1877.] 



AND HOBTIGULTUBIST. 



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Countess of Sefton.— This was raised from the 

 same parent as the above. The plant is not so 

 dwarf-growing ; the flower is white, with a band 

 of rosy-purple on each side of the corolla, which 

 is beautifully fringed on the margin. 



white, with beautifully fringed 



flower pure 

 margin. 



Mrs. James Shawe.—A pure white cup-shaped 

 flower, of great substance; the plant of very 

 bushy habit and profuse bloomer. 



PTERODISCUS SPECIOSUS 



Lady Skelmersdale diff"ers from the former in 

 the flower being pure white and more trumpet- 

 shaped, with beautiful even edge ; the form is 

 very handsome, the plant bushy and free bloom- 

 ing. 



Duchess of Sutherland— Vlnut of robust habit; 



PTERODISCUS SPECIOSUS.— The Gardener's Chrorv- 

 icle recently gave the following figure and de- 

 scription of a greenhouse plant with flowers of a 

 somewhat novel color, introduced by Mr. William 

 Bull, which will most likely prove of value to our 

 greenhouse cultivators, and we reproduce it 



