BOTANICAL MAGAZINE ADVERTISER. 
NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
JAS. BACKHOUSE & SON 
i} Have now ready for Distribution the following interesting Plants :— 
} QPARAXIS PULCHERRIMA. “This most lovely Cape bulb” was figured and de- 
a scribed in Curtis’s ‘ Botanical Magazine’ for January of the rae year. The flowers are very 
large (13 inch long), bell-shaped, of a deep magenta purple! Dr. Hooker says, “ A more lovely and 
_ graceful plant, from its extremely tall and slender stems, and tiers of drooping flowers, cannot well be 
imagined.” Its value is much increased by its being easy of cultivation in a cool greenhouse, where it 
_ flowers in the winter months. Price 10s. 6d. 
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|  angentade FULGENS. Figured im the above work, under this name, in March 
last, and formerly known as Phycella sp. nova. It was received from our collector in Chili, and is 
_ one of the most brilliant-coloured bulbous plants that we know. Dr. Hooker speaks of it as “a truly 
" magnificent plant, sent by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, with whom it flowered in April of last year. The 
) flowers are 4 to 5 inches across, bright scarlet, with a yellow tube, borne in clusters of five to seven on a 
| stem.” Price 10s. 6d. 
mee CET M DICRANANTHERUM. Figured in Curtis’s ‘ Botanical Magazine,’ 
tab. 5506, and there spoken of as “an excessively pretty plant, deserving a place in every warm 
greenhouse.” The flowers are very abundant, and of a bright rose colour, and the habit being neat and 
compact, it is an invaluable acquisition for the later months of the year. Price 5s, 
Be ENIA AMABILIS. We again call attention to this most beautiful stove shrub. 
During the present season it has been exhibited at the meetings of the Hoge Horticultural and 
| Royal Botanic Societies, and in both instances a First Class Certificate was received. -It produces freely 
. deep rosy-crimson flowers of large size and exquisite beauty, and being of good habit, it is an invaluable 
plant for home decoration or exhibition. Price 3s. 6d. and 5s. each. 
ope ALTERNANS. A new and possibly hardy Fern of great interest, from 
j the high regions of Northern India and Chinese Tartary (?), inhabiting stony woods at 6000 feet — 
' elevation. Fronds ovate, sinuated, tufted, very opaque, about 9 inches long, bearing a general resem- — 
blance to Ceterach Officinarum. 7s. 6d. 4 
SPLENIUM INEQUALE VAR. Elegant highly-divided fronds, viviparous, and ex- 
tremely interesting. First Class Certificate R.H.S. 3s. 6d. to 42s. 
ELLHA WRIGHTIANA. This is a very distinct and striking species, with glaucous 
pinnate fronds, often subdivided in the lower series. First Class Certificate. 3s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. 
NDIGOFERA FLORIBUNDA. Although this plant has been introduced for some — 
years, its great merit seems to be but little known. Not only is it one of the most beautiful of ‘ 
_ Summer-flowering greenhouse plants, but equally beautiful as a hardy shrub. A plant has eet re in 4 
_our Nursery for several years, living through the extreme frost of 1860. It is nowa bush 3 feet high and 
- 4 feet through, and last summer was covered with a sheet of bright rose-coloured pea-shaped fiowers, ex- 
 ceedingly charming. As a greenhouse plant it is very effective, the neat Acacia-like foliage corresponding 
admirably with the profusion of bright lively flowers ; but it is as a virtually new and most effective hardy 
| plant that we now call attention to it. Nice plants in pots, 3s. 6d. each ; larger, 5s. toe. 6d. 
CHIZOSTYLIS COCCINEA. Having prepared a large stock of this much-admired — 
_ plant, we can offer them, of blooming strength, at 12s. per dozen. Flowering continuously through 
the autumn and winter months, its brilliant crimson flowers render it a chief ornament of any greenhouse, 
and amongst cut flowers it is most attractive. : : : 
EPATICA ANGULOSA. This magnificent new species 1S fully twice the size of the | 
Common Blue Hepatica in all its parts. Flowers sky-blue, frequently as large as a crown-plece. 
Ought to be in every garden. 3s. 6d. : ; 
QAXIFRAGA LONGIFOLIA VERA. It has been our good fortune to receive several 
plants of this Queen of Saxifrages, as it may be truly termed, from its size and beauty combined. 
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flowers form ive white plumes, 1} to 2 feet long, and 4 to 6 inches thick, rising from rosettes © 4 
inches across, of very narrow: glinsoti (almost silvery) leaves, closely imbricated. dar grey tes: trom q 
plant ordinarily grown under this name, as received from Continental Nurseries, sige 2 Me ie 
RIMULA PURPUREA. This fine Himalayan species resembles P. denticulata in — 
appearance, but has very different leaves, a more robust habit, and larger and finer heads of flower. — 
2s. 6d. each ; 24s. per dozen. 
: d causes, tosend — 
JAS. BACKHOUSE & SON regret to say that they will be unable, from unexpecte cae q 
out Plants of Lopeuta sist ri ati season. Orders received will be executed a8 800n 84 possible. a 
A Catalogue of Bulbs, including Lists of Strawberries and useful Winter Decorative Plants, is just — 
published, and will be forwarded upon application. 
York Nurseries. ; 
