves marbled
with bright yellow.

A. filix-foemina picta. Leaves pale green,
broadly margined with yellow.

A. lanceolata. Leaves lance-shaped, glossy
dark green, producing an abundance of
scarlet berries.

Price of Aucubas, 50 cents each.

BAUHINIA. Thisis an extensive genus
of tropical plants, creepers, shrubs and trees,
widely diffused throughout the tropics, and
especially abundant in South America and
India. Family Leguminose, which, however,
at a glance would not be apparent. Flowers
of all species very handsome. Kingsley,
while at Port of Spain, Trinidad, speaks of
‘““The Bauhinios, like tall and ancient white
thorns, which shade the road’’—but most of
the species are creepers or shrubs. Though
not perfectly hardy, so far as our late extra-
‘ordinary Arctic waves are concerned, still
many of the species are destined to become
great favorites in South Florida gardens and
lawns, as they are of rapid growth, perfectly
adapted to our sandy soil, and sprout up
readily from the ground. Some species are
also admirably adapted for greenhouse
culture.

B. acuminata. India. One of the most
satisfactory of all, either for open ground
or greenhouse culture, as it will bloom the
first summer, when but a few months old
and but a foot or two high, and in succeed-
ing summers bloom continuously from May
to September. Whether they could be
forced, so as to bloom in winter we do not
know. Flower single, pure white, from two
to three inches in diameter. Leaves of the
richest and most delicate green, curiously
two-lobed, closing at night. 50 cents and
$1.50 each, $5 and $15 per dozen.

B. picta. 75 cents each, $7.50 per dozen.

B. Malabarica. $1 each.

B. purpurea. One of the most beautiful
things we saw in Havana was a small tree
of this species loaded with its great purple
flowers. It is of more upright growth than
B. acuminata, and grows very fast, but has
not yet flowered for us. $1.50 each.

B. scandens. India. A famous fibre-plant
in its native country, as are several others of
the species. $1 each.

B. tomentosa. 75 cents each.

B. variegata. 75 cents each.

B. Vahlii. The MALOoo of the Lower Hima-
layan slopes. ‘‘This gigantic, woody
climber occupies a place in one of the bor-
ders of the Castleton Gardens. The leaves
are very striking, being often nearly a foot
across, composed of two oval-shaped lobes
(as in all members of the genus) joined
together for about half their length, and
heart-shaped at the base. The flowers are
showy, and arranged in racemes.’’—D.
Morris. This plant is known also as B.
racemosa, and furnishes one of the strongest
fibres known. It is used in India for
coarse cordage and ropes, and from their
great strength have been employed in the
construction of bridges across the Jumna
river. The creepers extend to an immense
distance from tree to tree, binding the

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT: 63

BAU HINIA—Continued.
forest into clumps, and so great is its vital-
ity, that if cut to the ground, ‘‘after a few
months its long elegant pendant boughs,
laden with its great clusters of white flow-
ers, are seen waving in defiance from the
topmost branches of the trees.’’ $5 each.

BEAUCARNIA tuberculata. (2. re-
curvata, Pincenectitia tuberculata.) A rare
and curious Mexican plant, somewhat resem-
bling the dasylirions, forming, with age, a
short trunk with a strangely enlarged base.
Probably hardy here. $1 each.

BEAUMONTIA grandiflora. India. A
strong-growing climber, with large leaves.
Said to have beautiful large white flowers
approaching the Oleander. 75 cents each,
$7.50 per dozen.

BEGONIA. In half-shade Begonias thrive
luxuriantly in Florida. A good soil for their
culture consists of equal parts of sifted leaf-
mould and sand.

FLOWERING AND REX VARIETIES.
Argyrostigma. Foliage spotted white ; flow-
ers white; growth upright.

Argentea. Oneof the most magnificent of
the Rex varieties.
Bruantii. Foliage green; flowers white,

borne in profusion. Good for cut-flower
work. 15 cents each.

Bruantii rosea. Strong grower. Flowers
white in center, margined with delicate
pink. 20 cents each.

Bruantii elegans. Flowers white.

Elephas.

Glaucaphylla scandens. Of drooping
habit, with rich salmon colored flowers.
Vigorous, and of most delicate colors.

Hybrida multiflora. Flowers pink.

Manicata. Leaves bright green, flowers red.

Metallica. Flowers white; leaves of a lus-
trous metallic or bronzy color, veined dark-
er. One of the best.

Miniata. A miniature leaved variety, with
bright scarlet flowers, freely produced.

Olbia. New variety with ovate deeply-lobed
leaves, of a velvety bronze color, with sil-
very blotches. 75 cents each.

Perle de Paris. One of the most beautiful
of the Rex Begonias. 50 cents each.

Parnelli. Leaves olive, shaded with green
and mottled with white.

Queen of England. Rex.

Queen of Han-
over. Rex.
Rubella. Leaves
irregular, blotch-
ed red ona light
‘ground; under
surface red. $1

each.

Ricinifolia nigri-
cans. Leaves
large,deeply cut,
mottled with
blackish bronze.
75 cents each.

Rubra. Flowers
red, very large.
Altogether one
of the best Be-
gonias in culti-
vation.

BEGONIA REX.

BEGONIA RUBRA.

BEGONIA-- Continued.

Richardsonii. Flowers pure white, in large
panicles.

Sanguinea. Foliage green and red. 50
cents each.

Saundersonii. Flowers scarlet crimson.

Schmidti. Flowers white, tinged with pink.

Leaves metallic green, under side red.

Semperfiorensrosea. Flowers white, shad-
ing to dark pink.

Semperflorens gigantea rosea.
grower.
color.

Smaragdina nigricans. Leaves like the
richest dark green velvet; unexcelled in
foliage by any Begonia. $1 each.

A good
Flowers large, of rosy carmine

Tuescheri. Flowers rose colored. 75 cents
each.

Washingtoniana. Flowers pale pink. 50
cents each.

Weltoniensis. Pink.

Zebrina. Leaves bronzy green with darker

stripes and blotches. Under side red.

Prices of named Begonias, 40 cents each,
unless noted. Choicest unnamed Rex Begon-
ias, 25 cents each.

BERBERIS Naplensis. India. $1 each.
BISCHOFEA Javanica. $1 each.

BEJARIA racemosa. FLy-CATCHER.
A native of lower Georgia and Florida. Low-
growing shrub of the heath family, producing
in summer large racemes of delicate rosy-
white flowers, an inch or more in diameter,
covered with a dew-like sticky substance—
hence the name “‘ fly-catcher.’’ Well worth
introduction into the greenhouse at the north.
25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

BIGNONIA. The two genera, Bignonia
and Tecoma, include many splendid plants,
most of them climbers. (For other species
see Tecoma.)

B. Adenophylla.
B. Thunbergiana.
each.

BOUSSINGAULTIA baselloides. Ma-
DEIRA VINE. A good climber for trellises or
lattice work. 10 cents each.

BOMBAX Malabaricum. MALABAR SILK
COTTON. 75 cents each.
B. Malabaricum, yellow.

BUDDLEA —— (?). A good pot plant

in this climate. 25 cents each.

From Lucknow. ¢1 each.
A good climber. 50 cts.

75 cents each.

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BOUVARDIA. Valuable winter and
spring blooming plants for pot-culture. Flow-
ers useful in cut-flower work.

Alfred Neuner. Best double white.

Brilliant.

Davisonii. White, often tinged with pink.

Dazzler. Flowers scarlet.

Elegans. Truss of flowers large; color
scarlet.

Humboldti. Flowers white, very large and
waxy.

Lady Hyslop. Flowers rose-colored.

Leiantha. Rich scarlet.

Multifiora.

Pres. Garfield. Dou'le pink; a sport from
Alfred Neuner.

Rosea floribunda. Large trusses; flowers
pink.

Sanguinea. Scarlet crimson.

Shirley Hibbard.

The Bride. Beautiful pink.

Vreelandi. Pure white.
Price of Bouvardias, 25 cents each.

BOUGAINVILLEA spectabilis. This
splendid tropical climber has few equals in
beauty. Weremember wella low ramblimg
cottage in the outskirts of Havana, whose
roof and sides and veranda presented almost
a sheet of richest color, the glowing purple
of the bracts of Bougainvillea with a back-
ground of its own rich green foliage. The
bracts are very persistent and very freely
produced. A good plant for South Florida.
Bank up the stem a short distance in early
winter. 75 cents each.

B. splendens.

i

BOUVARDIA, ALFRED NEUNER.

OMA

BRYOPHYLLUM ecalycinum. A cu-
rious rapid-growing succulent. Flowers
green, in form of bladders. One of those
strange plants that are propagated from
leaves. 10 cents each.

BREWERIA grandiflora. A native
plant closely related to the Jdomcas. Trail-
ing on the ground, and producing beautiful
light blue flowers an inch and a half in diam-
eter. 50 cents each.

CAESALPINIA Sappan. (See Economi-
cal Plants. )

C. Sepiaria. (See Economical Plants.)

C. Bonduc. (Gutlandina Bonduc.) ‘Then
there were ‘Nickar Beans,’ the fruit of an-
other vine, the Guzlandina, bright, shining,
smooth seeds an inch through, of various
shades of gray and brown, and curiously
banded.’”—C. TJ. Simpson. A_ prickly
climbing plant, with great rough curious
pods, enclosing the ‘‘Nickar Beans.’’ 35
cents each.

C. species. 75 cents each.

C. tortuosa. A species with beautiful foliage.
50 cents each.

Ce “pulcherrima flava. Flowers bright yel-
low. This variety seems to be practically
unknown outside of the West Indies and
South Florida. 50 cents each.

C. regia. (Poinciana regia.) The FAMBOyY-
ANTE or ROYAL POINCIANA. One of the
most beautiful trees we have ever seen. Of
extremely rapid growth; immense decom-
pound leaves, of a very dark, rich green;
gives a striking tropical effect. In groups

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT.

CAESALPINIA PULCHERRIMA.

CHSALPINIA— Continued.

of tropical plants almost as effective as a
palm. Specimens in this locality (killed to
the ground in winter of 1886) were twenty-
five feet in height, with spreading tops of
the same diameter, at an age of only four
years; trunks of the same, nearly a foot in
diameter ;
flowers in May and June. The effect of the
Royal Poinciana in the Park Isabella and
other squares, and on the Prado, in Havana,
is magnificent beyond description, from
April till June. The tree is also common in
Key West, and with the exception of Cocos

nucifere and Cordia sebestena is almost the |

only tree that will grow on the bare sand
and rocks of the Dry Tortugas. We have
an immense stock of plants of every size.
15 to 50 cents each, $1.50 to $5 per dozen.

C. pulcherrima. (Poinciana pulcherrima.)
The BARBADOES FLOWER FENCE. “‘ Be-
yond it, again, blaze great orange and yel-
low flowers, with long stamens, and pistil
curving upward out of them. They belong
to a twining, scrambling bush, with finely
pinnated mimosa leaves. That
is the ‘Flower-Fence’ so often
heard of in past years.’’—Kings-
ley. Flowers of this species deli-
cate orange and red, produced all
summer. Should be more grown
in the greenhouse at the North,
as it flowers freely when a foot or
two in height. 50 cents each.

C. Regia. EMPRESS OF INDIA.

‘CALADIUM bulbosum. Fan-
CY-FOLIAGED CALADIUM. Splendid
ornamental foliage plants, dying
down through the winter months.
Leaves marked with the brightest
colors. Prefer a moist shady loca-
tion. Several fine sorts. 25 and 50
cents each.

C. esculentum. (Bataviensis,
Javanicum, etc. (See Colocasia.)

CANNA. These splendid broad-
leaved plants are used in semi-
tropical gardening with rich effects.

a perfect maze of orange-red |

65

CANN A— Continued.

In South Florida the roots can be left in the

ground the year through, and if tops are

frosted down in winter, in spring the new
shoots will soon be out as large as ever.

C. Ehemanni. Flowers very large, carmine-
red, and freely produced. Foliage broad
and distinct. 35 cents.

C. flaccida. Native of the Florida swamps,
but deserves cultivation universally as a
bedding plant. Of dwarf habit, but pro-
ducing quantities of large iris-like flowers
three inches in diameter, of a rich golden
yellow. When once fairly introduced we
predict for this plant a great popularity, as
it will prove invaluable as a foreground in
groups and beds of tall-growing Cannas,
caladiums, etc.; is grown with the greatest
ease and content with any soil. 1o cents
each, 80 cents per dozen, $5 per hundred,
$30 per thousand.

C. glauca. 15 cents.

C. Indica. Beautiful redand yellow-flowered
varieties. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen.

C. Marechal Vaillante. Foliage deep wine-
color. One of the best varieties. 25 cents
each.

C. Museefolia. Leaves very broad,
those of a banana. 25 cents each.

CAMELLIA Japonica. Camellias do
| well in Florida after once becoming estab-
lished. They prefer a moist situation (not

like

wet. )
Alba plena. Double white.
Albertus. Rose, with pink stripe.
Banapress. .
Candidissima. Creamy white.
Carswelliana. Cherry red, striped with
white.
C. H. Hovey.
Dunlap’s New White.
Elata.
Imbricata. White and rose.
| Lowii.
Lillia.
Mary Edmondson. Small, white.
| Sherwoodii. Rose crimson.
| Wood’s Seedling.

Price of Camellias, $1 each.

CANNA EHEMANNI.

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CALLICARPA Americana.
‘FRENCH MULBERRY. A hardy shrub,
grown for the beautiful purple fruit
which covers its branches in the fall.
25 cents each.

C.cana. India. 25 cents each.

CALLA. (See Richardia.)

CALOSANTHUS Indicus. From
North India. $1 each.

CALATROPIS gigantea. A fa-
mous Indian asclepiad, producing the
celebrated madar fibre.

C. procera. ‘‘Among it rose the tall
Calatropis procera, with its fleshy
gray stems and leaves, and its azure
of lovely lilac flowers, with curious
columns of stamens in each—an as-
clepiad introduced from the old
world, where it ranges from tropical
Africa to Afghanistan.’’—Charles
Kingsley. 75 cents’each.

CALOPHYLLUM inophyllum.
$1 each.

CALYCANTHUS floridus.
SWEET-SCENTED SHRUB. Hardy
throughout most of the United States.
Flowers rich velvety-brown, double
and deliciously fragrant; remains in

bloom for along time. Flowers always |

popular for button-hole bouquets, ri-

valing the tuberose in that respect. §

25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

CATALPA. All the Catalpas grow
well in Florida, and all are valuable
trees for shade and timber, besides

being very ornamental.
C. bignonioides. This species and

C. speciosa are the largest growing

trees of the genus, all of which are desira-
ble. 2 years, large, 40 cents each, $4 per
hundred.

C. Keempferi. The JAPANESE CATALPA.

“Upright, of rather slender growth, producing
freely large clusters of rather small flowers,
yellow dotted with purple. The flowers are
very fragrant, and this is considered equal
to the linden as a honey-producing tree,
while its value for timber is surpassed by
few trees. The tree remains in bloom a
long time, also blooms occasionally through
mid-summer. Small trees, when two years
old, bloom occasionally. The long, slender
seed-pods, with which the trees are loaded
through the fall, winter and spring months,
are curious and interesting. The tree is
desirable for lawn, avenue or timber plant-
ing.” — Teas. 2 years, 30 cents each, $3 per
dozen.

C. speciosa. The WESTERN CATALPA. Flow-

ers very largeand handsome. 25 cents and
$1 each.

C. Teas’ Japanese Hybrid. We give the

description of J. C. Teas, its originator.
“‘ The characteristics of the new variety are
very marked, and partake largely of both
its parents. Inits vigorous, upright growth
it even surpasses either. In its foliage—
large, luxuriant and often, though not al-
ways, lobed, like a maple or tulip-poplar
leaf—we plainly see the Japanese influence
of its parentage, while the American is un-

whey

CATALPA, TEAS’ JAPANESE HYBRID.

CATALPA— Continued.

mistakably shown in the profusion of its
larger and handsomer white flowers. The
seed-pods and seeds are very distinct, and
are intermediate between those of Speciosa, _
which are the largest of all, and Kemp/fert,
which are the smallest. It is the most pro-
fuse bloomer of all the Catalpas, being liter-
ally loaded with flowers and remaining in
bloom several weeks—a much longer period
than other Catalpas. The flowers are white,
with small purple dots, and a touch of yel-
low around the throat, which last is a mark
from the Japanese side. The flowers have
a very pleasant and delicate fragrance, and
a tree in bloom not only presents a magni-
cent spectacle to the eye, but also fills the
air for quite a distance with its agreeable
odor. Small trees planted in village lots
grew without cultivation, in five years, to
be twenty-five feet high and twenty-four
inches in circumference at one foot from the
ground. 2 years, large, 25 cents each, $2.50
per dozen, $20 per hundred.

CELTIS Caucasica. A handsome and
hardy tree from South Asia. Succeeds well
here. Large, $1.50 each.

C. occidentalis. The HACKBERRY. A good

shade or ornamental tree. Small, 10 cents
each.

CEPHALANDRA Indica. 75 cts. each.

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT: 67

CASSIA. Many of the exotic Cassias are
handsome flowering plants ; many also possess
medicinal properties.

C. fistula. (See Economical Plants.)
C. florida. This species and the following
are among the choicest of all. 75 cts. each.

C. grandis. 75 cents each.

C. corymbosa. 50 cents each.

C. glauca. 25 cents each.

C. species. This species is perfectly hardy

here.
with white flowers.
most of the other species.
C. sophora. 50 cents each.
C. Sumatrana. 50 cents each.

CENTRADENIA rosea. A good winter-
blooming plant with very beautiful foliage.
15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

CEREHINIS cupoularis. India.
CESTRUM coccineum, (AHabrothamnus

coccineus.) 50 cents each.

C. fascicularis.

C. Hugeli. 75 cents each.

C. laurifolium. A dwarf species with white
very fragrant flowers, invaluable for cut-
flower work. 25cents each, $2 50 per dozen.

Cc. nocturnum. The famous NIGHT-
BLOOMING JESSAMINE. Flowers produced
in great profusion; very fragrant at night ;
said to be the most valuable of all perfume
plants. 25 cents each.

C. Bondouxi.

CELASTRUS nutans.

It is a graceful shrub or small tree,
From India, as are
50 cents each.

15 cts.

75 cents each.

CHIOCOCCA racemosa. The SNow-
BERRY. A beautiful native plant. 25 cents
each.

CESTRUM LAURIFOLIUM.

WHITE FRINGE.

CHIONANTHUS Virginica. The

WHITE FRINGE TREE. The beauty of this
tree is not enough appreciated. In spring,
just as the leaves appear, it is a mass of pure
white flowers, like delicate fringe ; invaluable
in bouquets and floral work, and beautiful as
a lawn tree. 25 cents each.

CHRYSANTHEMUM. Nospot in
America is better suited for the cultivation
and enjoyment of that most deservedly popu-
lar of plants, the Chrysanthemum, than is
Florida. Perfectly hardy, not particular as
to soil or location (provided they have good
drainage), flourishing in sun or shade, and
opening in all their beauty with the ripening
of the golden orange, in the soft, sunny days
of Florida’s autumn and early winter, with
the purple aster and the golden rod and the
crimson woodbine leaves, who could help ap-
preciating the “‘ Queen of Autumn ?”’

jee lf in a partially shaded position the
flowers will remain open and preserve their
beauty for a longer time. Varieties :

America. An immense flower, opening
blush and maturing pure white; early.
Alfonsa. Bright glowing crimson, tipped
with gold.
Boule de Niege.
Belie Valentine.
canary yellow.

Beautiful silvery white.
Flower recurved, rich

Bob. Dark brown crimson. Pompone.
Comidea.

Christine.

Fimbriata. Handsomely fringed petals, of

a most lovely shade of delicate blush.
Fair Maid of Guernsey. White; large
ball-like flowers.
Fannie.
Fair Maid.
Fascinatus.
Golden Dragon.
yellow.
Hero of Magdala.
Juvena. Deep crimson.
twisted.

Very large; dark golden

Blood red crimson.
Petals narrow and

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CHRYSANTHEMU M— Continued.

