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FARFUGIUM GRANDE. 



This valuable addition to our hardy orna- 

 mental foliage plants, is an acquisition of 

 Mr. Fortune's, and like Didytra spectabilis, 

 for which also we are indebted to him, will 

 soon become a universal favourite. Indeed, 

 we anticipate that this Farfugium will fur- 

 nish the means for the introduction of quite 

 a new style of promenade decoration, for 

 which its thorough hardiness peculiarly fits 



whom he at once secured it, and sent it home. 

 It is closely allied to the family of the Colts- 

 foots, will grow well in any ordinary soil, and 

 in its proportions and colourings may be truly 

 described as a grand plant. The engraving is 

 from a specimen in the nursery of Mr. Glen- 

 dinning, at Chiswick, of which the following 

 are the measurements— across the leaf, 14 

 inches; heigth of plant 2 feet ; circumference 



it, and it is, besides, the finest hardy varie- 

 gated plant we have. Mr. Fortune tells an 

 odd story about it, that when travelling in 

 the north of China, he got perplexed by an 

 oriental button holder, and his patience so 

 exhausted, that he changed his route, and 

 took a side cut towards a village he Wished 

 to reach, and in a little back street, saw the 

 plant in the possession of a local florist, from 



14. feet. A, represents the complete plant ; 

 b, a single leaf, the ground colour of which 

 is a fresh and beautiful green, blotched 

 irregularly with white, amber, cream, and 

 yellow spots. A bed of them, at the Chiswick 

 Show, was altogether unequalled as a foliage 

 effect, .-mil as a border plant, amongst gay 

 ih>\\ c;s, this plant will produce a striking 

 feature. - [Price 10s. 6d. to 21s. each.] 



