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Abutilon x hybridum -
FLOWERING MAPLE
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$1.50
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Also Parlour Maple, Indian Mallow and Chinese Lantern, these make nice bedding plants and can be dug and brought in for the winter. If started early they will bloom the first year in shades of orange, salmon and maroon to 18 inches.
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Acacia dealbata -
SILVER WATTLE
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$2.00
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Graceful finely divided blue-gray foliage, this one can go to 50 ft. Much planted along the Riviera where its violet-like perfume can be intoxicating.
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Acacia farnesiana -
PERFUME ACACIA
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$2.00
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The only acacia occurring in both hemispheres, and the hardiest (Zone 8). Grown along the Mediterranean for the production of cassia oil for perfume. Good pot plant north.
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Capparis spinosa -
CAPER BUSH
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$2.00
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An interesting plant of which the unopened flower buds preserved in salt and vinegar, provide the aromatic and spicy delicacy used in sauces and salads. Good as a pot plant or can even be treated as a HHA in the north if started early and given a warm position and full sun. The large white flowers have a boss of violet stamens and are borne over a long period.
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Cestrum nocturnum -
NIGHT JESSAMINE
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$2.00
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Evergreen shrub from the West Indies which pours forth a ravishing fragrance of musk mingled with heliotrope while the night lasts. Good pot plant–blooms intermittently through the year.
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Cistus landanife -
GUM ROCK-ROSE
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$2.00
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The pure white flowers with a crimson blotch at the base are the largest in the genus at near 4 inches, but it is the gum on the leaves which scents the air with their incense perfume. A valued substitute for ambergris and is used in many foods, drinks, soaps, perfumes and confections. Four feet, zone 7, pkt.
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Cistus villosus -
CRETAN ROCK-ROSE
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$2.00
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The most prolific source of the perfume base, labdanum, which is still collected by shepherds who comb it from the fleeces of their sheep. Large mauve flowers on a drought resistant plant to four feet. Zone 8. Roots resent disturbance, so start in a pot.
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Escobaria emskoetteriana -
WINDOWSILL CACTUS
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$2.00
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My common name for this charming little cactus that has had many Latin name changes while changing physically hardly at all. This is a delightful tiny cactus that can be kept in a 2 or 3 inch pot for decades when it does spill over the edges, but the spines don’t come off in your fingers as some species do. It is ornamented year round with the bright red canine tooth shaped fruits which last almost indefinitely unless you eat them–they taste like strawberries. Native to TX, zone 9.
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Eucalyptus citriodora -
LEMON SCENTED GUM
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$2.00
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Very fast growing with narrow yellow-green leaves strongly lemon scented. An attractive and quick pot or summer hedging plant.
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Eucalyptus globulus compacta -
BLUE GUM
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$2.00
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Oil of eucalyptus is obtained from this species. In the North it is especially valued as an annual bedding or pot plant for its juvenile leaves.
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Hippeastrum sp. -
ORANGE AMARYLLIS
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$2.50
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This deep orange amaryllis has somewhat smaller flowers or at least more space between the petals which is, to my way of thinking, less ruffled and congested than the common types and thus more delicate and beautiful. But size of flower aside, my seven inch pot of several bulbs makes an entire bouquet of about twenty or so flowers of striking orange with green and cream in the throat. Whether it is a species or hybrid, it seems to come true from seed. No one can pass it without remarking on it. Pkt. 10 seeds.
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Hymenosporum flavum -
SWEET-SHADE
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$2.00
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Although this is a large tree in its native Australia, it has done well in a 9 inch pot in the greenhouse for years bearing its cream-aging-yellow very fragrant flowers in early spring. 6 seeds.
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