Viceroy of Egypt.

W. A. Harris. Large, single; petals lined
with deep bronze, on a pure golden yellow
ground.

Yellowstone.

Unnamed. Assorted colors; good sorts.

gas Chrysanthemum plants ready in the
spring. Price, named sorts, 15 cents each,
WI ss $1.50 per dozen; unnamed, good, Io cents
wee each, $1 per dozen.

\ 77 CHRYSANTHEMUM Parthenium.
= (Leucanthemum or Pyrethrum Parthentum.)
DOUBLE FEVERFEW. 25 cents each.
C. frutescens. PARIS DAISY or MARGUE-
RITE. 15 cents each.

CLERODENDRON. A genus of widely

different plants, embracing climbers, herba-

S

Wy = N ceous plants, shrubs and trees. All desira-
sy UN eS Wim dle.

C. Balfouri. (C. Thompsoni.) A climber of
great beauty. The flowers, which are of a
bright scarlet, are encased by a bag-like
calyx of pure white; the panicles of flow-
ers are upwards of six inches in width.
Free blooming. Sprouts from the root
readily when top is frosted back. 25 cents
each, $2.50 per dozen.

C. splendens. ¢#1 each.

C. fragrans. This half-shrubby plant is
much neglected, and should be more grown
by all, in the greenhouse North, and in the
open ground in Florida, for its large clus-

: ters of double, pure white and exquisitely
ISOS tee STE BAEC REE scented flowers. Leaves and stalk ill-

James Y. Murkland. ‘‘ Petals purest snow scented. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen.
white, pee long, much reflexed, resem- C. Siphonanthus. (Zurk’s Turban.) A
panes 7 wap yore eure aS found in the good shrub for the lawn, producing im-
Be eee a eon vaca MCS: mense terminal racemes of flowers, not

NS Os POS, showy, but followed by very showy red and

La France. Pure white; double 5 ; :
: : y ne purple berries, which remain on a long
La Frizure. Delicate blush; large full aimeuees baa ea a

CHRYSANTHEMUM.

flowers. . eras
Lady Talfa. C. viscosissima. An extremely desirable
Moonlight. Large, pure white; incurved; species. A tree with very showy flowers,
very handsome. hardy as far north as North Florida. 50
Mollie Molane. cents each.
Mrs. George Rundle. Pure white.
Mrs. Slade.

Mrs. C. Carey. Pearly white ; much curved
and twisted ; a nearly perfect ball in shape.

M. Leon Brunell.

Mrs. W. A. Harris. Delicate shaded
creamy white and flesh pink.

Mastodon.

Mad. Rong.

Mrs. Hairmes. |

Mayor Lusk.

Pride of France.

Perfection. Reddish brown, tipped with
yellow.

Pres. Arthur.

Rubrum Striatum. Creamy, lined with
rosy salmon.

pours d’Or. Intense yellow, shaded old
gold.

Snowdrop. Pure white, sulphur center.

Snowball.

The Gauntlet.

The Cossack. Large, double; chestnut,
brown and yellow.

White Vesuvius. Pure white; large; a good a
variety. CLERODENDRON FRAGRANS.

CISSUS. (Vitis.)

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 69

C. incisa. A beautiful

tropical species, occa-

sionally found on _ the

southwest Florida coast ;
leaves compound (three
leaflets), evergreen and
very handsome. The
plant will send down air-
roots from a distance of
six feet or more in the air.

C. bipinnatus. One of
the best of our native
climbers ; hardy; leaves
bipinnate; plant produ-
ces an abundance of
shining black berries. 15
cents each.

C. discolor. Foliage beau-
tifully shaded with sil-
very white, crimson and
purple. 50 cents each.

Cc. Cubanus(?). A rapid
growing and desirable
climber; climbing on
walls like the ivy, it will
take the place of this
plant in regions where
there is little or no frost ;
foliage rich bronzy green.
From West Indies. 15
cents each.

C. Sicyoides. West Indies
and South Florida. 25
cents each.

CLITOREA. Among the
most valuable of climbers
for South Florida. Can
also be pinched back and
grown in bush form if de-
sired.

C. ccrulea fi. pl. Locally
known as BLUE BELLS

OF SCOTLAND. Flowers
beautiful blue, double.
Produced all summer.

50 cents each.

C. ternatea. Flowerssin- :
gle, blueand white, freely |
produced. Showiest of °
all the species, and one
of the most desirable. 25
cents each.

C. ternatea alba. Flow-
ers white. 75 cts. each.

C. Mariana. Native spe-
cies. Flowers lilac, |
snaded with white. Very
large and beautiful. 50 4
cents each. 3

CLEMATIS. After be-

coming well established,

some of the Clematis prom- =

ise to do well in our soil

and climate.

C. campanulata. Blooms continuously
through the summer. Flowers. bell-like ;
rich violet and lilac. 50 cents each.

C. Jackmanni. Deep violet purple; one of
the best. 75 cents each.

C. florida, Duchess of Edinburgh. Very
large, double white, two to three inches in
diameter ; fragrant. 75 cents each.

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CLEMATIS JACKMANNI.

CLEMATIS— Continued.

C. Edith Jackmann.
tion.)

C. viticella rubra grandiflora.
claret red. 75 cents each.

? Native species.

resembling those of campanulata.

white. 50 cents each.

( Jackmannt sec-

Bright

Erect, flowers
Lilac to

70 REASONER BROS,, MANATEE, FLORIDA.

CLEOME viscosa. Pods of this plant

said to be used as a vegetable by the Malays. ,

Native of Malay peninsula. 10 cents each.

CORDIA Sebestena. The SEBESTEN
PLum of the West Indies, GEIGER-TREE of
the Lower Keys. A native of the West In-
dies, and found sparingly on the Lower Keys ;
much planted out in Key West. One of the
most beautiful flowering trees we have ever
seen. Large, cordate leaves, with immense
trusses of flaming red flowers; will bloom the
second year in most cases; is killed down by
a light frost and north of here should be
grown only as a pot-plant, so that protection
can be given in winter. Will prove a very
showy and valuable addition to the northern
greenhouse. 50 cents each.

C. species from Cuba. More dwarf than
the preceding species. Flowers white or
flush colored; large and showy. Leaves
dark green, rich and glossy. $1 each.

COTYLEDON glauca. (Echeveria.) 25

cents each.
C. pumila.

COSTUS. “Up we pushed along the nar-
row path, past curious spiral flags (Costus)
just throwing out their heads of delicate white

or purple flowers.’’—Kingsley. Native of ,

Central America and Lower Antilles.

C. speciosus. Leaves beautifully striped
light and dark green, two to four feet in
ultimate height.

C. Zebrinus. Leaves striped green and
wine-color, underside of leaves richest
wine-color. A splendid plant. Two to four
feet.

Price of Costus, 25 cents to $1 each.

COLEUS. Where quickness of growth
and brilliancy of color is desired, few foliage
plants give greater satisfaction than Coleus.

NAMED VARIETIES.

Bergen Beauty. Edge of leaf dark green ;
center bright crimson, bordered with
maroon.

Beacon. Crimson and maroon; very bright.

Buttercup. Green and yellow.

Gen. Grant. Richest crimson and chocolate.

Golden Bedder. Finest golden-leaved
variety.

Leaves of Autumn. Scarlet, maroon, car-

_ mine, yellow and green.

Miss Retta Kirkpatrick. Leaves with white
center, broad green margin.

Mrs. Langtry. Scarlet and maroon, edged
with green.

Multicolor. Green, carmine, yellow and
chocolate.

Negro. Dark velvety maroon. Fringed.

Oriole. Green and yellow, distinctly blotch-
ed with maroon.

Pictus. Yellow, marked with chocolate.

Progress. Green and white ground, spotted
maroon and pink.

Scarlet Prince. Maroon, scarlet center.

Spotted Gem. Yellow, blotched with crim-
son, green and orange.

South Park Beauty. Yellow and green,
veined purple.

South Park Gem. Yellowish white and
green.

Thomas Franks. Center of leaf white,

. border green.

COLEUS.

COLEUS— Continued.
Verschaffeltii. Rich crimson.
Price of Coleus, named varieties, 1o cents
each, $1 per dozen, $8 per hundred.

C. hybridus macrophyllus. Many choice
varieties, our selection. 15 cents each, $1.50
per dozen.

Choicest Unnamed Varieties. From
European seed; rich colors, fully equal in
beauty to any of the named sorts. Our
selection, all distinct. 80 cents per dozen;
in several colors, $7 per hundred, $65 per
thousand.

COLOCASIA antiquorum var. escu-
lenta. (Caladium esculentum.) The
TANYAH or TARO Grand ornamental plants
for groups or single specimens—growing from
four to six feet high, with immense leaves
two feet long. The roots are prepared in
various ways for food. 10 to 50 cents each,
$1 to $5 per dozen.

C: Bataviensis. (Alocasia Balaviensts.)
Stem dark purple. A splendid species. 75,
cents each.

C. Javanica. Green, with bluish stems.
Roots of this species take many years to
attain large size. 50 cents each.

CRATOXYLON carneus. 75 cts. each.
CROTALARIA Capensis. Natal. Orna-

mental, and perhaps available for fibre or
forage. 25 cents each.

CROTON. These splendid plants are na-
tives of the South Sea Islands, but are now
universally grown in warm countries in the
open ground, and in all Europe and the
United States as a choice hot-house plant.

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, Heke:

CROTON.

CROTON— Continued.

They ordinarily survive our South Florida

winters, but need protection on frosty nights.

They make splendid pot-plants for the piazza

or window garden.

C. Aureum-maculatum. Leaves small,
deep green, spotted with golden-yellow.
Bicornutum. Leaves irregular in shape,
and having a horn-like extension of the
midrib. Green, blotched and spotted yellow.

Irregulare. Scarcely two leaves of this sort
resemble each other. Leaves green, midrib
orange-yellow, upper surface of leaf blotch-
ed and spotted with yellow.

Interruptum. Very long leaves; midrib
bright scarlet, shading to a golden yellow.
Lord Cairns. Leaves trilobate.
leaves bright green, blotched with yellow;

midribs yellow.

Mooreanum. Midrib and margin of leaf
clear orange-yellow; blade crossed with
parallel bands and stripes of the same color.

Multicolor. Leaves irregular in shape, light
green, blotched with yellow, changing to
reddish yellow and red, the midrib crimson.

Pictum. Foliage green, red and yellow.

Tortile. Olive green, crimson and yellow,
with twisted foliage.

Undulatum.

Variegatum rubrum.
golden yellow.

Weismanni. Very long leaves, green, strip-
ed and mottled with yellow.

Youngii. Leaves deep red underneath,
upper surface dark green, blotched with
creamy yellow and red.

JZ Many of the Crotons fail to show their
fine colors until grown to a good size. Several
other choice sorts with names yet undetermined.

Price of Crotons, 50 cents each; our selec-
tion of varieties, 40 cents each.

CROTON Roxburghii. India. ¢1 each.

CRINUM. These magnificent flowering
bulbs are closely related to Amaryllis and
Pancratium. Evergreen, and of easy culture:
in Florida in the open ground, at the North
in the greenhouse. Many of the choice sorts
rarely produce new bulbs, and consequently
are very high-priced.

C. Americanum. A most beautiful plant,
producing umbels of large white lily-like

Green, red and

Color of |

CRINU M—Continued.

flowers, often six or eight to the spike.
A native of the Florida swamps, but
like most of the Crinums, not partic-
ular as to soil or situation. One of
the choicest of all the genus, and as
““ fickle fashion ”’ has recently smiled
on Crinumsand Pancratiums, we can
hope to see this grand plant in more
general cultivation soon. 25 cents
each, $2.50 per dozen, $20 per hun-
dred.

Je Write for special rates on
larger quantities.

C. amcenum (?) NASSAU or MILK
AND WINE LILY. A strong grower,
not particular as to soil. Flowers in
umbels, very large and showy, strip-
ed white and carmine, three to four
inches in diameter. Several distinct
varieties of this fine plant. 25 cents
each, $2.50 per dozen.

C. Ztthiopicum. A splendid species from
South Africa, blooming during the holidays,
on which account alone it would prove valu-
able. Flowers white, very large. $2.50 each.

C. amabile. Purple and white.

C. Capense-album. (Amaryllis longifolia
alba.)

C. giganteum.

C. Josephine. (Brunsvigia.)

C. Moorei. (Syns., C. ornatum, C. Mac-
Owant, C. Makoyanum, Amaryllis
Ornatus.) White, striped rose. $8 each.

C. scabrum (?) Scarlet and white; from
Bermuda. ;

C. erubescens (?) Pink.

C. Schmidti.

C.———? Scarlet, from Bermuda.

C. species from Honduras.
CUPHEA platycentra. CIGAR-PLANT.

A plant constantly in bloom. Flowers scarlet.
25 cents each.

CYCLAMEN Persicum.
CYDONIA Japonica. JAPAN QUINCE.

Fine ornamental hardy shrub with orange-
scarlet flowers. 40 cents each.

DALBERGIA. A genus of tropical trees,
native to Brazil and India. Famous for their
valuable woods.

D. lanceolaria. India. 50 cents each.

D. Melanoxylon. 75 cents each.

D. Sissoo. ‘ The INDIAN SISSOO TREE, ex-
tending to Afghanistan, ascending to eleva-
tions of 5,000 feet, attaining a height of
eighty feet.’’ The transverse strength of
wood greater than that of teak and of sal.
Very valuable for furniture, and in ship-
building. Said to resist slight frosts, and
to make fertile the land on which it is
planted. 50 cents each.

D. scandens. India. 75 cents each.

DATURA. Coarse-growing plants, but
valuable for cultivation in open ground.
Flowers large and very showy.

D. suaveolens. Flowers cream colored.
D. fastuosa.
D. Metel.
D. species from Cuba. Flowers pure white,
single.
Price of Daturas, 25 cents each.

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DAHLIA. Best varieties.

DAIDALACANTHUS nervosus.
$1 each.

DASYLIRION. Yucca-like plants,
natives of Mexico, and probably hardy
here. Popularscenic plants inthe Semi-
Tropical Gardens of Southern Europe.
Leaves usually narrow and grass-like
when small. Many species recom-
mended as fibre plants.

acrotriche.

. gracile.

. graminifolium.

. glaucophyllum.

Hartwigianum.

. Palmeri.

. Parryi.

. serratifolium.

Wheeleri.

Price of Dasylirions, 75 cents each.

DESMODIUM pulchellum. From

Lucknow. 25 cents each.

D. gyrans. East Indies. ‘‘One
of the most extraordinary plants
known; the smooth leaves are re-
markable for their movements, the
end leaflet slowly changing position
with the light; the lateral ones, very
much smaller, moving pretty rapidly
up and down, in elliptical sweeps,
through the day when the tempera-
ture is about 80° Fahrenheit.’’— Prof.
Asa Gray. 25 cents each.

DERRIS scandens. We have not yet
flowered this handsome Indian climber, but
it is deserving of cultivation if only for its
very beautiful thick and glossy foliage. Asa
beautiful climber we recommend it highly. 50
cents each, $5 per dozen.

DHEERINGIA Indica. 75 cents each.
DEHUTZIA. Deutzias are well known

spring-flowering hardy shrubs, favorites with
every one, and succeed in Florida.

D. crenata. Flowers pink, 25 cents each.
D. Fortunei. 25 cents each.

D. gracilis. Flowers pure white.

DIANTHUS caryophyllus. CARNATION.
The Carnation succeeds admirably here, bed-
ded out or in pots. Best varieties, Double
Dwarf Vienna, etc. 15 cents each, $1.50 per
dozen. |

Clelelolslclclole

CARNATION.

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DRACAENA.

DIERVILLA Japonica. (Weigela.)
BusH HONEYSUCKLE. Another hardy shrub
that grows well here. 25 cents each.

DILLENIA Indica, 75 cents each.
DISSOTIS incana. Natal. 50 cts. each.
DRACAINA. Dracon TreEE. A large

genus of ornamental-leaved plants, now ex-
tensively grown for decorative purposes. The
richly-colored leaves give a splendid tropical
effect. Potted specimens could be sunk on
the lawn or in the tlower-garden, and only
removed to the house during a few frosty
nights of December and January ; or, planted
in the open ground, they would rarely need
protection in South Florida. Very easily
moved and transplanted.

D. Braziliensis. Foliage green. A splendid
decorative plant. $1 each.

D. Draco spectabilis. The DRAGON’S
BLOOD TREE of the Canary Islands.

D. rubra. $1 each.

D. terminalis rosea. Foliage green and
bright carmine. Easily grown and a mag-
nificent plant for decorative work. 25cents
to $1 each; small, $2.50 per dozen.

D. Veitchii. Leaves green, with white mar-
gin. $1 each.

DIPLADENIA. (See Echites.)
DURANTA ellisia. The Durantas are

handsome flowering shrubs, usually hardy in

Florida. This species comes to us from In-

dia. 50 cents each.

D. Plumierii. Delicate lilac flowers, borne
in racemes, followed by yellow berries.
Often used as an ornamental hedge-plant
in the East Indies. 50 cents each.

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT:

ECHITES. (Dzipladenia.) Acliass of plants

much neglected, and none of the species
more so than the three following beautiful
sorts that are native on our extreme Lower
Keys and of some of the West Indies. We
do not know that any of these species have
been’ introduced into cultivation

before, |

as we find no mention of them even in the |

largest and most extensive European cata-
logues. All are climbers, of the family Apo-
cynacez, which contains so many floral gems.
E. Andrewsii. Matacomba and Key Largo.
Leaves rich glossy green, wax-like. Flow-
ers richest golden yellow, resembling the
closely related Allamanda, only smaller.

$1 each.
E. paludosa. Salt marshes of the lower
coast. Flowers white, tinged with the

most delicate pink. The most beautiful of |

all. 50 cents each.

E. umbellata. A most desirable species for
open air cultivation in South Florida, but
unfortunately more difficult of propagation
than any plant we have ever seen. Leaves
prettily veined with white, and the olean-
der-like creamy white flowers produced in

umbels, blooming through the entire sum- |

mer.

The plant has a tuberous root, and is |

found on the shell mounds and dry sand- |
beaches of the southern coast, especially |

at Cape Sable, where fires run over the
ground, burning the grass almost every
year.
ground, neither fire nor frost above the
ground injures its vitality, and if frozen
down in the winter it appears again in
spring with all its former vigor, and blooms
as usual, allsummer. $1 each.

EHRETIA serrata. India. Family Cor-
diacea. ‘“‘Large trees of the tropics, with
handsome foliage and white flowers.’’—Lou-
don. This species grows very fast, and prom-
ises well in South Florida.
cach, $2.50 to $10 per dozen.

When once well established in the |

25 cents to $1 |

ELYTROPHORUS articulatus. 50 |
cents each.

ELASOCARPUS serratus. 75 c. each.

ERANTHEMUM nervosum. India. 25

cents each.
E. pulchellum. Beautiful winter and spring-
blooming plants, producing a profusion of
deep blue flowers.
air culture in South Florida.

ERILONA De Candollii.
ERYTHRINA.

IMMORTELLES, as they call them here,) their
all but leafless boughs, now blazing against
the blue sky with vermilion flowers,-trees of
red coral sixty feet in height.”’—Azzgs/ey.
‘Another here and there which was a mass

15 cts. each.

$1 each.

Well adapted for open- |

“The Erythrinas (Bors |

| HUGENIA buxifolia, etc.

of glowing crimson, gleaming like sheets of |

flame upon the mountain sides.”’—C. T. Simp-

SON.

E. Brasiliensis. $1 each.

E. Caffra. Nataland Cape Colony. $1 each.

E. coralladendron.
BEAN TREE of the West Indies and Cen-
tral America. 50 cts. each, $5 per dozen.

E. crista-galli. Of more dwarfhabit. Often
grown in greenhouses North. 50 cts. each.

E. insignis. $1 each.

The famous CORAL )}

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EUCHARIS AMAZONICA.

ERY THRIN A— Continued.

