88 THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



The following new varieties of Tobacco are very handsome : — 



Nicotiana atropurpurea grandiflora. A very handsome variety, with large 

 foliage and rosy-purple flowers. 6 to 7 ft. N. macrophylla fjigantea. A large 

 growing variety, with immense foliage and purple flowers. 8 to 9 ft. N. Wigan- 

 dinoides. A large growing variety, with immense leaves. 



The foliage of the Nicotianas is very ornamental, and the flowers of most of the 

 varieties are very pretty ; they are all worth growing in the subtropical garden. 

 Height from 4 to 6 ft. 



Papaver Mursellii. 



Perilla nankinensis. Admirable for massing and ribbon bordering, where a 

 deep mulberry foliage has a striking effect. 2 ft. 



Polygonum orientalis (persicaria), flowers red. 6 ft. P.fl. albo, white, prett)'' 

 foliage. Sow in open border. 



Ricinus communis {Palma CJiristi) syns. Africanus, Tunicensis, glaucous white. 

 6 to 9 ft. R. minor. 4 ft. R. Africanus albidm, greenish white. 6 to 9 ft. R. 

 rutilans syn. lividus, purpnreus, reddish green. 6 to 9 ft. R. sanguinea syn. 

 Obermannii, purple. 8 to 10 ft. R. species, from the Philippines, glaucous green ; 

 8 to 10 feet. R. borboniensis arboreus. Said to grow 15 ft. R. Belot Desfougeres. 

 The above list contains the principal varieties of Ricinus that are distinct in the 

 foliage ; there are a few other kinds, but they so much resemble those that we 

 have given in the above list, that we think it would be useless to add them. The 

 Ricinus can be classed as among the most attractive plants for the subtropical 

 garden, the foliage being very large, and having an attractive appearance. Sow 

 in gentle hotbed, repot as the plant requires it, and plant out ai the end of May. 



Solanum sisymbrifoliam syn. Palbisii, Decurrens, Viscosum. Leaves f^reen, 

 with yellowish green spines and large white flowers. 2 ft. S. citrullifolium. 

 Handtome ibliage, resembling a water-melon, and spiny, with rosy violet flowers. 

 3 ft. >S'. laciniatum. Beautiful green foliage. 7 ft. S. ferrugineum. Upper side 

 of the leaves russetty green, the under side clear green. S'. marginatum syn. 

 Abyssinicum. Foliage bright green, margined with white and white flowers. 3 ft. 

 S. robustum. Under sides of the leaves glaucous green, with white flowers. 2 to 

 3 ft. S. pyracanthum. Yellowish green foliage, with orange coloured spines down 

 the veins of the leaves. Clear blue flowers striped with white, round yellow fruit. 

 S. giganteum syn. niveum. Deep green foliage the under side silvery, white spines, 

 and round red fruit. 4 ft. S. sanguiyieum syn. atrosanguineum, atropurpureum. 

 Handsome green leaves with violet spines, yellowish green flowers, and yellow fruit. 

 3 to 5 ft. S. dulcamara. A handsome variety, with violet flowers and brilliant 

 red fruit. 4 to 6 feet. S. fontanesianum. Elegant cut foliage, with canary yellow- 

 flower. 5 ft. S.verbascifolium. Oval lanceolate foliage of bushy growth. 3 ft. 

 S. acanthocarptim. A splendid species, with deeply-lobed leaves, which are white 

 underneath. It has remarkable spiny fruit, the size of a small orange. 7 to 8 ft. 

 This is a very attractive and pleasing class of plants, very suitable for the sub- 

 tropical garden ; the foliage of many of the kinds is very handsome, with peculiar 

 and variously coloured spines formed upon the upper and under sides of the leaves. 

 The flowers of many of the varieties are very pretty, and most of them have very 

 attractive fruit. The seed should be sown in brisk boitom-heat, and the plants 

 grown in a stove or warm greenhouse heat, so as to plant them out about the end oi 

 May or early in June. 



* Zea CiizJco. A giant Maize, growing to a great height, with broad foliage, 

 very ornamental. Z. Japonica foliis variegatis {Japanese Maize). A strikingly 

 beautiful ornamental foliage plant, growing from 5 to 6 ft. The leaves are 2 to 3 

 inches broad, most beautifully striped with white ; it was the admiration of every 

 person who saw it growing last season in our grounds. Z. Maize, or Indian Corn. 

 Very ornamental, suitable for the subtropical garden. 



* Zinnia. 12 varieties, with double and single flowers; a fine bedding annual. 2 ft» 



HA.Lr-HAKDY PEE.ENXIALS FOE, THE SUBTROPICAL GARDEN. 



Abutilon, Due de MalaJcuff^ very beautiful foliage, pretty cream-coloured flower& 

 with crimson stripe, 6 ft. 



Artemesia argentea, pretty foliage similar to Centaurea. 



* Argyranthemum Jrutescens, a greenhouse shrub with laciniated foliage. A, 

 coronopifolium, very handsome foliage. 



