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pot plant not colour enough ; the zone being a good shade of chocolate, with rather 

 washy patches of rose. For elegant work in bedding invaluable. 



Light and Shadoio (E, G. H.). — A good zone on a good margin, peculiarly 

 beautiful when in tlower, and therefore well adapted for a specimen. 



SELECTION OF CHEAP A^ARIETIES OF GOLD AND SILVER TRICOLORS, 



All obtainable at from 1*. to 25. Qd. each. 



Gold. — Mrs. PollocJc, Sunset, Yelloio Belt^ Mrs. 'Benyon^ Golden Defiance, 

 Sunbeam, Socrates. 



Silver. — United Italy, Soneycomh, Lady of Shallot, The Countess, Silver 

 Star, Ficturata. 



A selection of four new bronze zonals, 



Averaging 7*. Qd. to lO*. Qd. each. 



'Electra (E. G. H.). — A fine brown zone on a flat leaf ; a free flowering variety. 

 Tlleetric (Saltmarsh and Son). — In the way of Luna, with richer colours and 

 heavier zone. Superb out of doors. 



Venus (S. and S.). — Much gold and little zone, good habit, and flowering freely ; 

 very attractive and peculiar as a bedder. 



Criterion (F. and A. S.). — The most perfect of all this class, the leaf being round 

 and flat, disk and margin sulphur, zone brilliant rufous red. 



a selection of cheap varieties of bronze zonals. 



Luna, Beauty of Oulton, Bronze Queen, Canary Bird (useful only as a bedder), 

 Mrs. Maxwell, Mutton, Zinyara, Aureum (a splendid bedder). 



NEW PLANTS. 



ACSONIA BUCHANANI, Buchanans Passion Flower (Vlllust. Sort., 

 t. 519). — Passifloraceffi. A distinct species, which in several points 

 resembles T. ignea. It is a native of Panama, and is named in honour 

 of Mr. Buchanan, of New York, who was the first to cultivate it. The 

 leaves are three to five-lobed, the flowers measure three to four inches 

 in diameter, tbey are of a brilliant scarlet colour. 



Viola ped4.ta, Falmate-leaved Viola {Vlllust. Hort., t. 520). — ^Violacese. A 

 beautiful figure of a well-known and extremely pretty species, which would, no 

 doubt, answer equally well for bedding as V. cornuta. 



Smilax LONGiFOLiA VARiEGATA, Variegated long-leaved Sarsa'parilla [Vlllust. 

 Sort., t. 521). — Smilace^. A beautiful variety of this well-known climber. The 

 leaves are marked with cloudy lines of creamy variegation. 



Dendrobium Bullebianum, Mr. Wentioorth Btdler's Dendrole (Bot. Mag., 

 t. 5652). — Orchidacete. A pretty species, native of Moulmein. It is most nearly 

 allied to I>. crepidatum, but is abundantly distinguished by the form of the lip, 

 which is broadly ovate, or almost triangular. In size and colouring it approaches 

 nearest to J). JDevoniamim. The flowers ai'e creamy white, faintly tipped with 

 rose, the lip has a large circular disk of yellow, the margin creamy white. 



Epidendbum CREMiDOPHOROM, Sheathed Fpidendrtmi {Bot. Mag., t. 5656). 

 — Orchidacese. A remarkable plant, long since discovered by Mr. Skinner, but was 

 only recently flowered at Oulton, where it receives the most ordinary greenhouse 

 treatment, "it is a stately robust, terrestrial plant, forming tufts of stout, leafy 

 stems, and dark green leaves six to ten inches long. The flowers are in a nodding 

 raceme, the sepals and petals chocolate brown, with yellow spots, the hp pale rose. 



Begonia Boliviensis, Bolivian Begonia (Bot. Mag., t. 5657).— A splendid 

 species, with small, narrow, grass-green leaves, and large, drooping, campanulate 

 scarlet flowers. 



Pbosxantheba nivea, Snow-white Frostanthera {Bot, Mag.^ t. 5658). — La- 