E. herbacea. Our native species, here fre-
quently forming a large tree a foot or more
in diameter. Should be more grown all
over Florida, in the open ground, as the
flowers and leaves are very beautiful. Or-
dinarily the tops live through the winter,
but when killed down its vigor is not im-

paired, as the root is large and fleshy like
a carrot, and sends up strong shoots which
are in bloom in April and May. In South
Georgia the plant dies down in this manner
every fall. 25 and 50 cents each.

. macrophylla. $1 each.
. Imperatrice Engenie.

. Indica. $1 each.

= alba. Very rare.
. ovalifolia. $1 each.

. speciosa. $1 each.

. Suberosa. $1 each.

. viarum.

EUCHARIS Amazonica. AMAZON LILY.
Flowers pure white, star-shaped, four inches
across, and very fragrant. Requires plenty
of moisture. Avery choiceplant. 5o0c. each.

$1 each.

bed bed ta tad bed ad tad td

ERIODENDRON anfractuosum. (See
Economical Plants.)
EUONYMUS Japonicus aureus.

CHINESE Box, JAPAN SPINDLE-TREE.
This variety has foliage finely variegated with

yellow and green. Hardy in Florida. 25

cents each.

E. Japonicus argenteus. Leaves green
and white. 25 cents.

E. radicans variegata. CREEPING EUONY-
MUS. Leaves beautifully variegated with,
white. 25 cents each.

Ornamental
Eugenias of South Florida collected to order.

EUPHORBIA antiquorum (ZF. ¢rigoua.)
A queer Cactus-like plant, with three-sided
stems mottled white and green. This plant
is used in Cuba to form the most perfect hedge
we ever saw, absolutely impenetrable to man
and beast; would send the thinnest Florida
razor-back into paroxysms of despair. Hardly
available for that purpose in Florida, how-
ever, as the plant is tender and liable to be

74 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA:

EUPHORBIA— Continued.

frequently killed down unless protected. It

is ornamental, however, especially as a spec-

imen plant. Specimens in Key West are

twelve or fifteen feet high, with stem nearly a

foot in diameter at base. 50 cts. to $1 each.

EH. “Jules La Chaume.” This remarkably
odd plant is a sport of &. ¢rigona, origina-
ting in the grounds of Jules LaChaume,
Havana. Thestem is wrinkled and com-
pressed into flat, cockscomb-like shapes,
not easy to describe. It is one of the
strangest looking plants we have ever seen.
Scarce even in Havana. $1 each.

EK. Jacquinieflora. (EZ. fulgens.) The
small insignificent flowers surrounded by
showy red bracts. 25 cents each.

E. pulcherrima. (Poinsettia pulcherrima.)
Native of Mexico. A common plant of the
tropics, and well known in northern hot-
houses for the great scarlet bracts surround-
ing its flowers, produced in winter, and
often remaining bright for months ata time.

E. splendens. A thorny plant from Mauri-
tius, well known in greenhouses. A con-
tinuous bloomer, succeeding here in open
ground. The showy flower-like bracts are
bright scarlet. 25 cents each.

E. cyathophora. HypocriTE. Native spe-
cies with pretty red bracts. 10cents each.

EUCALYPTUS. Nearly every species
of this famous tree succeeds better here than
the originally introduced Z. globulus, which
is tender, and in Florida afflicted with all
sorts of ‘‘die-back.’’ All the species are val-
uable as ornamental trees, and the wood is
put to every imaginable use. Of use also
medicinally.

BE. calophylla. The RED-GUM TREE. A

tender but quick-growing species. Very
handsome shade tree.
E. citriodora. Another tender species. ‘It

combines with the ordinary qualities of
many eucalypts the advantage of yielding
from its leaves a rather large supply of vo-
latile oil of excellent lemon-like fragrance.”’
—Von Mueller.

E. ficifolia.

E. Gunni. Known as SwWAMP-GUM TREE, or
in Tasmaniaas CIDER-TREE. A very hardy
species. :

E. Luehmanni.

EK. melliodora. “The YELLOW Box TREE of
Victoria and New South Wales. Of spread-
ing habit, though attaining a height of 120
feet. Flowers much sought by bees.’”’—
Von Mueller.

EH. paniculata. WHITE IRON-BARK TREE

of New South Wales. Wood especially hard |

and durable.

E. pilularis. The BLAcK-BuTT TREE of
South Queensland. Of rapid growth, and
timber of much value for railway sleepers,
telegraph poles, etc. A tree of this species
has been measured, with a girth of 45 feet
and a height of 300 feet.

E. resinifera. The RED MAHOGANY EU-
CALYPTUS of South Queensland and New
South Wales. “A superior timber tree of
large size, according to the Rev. Dr. Woolls,
the wood being much prized for its strength
and durability. It has proved one of the
best adapted for a tropical clime, although
not so rapid of growth as some other spe-
cies. Proved in Italy nearly as hardy as

EUCALYPTUS— Continued.
EL. amygdalina and FE. viminalis, according
to Prince Troubetzkoy.”—Von Mueller.

E. robusta. SwAmMep MAHOGANY of New
South Wales and South Queensland. Tree
reaching too feet in height.

E. rostrata. The RED GuM TREE of South
Australia. Gifted with more than the usual
number of miraculous and useful properties
accorded to each and every one of the 200
or more species of the genus.

E. Saligna. The FLOODED GUM TREE of
New South Wales. Said to prefer low, moist
ground.

EH. species.

Price of Eucalyptus, our selection, 25
cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

EXOCHORDA grandiflora. A hardy

shrub from North China, producing large
white flowers.

FARFUGIUM grande. A beautiful
plant for a shady or half-shady spot. Leaves
of darkest green, spotted with yellow ; hardy.
25 cents each.

FICUS Australis.
India rubber trees.
F. aurea. This native RUBBER TREE or
WiLp Fic of South Florida has not been
identified with any known species of the
West Indies or Central America. It is
unique, like Pseudophenix’ Sargentiit and
Torreya taxifolia. The tree almost equals
in beauty the famous / elastica, is of rapid
growth and well adapted to our soil. Will
stand but little frost. A most beautiful pot
plant for decorative work, in contrast with
palms, draczenas, etc. 15 cents each, $1.50
per dozen.

F. elastica. The true RUBBER TREE of
Upper India, extending to the Chinese
boundary. A splendid decorative species.

One of the choicest

$1 each.
F. glomerata. 50 cents each.
F. repens. A pretty trailing or climbing

species, valuable for covering walls, etc.
15 cents.

FICUS ELASTICA.

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, 75

GALPHINIA nitida. A pretty
shrub, originally from India. Hardy
here. Flowers yellow, and freely pro-
duced. 25 cents each.

GARDENIA florida. Carr JEssa-
MINE. (Jasmine del Cabo.) A well
known and very popular plant, pro-
ducing its large, fragrant white flowers
from May to September. A native of
China, instead of the Cape of Good
Hope, as the name implies. Hardy
throughout the lower South. Makes a
very beautiful ornamental hedge. Add
to the beauty and fragrance of the
Gardenia the fact that just now they
are extremely fashionable in that ca-
“pricious metropolis known as New
York, and we know of no plant more
desirable.

Price, small, well-rooted, 15 cents
each, $1.50 per dozen, $10 per hundred ;
10 to 18 inches, 30 cents each, $3 per
dozen ; 18 inches to 2% feet, $1 each.
G. lucida. Species from Lucknow.

$1 each.

GARUGA pinnata.

each.
GERANIUM. (See Felargonium.)
GAILLARDIA Drummondi. 25

cents each.
G. Laurenjiana. 25 cents each.

GENIPA clusizefolia. SEVEN

India. 50 cts.

YEARS’ APPLE. Another of South Flor-
ida’s coast plants, deserving cultivation

on account of its exquisitely-scented

jessamine-like white flowers. 25 cents

“NMIGWMTE DISS =

GLADIOLUS.

FLEMINGIA strobilifera. An Indian

plant, perhaps furnishing esculent tubers.
75 cents eacn.

FORSYTHIA Sieboldii. A _ valuable

hardy ornamental shrub, with drooping yel-
low flowers.

FOURCROYA Cubensis (?) The Four-
croyas are very desirable plants for the center
of large tubs and pots of plants, for room,
hall, or out-door summer decoration North.
Will make splendid specimens planted out in
South Florida. They very much resemble
some species of Agaves, though leaves are
generally more upright-growing. Also highly
recommended as fibre plants. 50 cents to $2
each.

F. pubescens. 75 cents each.

FRAGARIA Indica. 25 cents each.
FUCHSIA. As Fuchsias are rather dif-

ficult to ‘‘summer’’ in South Florida, we
keep but a few plants of the best kifids. 25
cents each.

FUNKIA subcordata.

LILY. .25 cents each.

WHITE Day

each.

GOLDFUSSIA anisophylla.
Fine winter-flowering plant with blue
flowers. 50 cents each.

GLADIOLUS Gandavensis. Beautiful
summer flowering bulbs, well-known and of
easy cultivation.

HYBRIDS.

Antonius. Scarlet cherry, tinged with
orange; flamed carmine, pure white
blotch.

Angele. White, tinged with flesh-color.

Brenchleyensis. Bright vermilion scarlet.
20 cents each.

Eugene Scribe. Rose, blazed with crimson.

Isaac Buchanan. Fine yellow.

John Bull. White, tinted with yellow and
lilac.

Louis Van Houtte.
purple stains.

Napoleon III. Bright scarlet, the center of
the petals white striped.

Princess of Wales. White,
rosy carmine.

Velvety carmine with

flamed with

Stella. White, tinted with yellow and car-
mine.

Thalia. White, flamed and streaked with
carmine.

Price of named Gladiolus, except where
noted, 40 cents each; unnamed varieties,
good colors, our selection, 20 cents each, $2
per dozen.

GLOXINIA. Good varieties.

76 REASONER BROS.:, MANATEE, FLORIDA:

GOMPHOCARPUS albens. An

ornamental plant from Natal.

GORDONIA lasianthus. LABLoL-
LY BAy. A native tree that should be
more cultivated. A handsome ever-
green shrub or tree, with lovely snow-
white flowers three inches in diameter,
produced all summer. Will bloom
when very small. Hardy as far North
as ee perhaps further. 25 cents
each.

GEHELSEMIUM sempervirens.
CAROLINA YELLOW JESSAMINE. Not
cultivated to the extent it deserves.
Will grow on any land, rich or poor,
wet or dry. Quick growing, and for
several weeks in the spring literally
covered with its lovely fragrant yellow

flowers. One of the very best of our
hardy climbers. 15 cents each, $1.50
per dozen.

GUILANDINA Bonduc.

Cesalpinia.

GREWIA denticulata. $1 each.
G. sp. $1 each.

GREVILLEA robusta. A beauti-
ful Australian shade and lawn tree,
nearly hardy in Florida. Leaves fern-
like, very beautiful; flowers golden
yellow.

HAMELIA patens. Another deserving
Florida plant, escaped from the West Indies.
Rarely killed by frost, and sprouting up
readily when it is. Leaves of a purplish hue,
and flowers bright orange red. A good green-
house plant. Always in bloom, in summer.
15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

HABROTHAMNUS. (See Cestrum.)
HEMEROCALLIS Kwanso. Day-

LiLy. Lily-like flowers, in bloom allsummer.

Orange yellow. 20 cents each.

H. Kwanso fl. pl. Flowers double. 50
cents each.

HELICTERES Isora. India;

following species. 75 cents each.
H. hirsuta. 75 cents each.

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HAMELIA PATENS.

HELICONIA.

HELICONIA. Batisier. These magnifi-

cent plants are natives of Tropical America,
where they rival even the bananas in beauty
and magnificence of foliage. The plantain-
like leaves are follwed by, great scarlet and
black blossom-sheaths of the richest tints and
celors. The Heliconias are very rare in the
United States, even in the choicest collections
of plants. We can supply three species of
these grand plants. Probably available for
scenic culture in Florida wherever the banana
can be grown successfully. The Heliconias
like plenty of moisture. $1 each.

HEDERA helix. The true ENGLISH or
KENILWORTH Ivy. A valuable and well-
known evergreen climber, hardy as far north
as Philadelphia. In Florida prefers the north
side of a house or wall. 20 cents each.
H. helix var. VARIEGATED Ivy. Leaves
beautifully variegated with white. 30
cents each.

HELIOTROPIUM. HeEtiorrope. The
exquisitely fragrant flowers of the Helio-
trope are known and appreciated by every-
one. Fortunately it is always /ashiona-
dle, as well as beautiful, delicate and
sweer, so it may be enjoyed freely.
Bernice. Deep lilac.

Beauty of Bordeaux. Lavender.

Caroline des Antoines. Lilac blue.

Mad. Blonay. Nearly white.

Roi,des Noirs. Very dark violet purple,
with white eye.

Snow Wreath. Pure white.

Price of Heliotropes, 25 cents each.
HELIOTROPIUM Indicum.
each.

HETHROPHRAGMA chelonoides:

India. 50 cents each.

to cents

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT:

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HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS.

HEDYCHIUM Gardnerianum. Gar-
LAND FLOWER of India. Flowers light yel-
low.

H. coronarium. GINGER LILY, BUTTER-
FLY LILy. This magnificent plant flour-
ishes best on low moist land, in half-shade,
where it will form a dense clump three or
four feet high. In August and September a
mass of fragrant pure white flowers, look-
ing almost exactly like large white butter-
flies; borne in large clusters, terminal on
every stalk. A splendid and desirable
plant. 30 cents each, $3 per dozen.

H. species. 50 cents each.

HIBISCUS coccineus. A splendid spe-
cies, native in the swamps of Georgia. Flow-
ers large, red, very showy. 15 cents each,
$1.50 per dozen.

H. grandiflorus. Swamps of Southern
States. Flower four to six inches in diam-
eter, pale rose or white.
plant. 25 cents each.

H. Lampas.

very showy. 50 cents each.
H. mutabilis. MEXICAN

showy flowers, white and pink, changeable.
A native of China. 25 cents each.
»H. macrophyllus. 50 cents each.

H. species. 50 cents each.

H. Sabdariffa. (See Economical Plants.)

H. tricuspis. 50 cents each.

H. tiliaceus, var. tortuosus. As all the
species of Hibiscus are more or less val-
uable for their fibre, (besides being very
ornamental plants) it is scarcely necessary
to mention it of every species. Most of the
species named are natives of India and the
East. This variety is the mazagua of Cen-

tral America and the West Indies, where its |
It is little

fibre is much used for cordage.
affected by moisture, and is, therefore, se-
lected by surveyors for measuring lines. It
is the do/a of Bengal, and is found through-
out tropical and sub-tropical regions of
both continents. ‘* Cultivated in America
prior to 1492.’’ 25 cents each.
H. vitifolius. 50 cents each.

HIBISCUS Rosa-Sinensis. CHINESE
Hisiscus. These showy and well known
plants are among the most valuable lawn or

In favoras a lawn |

With many of the genus, |
perhaps available for fibre, besides being |

ROSE, COTTON |
Rose. A good lawn plant, hardy here; the |

HIBISCU S— Continued.

garden plants for Florida. They stand but

little frost, but are of such quick growth from

a well established root, that even the occa-

sional loss of the tops is not a serious matter.

Bank up for a few inches in the fall. In the

course of a few favorable seasons some of the

varieties will reach a height of ten to twelve
feet, blooming profusely from one year’s end
to the other.

H. Rosa-Sinensis. Deep pink, with darker
center. Flowers very large. Plant most
vigorous of all. 25 cents each.

H. Rosa-Sinensis. Scarlet; single, undu-
lated petals. A beautiful variety. 3ocents.

.Baptistii. Dark red, double.

Brilliantissima. ‘‘ The largest-flowered
of all the single varieties; color brilliant
crimson scarlet, flushéd with orange, the
base of petals deep crimson.”’

Carminatus perfectus. Flowers large,
five inches in diameter ; undulated petals
of a rich carmine rose color, with deep
crimson eye.

Cooperi tricolor. A beautiful variegated
leaved plant, with bright crimson flowers.
Leaves white and green, mottled and
veined with red and rose color.

Fulgidus. Flowers single, carmine scar-
let ; on each petal a blotch of deep crimson.

Grandifiorus. Rosy crimson.
Kermesinus. Double; rich carmine crim-
son.

Lutea plena. Double yellow.
Miniatus semi-plenus. Semi-double ;
brilliant scarlet; petals waved and re-
curved.
Rubra plena.
Sub-violaceus.

Double scarlet.
Flower six inches in

diameter, bright crimson, tinted with
violet ; semi-double.
Versicolor. Single, mottled crimson and
white.
Zebrinus.

Price of Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis, except
where noted, 50 cents each.

HIBISCUS Syriacus. ALTH#aA. A
hardy plant of great value for lawn planting ;
deciduous.

H. Syriacus purpurea. Flowers single

purple. 25 cents each.
H. Syriacus albus. Single white. 15 cts.
H. Syriacus albus flore pleno. Double
white. 25 cents each.
H. Syriacus roseus. Single pink. 25 cts.

HOYA carnosa. Wax PLant. A well
known greenhouse climber, with waxy leaves
and flowers. 25 cents each.

HOYA CARNOSA.

78 REASONER BROS.; MANATEE, FLORIDA,

HURA crepitans. The SAND-Box
TREE of the West Indies. A famous
and beautiful tropical shade tree. 75
cents each.

HYDRANGEA. Splendid plants
for out-door culturein Florida. Hardy
here. Flowers changeable.

H. cyanoclada. Flowers rose color ;
stems dark purple; good bloomer.
Ceerulea. Flowers bluish rose.
Hortensis. Pink. Hydrangeas like

plenty of moisture and shade, or
partial shade is of benefit.

Otaksa. Flowers pink, tinted with
blue ; good bloomer.

Paniculata grandiflora. Thehardy
Hydrangea. Flowers white, in
immense trusses.

Scandens. A fine climbing variety,
with white flowers.

Schizophragma hydrangeoides.
Another climbing sort. Flowers white. IMPATIENS Sultani. The SuLTAN’s

IMPATIENS SULTANI.

Thomas Hogg. Flowers large, pure BALSAM. Flowers bright rosy pink; a good
white ; valuable for cemetery decoration, blooming plant. 25 cents each.
as a pot plant or in open ground here.
Price of Hydrangeas, 30 cents each. ILEX Dahoon. Danoon Hotty of the
reo southern states. One of our most valuable
INGA. (See Albizzia.) broad-leaved evergreens. Leaves richest

glossy green, tree covered with
bright red shining berries in fall
or winter. Small, 25 centseach, ~
$2.50 per dozen.

INDIGOFEBRA pulchella.
50 cents each.

IRIS. Several sorts. 15 cents
each.
I. hexagona. A handsome
native blue-flowered species.
10 cents each.

ISOTOMA longiflora. A
small plant, producing pretty
Jessamine-like white flowers.
50 cents each.

IPOMA\A Bona-nox. Moon
FLOWER. A handsome white-
flowered native species recently
brought out and advertised ex-
tensively north under the names
I. noctifiora, I. noctiphyton,
Calonyction spectosum, C.
grandifiorum, etc. The original
old name is good enough for it,
and other names, when syno-
nyms are not given, are confus-
ing. Flowers three or four
inches in diameter, opening at
night. Vine a very rampant
grower. 10 cents each, $1 per
dozen, $8 per hundred.

I. coccinea. . Constantinople.
Flowers small, red. 10 cents
each.

I. dasysperma. India. 15 cts.
each.

I. Michauxi. Another hand-
some native night-blooming
species. Fiowers purplish
white with purpleeye. 15 cts.
each.

I. pentaphylla. Strong grow-

-ing species from Saharanpur.

MOON FLOWER. 30 cents each.

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IPOM AH A— Continued.

I. pandurata. MAN-OF-THE-EARTH. Beau-

tiful hardy species. 25 cents each.

I. pes-capree. GOAT’s Foot IPOM#A. Our
native species, found on sand-beaches.
Flowers purplish-pink. 25 cents each.

. Quamoclit. CYPRESS VINE. ro cts.each.

. sepiaria. India. 15 cents each.

