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and very fragrant ; it is of dwarf habit, with neat foliage, and 

 is a very free bloomer. A garden hybrid. 



R. Princess Helena. — A beautiful hybrid, with rich glossy 

 green leaves. The flowers are produced very freely, are 

 very long in the tube, and very glossy, in colour a delicate 

 soft pink, striped and shaded with darker pink. It is a 

 valuable greenhouse plant, the result of a cross between 

 R. ciliatupi and R. Edgworthii. Garden hybrid. 



R. Princess Mary. — An exceedingly beautiful garden hybrid ; 

 the flowers are pure white, tinted on the outside with rosy 

 pink, rendering it very attractive and ornamental. 



R. Princess Royal. — A lovely ornamental variety for the 

 conservatory. It is of very distinct character, producing 

 an abundance of its rich deep rose-coloured flowers. A 

 garden variety. 



R. Sesterianum. — A hybrid between R. Gibsoni and R. Edg- 

 ivorthii. Flowers large, pure white, spotted with yellow on the 

 upper petals ; it is deliciously sweet, and a very free bloomer. 



R. Taylorii. — A very distinct and pretty variety ; flowers 

 produced in umbels, pink, of a rich brilliant hue, the tube of 

 the corolla white, of good substance, very floriferous. A 

 garden hybrid. 



R. Thibaudiense. — This is a very peculiar and pretty 

 species, the flowers very much resembling those of its near 

 ally the Ericas; they are produced in terminal trusses, 

 beautiful bright red, saving the ends of the tubes, which are 

 greenish yellow. Native of Bootan. 



R. tubiflorum. — This is at once a novel and beautiful 

 species;' the leaves are somewhat oblong-acuminate, about 

 three inches long by one in breadth ; in a young state they 

 are of a rich bronzy gold, changing with age to dark green ; 

 the flowers are tubular and dark red shaded with purple. 

 From the mountains of Java. 



