NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES FOR 1867. 



1SG6 has been truly a red letter year in the annals of Horticulture. It opened with an exhibition of plants 

 which has had HO parallel, and it closes with a shower of floral novelties which we trust will satisfy the 

 more than Athenian-like craving of those devotees icho worship at the shrine of Flora. We have 

 devoted double our usual space to these, and yet the Cornucopia at our command has been by no means 

 exhausted. 



Ter Packet. 

 5. d. 



1 ADONIS AESTIVALIS GRANDIFLORA SUPERBA, a splendid variety, with larger flowers 



than A. Vernalis, bright yellow with large brown centre . . . . .10 



2 AGROSTEMMA CCELI ROSA HYBRIDA FLORE PLENO. a fine novelty of 18G6. 



See Viscaria ......... Gd. and 1 0 



3 ANEMONE SPECIES NOVA PONTICA, a recent discovery from the snbalpine regions of 



the Pontic Mountains, where it is a beautiful and ornamental plant . . .10 



4 ANONYA SPECIES (Composita), an effective annual from Abyssinia with large yellow 



flower heads, stately, picturesque, and suitable for distant effect ; 4 to 5 feet per seed 1 0 



5 APLOPAPPUS RUBIGINOSUS (Coinposita>), a showy September flowering hardy annual, 



with finely cut foliage, which when young is covered with a white down ; produces large 

 terminal corymbs of yellow flowers, each nearly 2 inches in diameter, height about 2£ ft. 1 0 



6 AQUILEGIA VULGARIS VERVAINEANA, a fine species, with semi-double purplish 



flowers and handsome yellow mottled foliage . . . . . .06 



7 ARMERIA MONTANA, a trailing species with large pure white flowers, very rare . . 0 G 



8 AUBERGINE, or EGG PLANT, GIANT WHITE, fruit three times the size of the old 



variety, very ornamental . . . . . . . . .10 



9 AUBERGINE, or EGG PLANT, GIANT STRIPED, fruit as large as that of the Giant 



White, and beautifully striped ; very effective . . . . . .10 



10 AUBERGINE, or EGG PLANT, BLACK, from Pekin, a robust growing species . .10 



11 AUBRETIA GRJECA, a most desirable addition to this charming spring flowering genus of 



hardy perennials, popularly known as Blue Alyssum ; the flowers are larger and deej^er 



in colour than any of the varieties at present in cultivation . . . . .10 



12 AUCUBA JAPONICA, hybridized with the different newly introduced varieties per seed 1 0 



13 AUCUBA JAPONICA VIRIDIS, introduced by Mr. Fortune . . . per seed 1 G 



14 BEGONIA PEARCII, a handsome new species with rich dark velvety green leaves, traversed 



by straw-coloured veins, flowers bright yellow, borne on slender stems . . . 1 G 



15 BERTOLONIA PUBESCENS (Melastomaceos), introduced from Ecuador ; leaves light green, 



broadly banded in the centre with dark chocolate ; was awarded a first-class certificate 



by the Royal Horticultural and Botanical Society . . . . ■ . 3 G 



16 BOCONIA FRUTESCENS, highly ornamental foliage plant, suitable for cultivation in large 



pots, leaves frond-like, oblong, deeply lobed and very glaucous ; 2 to 3 feet . .10 



17 BOCONIA JAPONICA, a magnificent introduction from Japan, forming a luxuriant bush< 



5 to 6 feet high, its large oak-like dark green leaves producing a splendid effect as a 

 single object on lawns . . . . . . . . .10 



18 BUDLEYA CURVIFOLIA, fine species, with rose-lilac flowers in long bmiches . . 1 U 



19 CALCEOLARIAS, Barr's International Prize Varieties, saved by Mr. James from his 



International Prize Collection ...... 5/6, 3/6, and 2 G 



20 CALLIOPSIS PHILADELPHICA, a very ornamental perennial species, with large handsome 



yellow flowers, which are produced the first season . . . . .10 



21 CAMPANULA BARBATA, beautiful pale blue pendant flowers ; height 1 foot . . 0 G 



22 CAMPANULA MEDIUM FLORE ROSEA, a very fine new variety of the Canterbury Bells, 



distinguished by its beautiful gav flowers of a pure fresh pink colour . . .10 



23 CELOSIA PYRAMID ALIS NANA AURANTIACA, a fine novelty from Cochin China, 



10 to 18 inches, foliage bright green, and brilliant fawn-coloured plumes of flowers . 1 6 I 



24 CELOSIA PYRAMIDALIS VERSICOLOR, also from Cochin China, 2 to 3 feet high, of 



pyramidal growth, foliage shaded reddish brown, each branch terminated with'vivid 

 carmine flowers, which gradually change to violet . . . . . 1 G 



25 CELOSIA PYRAMIDALIS VERSICOLOR, VAR. HYBRIDA FOLIIS ATROBRUNEIS, 



supposed to be a hybrid between the two preceding, distinguished however by its 

 darker coloured leaves and orange scarlet flowers ; an exceedingly beautiful plant . 1 G 



26 CENTAUREA BABYLONICA, an exceedingly picturesque sub-tropical plant, with stately 



flower spikes of golden yellow rising from the midst of large handsome foliage; 



5 to 6 ft. . . . . . . . . . . .10 



27 CENTAUREA GYMNOCARPA, an exceedingly graceful white foliage plant, with beautifully 



cut leaves ; cannot be too largely used in ribbons .... 6d. and 1 0 



23 CHAMJEPEUCE CASABONE, glossy dark green leaves, with white nerves and hairy spines 1 0 



29 CHAMJEPEUCE DIACANTHA, midrib of leaf and spines ivoiy white, margined with glossy 



green and shaded by snowy white down ; singularly handsome and extremely ornamental 1 0 



30 CHAMERANTHEMUM VERBENACEUM (Acanthacew), a beautifully variegated white 



and green foliage plant from South America . . . . . . 2 G 



31 CHAMERANTHEMUM RETICULATUM, another fine variety, foliage netted white and 



green ...... . . • t >..-.. .26 



32 CHRYSANTHEMUM JAPONICUM FLORE PLENO. This is a new section of fancy 



double Chrysanthemums ; they are exceedingly beautiful, and for hybridizing with the 

 many superb varieties already in culture, will no doubt be an acquisition , .10 



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