. Sinuata (JZ. guercifolia.) This beautiful
species is a native or naturalized in Florida.
White, with rosy centre; flowers two and
a half inches in diameter; opens in the
morning ; leaves delicately lobed and cleft.
The prettiest and most delicate of all the
Ipomezeas. 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

I. turpethrum. India. 30 cents each.

T&S We have half-a-dozen other perennial
Ipomzas with names yet undetermined. Many
of them are very beautiful. Our selection of
Ipomeeas, six plants, all distinct, 50 cents.

JACQUINIA armillaris. “A low tree,
with ieaves somewhat like box, but obovate,
and racemes of little white flowers of a deli-
cious honey scent.
not yet, introduced into England, as a charm-
ing addition to the winter hot-house.”—
Kingsley. 75 cents each.

J. ruscifolia. From Calcutta. 75 cents each.

JACARANDA mimoseefolia. The

Brazilian ROSE-wooD TREE.
JASMINUM. Jessamine. Jessamines are

favorites everywhere on account of their com-

bined beauty and fragrance. They are among

the best of perfumery plants, many hundreds

O acres being devoted to their culture in

Italy and Southern France. For the so-called

““Cape Jessamine,’’ see Gardenia.

J. humile. Our introduction, from Calcutta.
Has not yet flowered for us. 50cents each.

J. grandiflorum. CATALONIAN JESSAMINE.
Flowers white, very fragrant A shrubby,
half climbing species. 25 cents each.

J. multifiorum.

J. revolutum. A _ yellow-flowered, hardy
species, not twining. 50 cents each,

J. gracilliimum. Jasminum Gracillimum is
one of the most distinct in its graceful habit
and in the abundance of its large sweet-
scented flowers, which are also more copi-
ously produced. It appears to be a small
species, with long, very slender branches

meee

It ought to be, if it be |

JASMINU M—Contimued.

springing from low down on the stem, and
curving over on all sides, weighed down by
terminal globose panicles. A flowering
shoot is produced from every joint, which
terminates in a dense cluster of pure white
fragrant flowers.’’—Sau/. 30 cents each,
$3 per dozen.

J. Sambac. ARABIAN JESSAMINE. Flowers
single, white, deliciously fragrant ; climb-
ing. 25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

J. Sambac flore pleno. Flowers double.
50 cents each.

J. Sambac, Grand Duke of Tuscany. A
shrubby variety, with very large white
flowers, very double. Among the most fra-
grant of all. 25 cents each, $2.50 per doz.

JATROPHA curcas. FRENCH PHYSIC
Nut. West Indies. Large ornamental-
leaved plant, of medicinal value. 50 cents
each, large.

J. gossypifolia. 50 cents each.

J. podagrica. 50 cents each.

J. pandureefolia. BANJO-LEAVED JATRO-
PHA. Flowers bright red and showy; a
dwarf, very slow growing species, difficult
of propagation. 50 cents each.

JUSTICIA coccinea. A quick growing,
tender greenhouse plant, producing clusters

JASMINUM SAMBAC FLORE PLENO.

80 REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA.

JUSTICIA— Continued.

of beautiful scarlet flowers; leaves green.

25 cents each.

J. rubra. Leaves rich wine color. A splen-
did ornamental-leaved plant : tender, as are
all the varieties. 30 cents each.

? Variety with leaves white and

green, marbled. A beautiful plant. 25

cents each.

? Variety with leaves mottled pur-

ple and wine color. 25 cents each.

KIGHELIA pinnata. (See Economical
Plants.)

KLEINHOVIA hospita. A low branch-
ing tree from the Malay Archipelago; the
bruised leaves exhale a perfume similar to
that of the violet. Of some value as a fibre
plant. 75 cents each.

KYDIA calycina. 50 cents each.

LASIANDRA macrantha. “A magni-
ficent plant of good habit, and a most profuse
bloomer ; the flowers are rich violet blue, be-
tween five and six inches in diameter, and
produced nearly all the year through.’’—Sawz/.
50 cents each, $5 per dozen.

LAGERSTRGMIA Indica. CRAPE
MyrTLE. Too much cannot be said in favor
of the delicate-flowered Lagerstrcemias ; uni-
versal favorites in the south, and deservedly
so. Deciduous shrubs, hardy in the southern
states, and producing, throughout the sum-
mer, great clusters of delicately fringed flow-
ers.

L. I. rosea. Flowers light pink. The fa-
vorite old variety. 10 to 50 cents each, $1
to $5 per dozen.

Alba. Flowers white. 25 cents each.

Purpurea. Flowers purple. 50 cts. each.

Saharanpur. Foliage large, distinct.
Flowers very dark pink, much richer

J.

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color than the old variety. Branches }

graceful and willowy. Our own intro-
duction. 50. cents each.
L. Barclayana. 75 cents each.
L. Reginee. New species from Central Hin-
dostan. 75 cents each.

LEEBA laeta. India; also the two follow-
ing species.
L. macrophylla.
L. sambucina.
50 cents each.

LEPTODERMIS lanceolata. 5o0c. each.

LEONOTIS leonurus. Lion’s Tait. A
showy plant from Natal and Cape Colony,
long known in choice collections, but recently
brought to light and advertised by a leading
New York florist. Spikes bright orange color.
Said to have medicinal value. 30 cents each,
$3 per dozen.

LAGERSTRGMIA INDICA.

LILIUM HARRISII.

LANTANA. The Lantanas are favorite
showy plants for the open ground; colors
often changeable. Easily grown and satisfac-
tory plants. Varieties and species:

L. Camara. Flowers deep yellow, chang-
ing to orange and red.
Comtesse de Biencourt. Bright rose,
° with orange center; dwarf.
Delicatissima.
Fulgens. Yellow and orange.
Gissell.
La Niege.
Lina. Etniger.
Meteor.
Rosea. Pink.
Sellowiana. Southern Brazil. Flowers
reddish purple.
Var. from Cuba. Flowers dark pinkish
purple, tinged with chocolate.
Snowball. White.
Triumph. Dark orange.
Triumph du Commerce.

Price of Lantanas, 15 cents each.

LILIUM. LILIEs.

‘“ Innocence, bride of man’s childhood,

Innocence, child beloved, is a guest from
the world of the blest—

Beautiful, and in her hand a lily.”

In rich moist land many of the Lilies
succeed admirably in Florida. Care should
be taken that they have ‘horough drainage ,
some shade is also beneficial. Lilies when
once established dislike to be moved often.

L. Catesbeei. The SOUTHERN RED LILY.
15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

L. candidum. Pure white; large and fra-
grant. 4o cents each. |
L. Harrisii. BERMUDA EASTER LILy. Pure
white, fragrant, and very free flowering. 75

cents each.

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L. Halleana.

L. Persica

LYCOPODIUM.
MARANTA. Beautiful ornamental leaved

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LONICERA.

LILIU M—Coxtinued.

L. longiflorum. EASTER LILy. One of the
best of all. Grows exceedingly well in
Florida under proper conditions. Flowers
pure white, very fragrant. 20 cents each.

L. Tigrinum. TIGER LILY. 20 cents each,

LINARIA cymbalaria. A delicate little

trailing or basket plant. io cents each.

LONICERA. HONEYSUCKLE. Favorites in

cultivation everywhere; perhaps for general

culture under all sorts of circumstances, can

be recommended more highly than any other
class of hardy climbers.

L. brachypoda aurea reticulata. JAPAN
GOLDEN-LEAVED HONEYSUCKLE. Foliage
variegated with yellow. 25 cents each.

L. caprifolium. (?) FRAGRANT EUROPEAN
‘“HONEYSUCKLE. 25 cents each.

L. Chinensis sempervirens. CHINESE
EVERGREEN HONEYSUCKLE. Foliage with
arich purple tinge. Flowers pinkish. 25
cents each.

HALL’S JAPAN HONEYSUCKLE.

Very strong-growing. Everblooming, flow-

ers white, changing to yellow; very fra-

grant. One of the best in cultivation. Io
cents each, $1 per dozen, $8 per Ioo.

(2) PERSIAN HONEYSUCKLE.

This variety is covered with a perfect sheet

of bloom in April; the most beautiful and

fragrant of all. Blossoms produced at in-

tervals afterward, through the summer. 25

MAGNOLIA glauca.

MELIA Azedarach.

MEZONEURON cuculatum.

cents each.

L. Periclymenum Belgicum. MONTHLY
FRAGRANT or BELGIC HONEYSUCKLE.
Flowers fragrant, red and yellow. 25 cents
each.

L. Japonica (?) Fragrant, everblooming |
sort. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen.

L. sempervirens. CORAL HONEYSUCKLE.
Flowers scarlet. Handsome native climber.
15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

L. Tartarian. TARTARICA HONEYSUCKLE.
Upright growing shrub, with pinkish-white
flowers in spring. 25 cents each.

(See Selaginella.)

plants, suitable for ferneries, or in Florida

for any moist shady spot.

M. Makoyana (?) A beautiful dwarf sort.
Leaves finely blotched and variegated, un-
der side rich purplish red. 50 cents each.

M. pulchella. Taller-growing; leaves beau-
tifully striped after the manner of Zedrina.
50 cents each.

M. Zebrina. Leaves striped green and
white. Height, one to two feet. 50 c. each. |

M. arundinacea. (See Economical Plants.) |

_MIMOSA_ pudica.

MURRAYA exotica.

MUSSGNDA frondosa.

SWEET Bay. A

beautiful native broad-leaved evergreen, with

glossy green leaves, silvery white on the
under side, and fragrant creamy white flow-
ers. 50 cents each.

M. grandiflora. The most magnificent of
all our southern broad-leaved evergreens.
Blooms when quite small. 5o0cents each.

M. fuscata. The BANANA SHRUB. Dwarf
growing variety, covered with a profusion
of small flowers in Apriland May, of most
exquisite fragrance, similar to that ofa
ripe banana. 75 cents each.

CHINA TREE,

PRIDE OF INDIA. 25 cents each.

M. Azedarach var. umbraculiformis.
UMBRELLA CHINA TREE. A more shapely
form of the old Indian species, widely ad-
vertised under the name of 7exas Um-
brella Tree, etc. One of our very best
hardy, deciduous shade trees; leaves very
rich green, and hanging on later than the
old China tree. Shade, dense; form of
tree, an almost perfect umbrella. Two to
four feet, 20 cents each, $2 per dozen, $15
per 100; four to six feet, 40 cents each, $4
per dozen ; extra large, six to twelve feet,
$1 each.

M. A. umbraculiformis fol. var.

M. sempervirens. Under this name we re-
ceived seeds from Calcutta last spring. The
young plants have grown with all the vigor
of M. Azedarach, which they much resem-
ble. Should the species hold true to its name
here (sempervirens, i. e.,: evergreen) and
prove as hardy as the China Tree, it will
be a most valuable acquisition to our list of
shade trees. 75 cents each.

MEDICA obtusa. From Singapore.
MEYENIA erecta. A most valuable plant

‘for the open ground in South Florida, or as a
pot-plant, producing through the summer,
beautiful gloxinia-like flowers of the brightest
blue color. 15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

50 cents
each, $5 per dozen.

_MILLETIA auriculata. The powdered

seeds of this or a nearly allied species are
used in Abyssinia to stupefy fish. 75 c. each.

SENSITIVE PLANT.
10 cents each.
M. rubricaulis. to cents each.

A rare Indian
plant of the Citrus tribe, of which Mr. E. H.
Hart says: ‘‘I have bloomed it in previous
years, but found it extremely sensitive to cold,
so that if the tips of the branches are touched
with frost it dies out root and branch, even
though the lower parts are covered with
earth. It is a very handsome free-growing
shrub, with pinnate leaves shaped like those
of the citrus, only smaller, and produces white
blooms about the size of those of Gardenia
citriodora, and most exquisitely scented. I
would not grudge any amount of trouble to
have a well-grown plant of it in bloom near
my house.’”’ $1 each.

An’ exotic
greenhouse climber, producing small yellow
flowers surrounded by pure white bracts. 25
cents each.

80 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA,

MUSA— Continued.
Musa Ensete prefers a clay soil, and will
luxuriate in all the manure one dares to
give it. $1 each; two to three feet, $2 each.

M. Martini.

M. superba.

M. Zebrina. Beautiful dwarf, slender-grow-
ing species, with leaves heavily blotched
and striped with wine-color, and under side
of richest wine-color. $3 each.

MONSTERA bBorsigiana. A gigantic
aroid plant from Central America, with im-
mense deeply cut leaves. $3 to $5 each.

M. deliciosa. (Pertusa.) (See Tropical
Fruit Plants.)

MYRSIPHYLLUM asparagoides.

SMILAX. 15 cents each.

MYRSINE Africana. AFRICAN MyRTLE.

Flowers purple. 75 cents each.

M. Floridiana. A tender native broad-
leaved evergreen, with beautiful glossy
green foliage. Of much value as a decora-
tive plant. 25 cents each.

MUSA ENSETE. M. semi-serrata.

NARAVHELIA Zeylanica. 75 cts. each.

MUSA. BANANA. “AS for the plant on N RCISSUS IN
; : A ‘ re among the best of
which they grow, no mere words can picture | “in0 “Dutch” bulbs for Florida. Well known
the simple grandeur and grace of a form BON ee E y

which startles me whenever I look steadily at 5S UU ICy ace OES NARCIESIE,

it ; I er common it is—non - : : :
ee era: Paes epee adhe Sieshiee Flowers white; valuable winter and spring
cay , blooming plant. 75 cents each.

perfect in itself, that, like a palm, it might well : i
| have become, in early ages, an object of wor- ~ pate ray iiage eat eee Narcis
ship. And who knows that it has not? Who wee NL TAN OE LOR CUE OW eNO Uc.

knows that there have not been races who N. Jonquilla. Jonour. Flowers yellow,

looked on it as the red Indian looked on :
Mondamin, the maize plant—as a gift of agod fragrant, and everywhere favorites. 10 cts.

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—perhaps the incarnation of a god? ‘Who S200.n.

| knows? # # * %# # Most | NELUMBIUM speciosum. (Aquatic.)
| beautiful is it. The lush fat green stem; the The SAcRED Lotus of the Nile. This grand
crown of leaves, falling over in curves like water lily will not grow in our sandy bottom
| those of human limbs; and below, the whorls ponds, but thrives well in a tub, or half a ker-
| of green or golden fruit, with the purple osene barrel one-third full of clay soil and
| heart of flowers dangling below them, and manure, filled up with water. Flowers pink.

| all so full of life, that this splendid object is $1 each.
the product of a few months.’’—Kingsley. '
je For fruit-bearing varieties, see Tropi- AMA QA
cal Fruit Plants. A \S\ \\
M. Ensete. The ABYSSINIAN BANANA, \\
BRUCE’S BANANA. A native of the moun-
tains of Abyssinia. ‘This magnificent
plant attains a height of thirty feet, the ~
leaves occasionally reaching the length of Qe
twenty feet, with a width of three feet,
being perhaps the largest in the whole em-
pire of plants, exceeding those of Stvelitzia
and Ruvenala, and surpassing even in
| ; quadrate measurement those of the grand
water plant Victoria regia, while also ex- SN ‘
| celling in comparative circumference the cl
largest compound frond of Angiopteris
evecta or the divided leaf of Godwinia
gigas, though the compound leaves of some
palms are still larger. The inner part of
the stem and the young spike of the Ensete
can be boiled to serve as a table esculent,
but the fruit is pulpless. The plant pro-
duces no suckers and requires several years
to come into flower and seed, when it dies
off like the Sago plant, the Caryota palm,
and others, which flower but once without ;
reproduction from the root.’”’--Von Mueller. NARCISSUS TOTUS ALBUS.

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NEMASTYLIS ccelestina. <A _ bulbous |
plant, native of Georgia and North Florida,
producing, throughout the summer, flowers
of a delicate sky-blue color. Can be grown
north like the gladiolus and other summer
blooming bulbs. 15 cents each.

NERIUM. OLEANDER. The possibilities of |
the Oleander for Florida, in an ornamental
sense, are very great. Hedges can be grown
rivalling in beauty the famous Oleander |
hedges of the Bermudas. Lawns and yards
can be made to ‘‘ blossom as the rose”’ by the
use of the Oleander, planted singly or in |
clumps. Perfectly hardy when full-grown,
almost rivaling the rose in fragrance, and of |
almost any desired color, succeeding on any |
quality of land; there is no class of shrubs |
that surpass it for general and extensive
planting.

N. album. Single white ; very free-flowering.

20 cents each, $2 per dozen. Bs

N. album fl. pl. Double white. 25 cts. each.

N. atropurpureum plenum. Double ; flow-
ers purplish crimson. 50 cents each.

N. carneum. Single white, with pink lines
in the throat. Very free-flowering. 25 cents
each.

N. gloriosum. Newest double pink.
cents each.

N. Lilian Henderson.
white. 75 cents each.

N. Madoni grandiflorum. Choicest double
white. 50 cents each. |

N. roseum. Light single pink ; very florifer- |
ous. A beautiful variety. 5o0centseach. |

N. rosea splendens. Double pink ; fragrant.
15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen, $12 per
hundred. ‘

NYCTANTHES arbor-tristis. ‘India,
up to Assam. This arborescent shrub may
be grown in any moist regions free from frost,
for the exquisite fragrance of its flowers, from
which essence of Jasmin can be obtained.’’—
Von Mueller. Our own introduction from

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India. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.
NYMPHAHA alba. (Aquatic.) 75 cents
each.
N. stellata. 75 cents each. |
N. flava. The rare yellow Nymphza of
Florida. $1 each.

N. odorata. 50 cents each.
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OXALIS. Favorite pot plants; also suc
ceed here in open ground.
O. floribunda alba. Flowers white.
O. rosea. Flowers pink.

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ro cents each.

OLEA species nova, non descripta.
WILD OLIVE. A native broad-leaved ever-
green resembling O. Americana, but with
larger fruit. 25 cents each.
O. fragrans. TEA-OLIVE.

shrub. 50 cents each.

OPHIOXYLON serpentinum.

each.

ORCHIPEDA fcetida. 50 cents each.
ORMOCARPUM glabrum.

each.
OMPHALODES longiflora.
OSYRIS arborea. 75 cents each.

ORONTIUM aquaticum. GOLDEN CLUB.
Hardy native aquatic. 25 cents each.

OTHONNA crassifolia. Succulent.

cents each.

PACHYPHYTUM Hookerianum,

succulent plant of choice collections. 25 c.

PARDANTHUS Chinensis. BLAck-
BERRY LiLy. Succeeds admirably in Florida.
25 cents each.

PARKINSONIA aculeata. A _ hand-
some hardy shrub, found from California to
Montevideo; useful as a hedge plant, and
very ornamental. Leaves long, pinnate.
Flowers yellow and showy. 25 cents each,
$2.50 per dozen.

PAULOWNIA imperialis. Empress
TREE. A large leaved, rapid growing hardy
tree, bearing large panicles of light blue
flowers, fragrant and pretty.

PEDILANTHUS tithymaloides.
Birp-Cactus. A West Indian plant with
thick fleshy leaves and small red showy flow-
ers. 25 cents each.

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PASSIFLORA. Passion FLower. A fam-

ous genus of ornamental climbers. Flowers
very beautiful. Many are hardy here. (For
varieties producing edible fruit, see Tropical
Fruit Plants.)

P. alba.

Arc-en-ciel.

Coccinea.

Cerulea. Purplish-blue flowers. 50 cents.
Constance Elliott. 75 cents each.
Decaisneana.

Foetida. 50 cents each.

Gracilis.

Hybrida. Dr. Wittmach.

Kermesin.

. Loudoni.

Loudonia-princeps.

Minima. 50 cents each.

Pfordatii.

Princeps-coccinea.

PANCRATIUM Hymenocallis. At

last ‘‘fickle fortune’’ has smiled upon the

lovely Pancratium, though rarely does she

notice anything so lovely. We notice from

Miss Emily Louise Taplin in a late number of

The American Florist, that ‘‘last winter

Amaryllis, Vallota and Pancratium sold fair-

ly well and were much admired. They are

handsome and striking, and show up much
better than finer flowers in decorative work.

The Pancratium is additionally attractive

through its delicious odor.’’ Well, well, Miss

Emily, who would have thought that people

were to be allowed to look at Pancratiums!

