NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES FOR 1868, 



THE GROWTH OF THE SEED IS TESTED BEFORE BEING SENT OUT. 



Our renders, ice feel sure, will pardon our o mitting to give a list of our principal patrons, or to quote a Jew 

 of the numerous flittering testimonials which we received regarding the excellent qnalitg of the seeds 

 supplied by our Jinn last gear ; but the space which we might have devoted to this purpose has been 

 entirely absorbed in recording the progress of Floriculture in the accompmying list of Novelties and 

 Specialities. It may not be out of place, however, to intimate here to those who mag be desirous of 

 knowing who constitute our patrons, that seeds have been supplied by its to the gardens of the most 

 illustrious crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe; and not a few of the gardens belonging to the 

 potentates qj Asia and Africa, have been beautified by the produce of seeds forwarded to them by us. 



Per Packet. 

 s. d. 



1 ABUTILON TUBULOSUM, a shrubby species from Australia, with yellow flowers and fine 

 large foliage . . . . . . . . . . .10 



2 ACACIA DECURRENS, beautiful flowers and extremely ornamental foliage, a fine species . 1 0 



3 ACACIA HISPIDTJLA, a fine shrubby species, with globular heads of flowers . . .10 

 »/-4 AMBER3DA MOSCHATA ATROPURPUREA, a purple-crimson Sweet Sultan. The Sweet 



Sultan has been long prized for its rich honey perfume. The rich colour of this variety 

 greatly enhances its value as a decorative plant . . . . . .10 



5 ANGOPHORA NOVA SPECIES, from Australia, a beautiful evergreen shrub, profusely 

 covered with pretty white flowers . . . . . . . .10 



6 ANONYA SPECIES, a strong- growing, composite, showy Abyssinian annual, with long spikes 

 of yellow flowers, valuable for distant effect in shrubbery borders . . . .10 



7 ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS LILACINUM, a remarkably beautiful lilac variety . . .00 



8 ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS NIGRESCENS, remarkably beautiful blackish blood-red flowers, 

 with white throat . . . . . . . . . . .06 



9 ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS PUMILUM, six Tom Thumb varieties, mixed, very compact, 

 dwarf, and florifcix>us, valuable for beds and edgings . . . . .10 



10 ANTIRRHINUM MULTIFLORUM, a hybrid between A. rupestris and A. majus, height, 6 

 inches, denselv covered with rose and white flowers, and "always in bloom" . \ . L . 1 0 



11 APLOPAPPUS RU3IGIN0SUS (Thomson). This fine, showy hardy annual, which we 

 offered last year for the first time, is this season, we observe, being offered as Abloppapus 

 (Hablopappus) rubiginosus . . . . . . . . . 0 G 



12 APHAN03TEPHUS RAMOSIS3IMU3, a pretty half-hardy, composite, Texan dwarf annual, 

 carpeting the ground with comparatively large violet-blue yellow-disked flower heads, in 

 bloom throughout the summer . . . . . . . . .10 



13 ARALIA AU3TRALIS, a beautiful new species from Australia . . . . .10 



14 ARALIA ELEGANS, another fine new 3pccies from Ilockhampton, Australia . . .10 



15 ARTEMESIA JAPONICA, a hardy ornamental perennial species from Japan, powerfully 

 aromatic, and succeeding in any kind of soil, a fine sub-tropical plant . . . Gd. « 1 0 



16 ARTEMESIA NOVA SPECIES, a handsome hardy perennial species, sent out from the 

 Imperial Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburgh, a fine sub-tropical j)lant - ,. . Gd. & 1 0 



17 ASTILBE RIVULARIS, a fine hardy perennial, with pinnate foliage, and panicles of Spiraea- 

 like flowers . . . . . . . . . .,-..06 



18 ASTRAGALUS MONSPESSULANUS, a fine hardy perennial evergreen trailer, with yellow 

 flowers .......... t fctA* . 6 6 



19 ASTROTRICHA FLOCC03A, a white flowering shrubby umbellifer, from Australia, rare . 1 0 



20 BALSAM SOLFERINO, a fine double variety, with handsome white flowers striped, spotted 

 and stained with crimson . . . . . , . . . .10 



21 BALSAM CARNATION STRIPED DWARF ROSE-FORMED, six varieties, mixed, of 

 beautifully striped white double flowers ; one of the finest novelties of the season . . 2 G 



22 BALSAM CARNATION STRIPED TRICOLOR DWARF, ROSE-FORMED, two varieties, 

 mixed, of beautifully tricolor striped white double flowers ; another charming novelty . 2 6 



23 BERTOLONIA PUBESCENS, ornamental foliaged stove plant, with light green leaves, 

 broadly banded in the centre with chocolate . . . . . . Is. & 2 6 



i^2i BIDEN3 WARSCEWICZIANA PINNATA, a strong growing plant for public parks and 

 shrubbery borders, stems much branched, and producing freely abundance of white flowers, 

 with orange disk ; height, 4 ft. . . . . . , . .10 



25 BOCCONIA CORDATA ROTUNDIFOLIA -> 



26 BOCCONIA CORDATA YEDDCENSIS Lp, . , . . , . , , 



27 BOCCONIA FORMOSA VEITCHII iThese are remarkable for the highly orna- I 



28 BOCCONIA FRUTESCENS \ me ? tal chara cter of their fohage . each f 



29 BOCCONIA JAPONICA J J 



30 BORONIA LEDIFOLIA, a pretty species, with rose-coloured flowers . . . .10 



31 BOSSLS2 A FOLIOSA, a very beautiful free flowering species . . . . .10 



32 CALCEOLARIA (James') INTERNATIONAL PRIZE. We hold the stock. 2*. Gd., 3s. Gd. & 5 6 i 

 >0 H^33 CALLIOPSIS BICOLOR NANA FISTUL03A NIGRA, a very remarkable new dwarf, 



black-red quilled variety ......... Gd. & 1 0 



34 CALLIOPSIS BICOLOR NANA SEMI-PLENA MARMORATA, a very pretty semi-double 

 dwarf variety, with yellow flowers, marbled dark blood-red . . . . Gd. & 1 0 



35 CALYTHRIX ERICOIDES, a very pretty dwarf free-flowering heath-like greenhouse Myrtacea 1 0 



36 CAMPANULA CELSII, a fine hardy dwarf trailing perennial species, from Greece, with pale 

 blue tubular flowers, valuable for rockwork . . . . . . Gd. & 1 0 



37 CAMPANULA CELTIDIFOLIA, a beautiful new perennial species, which blooms the first 

 season ; flowers blue . . . . . . . . . Gd. & 1 0 



38 CAMPANULA PEREGRIN A, deep violet flowers ; a very desirable border hardy perennial . 0 G 



39 CAMPANULA THYRSOIDEA, a cream-coloured fine hardy biennial . . . .00 



40 CARNATION, DWARF DOUBLE, EARLY FLOWERING, mixed colours, compact bushy 

 habit, producing abundance of fine double flowers, borne on stems 12 in. to 15 in. high, and 

 standing closely together ; a valuable plant . . . . . . .10 



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