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Ditto. Speciosissirna, rosy-crimson, slightly spotted, plant eight feet high, 



in profuse bloom. 

 Ditto. Speciosa, pink. 

 Ditto. Rubra plena, a double flower of a 6ne light-red colour, from Mr. 



Veitcb, Exeter. 

 Ditto. Purpurea splendens, a fine bright purple flower, from A. Palmer, 



Esq., a very striking variety. 

 Ditto. Monstrosum, (Smith's) lilac tinged with purple, a very large flower. 

 Azalea rubra. A plant in profuse bloom, twelve feet high. 

 Ditto variegata. Centre of flower flesh colour, with an edge of white, by 



J. H. Palmer, Esq. 

 Ditto sinensis. A plant six feet high, clothed with its deep golden yellow 



flowers, by Mr. \. Stewart, Salthill. a 



Rhododendron hyacinthiflora. Purple flower nearly double. 

 Ditto. Multi-maculata, (Smith's) white, upper petals, slightly tinged with 



blush, and spotted with dark brown. 

 Thunbergia Hawtoneyana. Blue, having a white centre, with the throat 



streaked with yellow. 

 Lobelia ramosa. Four feet high, with numerous branches in profuse bloom, 



deep blue flowers, yellow spot at centre, about one inch across. 

 Lopbosphernum rosemariuifolia. With narrow leaves and fine rose-coloured 



flowers. 

 Chorizema spartoides. With narrow leaves, but not yet bloomed. 

 Pimelea incana. The foliage has a silvery appearance, being densely clothed 



with hair. The flowers are terminal heads, white. 



Pelargoniums. — Descriptions of the most superior kinds of Pelargoniums 

 now in cultivation, as recently seen in the. metropolitan nurseries : 



Phosphorus, rosy purple, round and large petals. 



Louis d'elyte, fine lar^e rose, large dark spot on upper petal. 



Louis Quartoize, white, with very large dark crimson purple spot, very 

 superior. 



King, (Gaines's) very beautiful rosy crimson, lighter towards the centre, 

 the form of the flower is very perfect and large. 



Lady Dillon, upper petals rose, lower lilac, large flower. 



Bellissima, white, with large dark crimson spot, no streaks upon the 

 flower. 



Duchess of Roxborough, very fine rose, with large dark spot, a large 

 and superior flower. 



Fosterii Rosea, with large dark spot, a large flower of very fine form. 



Faunus, lower petals a rosy pink, upper ones crimson with dark spot, 

 a fine flower. 



Sir John Sebright, lilac, with very large dark crimson velvet spot, a fine 

 flower. 



Chefe d'neuvre, white with large reddish spot. 



Bleda, tine rosy crimson, with larne crimson spot, large flower. 



Perfection, (Garth's,) lower petals, flesh colour, upper ones rose with dark 

 spot, a fine formed large flower. 



Touchstone, fine scarlet, about the size and form of the well known 

 Daveyanum. 



Rose Eclatante, lower petals rosy purple, upper ones, rosy crimson, with 

 a larue dark spot. 



Mrs. Norcliffe, white, with large dark crimson spot. 



Gauntlett, lower petals light crimson, upper ones fine scarlet crimson 

 a large llower. 



Criterion, white, with Urge dark spot, fine flower. 



Lord Byron, rosy purple, with large dark spot, very fine formed flower. 



Pic turn, white, large spot, and upper petals streaked. 



Al«-tia, white, tinged with blush, rosy crimson spot. 



Colossus, lower petals rose, upper ones crimson with dark spot, good 

 formed (lower. 