P. Caribbeum. SPIDER LILY, SPANISH
Lity. A bulb of easiest culture, producing
large clusters of fragrant flowers, a few
plants giving a succession of bloom all
summer. Color, pure white. 15 cents each,
$1.50 per dozen, $12 per hundred.

P. rotatum. Plant smaller than P. Carib-
bg@um, spike bearing one or two large white
fragrant flowers. 15 cents each, $1.50 per
dozen.

PANCRATIU M—Continued.

P. ovatum. One of the most beautiful and
fragrant of the genus. Flowers in immense
trusses.

| PREARGONIUM. Grranrune |Cemne

iums cannot be bedded out satisfactorily in
Florida unless protected by screens of cheese-
cloth or other light material. This does not
apply to the Rose Geranium and other scented
leaved sorts, which flourish like weeds in the
open ground.

GENERAL LIST OF GERANIUMS, ZONALE,
NOSEGAY, SCENTED-LEAVED, ETC.

Asa Gray. Fine double pink.

Advance.

Amelia Baltet.

Abbe Legaze.

Asteroid.

Annie Creamer.

Annie Hippard.

Ami Hoste.

Bishop Wood. Scarlet, shading to vermilion-
Double.

Beauty of Oxton. A fine Pelargonium.

Beauty of the West.

Beatrice. Yellowish salmon, center white.
Single.

Boule de Niege.

Beauty of Oxford. ;

Beacon. Deep crimson-scarlet, white eye.
Single.

Belle Nancienne. Rose and salmon. Double.

Beauty.

Col. Holden.

Christine.

Chicago. Single pink.

Cloth of Gold. Leaves yellow and light
green.

Crimson Velvet. Rich dark velvety crim-
son. Double. :
Chas. Darwin. Dark violet crimson. Single.

Clemence Routard.

Caulderdale.

C. H. de Choiseul.

Colleen Bawn.

Cammell La Coure.

Dr. Jacoby. Nankeen salmon. Double.

Duke of Edinburgh. Ivy leaf.

De Brazza. Ivy-leaf; flowers rose-colored.

Dr. Denny. Crimson violet, marked with
scarlet.

Dazzler. Scarlet, large white eye. Single.

Ernest Lauth. Deep violet. Double.

Evening Star.

Hd. Sutton.

Enyla.

HEmancipe.

Flocon de Niege. Pure white. Double.

Fairy King.

Gil Blas. Cherry and crimson. Doubie.

Ghost. ,

Gertude.

Gen. Sherman. Dark double red. Good.

Grand Chancellor. Violetcrimson. Double.

Garfield.

Gen. Hood.

Gen. Lafayette. Rose. Double.

Gilded Gold.

Galleon.

Happy Thought. Center of leaf. yellow
bordered green.

Harry King. Brilliant scarlet. Single.

Harriet Thorpe.

Haysii. Single scarlet.

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PELARGONIUM (Geranium)— Continued.

Heroine. White.

Heroid.

Henry Cannell. Violet and red. Double.

Hazel Kirk. Scarlet, shaded with vermilion.
Double.

Hybrida. (Pelargonium. )

Instatuter Deleval.

Jane.

Jeanie Dolfus. Deep magenta. Double.

Jas. Vick.

Jeanne d’Arc.

Jacquard.

Jealousy. Orange. Single.

Jas. Y. Murkland. Rose center, margined
with white. Double.

Jewel. Deep scarlet. Double.

J. Rosecrans.

PELARGONIUM (Geranium)—Continued.

Le Pilot.

Lord Granville.

Louis Gerbeaux.

Leviatoan.

Leon Simon.

La Viennice.

La Traviata.

Mrs. Garfield.
white.

Mathilda.

M. Hardy. Very light pink. Double.

Madeline.

Mad. Thibaut. Rose, shaded carmine.
Double.

Mrs. E. G. Hill. Flesh color, tinged pink.
Double.

Master Christine. Bright pink. Single.

Silver tricolor. Flowers

86

PELARGONIUM (Geranium)— Continued.

Mad. Faber.

M. Dibos.

Mrs. Moore.

Mile. Laura Daix.

Mad. Salleroi. Best white and green var-
gated.

Mad. B. Oriel.

Mrs. Sleight.

Mrs. Turpening.

Mrs. Jas. Vick.

Mrs. Pauline Porter.

Mountain of Snow.
white and green.

Mrs. Taylor. Rose scented ; scarlet flowers.
Maid of Kent. Magenta. Single.

Mrs. C. Blish.

Mrs. Chas. Pease.
Mad. Zenith.

Marvel.

Mary Hill.

Mad. Menoreau.

Mrs. Pollock. Tricolor.

Free-flowering single pink,

Leaves variegated

Red and yellow.

Magician. Bronze zonale; flowers semi-
double scarlet.

New Life. Striped scarlet and white.
Single.

Nutmeg Scented.

Negro. Crimson-purple. Double.

Naomi. Dark pink. Double.

Osterold.

Orange Perfection.

Ossie.

Peter Henderson.
of the best.

Prince Bismarck.

Purple Prince.

Peach Blossom.

Perilla. Yellow leaf, with dark zone; scar-
let flower.

Panama. Rosy salmon; largetruss ; double.

Queen Olga.

Queen of Pinks.

Quercifolia. (Oak-leaved.) Rampant grow-
ing scented variety. 10 cents each.

Rosette.

Ralph. Crimson; single.

Remarkable. Deep violet

Reumberto. Semi double orange.

Rev. Wm. Atkinson. Dark crimson, single.
Rose-Scented. Rampant grower in Florida.
10 cents each.
Robert George.
Ruby Triumph.
Sam. Sloane. Deep crimson; single.

St. Elmo.
Silver Cloud.
with white.

S. A. Nutt.

Spalding’s Pet.

Styro.

Salmon Queen.

Tintamarre.

Tillas.

Unique.

Vice President Joly.

W. K. Harris.

Wonderful.

Wm. HK. Gladstone.

White Perfection.
ering.

Wm. Hamilton.

Wilsonii.

Wm. C. Bryant.

White Clipper.

Scarlet, double. One

Light scarlet ; single.

Leaves beautifully edged

(Ivy-leaf.)
Large truss; double.
Pure white; free-flow-

Scarlet. Semi-double.

REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA:

$$$

PELARGONIUM (Geranium)— Continued.

z= We endeavor to always keep named
varieties of Geraniums distinct, but we must
confess, that not having that nice distinction
peculiar to many florists whose highest ambi-
tion is to originate a new Geranium, we can
not see the practical difference between very
many of the named sorts.

Prices of named Geraniums, except where
noted, 25 cents each, $2.50 per doz; our se-
lection, different varieties, $2 per dozen ; un-
named Geraniums, good sorts, all distinct,
I5 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

PERIPLOCA Greeca. GRECIAN SILK
VINE. Hardy climber, with purple flowers ;
rapid grower. 25 cents each.

PANDANUS utilis. Screw PINE. A
very popular tropical plant for centers of
vases, or grown as a single specimen. In
Florida can be grown ordinarily in the open
ground. Called ‘‘Screw Pine’’ from the ar-
rangement of the leaves upon the stem. The
leaves of this species are striped red and
green, sharply serrate edges; scarce and ex-
pensive plants. $1 each.

P. Veitchii. Leaves beautifully striped white
and green. $1.50 each.

PELTOPHORUM ferrugineum. (Cz-
salpinia.) A smalltree, nearly related to the
species producing the Brasiletto wood. 75 cts.

PERSEA Carolinensis.
Bay. Small, 15 cents each.

PEPHROMIA resedzeflora. Well known

greenhouse plant. 10 cents each.
P. sp. from Guatemala. 50 cents each.

RED Bay, BULL

PHILODENDRON. (See Woustera.)
PHYLLANTHUS lanceolarius. India.
$1 each.
P. parvifolius. ¢1 each.
PHYTOLACCA purpurascens. 25 cts.

PILEA arborescens. Well known basket
plant, with delicate graceful foliage. 10 cents
each.

P. muscosa. ARTILLERY PLANT. to cents
each.
PITHHCOLOBIUM. (See Albizzia.)

PANDANUS UTILIS.

MOCK ORANGE.

PHILADELPHUS coronarius.
RINGA, MocK ORANGE. Well known hardy
shrub producing a profusion of fragrant white
flowers in spring. Favorites with
girl graduates.’’ 25 cents each.

PISCIDIA Erythrina.
WOOD.
Florida, producing racemes of flesh-colored
flowers. 25 cents each.

PIPER elongata.

JAMAICA Doc-

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT;

| POLY ALTHIA suberosa.

Sy- |

““Sweet

A tree of West Indies and South |

87

PLUMIERIA. The famous FRANGIPANI
of the West Indies. ‘‘ Then we admired the
Frangipani, a tall and almost leafless shrub
with thick, fleshy shoots, bearing, in this
species, white flowers, which have the fra-
grance peculiar to certain white blossoms, to
the jessamine, the tuberose, the orange, the
gardenia, the night-blooming cereus.’’—

Kingsley.

P. alba. Flowers white. 50 cts. to $1 each.
P. alba var. With broad leaves. $1 each.
P. acutifolia. $3 each.

P. hypoleuca. $3 each.

P. incarnata. $3 each.

P. rosea. One of the grandest flowering

shrubs in existence ; tender. $2 each.

PONGAMIA glabra. ¢1 each.
POTENTILLA argyrophylla.

layas.

Hima-

75 cts. each.
POLYANTHES tuberosa. TuBEROSE.

_ A great favorite on account of its double, fra-
grant flowers. Bulbs should be taken up in
the fall, dried, and stored in a dry warm place
through the winter. Plant out in spring, at
intervals of several weeks apart, to obtain a
succession of flowers. Divide all the bulbs
and bulblets, planting out separately. 10
cents each, $1 per dozen.

Pearl. A variety with shorter flower-spikes
than the common kind. 10 cents each, $1
per dozen.

P. tuberosa, fol. var. VARIEGATED TUBE-

ROSE. 25 cents each.

| POTHOS aurea. A beautiful variegated

“An evergreen green- |

house shrub. Blooms at one year old, flowers |

in spikes six inches long, with fifteen to
twenty or more flowers on each.
one and a half inches in diameter, of a pale
lilac color. In its season, April to June, the
plants are a mass of bloom.”—G. W. Mc-

Cluer. 25 cents each.

PLATYCODON grandifiorum.
lenbergia.)
Florida. Root tuberous-perennial,
the top dies down in winter.
Ceeruleum. Flowers blue.
Album. White.

PLUMBAGO. LEApDWworRT.
P. alba. Fowers white, small.
P. Capensis.

can be kept in bush form or trained as a
climber. Flowers light sky-blue, produced
continually. Stands drouth and water and
the brightest sunshine.

though

25 cts. each. |
A most valuable old plant; |

| POINSETTIA.

(Wah- |
Beautiful bedding plants for |

leaves creamy vellow and
50 cents each.

creeping plant ;
green, heart-shaped.

_POLYGONUM platycaulon (Coccoloba

Flowers |

platyclada.) A queer flat-stemmed plant with
small heart-shaped leaves. A striking plant
in acollection. 25 cents each.

(See Euphorbia.)

PRUNUS Caroliniana. CAROLINA LAU-
REL CHERRY. One of the handsomest broad-
leaved evergreens of the lower south. Leaves

very dark and green and glossy; flowers
white and fragrant. 25 cents each, $2.50 per
dozen.

P. nana. FLOWERING ALMOND. Well

known for its handsome rose-colored flow-
ers. 40 cents each.

| PRIMULA Sinensis. CHINESE PRIMROSE.

Should be cut back |

now and then, to produce more young |

shoots, on which the flowers are borne.
Practically hardy in South Florida. | 25 cts.
each.

P. Larpenthee. A dwarf hardy variety,
with very dark blue flowers. Should be in
every Florida garden, no matter how small.
Io cents each.

P. rosea.
rietv. 25 cents each.

P. scandens.
each.

P. Zeylanica.
75 cents each.

POINCIANA. (See Cesalpinia.)

Flowers bright pink; a fine va- |
Flowers white, small. Io cts. |

White flowers; from Ceylon. |

Several good varieties. 35 cents each.
PSORALEA corylifolia.
PSYCHOTRIA undata. A native low-

growing shrubby plant with beautifully undu-
lated leaves, and bearing showy red _ berries.
Well worth cultivation as a greenhouse plant.
15 cents each, $1.50 per dozen.

25 cents each.

PUNICA. POMEGRANATE. Ornamental

varieties.

P. alba plena. Double white.

Jas. Vick.

Legrelliz. Double scarlet, margined creamy
white.

Nana. Dwarf. Flowers bright orange-scar-
let.

Price of Punicas, 25 cents each.

88 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA.

PTEROSPERMUM acerifolium. {1.50
each.

P. suberifolium. The Pterospermums are
broad-leaved Indian evergreens, said to
have white flowers, and to reach a height of
about ten feet. Under side of the leaves of
this species, silvery white. $1 each.

PUTRANJIVA Roxburghii.
AMULET PLANT. $1 each.
P. Roxburghii tol. aur. var. $2 each.

QUERCUS virens. Live-Oak. Small,
ro.cents each, $1 per dozen, $8 per hundred.
Q. Phellos (?) WATER-OAK. Small, 15 cents

each, $1.50 per dozen.

Indian

QUISQU ALIS Indica. Indian WonpER- |

TREE. $1 each.

RANDIA floribunda. 50 cents each, $5

per dozen.

RANWOLFIA canescens. s5octs. each.
RAPHIOLEPIS ovata. Beautiful hardy

evergreen shrub with white or pink flowers.
$1 each.

RAVENALA Madagascariensis. The
famed TRAVELLER’S TREE of Madagas-
car. Thetrunk of a palm, crested with the
immense leaves of the banana, in a two-rank-
ed series. Very strange andrare. (See fron-
tispiece.) $2 and $10 each.

REYNOSIA latifolia. DARLING PLUM
of South Florida Keys.

RHEXIA ciliosa. Showy native plant.
15 cents each.

RHYNCOSPERMUM jasminoides. A

valuable evergreen hardy climber. Flowers

white and fragrant. 25 cents each.

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CALLA ETHIOPICA.

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RHAMNUS trigueter. 75 cents each.

RIBES aureum. MIssouRI CURRANT.
Hardy ornamental plant; flowers yellow. 25
cents each.

RIVINA levis. Flowers pinkish white,
in long racemes, followed by showy red ber-
ries. 25 cents each.

RICHARDIA Africana (Calla Etht-
opica.) * Die CALLA LiLy, On ily aon, Ge
NILE. We grow this good old Cape plant in
the open ground the year ’round, in a low
mucky place, even in the water, and have a
profusion of flowers from January to July.
25 cents each, $2.50 per dozen.

R. alba maculata. This beautiful plant has
large spotted leaves and is grown in the
open border, not requiring so much water
as the common Calla. It dies entirely down
in the fall (here in midsummer) and bulbs
can be kept dry until spring and then plant-
ed out (here can be left in the ground the
year round, though would be better taken
up and divided.) The fiowers are rather
smaller than those of the common Calla,
pure white, shaded with violet within, and
plentifully produced. 50 cents each.

ROSA moschata. Muscat Rose. An
extremely tall-climbing species, native of
North Africa and South Asia, ascending the
Indian mountains to 11,000 feet. Said to
be constantly in bloom, The principal spe-
cies from which the A¢tar of Roses is distilled.
25 cents each.

ROSA Indica. (Including TEA, PERPET-
UAL, NOISETTE ROSES, etc.) Our collection
of Roses is small at present, but all we offer
have been thoroughly tested here, and found
“not wanting.’’ The ‘‘Queen of Flowers ”’
needs a little petting on most of our Florida
soil, except on the best hammock lands. In
the first place, a well-drained location is nec-
essary, and next, moderately rich land. We
have had good success with Roses on the poor-
est pine land, by using the following plan,
which involves some labor and trouble, but
will pay well in the long run in any location :
Dig a hole in the ground, somewhat larger
than the intended bed of Roses, and two feet
in depth; fill to within six inches of the sur-
face with half rotten sods previously procured
from some old field, or in the woods or along
some pond where the hogs have been rooting.
(The sods and grass should be tramped down

- thoroughly, so they will not settle too much.)
The top six inches should be ordinary light
soil, with a few handsful of thoroughly rotted
and composted stable manure scattered and
mixed with the soil around the roots of each
plant, to give it a good start. The best time
to transplant Roses is in the fall and winter
months, but look out for rabbits, for they are
hungry at that time of the year, and prefer
the leaves and branches of the choicest Roses
to other kind of fodder, even to cabbage
plants. Don’t try to save the tops of your
Roses when you transplant. Cut them back
well, even to only three or four buds and
leaves is best, and in a few weeks you will be
awakened with strong, young healthy shoots
full of blossom buds.

Prune your Roses every October, cutting
back everything but a few strong healthy

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 89
TYPE OF THE NEWER TEA ROSES.
ROSA (Rose)— Continued. ROSA (Rose)— Continued.
young shoots, and you will be favored with | Armosa.* (Hermosa.) (Bourbon.) Light
buds and blossoms all winter. The best buds | rose, full and of good shape. Profuse
and flowers are from the new, young, vigor- | bloomer.

ous canes. It isa mistake to save old hide-
bound stalks year after year; cut them back
to give place to new shoots. Strong one-
year old plants from open ground, (have been |
blooming all summer), 25 cents each, except
where noted. |
(We wish it understood that we do not com- |
pete with small northern pot-grown roses,
grown under a high temperature, and offered
at low rates. We have experimented with
this class of roses to our satisfaction, and
always consider ourselves exceedingly lucky |
if we save, with much petting, 50 per cent. of
such plants. )
Agrippina.* (China.) Bright crimson ; con-
tinually in bloom.

A. K. Williams. (Hybrid Perpetual.) Car-
mine red, changing to magenta.

Bougere.* (Tea.) Double and full; deli-
cate pink ; strong grower.

Claire Carnot.* (Noisette.) Fine bright
yellow, highly fragrant ; a vigorous grower
and profuse bloomer. 25 and 50 cts. each.

Celine Forrestier.* (Noisette.) Most beau-
tiful bright yellow, full and of fine form,
very vigorous ; one of the best of the yel-
low roses, both in bud and flower, and in
habit of growth.

Comtesse de Labarthe.* (Duchesse de
Brabant.) (Tea.) Flesh rose, cupped ; full
form; one of the best of the tea-scented
roses.

go REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA,

ROSA (Rose)— Continued.

Safrano.* (Tea.) Bright apricot yellow,
changing to orange and fawn, sometimes
tinted with rose; valued highly for its
beautiful buds ; fragrant.

St. Joseph.

The Bride. (New Tea.)
Small, $1 each.

Triumph de la Exposition.

Ulrich Brunner. (Hybrid Perpetual.)
Cherry red.

Viridescens. (China.) Flowers green;
valuable only to show, botanically, that
a flower is but a collection of altered
leaves.

Washington. (Noisette.) Pure white,
very double ; good bloomer.

Wm. Jesse.

Woodland Margaret.

Pure white.

(Noisette.) Pure

white.
Zobeida Moss. (Moss rose, R. centit-
folia.) 50 cents each.

Price of Roses, except where noted, 1
year, 25 cents each. A fewtwo year old
plants of varieties marked with asterisks,
50 cents each. Small, from fall cuttings,
15 cents each.

Well-known beautiful climbing rose.
Flowers pink, blooming in April. Valua-
ble for trellises, etc., where a rank growth
is desired. 25 cents each.

R. setigera. PRAIRIE CLIMBING ROSE.
Var. Baltimore Belle. Pale blush, nearly
white, double. Best white climbing rose.
50 cents each.

|RUSSELLIA juncea. <A well-known

TYPE OF THE NEWER HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. |

ROSA (Rose)—Continued. .

Comtesse Riza du Parc. (Tea.) Coppery
rose, shaded carmine; very fragrant.

Ducher. (China.) Pure white; full.

Gen. Washington.* (Hybrid Perpetual.)
Scarlet crimson ; large, full flower.

Henry Plantier.

James Sprunt. (Noisette.)
crimson ; a magnificent bud.

Lady Warrender.* (Tea.)
creamy center.

