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gome vaviegated-leaved plant of climbing liabit, with smooth round 

 sterna, and opposite stalked leaves, -vrhich are ovate-acuminate and 

 tapered below, and eventually grow to a large size. Colour deep olive 

 green, traversed by white veins. It is very ornamental. Commended. 

 Prenanthes arborea, from Mr. Weeks. A native of the Canary Islands. 

 Leaves pinnate Avith n-irrow distant leaflets. Very elegant and striking 

 when grouned with other plants. Commended. Variegated Begonias, 

 from Mr. Veitch ; Schilleri, dwarf habit, silvery leaves, the leaves having 

 a small central green star and a narrow speckled green edge : from Mr. 

 Bull, Count Alfred de Limminghe, olive-green ground, centre and 

 margin covered with uniform silvery dots, the rest of the surface forming a 

 clear silvery zone ; Madame Guntzberger, angular-lobed olive-green leaves 

 dotted with spots of white ; Charles Eicke, angular-toothed leaves, dark 

 purplish-red centre, narrow edge of same colour, intervening space of bright 

 green, marked with silvery dots ; Duchess de Brabant, dark brownish centre, 

 silver and green zones, and brownish edge ; Mine d'Argent, small-growing, 

 almost wholly silvered red beneath ; Fortuni, centre brownish-red, even edge 

 of same colour, rest of the surface velvety green, no white : from Mr. I). 

 T. Fish, gardener to Lady CuUum ; Lady CuUum, small and neat leaf with a 

 tapering central dark-green ray, and a Vandyked dark-green border marked 

 with silvery dots, the intermediate space forming a broad silvery zone : 

 from Mr. Bull ; Keramis, leaves of moderate size, angulately-lobed, surface 

 dull silvery gray, green centre. New Feens. — Lomaria cycadifolia, from 

 Messrs. Lee ; a fine evergreen hardy fern, forming a thick root-stock, from 

 which rise a profusion of pinnate fronds. The stem is sometimes three feet 

 high, and it will probably prove of the greatest value as a tree fern of very 

 hardy habit; F. C. C. Lomaria fluviatilis, from the same ; a New .Zlealand 

 species, of elegant habit, fronds membranous, narrow and elongated, pinnte 

 blunt elliiDtie, waxy on the margin ; F. C. C. Polystichiura vestitum, var. 

 venustum, from the same ; a New Zealand fern of great beauty, dark-green 

 bipinnate fronds, pinna; small trapeziform, deeplj' and acutely lobed and 

 toothed ; F. C. C. Pteris rubronervia, from Mr. Bull : a handsome 

 bicoloured fern, bearing some resemblance to others of the coloured Pterids 

 now so generally in cultivation. Todea superba, from Messrs. Veitch ; one 

 of the most beautiful of its race; fronds nine inches long, spreading, and 

 gracefully archius:, pinnae crowded, cut into narrow segments, which turn 

 upwards, and bristle all over the surface ; F. C. C. Lomaria Fraseri, from 

 Mr. Standish, Bagshot ; a fine New Zealand fern, has the habit of a tree 

 fern; F. C. C. Hypolepis distans, from Mr. Dean, Bradford; an elegant 

 greenhouse basket fern, furnished with creeping rhizome and smooth slender 

 ovate-lanceolate bipinnate fronds, a foot or more in length, and of drooping 

 habit. Gkeenhoxjse Plants. — Epacris vesta, from Slessrs. Veitch, white 

 tube tipped with pink, growth erect, and free-blooming habit ; commended. 

 Erica Mediterranea alba, from Mr. Bull, a dwarf bushy heath, probably 

 hardy, forms a dense tuft eight inches high, and bearing an abundance of 

 white flowers. Pultensea cuneata, from Messrs. Veitch, a free-flowering 

 species, flowers large, orange yellow witli brownish keel ; a handsome acquisi- 

 tion. Erica Imperatrix, from Messrs. Veitch, one of the late Mr. Storey's 

 seedlings, of the aristata section ; large flesh-coloured flowers deeply coloured 

 at the throat, limb segments large, blush white. Pimelea elegans, from 

 Messrs. Veitch, an elegant greenhouse shrub, with large ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves and globular heads of white flowers; F. C. C. Osmanthus aquifolius 

 variegatus nanus, from Mr. Standish, a neat oleaceous shrub, with holly- 

 like leaves, margined and marbled with creamy white, habit dwarf and 

 growth twiggy ; F. C. C. Gardenia radicans fol. variegatis, from Mr. 

 Standish ; difieriug from the species, in having leaves edged with white, a 

 most beautiful greenhouse shrub. 



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