La Pactole. (Tea.) Cream, yellow center.

La Reine. (Hybrid Perpetual.) Deep rosy
lilac.

Mad. Lawrence. (Polyantha.) Pink but-
ton rose; a very interesting miniature rose
about the size of a ten-cent piece; very
double and fragrant; a profuse bloomer.
Color, clear bright pink. 50 cents each.

Mad. Thevenot. (Hvbrid Perpetual.)
Bright red ; large and full.

Mad. Welche. (Tea.) Amber yellow, deep-
ening to orange, shaded with crimson.

Mad. Trotter. (Hybrid Perpetual.) Bright
red:

Mad. Lambard. (Tea.) Rosy bronze,
changing to salmon, shaded with carmine.

Perle des Jardins. (Tea.) Finest rich
yellow; free and vigorous, with beautiful
foliage.

Perfection des Blanches.
petual.) Snowy white; very double.

Paquerette. {Polyantha.) A beautiful va-
riety for bedding, or for edgings to rose
beds ; flowers small and double, pure white,
produced in panicles. Splendid for button-
hole bouquets.

Setina. (Noisette.) Climbing Armosa.
Flowers light rose.

Rich dark

Pure white,

(Hybrid Per-

SAPIUM Indicum.

plant. Well adapted for open ground in
South Florida. Flowers scarlet, tubular, pro-
duced on slender, rush-like stems. Leaves
very small. to cents each.

SALIX Babylonica. WEEPING WILLOW.

Well-known hardy ornamental tree. Io cents

each.

S. viminalis.
15 cents each.

‘“‘Grey’”’ Willow. 15 cents each.

“Yellow ” Willow. 15 cents each.

BASKET or OSIER WILLOW.

50 cents each.

POLYANTHA ROSE.

MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT,

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SELAGINELLA LEPIDOPHYLLA. (RESURRECTION PLANT.)

SALVIA. The Salvias are good bedders
for Florida, and favorite pot plants.
S. coccinea. Flowers red.
Mrs. Stephens. Crimson-maroon flowers ;
free bloomer. ;
Mrs. Mitchell. Bright crimson purple.
Marmorata nana. Flowers marbled scarlet

and white.

M. Issanchon. White, occasionally striped
scarlet.

Patens. Bright blue flowers.

Royal Purple.

Splendens. Bright scarlet.

Splendens alba. Pure white.
Price of Salvias, 10 cents each, $1 per dozen.

SARRACENIA variolaris. PITCHER
PLANT, SPOTTED TRUMPET-LEAF. A beau-
tiful hardy species, native of Georgia and
North Florida. Leaves white-spotted, flower
yellow. 15 cents each.

SAXIFRAGA sarmentosa. BEEF-
STEAK or STRAWBERRY GERANIUM. Well
known basket plant. Fine for ferneries or
rock-work. 10 cents each.

———? ———? SARAGATONA. A West
Indian Tree bearing yellow flowers and
white mucilaginous berries. 25 cents each.

SCHINUS molle.

TREE.
SEDUM dendroideum.

cies, hardy here; valuable for rock-work.
cents each.

SESBANIA. (See Agati.)

SEMECARPA anacardium. ¢1 each.
S. acuminata. $1 each.

SIPHONANTHUS Indicus. 25 cts. each.

CALIFORNIA PEPPER

A Mexican spe-
50

| SELAGINELLA flabellata, A most
| beautiful Guatemalan species, with large
| spreading fern-like branches. 50 cents each.
| §. Kraussiana. (Lycopodium denticula-
| tum.) A delicate West Indian species, in-
| valuable in cut-flower work. 25 cts. eacn.
| S. Braunii. (Lycopodium Willdenoviti.)
| Beautiful erect species; one of the most
| valuable for button-hole bouquets, etc.
|

|

25

cents each.
S. lepidophylla. RESURRECTION PLANT
or BIRD’s NEST Moss of Mexico. In dry

weather curls up into a nest-like ball, open-
ing in moist weather ; branches fern-like.
50 cents each.

SMILAX maculata. 50 cents each.
SOPHORA tomentosa. India.
SOLANUM jasminoides.

climber.
S. tomatillo. (?) Among the shrubbery in
the Plaza in front of the Governor’s Palace
| in Havana, we found a lovely climbing So-
lanum, with bunches of delicate blue flow-
ers, like Wistaria, and bright scarlet ber-
ries, as large asa cherry. It isa beautiful
plant and should be largely grown here in
the open ground, and in the North in every
greenhouse. 50 cents each.

_SPIRAGA. Few spring-flowering shrubs
equal the Spirzeas in abundance and beauty
of bloom. All succeed well here.

S. Billardii. Is in bloom almost all summer.
Flowers light pink. 25 cents each.

| §. Chameedrifolia. BRIDAL WREATH. Flow-
ers white, in spring. 25 cents each.

S. Reevesii. Most beautiful of all. Flow-

ers white, like miniature roses, completely

covering the branches in spring. 25 c. each.

$1 each.

Well known

92 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA.

SPARRMANNIA Africana. Beautiful
conservatory shrub (in South Florida can be
grown in open ground, usually) with large
white tlowers, blooming in fall and winter.
50 cents each.

S. acerifolia. $1 each.

STEVIA serrata.
S. serrata nana. Well known and popular
greenhouse plant. 20 cents each.

STAPELIA hirsuta. Toap Cactus.
Cactus-like plants requiring the same treat-
ment as Cacti. Cuttings, 20 cents each.

STACHYTARPHA Arabica. socents.

S. mutabilis. 50 cents each.
STEREOSPERMUM chelonoides. 75
cents each.
STEPHANOTIS floribunda.
STREPTOSOLEN Jamesonii,

bright orange,
choice greenhouse plant. 25 cents each.
STRELITZIA reginze. QUEEN PLANT.
Magnificent plant of the order Scitaminez.
Flowers bright yellow, with blue stigmas.

SYRINGA Persicum alba. WHITE LI-

Flowers

LAC. Too well known to need description. |
25 cents each. |
TABBERNAMONTANA. (Citrifolia ?)

Splendid plants, with large fragrant Garde- |
nia-like flowers, pure white, and produced in |
50 cents each, $5 per |

profusion. Tender.
dozen.

T. coronaria, fi. pl.

50 cents each.

TABERNAMONTANA.

changing to deep red. A |

TACSONIA ignea. ¢1 each.
T. molissima. The Tacsonias are nearly
related to Passiflora. $1 each.

TAMARIX Germanica. Graceful hardy
shrub, with white flowers. Weeping. 75 cts.
each.

THPHROSIA candida.
THCOMA. BIGNONIA.

of climbers.
T. Capensis.

50 cents each.
A valuable class

A choice climber. Flowers

bright red; continually in bloom; nearly
hardy here. 50 cents each.
T. jasminoides. From Australia. White,

with pink center. 50 cents each.

T. jasminoides rosea.

T. radicans. Our native hardy TRUMPET
CREEPER. A good climber for trees, walls,
etc. Will climb On wood, stone, brick, etc.
Flowers bright orange color. 15 cts. each,
$1.50 per dozen.

T. stans. Locally known as YELLOW EL-
DER. In the fall a ‘‘glory of golden yel-
low flowers ;’’ very quick-growing; de-
lights in high, well drained land ; sprouting
readily from the roots if cut down by
frost, and blooming the same year ; plants
frequently make a growth of eight or ten
feet the first year. Valuable as screens for
unsightly fences, buildings, etc. ; one of the
most valuable flowering shrubs for South
Florida. Extra large, 50 cents each, $5 per
dozen. ‘

T. stans var. Saharanpur. From seeds
sent us from India. The plants have not
yet bloomed for us, but are distinct in leaf.
50 cents each.

TERMINALIA Bellerica.
cies from India. $1.50 each.
T. tomentosa. India. $1 each.

T. catappa. (See Tropical Fruit Plants.)

THEVETIA neriifolia. (Cerbera theve-

tia.) Those who have read that delightful
book, ‘‘ A Christmas in the West Indies,’’ by
Chas. Kingsley, will remember the following
incident at St. Thomas: ‘‘ We gather a nose-
gay of the loveliest flowers, under a ae
sun, within ten days of Christmas. *
As we were displaying our nosegay on deck:
on our return, to some who had staid stifling
on board, and who were inclined (as West
Indians are) at once to envy and to pooh-
pooh the superfluous energy of new-come
Europeans, R- drew out a large and
lovely flower, pale yellow, with a tiny green
apple or two, and leaves like those of an ole-
ander. The brown lady, who was again at
her post on deck, walked up to her in silence,
uninvited, and, with a commanding air,
waved the thing away. ‘ Dat manchineel.
Dat poison. Throw dat overboard.’ R—,
who knew it was not manchineel, whispered
to a bystander, ‘ Ce m’est pas vrai.’ But the
brown lady wasa linguist. ‘Ah! mats cest
vrat,’ cried she, with flashing teeth, and re-
tired, muttering her contempt of English
ignorance and impertinence.

‘““And, as it befell, she was, if not quite
right, at least not quite wrong; for when we
went into the cabin we and our unlucky yel-
low flower were flown at by another brown
lady, in another gorgeous turban, who had
become, on the voyage, a friend and an inti-

A rare spe-

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THEVETIA— Continued.

mate ; for she was the nurse of the baby, who |
had been the light of the eyes of the whole |
quarter-deck ever since we left Southampton |

—God bless it, and its mother, and beautiful
Mon Nid, where she dwells beneath the rock,
as exquisite as one of her own humming-
birds. We were so scolded about this poor
little green apple, that we set to work to find
out what it was, after promising, at least, not
to eat it. And it proved to be 7hevetia nerit-
folia, and a very deadly poison.”’

The Thevetia is a rare, quick-growing
shrub, always in bloom. The seeds are often
worn as charms by sailors and by negroes of
the West Indies, by whom they are known as
‘‘lucky seeds.”
frost unharmed, and should be widely culti-
vated in South Florida as alawn plant. 50
cents each, $5 per dozen.

Je ? A distinct variety, with beautiful
salmon colored flowers. $1 each.

THESPESIA populnea. The HEADACHE

‘TREE of Key West, SEA-SIDE MAHOE or |

MAHAUT of the West Indies. (Probably

identical .with A7zbisews arboreus, recorded |

as a fibre-plant.) A tree with large showy
yellow flowers two or three inches in diame-
ter, cordate leaves and large flat black seed-
pods. A handsometree. 25 cents each.

THUNBERGIA alata. to cents each.

T. fragrans. A magnificent climber.
T. coccinea.

TIGHIDIA. TiGeR-FLOWER. Well
known Mexican bulbs, producing large showy
flowers in summer.

T. conchiflora. Yellow, spotted withcrimson.

T. grandiflora. Crimson, center variegated
with yellow.

T. grandifiora alba.
reddish brown.

White, marked with

Price of Tigridias, 25 cents each. Should |

be planted here in March.

2

TIGRIDIA.

It bears several degrees of |

TORENIA ASIATICA.

THALIA divaricata. (Chapman.) A
magnificent native ornamental-leaved plant
deserving of extensive cultivation. The
Thalias are appreciated in Europe, where
they are used with cannas, nausas, alocasias,
etc., with grand effect, but practically un-
known in America, where native. Leaves
sometimes reach a height of ten feet, on long
petioles, some leaves measuring a foot wide
by two feet long, heart-ovate in shape.
Flower scape taller than the leaves, branch-
ing into panicled spikes of small purple flow-
ers. Will grow in water, or on ordinary soil.
50 cents each.

TORENIA Asiatica. Free-blooming

trailing plant. Flowers blue. 25 cents each.

_TRICHOSANTHUS palmata. 50 cents

| each.

_TRITOMA uvaria.
PLANT.
T. grandiflora major.

TRICYRTIS grandiflora.
TRADESCANTIA discolor. One of

the most effective plants for the open
ground here that we have ever seen.
Equally valuable as a specimen, pot or
vase plant. Upright growing, like the
agaves, reaching a height of from twelve
to eighteen inches ; leaves sword shaped,
rich green above, d7ight purple beneath.
Sprouts from the roots when killed down,
but is easily protecied in case of a hard
freeze. 25 and 50 cents each.
T. repens vittata. Creeping or droop-
ing sort with leaves striped green and

ReED-Hot POKER

white. A good basket plant.

T. vulgaris. WANDERING JEW. Leaves
green.

T. Zebrina. Striped purple and green.

Price of Tradescantias, except where
noted, 10 cents each.

ULMUS Americana.
AMERICAN ELM.

WHITE or

25 cents each.

VERBENA aubletia. Native purple-
flowered Verbena. Continually in bloom.
1o cents each. $1 per dozen.

V. hybrida. Good sorts. to cents each,
$1 per dozen.

VALLARIS dichotoma.

evergreen climber from India.

Beautiful
50 c. each.

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SWANLEY WHITE VIOLET.

VITEX Agnus-castus. CHASTE TREE.
Handsome hardy tree of the Mediterranean
region, with spikes of blue flowers. 50 cents.
V. negundo. Species from India. Flowers

blue. $1 each.

VIBURNUM tinus Laurestinus. Beau-
tiful white-flowered hardy shrub.

VINCA alba oculata. MADAGASCAR
PERIWINKLE. Vincas are among the most
satisfactory plants for the open ground in
South Florida, thriving in any situation, and
very showy. This variety is white, with
crimson eye. to cents each.

V. rosea. Purplish rose, with dark eye. Io
cents each.

V. Harrisonii. A strong growing trailing
plant ; leaves handsomely variegated dark
green and yellowish green. Flowers light

blue. 10cents each.
VIOLA odorata. SWEET VIOLET.
Blue. Single.
Marie Louise. Double purple, white center.
Neapolitan. Double blue.

Swanley White. Double white.
Price, all varieties, 25 cents each.

WENDLANDIA species.
WRIGHTIA tinctoria. 75 cents each.

WISTARIA brachybotrya rubra.
Flowers reddish purple. 50 cents each.
W.frutescens. The AMERICAN WISTARIA. A
beautiful and well-known hardy climber
(deciduous) which succeeds well in Florida.
Flowers blue, in long racemes. I year, I5
cents each, $1.50 per dozen; large plants,
75 cents each, $7.50 per dozen.

W. magnifica. Flowers pale lilac. 50 cents
each.

W. sinensis. ‘‘ The ‘Fuji’ of Japan and
China ; hardy at Christiana. Lives through !

75 cts.’ each:

| YUCCA aloifolia.

U1

WISTARIA— Continued.

acentury and more. The stem is carried
up straight, and the branches are trained
on horizontal trellises at Japanese dwel-
lings, affording shade for seats beneath. One
Wistaria tree will thus cover a square 50
feet by 50 feet, the odorous trusses of flow-
ers pendant through the trellis overhead.’’
Christy. ‘‘ Fortune tells us of a tree of
great age, which measured at three feet
from the ground, seven feet in circumfer-
ence, and covered a space of trellis work
60 feet by too feet. Flowers probably
available for scent-distillation.’’—Von
Mueller. 35 cents and $1 each.

W. sinensis alba. Pure white. 75 c. each.

SPANISH BAYONET,
SPANISH DAGGER. Sea-coast of Southern
States and West Indies. Probably not hardy
north of Middle Georgia. Flowers resembling

those of VY. jfilamentosa, but borne on a

shorter stalk. Stem arborescent ; sometimes

ten to twenty feet high. Very ornamental,
even when small. Will bear much neglect.

10 to 25 cents each.

Y. aloifolia fol. var.

Y. candicuata. 50 cents each.

Y. flamentosa. BEAR-GRASS, ADAM’S-
NEEDLE. Very valuable plants in semi-_
tropical gardening. Hardy throughout
United States except far north. Producing
tall flower-spikes surmounted by panicles,
sometimes two feet in length, of snowy-
white bell-shaped flowers. Can be used in
barren, rocky places with a splendid effect.
Should be in every garden. to cents each,
$1 per dozen.

Y. filifera. 50 cents each.

Y. macrocarpa. 50 cents each.

WISTARIA.

96 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, FLORIDA,

TARPON SPRINGS, FLA., June 29, 1587.
MESSRS. REASONER BROS.
Gentlemen: The trees and plants received in fine condition, and I am greatly ese with
them, as indeed I have been with all the trees I pate seen from’ your nutsenys ) ier

Please fill the following order, etc.
Yours very truly,

CHARLES E. SMITH.

TARPON SPRINGS, FLA., June 27, 1887.
REASONER BrROs.

Dear Sirs: Enclosed please find check for $ ae % The Oleanders were
received in fine shape, and am very much pleased with ier as everthing else I have bought of
you. Plenty of roots and good packing is the thing to give good satisfaction.

Respectfully yours,

W. F. DEGOHER.

CLYDE, NEw YorRK, June 19, 1887.
MESSRS. REASONER BROS.
Dear Sir: Please accept thanks for plants received June 15th. The plants were finely
packed and in excellent condition ; every way satisfactorily received. as a
Yours very respectfully,
Mrs. C. MCINTYRE.

FERNANDINA, June 6, 1887.
Mr. P. W. REASONER.
Many thanks for the Cactus, which arrived in perfect order Saturday evening ca %
Very truly,
HESTER P. WALKER.

CHARLOTTE, EATON Co., MICHIGAN, May 23, 1887.
REASONER BROS.
The plants came in good shape ; accept sea for themgeratis:: # "3 a I enclose
list of plants which please send, etc. 3%
Respectiulleg
Mrs. EMMA CHURCH.
CORONADO, CAL., May 28, er
MEssRS., REASONER BROS.
Gentlemen: co % a The box of plants arrived on Bae morning of the roth in
capital order, and ata Obie time as regards weather. a 3%
Yours truly,
DAviD M. BALCH.

KEY WEST, FLA., May 31, 1887.
Mr. E. REASONER. (
DEAR Sue a cs a The plants arrived in splendid order ; for same receive many
thanks. js hs a Respectfully,
Sy ANGELA BALDWIN.

GOLETA, SANTA BARBARA Co., CAL., April 25, 1887.
REASONER BROS.

Gentlemen. The plants arrived in very good order. The Banana tops had rotted and
looked black and bad, but I think they will come out all right. If it had been packed dry enough
for them it would have been death to the Pavel aes, pus I think they will soon get over the trip and
all do nicely. Please send me, etc. *

I remain, yours truly,
JOSEPH SEXTON.

TESTIMONIALS. 97

SWITZERLAND, FLa., May 4, 1887.
P. W. REASONER.

Dear Friend: — of oie 29th and plants received last night, the latter in the usual
good condition. ** Your friend,
W.. GC. STEELE.

COCOANUT GROVE, DADE Co., FLA., April 30, 1887.
REASONER BrROs.
Gentlemen ; I received the trees you sent, on April 22, in good condition. bes = oS
Yours respectfully, é
CHAS. PEACOCK,
Agent for T. A. ©& E. A. Hine.
BONNER SPRINGS, KANSAS, March 30. 15857.
FRIEND REASONER.

Those plants came the 18th inst., in splendid condition, not wilted in the least. = * *
Respectfully,
H. H. KERN.

DANVILLE, ILL., April 5, 1887.
REASONER BrROs.
The plants came two days after I got your Were and in good order, everything you sent.
You can beat me packing, all to pieces.
Yours; ete:,
AARON W. MORGAN.

TARPON SPRINGS, FLA., March 1a, 1887.
REASONER BROS.:

Gentlemen: Trees and plants arrived on “Gov. Safford’ in good condition.
Please accept thanks for the extras. a cs
Yours truly,
W. W. SAMMONS.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, Warch 18, 1587.
REASONER Bros.. Manatee.

Gentlemen « * = <= The palm arrived yesterday in good shape, packing first-
‘class. * = re Taronld like two more palms of os kind about six feet high, and per-
fect specimens, boxed and shipped by fast freight. = iA

Respectfully,
MeN Gh ARKER.

RAVENNA, OHIO, March 27, 1587.
REASONER BROS.

Dear Sirs: The plants were received on the 19th in good condition. Am very much pleased
with them, and am much obliged for extras. Will try and send you another order next spring, if
nothing happens to prevent.

Yours respectfully
F. STANFORD.

AUBURNDALE, FLA., March 5, 1587.
REASONER BRoOs.
Dear Sirs: Trees arrived in good order on Friday of last week. = =
Yours truly.
_ WiaiS: RYALL:

SAN ANTONIO, FLORIDA, Fed. 8, 1887.
MESsRS. REASONER BROS.
Gentlemen. Please accept my thanks for plants, which came in excellent order.
Yours very truly,
J. F. CORRIGAN.

ORLANDO, FLA., Feb. 7, 1557.
REASONER BroOs., Manatee, Fla.
Dear Stirs: The box of plants arrived in good order. Am much obliged to you for extras.
s # * * ~~ Will probably want something more this fall.
Respectfully,
(CAS MYERS:

RICHLAND, FLA., February 5, 1887.
MEssrs. REASONER BROS.
Gentlemen. My box of trees arrived in splendid condition on Monday.
Yours truly,
M. P. ARNOLD.

98 REASONER BROS:, MANATEE, FLORIDA,

SOUTH LAKE WEIR, February 4, 1587.
REASONER BROS.
Dear Sir: Trees received in good order and am much pleased with them; please accept
thanks for the extras. Yours respectfully,
M. S.. ADAMS.

POMONA, PUTNAM Co., FLA., October 11, 1856.
P.-W. REASONER.

Dear Sir: Mangoes reached me October 8th, as I supposed ruined, but I put them out and
they have revived and leaves look natural and healthy, all owing to the excellent manner in which
they were packed, for they were on their way long enough to have come from Europe, in this hot
dry weather, (17 days.) Please accept my thanks for Sugar Apple and also the Spanish Lime sent.

ve - i If these do well you may have orders for more from this place. 3 oe a

Very respectfully,
L. L. HARMON.
SAN ANTONIO, FLA., July 25, 1887,
Dear Sir: Please accept thanks for trees which came in excellent order. mee 23 6
Yours very truly,
J. F. CORRIGAN.
Eustis, FLA., October 28, 1856.
The box came in excellent condition on Saturday, and I was delighted withthe contents. *
Th Es Mean:
Los ANGELES, CAL. February 17, 1587.

Dear Sir- * % zs Everything with the single exception of the Cavica papaya and
little Plumierias arrived in A 1 order. These latter were slightly bruised and consequently
damped off, mostly. I am more than repaid, however, with the excellent condition of Ferns, Gar-
denias, etc. a cot Se Very respectfully,

W. S. Lyon, Occidental Nursery.

EXTRACT FROM Florida Dispatch FOR MAy 16, 1887:

‘‘ The specimen plants mentioned by Mr. Reasoner have been received. They were so well
packed that they came in excellent condition, seemingly as fresh as though just dug. As two or
three small lots, previously ordered, sent by mail, have arrived in like good condition, it is evident
that he is a master of the art of packing for mailing. All who may wish to test any of the plants »
described can order them with perfect confidence that they will be received in a condition to grow
as well as it is possible for a transplanted plant to do.’’—£d. Hort. Deft.

SANTA BARBARA, CAL., July 25, 1587.
REASONER BROS.
Dear Sirs: The box of plants came to hand in good shape. iS # e Find enclosed
postal note for amount of order, and make package as light as possible.
Yours truly,
KINTON STEVENS.

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PMRGEES Ibs 62 Sots a 8 2 55 Avocado Pear 255) Chamaedorea = . 4 = Aa Draceia a ne 2 eee 72
Whroma 9.98 4. os bess REA AIeA Note ean ae a Ss) BS 6r)'Chamaerops: .. / ... : 43|Dragon Tree... She
Abmtilony 2 2 ee <b Bo aChrisy star Te 2a e) ~ Are haSten brees — esas ae oseDuranta 5) od, so 72
VACSEVE) Te a ee 32, 55 Bacury . 15; Cherokee Rose ..... 25) Echinocactus . 3. 2°. 2 48
Ce aey wt Sele te Oh. 57 Balsam Prsics Chae ee 34) Chielanthes ~ 2 2 =. 2 «2 /50itchinocereus:,. . 7... _ 42
Acalypha oe eee 58 Bambusa . . FROMM MINA PE RCG eet ofa, Be SHE ChItTeCSe) vets Usk ape 73
AGhaniay oz aes)! 0") 57 BAMBOOS AND GRASSES 36 Chinese Rice Paper Tree 33 ECONOMICAL PLANTS . 32
ACH EASe nr eos © et Ir Banana, Fruiting . . . 14|Chinese Tallow Tree : .34|Ege-Fruit ..... 16
Wehyranthes =. - =. -- 57 ie Ornamental . . 82 Chmese fed Plant * 2. + 33 Ehretia °~ 2°56. oo 7
A GCroshiCHiin) 2 ham. 50: Barbadoes Cherry wKChiecoceal* se = SF. G7 laeisw, Sees ee 43
AchimMenesi2. Gs. =. s 57| Barbadoes Gooseberry .15|Chionanthus .... . .67 Elaeocarpus ..... .73
Adam’s Needle. ... .- 95 Barbadoes Flower Fence 65| Chocolate Tree. . ... 30 Elephant Apple. . II
Adansonia oy sss 2 es 9 Bauhinia . . ae 3K .62 Chrysanthemums. . . .67 Elyptrophorus Sire!
Adenanthera ..... -- 58 Beaucarnia ... . . 63|Chrysobalanus .... .11/EnglishIvy..../.. 76
Adiantum: 9-50.53 %°-4% 50 Beaumontia .63 Chrysophyllum ....11 Epidendrum ...... 52
PG ered ey Oe ee ah lee 11| Begonia 303) Cieeme Bao. a tees. Pete pipliylltiniies = ees. 48
ETICESI ey tobe uc 2. =) igi Teeth i eee ee ee Gz VCmChOna Ms 8 ee es 33 Erilona ee
African Blue Lily. . . . 58 Berberis .63|Cinnamomum ..... 33 Eriobotrya ‘22
African Oil Palm .43|Bergamot.... .20|Circassian Bean .. . .58 Eriedendron 2478
AS apAnUhUs § 5.2 va Go « 58 Bermuda Grass. . 36 Cissus Se. ee ogi) Prythrina .©2)2°' 78. 73
Agati . . 58 Bignonia . 63 Citron Es A Oe: 21 Eucalyptus. . 73
AGAve: Sea aA: S250 MBllbercia / , 2.) 27. . 4 BAICUETS ig aap Mie se tg ey aS FO eevUICcharist es wees. = ee 73
AGeratinm” 4. se; ei <5 = 58 Bixa ae oe a58 Cleome *70)) Eugenia. 0. 2. 12, 22572
GSA i Seve Senne Sa ppisehotes: 2 --.-- 2 3% 6s Clematis le 2 - . . .69/ Eulalia . . n= 3O
Mibtazial 2 eer) sh 59| Blackberry Lily .. . .83)Clerodendron ... ..68|Euonymus ....... 73
Allamanda Bopbiack uvattie: 8) y.) 2 3:56|Chtorea 2... . t°. sf): SOP NtEEDe wee. oy en ae 43
PIRRCHIGL © Bic gw os 17) BlecinmiMm, ~. 2s. 8 so Mooeccoloba)s... . .. 2. - Ee) Bxcaccarias. 2 . 34
« Blowers. — oS7Bletia a=)... 32.4 3 52|Cocoa-NutsPalm- .-. . > xt)Exochorday. Y= 7 - - 74
ya ee ee 32, 60 Bombax 63) Cocoa Plum °.... <.;.- Ei) Barlugiin’. ..¢ 22, Je8 74
Alocasia ee SORouedicaie aes. Gz i@oelier; 5. ao: . 33) FERNS 50,52
ie on ee aioe 60| Bougainvillea ..... 64|Cohune Palm... . . .41)Feronia.. . 5 a
Mines 2. fpGe 2 4 59|Bouvardia ...... Ga Ore om. oR . . .36 Feverfew . . . 68
Aicopeiiai® Shows. 50 Boussingaultia Pogue ens wae 707 BAGS oN fe tees 22,74
Alstonia EaatBkassavola . . = .-: . Seaeolweasia "SS i... alee. 70 Bie. 2) we ee. . 22
Piped, ay cts teers. 2 ts 7|Brassia .. . Sa 52 OREEERS 907) oo uy 38 Flemingia ney
Alternanthera..< i>. «... 61 Bread Fruit Tree... . g Ceplassu” | 2g a - 12 Florida Arrow Root - 45
Amaranthys fs e8 5 +. GLPBLewerlay. <5 ee 64, Coral Bean Tree . . . . 73 Florida Spruce Pine . 40
Amanryllisie: Apso, %. 4.: 60 BROMELIADS . . es Of gs hice ee ees oe perked AEN Geen celitsic es | 63
Amazon Lily 73\ broughtonia ..... 52|Corypha .. 3 2. . 4h ROLrsythtayseee es) S75
Amomura 92022). - >| Broussonetia . . |. | . 43) COStus 29 Se ae.” 7° Fourcroya 75
Ampelopsis ...... 61|Bryophyllum . . 164| Cotyledon: 05.554 > < - 70 Fragaria 25, 75
Avnet: Plant t.202 1). 2 87 Cabbage Palmetto -45|f1ape Myrtle <7." 280) Fransipanm = 3 2.31: 7
Anacardiun’e “3252 2. : 10} CacTI AG Cratae eS eee ee ae 25| French Physic Nui. . .79
Ananassa. -.. . . 10, 54} Caesalpinia 33, 64|Cratoxylon .’..- . ...°. 70 Fruits, Semi- Tropical . 18
Androchne . .° 4 sen Calidiumy . . . . . .65|Crescentia ....... 33 Tropical .. 2... 9
Andropogon “soyCalabash free . .. . ; a7) Cinta, so . - = 77 Warm Temperate . 25
Anhalonium . . . 46| California Pepper Tree .91|Crotalaria........70 Fuchsia ..... : 75
Anisochilus. . . 4c, (Dt: i a . 66 Croton al JU Punta, obs. eae By
ANOSEeissus. . “hy oe.7 it. 61 Calla Lily URSA apie a ee = ose > oa. seg E Naat ciel 75
Wane oe eee gremicacya, ¢ 2°. 2=2 % 66|Cut Flowers . --s .-: - GiGalplimia’ 24: 2-5)... 75
Antherichm.. 525 60 Calophyllum 266) Gyanthea =). 2 2. 3 50 Garcinia .12
Antholyza . 60 Calosanthus GG )MEYCADS <> - - 2 teeth (Gardenia 27> 2... 75
Anthurium . . . .60| Calycanthus oe eed «3 ot ee ee Bg ecg ee ee ee ae 75
Antidesma: 255 3°75 9,60 Camellia . 32, 65|Cyclamen . 7.) Gelseniiinimes me = a6
Antigonon . . 61 Camphor Tree mea Gedona 2.) i - 71 Genipa 75
ADIOS Vu) sees a 61 Canna . 65 Cynodon meg Se 36 Geranium 75,84
Arabian Coffee Plant . . 33|Cape Jessamine We VOGVCENS. 3 sf =! Woes =, - 50) GINSEE,). eee ee es
Aralia pe 33, 61| Carica 12|Cyphomandra ... . .12 Gladiolus 75
Arbor Vite ~ . . .40|Carissa . . 12|\(Gypress..: .. +. =% 4 - 40/Glaziova Ag
PSII? Fest eel 18 Carnation aed -2|Cyrtopodium... . *52 Gloxinias 75
ATGisia aa) .61 Carob-Tree. . 22,Deedalacanthus .. . .72 Glycosmis . _J2
PCTs Ae ed Pip Garyocar .). 215. fea o's 11|Dahlia . +a)... 72) Gold Dust Tree . . 62
Areca . 41, Caryota . 42 Dahoon Holly ... . - 78) Goldfussia 75
PREC AL 0.4 tae Fey es 4t;Carya .. _ 25 ealbersia. ~. -.. : -71 Gomphocarpus . 76
Argemone . 61, Cashew-Nut .io0|Darling Plum. .. . .88/Gordonia. . 7
Argyreia SER MCASSIAL Ect os Litem oe 67|Dasylirion ..... . .72}Gossypium . . 34
Aistolochar’ oo 22. 61 | Castor-Oil Bean 35 Date-halmes; ~~ . . . 44) Granadilla 15
Ariseema SG) Gasharinays.) >”) Mae - 29 pDate Plunt =. pe. 2A Grapes s- . 30
Arrow-Root . —S4 \Gatasctami «5. 3, 7.) ebe, Sapa aus. aie « 71) Grape Fruit 20
Artillery Plant 86 Catalpa. . Seer GGA Ay Pally? Sees ees, 76 Grecian Silk-Vi ine . 86
Artocarpus.... g Catoblastus... . “4g Deeringia “: . . . :-. - 72 Grevillea 40 76
Arum . Son Cattleya .:yees < -- Eo pMeltones, +25. -) - = .i2pGrewla.. - - 76
ACO ON oe pee We, . 36| Cayenne Cherry 22 Dendrophylax At Mot ie 52 Guava 23
Asclepias .... S62CCGTOS... Vase ee ROPIWOEINIS- 7. = 5s 73)}Guazama . . 34
Asparagus 562 CelAsthiS: V2... ss ae 67,Desmodium .... . . 72 Guilandina 7
Aspidium SO CISA ge se ce BogPWentziay. 2... . 24 272)Guilelma . ... ; 43
Aspidistra .62 Cenchrus . Ss Oewherry 2 - =. 2: : 29 Gum-Arabic Acacia 32
AAS PCH INIE | Se ss 8 50 Century Plant .58|Dianthus ... ... -72|Gymmnadenia P52
ssaie bali yor ees. Hs 43 | Centradenia .67|Dictyogramme ..... 50 Gynerium We mB
Astrocaryum: + ... .-.%: 41 Cephalandra 966) Dicrwillat 2: = - --572| abrothamnus,. / . <= . 76
Atamascee.: SS |. Se 60)\Ceratotita. "a= 2): 22 seoilenia, =i f= 5 %s 4h... 72) Dackberry . 66
PCLAICAg sth” SARE 2 | ae 41 Cerehinis HOLUMOSEOLCA Lk. cys +2, «- . 34 Hematoxylon - 5A.
Peet bdhewery ..* Pans op SOZPCELCUS, Foes. tee . 46 Diospyros 24,34 Hamelia . 76
Austrian Pine... . .39 Ceriman H13)) Dipladenia . .... - .--72| Headache Tree . BOs
Averrhoa . Io’ Cestrum BB AID ISSOUISY |. G.2., ae. « - 2s euedeta™: 2. 4 2+ 2s 76

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JShsi SIS IMEANNIOS 5 6 o o SO IOMeOme 5 6 obo ok TZ WPiGijaAO weds fn eee ASSN Cains et = 368s cele tee 35
Eledychiumigee 2). ieeiNiclon Shiuibteseme men. i V6\PAISCIGMAy A015 ees 87) silver dhatchy S23 seAs
JEMEIMWAWSRES 5g Go a 6 8 TKS) [MMe 5 a so 5 oo a 5 SYA eOlouse PAINE 6 5g a 5 oo gr Siver Wattle = 3m 56
JAWS NCO 5 3.5 'c oo 6 6 76| Mexican Apricot Be) on oll bithecol obits eee 86|Siphonanthus..... . gl
ISIGNOYSROIS 6 6 5 oo ao POISE, 5 6 6p oo a Sia Blatantheraiess- een ae SB sucell lela os 6 ai 6 & 38
Hlemenocaillisieg sa) ieee Ol VLeZ OT et Oem te-e Sue REI CSmMIEN 5 os 4 5 6 ¢ ii | Shollepeys, tae io o a gl
lalemina JBMSIN 35615 6 6 ¢ VAN MOUNTING 6 Mon SuilPlaty,codonmn eae ane Sill SOR IHSGAY 6.6 6 6 2 6 35
Hieterophracimal ss) as 4716) OSaa i pameni emt ene 81|Platytonis .. Se 6 4 USE SUE Goes so , 16, OF
Te Vater ces ty wamevars 34|Mimusops . . eee GS) kaleunothalllismes eam FB SOO NOE 4 o 6 6 6 3) 3 OM
Fa DISGUST Ape. se ct eet FMA RDAULANITOOS 5g o aatiJelltinl 5 6 oo o oo 5 oy Pail Sorgegawban 8 44 6 c 4 ig DE
Hints on Transplanting . | Mioo< Oran 1. 5 6 4 aeyiilehiailedey. 5 5 5 > oo - 87)|Spanish Eimer = ses, 13
slo Jen 5 gg Sa OOM Ss a og UY elwoomovee) og 87|Sparrmannia...... 92
Honeysuckles an 6 Fe ens | Mioyamoyrabice, = go 5 5 Ge RUIN SG 6 5 56 oo oe 27) SPItaed me aren ei gI
Horse-Radish Tree . .35|Monstera ...... ty eA oni 4 4s 6 5 9 6 87 | Spondias se RA eel
TOV Aart, ene Stic He 77 MO ONT lowmeiemeniele bo) i OlnSettl an alate SS qual ly) ene gee we eae 35
ae 5) eae tel ea een Gif WWilorebayeday 3 5: Got go Samet 5 6's 6 4 cs S7\iStachytanphay w aeeewes 92
Ipiiahrebevereey 5 bo a 6 3 7/7 | MOOS . 4 o eee) 26) holy anthesae. aaeeete men 74 CATO P.c Ageia 53
Hymenophyllum SOM Goblleyeraay 5 co 5 oo Asya eolhyeroyoio 5 b so 6 oo co OyiSajooe 6 5° oe Gc g2
ISSR MC Shapes erg sce ge edie a7) | Mou cunia arene ee 034) Roly pociutnni- meee meme me 51|Star-Apple . ARE
IndianthiroaCactusie. 4-049) MuSaeee ea 14752 |Rolystachitalaas iene 53/ St. Augustine Grass. =37,
Indian Turnip’ .'. . . . 61) Muscat Rose... - . .88|Pomegranate 2) 4 24, 87|5t. Domingo Apricot Pema
Indigofera ee esd 78 VuSSan ciate UST Pongamia Pea au esa ae 87|Stenotaphrum ..... 37
badhsonr Tanita SUL IMATSIINKS cc 6 6 6 og Be 82|Potentilla se meune 1 87) stephanotiss (2-year a. 92
DT a es el stipe ate miata = ) 27. 78|Mytsiphyllum) 7) 0. 2 SPAIMEGWWIKOS 3 oo oo oo toe PHAN SUSROUNIEY 6 & 6 5.0 5 06 35
lomopsis Sls. sen) 152 Nankini@ottonwa 1... 44)iPrackdly, Thatcher. .45|Stereospermum. ... .92
IWOXONESEY 6 6B 5 ele 5 eRiINeimyelia, . 5 66 6 4 0 ce Primulaeeeaeee SVAISMIEL 5 5 6 5 - + » +92
GSE ae et ae: 178, Naxcissus 2 elt «> 262 Britchardiate eyes c. .c4 5) tha Wie tin arn ee 25
NGO. Gg 6 Bigs ole PO LINESSem Lh, §, oa aye 71|Provision Tree . . . . .15|Strawberry Pear . .. . 47
Jacaranda es sens 5 7) | INGOT 5 5 So ge SSB IPDS G5 1.6 6 6 . 26, 78|Strawberry Tree .. . . 18
Jacquinial a) 2) “S roliNemastylis er . 4). 83) Rseudophocnixamae ln). 44 | otrelitziag. ii. tite me 92
Jambosa .. eee) eal NephirolepiSmeear -. 40. SO eSidium paar ee 15, 23) Streptosolen i. l-aageie. 92
Japan Silk ree | 200e 4 S7/\\ NIGINBO Oo Sys aloe els Baesormilee 34 5 6 ole a 6 87|Strychnos | 2. = 35
Japan Quince... .. .71| Nux-vomica fe eee 35 DESY Cho trl aveemennes «cu ai. 87|Syringa. . - - 87,92
Jasminum .. Bod o FON INKSAINUNES 5 5 oo gn eetQAGSNS 6 5 1.4 6 bs ayes ‘51 Tabernaemontana 27,92
Jatnoplial\sukeest, fay ser 79|Nymphaea ..... . .93)\Rterosperunume sea 87|Tacsonia....-... 92
Jessamine (2-2 ©) ss. 7o(NysicarpuS 2... . . . -85|(Runicaleeeen \ © 24) /87,\ lamanindlus Sao eee
Jobismikeansits 9. eesoll@Oleaae ery go os 87)leutna ni iy aan © 2. 874) bamanixy = neem 92
losephisiCoat” a. si oul@leandeny 9). a) Bist ENAREIS 3 o ta oh More 1 28 | Mlapeneiiod =: seamen - +17
AWHWUEYS Ga) Bh Sse 124 Omphalodesy 7... 83 (OuceniBlantae. - 2... o2ilaxodiumir te pam 40
PUM PeRUSH yee see 5 6 24O)|| Ome@iatiiiy Ss 2 6 5 F are OUSRES 3. ob o 6 eo 88 fale C oma = mlyi nnn aenee 92
Justiciay , eee Zo) (Opbioglossum™ 4 i. )- 7 Sn Ouincemmeemenn ao. 2, 20) MChigen me a age eT
Kenilworth Ivy Bd eo a FOO ViOpas Korn G35) ge oe 83 (Ouisqualismem +... .oo\dellanpawiar a ycmcmr 12
Kentiajn@. . 20 eee iaz@Opuntiar 2." . ) 2 48iiRammlincewmy 20. 1 +59) ep anOsia gies
Kalgeliat at 28h sa eA Sol@Onancess aa De Reo RANGEL 6 5 =o 8 o ee . 88|Terminalia . .. . ~ 17,92
Keim onjtalsen olen) SoLORGCHIDSSe ees) eee 2 852) anWwOltiaemeee mane kinor S8iidubaliayy * fea e wena 93
Kr quia tarae eins 2n(Orechispeda . : -~. . ©. 83\\Raphiolepiss’ 4. . . . -88) Theobroma (5.0 ears
Key dicen eee ie er Sol @reodoxaly seu sue. ae edi Ravendllcgiame 1 4°88) dihtespesiales: farmer 93
Lagerstroemia .... .80/Ormocarpum.... . . 83] Resurrection Plant . . . 91 Dhevetiay - 7-1) ayes 92
Lantana. 4.22. 8oOrontium’. -).... . 1.) .83/Reynosiajeweme.:: «20. 199) sulin aXe eee ee
[Daltelowey Be sr ey Gieaaicn Go Aui\| QSFMGNCEY S 5 8e 6 a oo Hull Nineveh . 5 5 4 eee 88'| Wlaiija ee eee
LARSATGIE 20 6 ow ao SoilOswrigsy fos o06 « pec Mneel ~ 5. aoe peel dbiaiinixomeet Soc so 6 93.
Waurus 3 22) SS ee ealOthonna, 61 83 URnipsalisaeame ) -)) 49) ier blo Wieta a arma 93
Eawsonia 3)" >). ) aa@xalis 4) 124; 27) 2 82 Rhyncospenmuml: © 5 6 ..8S bl eilCli ay cme eee 93.
Weadwiontin tes aun. te rallye CI ics mest eee ton ee tae t(D © S ie ae 88| TILLANDSIAS AND BRO-
ecayane sara Fe, SOO Pachyphytum . gas SF oi ICingihiA 2 5g 4 c 5 ASI | WAIBIOUNDIS 9G Gos oo © 3 SH
ILSimO nS} pace aeene. be ee AE MISHANDICV.GADS! ae . 41 Ricinus ied. apc awe 4 34)\shoad=Cactusi yie see me: 2
WemoniGrassm teas) weec Olam DaAShG ASS iain eee 74 NRG ee en ) S8ilmhonrenial ys. se=-mEnOS
Kemon Verbena. pen COlam Ctra times mlm cme 15/4 NXO Salata meme er 28) SS) MOLE yaly see eS
IPOS, B55 sish ats 6 5 Solleinekimins. 5 6s a = 80) | RIOSESte use apne ehs emis ee 88'| Dradescamnitiial eee 93
Keptodermiss., . 12.) ssolibanicumes BEYOND OS 5 o o do oe 12| Traveller’s Tree . . . . 88
WilacawWihitew. ~veev see g2| Papaw or Melon Papaw 12|Rosa de Montana. . . . 61] Trichosanthus Sire edOR
iliumiye 2) 2) we) colkaper Mulbernyar eh) © 33)RoseaWoodmlreenn a) 791 il Gy GtlSi nee OS
Aa Kes A oho Shee lc eee rails Gia Sepang 37s MNO alll al linn eee AA Ma Gp WaSiauy yee iene 17
Winariageae. 4) ues s cllRardanthus Meeeienr ee S3yiRub berms snecn ame mmen Gill Wrekoyy ig 15 5 oo 5 4k 93
ICaKeyrSs Weyl S Sips 0 eo Slo JPebabneyovie 5 5 a 5 o ois 2 , 5 6 « . . .29; TROPICAL FRUIT PLANTS 9
ive. @ alka esa nee Sees IDEVIENY 5 5 no o o-e 6SiIRUSSEl laymen nee ColMiuiberoSe sameeren 87
LinISKOME. “Gos gs 55 -Ugilearoitlorm > 5 5s ote 15, iSaballo 4 6.) pe Sora GUM 2 ig oe @ oc 93
Wogwood Mree 2 a. = 234)|Raulownial eee ee see ae S32 Sacred: ISotusmeme ene .82|Umbrella China ... .81
ILOVNCHEY 3 5) Geo 6 6 So Sele e554 6 oo oe oe SSE lenin 4 6. 6 s/o 6 41|Umbrella Plant. ... . 36
OOO UA MS) Aen ict: aac 2a\ Re aiiaanicne anne fy ik Re 28 | Salliexn, hoe ere mene ann 2 Go| Wella 5 6.5.66 6 0 3 5 93
TFUGUIM ANE ey oe Be ere Tai ReCanlintaien ny amr am gion 2A Salliviiade | CaM pam, neta ie POR Wan eueniay ea ween,
We uittayeee 2 a 23a iReditlanthus 505 6) 1. S3\Sand- Boxm@ reer mre-r7S)| Wail eer ee 53
Lycopodium .. Sfehe | HSNO, Goo oo a) 6 o HRIGHINSIOWETA 5 5 oo bo 6 2G\| V@WSST 6 o 6 oc Pie me (fe
Me ata ey. Hedge Rose 38| Pelargonium 2 ov || Seo 5 5 oc a co 6 eal Miliommaibbel 5 5 5 5 a ee 95
Madagascar Periwinkle 95|Peltophorum ..... .86|Sapium......... COW WiinCAls 6 o a 5 0 « Bsc O5)
Maderea WhtTS 5955 5 oA IMeniiceinN 5 5 6 5 o 6 o ey/iSeyooclky elim 5 o 5 3 6 IME WAKE 5 ge oun o 5 9 5 OF
MIB ESNOIEL g 65 ba a 8 oc MLIIPS OMOEA, 5 > os ois ott|Saporda 5 5 oo 4 « PANG Ate ened 8ee Deli eo O5)
Mahorany Drees |.) felis 35y hepinOl earner em uc m ALO! SathacCenia |i) mamr me =e OTINATISO TS Val eae ate: a eo EOS
Malachra. Pau heppernaints meus ape asi Sepaiieeet Sy ga go a one | WitieNey las 5I
Malabar Silk Cotton 1) /63)||Reriplocal. | Sa. 2). Sol Schinusi ne = ee. On Wanderingriews Wy -yan98
Malo tsi sass ep 85) |ROTS Cal pene Alta Sate, |S 15, 86| Sc shomburghis eee Soll Were Ile 5 6 slo 5 « 47
Malpiehiay ese. se enia hkersimionm|apani ea m2 51:5 cil nen eee 35| Weeping Willow .~= . .90
MetrWiesier oS 6 3 6 2 oA Neilson Joo oo 6 SiSereuriime's 5 6 6 6 oo 86|Wendlandia ...... 95
IMIgVoMaNee, 5 6 a 2 oe 12} Riilodendnroneaey se. ee Coll Sean Grape nseeeen ener TE White ringe= = eer 67
Mangiferay (Sebi als o.2)s 1) lOsnlixes: | aeyey Muy 44a Sebestent be.) Uinimi amiereen ©) INAS altel cen en eee 95
Went Onc kere eens: 12) Phonmiruni ea Aes 4 204.944) Seduiniaie (nents g1| Woodwardia ... . .5I
WIRVOIES 4 Go 8g a oe o Sailelowiienmilmmice” 5 505 5 We, SOI Seeds. 5 co eb gos blo e i Wr, Yo a 6 6 6 8d 95
Miairamnitalmene - 4 34. 8tRhyllocactus4= == 2 =. 49)|\Selacinellay ea ot ne Ol | Xielll Oa aN eee eee 28
Marmalade Tree . . - 1 PinstO@levecay 5 ss a 5b _ 86 Semecarpa ue ProNINGOKCR Taig ean cn od Ged: 2 95
MIARAROUIA 5 So 5 ou 6 o oS Go ob 6.6 bo ow a Olen TROPICAL FRUIT PAM Were. Soren ecu eA
IMUSIC, Gp oo Go arb eit enor 466 orn sock) IPIEZWNS 4 6 a 56 o a po MSO Almedeie 5 6 a aa 35
WIGIBVCUCA 3 55 oo 6 oA IIMUS bo 5 a 5 oo co o MkOlSecoevne Coc oe 5 By fo Cin AWAAOINUS 5 a 6 8 Ses - 24

Mejias) (le aU ees Sr Piper eo Wit hia Wi ee Shad dock rae iene: 20

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—

ADDITIONAL List oF NOVELTIES

south Aftica, Australia, South America, Etc.

READY FOR SPRING DELIVERY.

RoyvAl PALM NURSERIKS,

Reasoner [RZros,, PRop’rs,

ie ox ay dea pEvebG@) e PTDa.,

Each.
eS Pree COs Spain Natal tvs. ).5 be sei. ge ntinge on ee < SAAS tho ose, Bhs $1 oo
ie See ON ball ee eee ee he ater ec hy Wderage sR. I 00
Chen OG Serve wiomNeatalinius: Natal, «25. ages 8 was os ORR twee ee I oo
ACACIA podalyrizfolia, PoDALYRIA-LEAVED Acacia. Australia ....... I 00
a SD SlEVERLDEAVED ACACIA) Tasmania: ties. 0. fo 2 ae 186)
BAC tines. sp. Gtlatemalay (ale) 0 oo) tees oe Oe Waid Se Be Re Oe 3 00
BUCH Bik taACaneusis: (South: Atrica. 22. erred. 0 2. ae oie. we udingil=
BRACE OMA RTA racemosa, \; Natale.j..06 - secs tee ee ee Sailnet I 00
CAS seed Cumin tae seNatal satay use ee Gil nN Gs Peles ieseeeaa. Ne Ree neat.
CEP ERA Aan re palates 6045-0. Stew sree oh. Pacha ie Deere me 50
CRESCENTIA cucurbitina. CALABASH TREE. West Indies, extending to
(HAE) IOS) ACO ISTE ig 5 ote fo ee arte ENE Cron ae OP NOS Cs CDA PE A hea 75
CASSALPINIA coriaria. Divi-pivi. A most valuable tanning plant; also
VemwOnuaArment als. CniraieNiMenCA § Pag one lo 8 he 8 ok 6s ovo hide ue oo: 75
CUE AEBS Sry Atala. 4s seks pst ae eas ale eho Ge 2 lies NEE PUA RE ING, Nec LK 75
CISSUS lanigera.” South-Africa.............. FS ctl carpe Ra Mer Ri ance: So lee are
Cuneolia.)-SoutheAtnicay. ti... co. ance o hyd ea aa CRE Lene? Ry A ee
s geek all TS). 7 al Tet We ANN fou Ra Ree ts) LU WenRE ch Ses eae Ne PA ea 75
CHA tO THe A triloba, “Natal sc eset. Sock sec ee loeb ene ew de Bie hl. 25
DPS) LPSEprineonay a Natal (055 fie tei sist) ees eked elas ana cooley eae SOLS g 50
DRACAENA Draco. The DrRAGon’s BLooD TREE of the Canary Islands 74100
; REDMEibAa iS | Wain Se ere hc Eker ed leak. sak ace New awins bas I 00
DICTYOSP ERI Avalba. .Cazvecdiaload, (PALI): os. os eo ale taa Meade ge Sos. I 50
PS SO Ory BA pe CINAL AI gay te rice Bh = Sh dy 8 eect Ss adhe Die he yan 50
Dic OMA aravrophy lia. “South Atticar: 2 602.05. $4. Ades edge Su ats ohne
ED Ene Ay lnbissinia. “South Africa. :-0%). a reys. ca vee ed) dies ohn oc 75
EUCALYPTUS corymbosa. BLoop-woop TREE. New South Wales and
ACO Vesa wee Revit? cae k Ho tee ee a lo ws 50
eS crebra. NARROW-LEAVED IRON-BARK. New South Wales
Queens AN ee ark ae RE of oi WIN ah cr AMOS tore boas eho Poke 50°
eoccifera. Very hardy, even in; England.....2.5. 2... 2.44

ee
Ge ae ae

Each.
FICUS macrophylla. Moreton Bay Fic Tree. One of the grandest of

Australian avenue trees: . Probably hardy un) Florida 2... 492 -200.- ee $1 oo
GLADIOLUS crassifolius:) Natal <ca7eeeeee . 1. eee ee ee 25
‘i Ludwigeit. Natal. 2) Baas 3800 So aaa ee ee 50
GOMPHOCARPUS arborescens. (Asclepias arborescens.) Cape of
God SH Ope ie sie he sie So ess ew “4 0s a och REN pe ONES a 75
HAMELIA Ssphesorocarpa: Mexico’): cpeeen. 4... 4. ee Oe ee pee reer 75
LATANIA glaucophylla. (Palme@.) Java...........:.... Se asia ae 3 00
MANIHOT Glaziovis CLARA RUBBER. w Brazile. a) 4.) eae Clee 2 00
OREODOXA oleracea. (Palme.) The PALMISTE of the French West Indies 2 oo
PHYLLANTHUS, sp. “Hone Kong sc deine er se cer rte eae eee I 00
PHGINIX paludosa. (falm@.) India. A valuable palm, likely to prove
Inari a0 ete Sire arte a ib, aah ts sia ah ev Ce ASSES: c I 00
PSIDIUM ( polycarpfon ?) Stall, delicious, YELLOW Guava. Equatorial Bra-
ail. Blowers white and handsome ys 2) 0) 6. 3.0. See ee I 0o
ia ? Brest WHITE-FLESHED GuAva. Para, Brazil............. I 00
PLECTRANTHUS, sp. < Natali... kee eeenemalciencs a - eel ee eae 50
PROTHA*hirta: South Africa”. cS ee gee teh ee I 00
PANICUM excurrens: .; South: A fricay ei eat) le eee 10
PEDDIBA. Africana: >, South: Attica: ... {lus Wea smem aeyetee arene se ono aelten pa ete eke ge 75
SCHOTIAY brachypetela, Natal’. 7 .ccc0- naan eee oe cee «accoustic ena 75
SCHINUS ‘terebinthifolia .. fet s.5 2. AAA ee af) 2 re ne eee 50
SOLANUM Capense. South Africas, 272i se ee 25
SPHHDAMNOCARPUS pruriens. «Natalee 2 |. a eee ee 50
SY NCARETA launitoia. > Australia ery e smear set. RE er ak I 00
THPHROSEA sp. 1 Natal... 3. ee es 1S Vir ee MRS Mel Sh oko tc 75
s Sp. 2 Natal ois... 2 gc oe i eae ees Saige ie ice eee 75
TECAMONE( ‘Thunbergii. Natalie e225 o)) ee ees tag y eee 75
TRISTANIA conferta. BRISBANE BOx-TREE. Australia ................. 75
UVARLA‘ cafirac (South A frica 035 2h 2 ahie 350 Dene erin rch. Un I oo
—— ESPINILEO. “Uruigtiay..«.2 5:42 shen eer ep poe Sale Je: Ree
——— —— (Leguminose@.) Beautiful yellow-flowered shrub. Brazil....... 1 00
(Palme.) Picaja. Guatemala. Dwarf palm, reaching a height
of ‘eight to: tem feet. Ghee oe 'e oe eh a ele ch TSO eae: Cie 2 00
= (Paling) Culboale so. os oo is ket cre oie enema inane tek. veber eam aaa 75

Address
REASONER BROTHERS,

Manatee, Florida.

RAL DEPT?
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SYRACUSE POTTERY
d- I. Perkins, W\ anager,

SYRACUSE, N. Y.

Florists’ Flower Pots a Specialty.

First we quote our net prices per thousand, packed in crates and delivered
free on board cars at the buyer’s risk and freight.

lip ions eee ee eee 1 INCENSE ae IN hs eee Se ‘$ 8 00
Wig et Se Sige SEA 1c 2h Ee SO a Ae 8 Ty | a (434x43{).. II oo
Mayo UR OSEGL ya. tree scee (2U(x3%).. ER OEM RONE <5 Nioo Ds Gear Sei Sloot as 14 00
bi aN ee C0 SN a Or (256x3%)-- 4 50 | 6 inch, machine made.....:....:.... 22 00
PEGS CDA RON Se Mae Nis NO Anan Ra 3.15 | 6 inch, hand made ...............--. 30 00
PUBMED: foes Neonat, ese Sad sical ee 4 00 | 7 inch, ene MAGS aa tsk ei a Mea 40 00
Ba drgchiteg ye hus eet, AGS thes cana ten RCE CAL 0G 7 Reins © eee ii a Part ennes per 100.. 7 00
Specials meh 10 te S—. (3x34%)-: 4 85 | 9 inch. We sBeIee 2s |. {DER SOD 42. kOSOG
AC AMEE A oe At Ase eile ka ke 6 50 | Io fgehy tae AM, Ree er ce ac tegone per I00.. I5 00

No order filled for less than one crate of 300 pounds, pai we can ae sev-
eral sizes in one crate.

Ready Packed Grates for Florists

We make a great feature of our business, and these prices are by the crate at
buyer’s freight and risk.

ROTI NT TET EU ah een wr die ae ao $8.25 | 6004 inch..... Petree teas ato tien <a $4 75
Gey 2 Rane eh. Se 2 es Soe ge Seo a ee AMET hath Bee ch 4 40
Pee eee H es RRL ere The as PRGA Hare ING Ie Co See OSE Cee 3 60
i BGO BGAN ie Stee es Ries Sie be ence ANC IMAGE? & .).' 2. si ao eh ee 5 60

Boe SES ANI ys, SV eae fe re ok 560.) Gosinch, hand made... 20.2... 242.5... 4 Io

Assorted Crate No. 3, $4.10 f Heian Pots; thirty 7 inch, ae 8

Assorted Crate No. 4, $5.00 Pogue ae made Pots, 189—4 inch, 125—5 inch
Our terms are cash with the order, payable to J. N. Perkins, by New York

Draft or Money Order ; no checks unless fifteen cents is added for collection.

We ship safely to all parts of North America, from Boston to British Col-
umbia. We sold very many last year in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee. All orders filled instantly—no delay. Low freight rates.

Finally, we mail free samples to all who ask, and we quote special prices
to include freight and breakage, ‘‘Safe delivery,’’ to large buyers who wish to
_ try us.

Do not fail to write us; we will do you good. Look for our advertisement
in the American Florist; new advertisement every two weeks. It will pay you.

Respectfully yours,

J. NEAL PERKINS, Manager,
SYRACUSE, N. Y.

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FLORIDA'S NEWLY-DISCOVERED PALM, ©

Pseudophcenix Sarsentii.

From the owners of these unique and rare Palms, recently found on ¢@
Long Key, (Messrs. TI. A. & E. A. Hine, of New York,) we have obtain ;
control of the few plants small enough to be handled, THE ONLY PR
CURABLE PLANTS OF THIS SPECIES KNOWN TO BE IN EXISTENC .
which have been potted and are now offered for sale. For description
and particulars see Department of Paims in this Catalogue. AV aa

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