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90 BARR & SUGDEN^S SPRING SEED CATALOGUE, 



nA.VnA:s'm A—continued. • ^"^.^d." 



2555 Mauran'dya Barclava'na grnndiflo'ra, lavender , 0 4 



2556 „ „" „ lilac 0 6 



2557 „ „ „ pale blue 0 6 



2558 „ „ „ pink, beautiful 0 4 



2559 „ „ „ extra large 0 6 



2560 „ „ „ purple shaded ^ 0 6 



2561 „ „ „ rosy-purple , 0 4 



2562 „ ., „ rose , 0 4 



2563 „ „ „ scarlet . . . 0 b 



2564 „ Emerea'na 0 4 



2565 „ semperflo'reiis Q 4 



2566 „ mixed from the above spleiicfid vaiieties . . . . . 0 6 



MEDE'OLA, Nat. Ord. Melantha'cece. 

 Curious and eleft-ant winter flowering plants, with orange-scented flowers, A'aluable for 

 large conservatories, succeed best in a light sandy soil. Greenhouse climbing shrubs. 



2567 Mede'ola asparagoi'des, green and white, from C. of Good Hope 0 6 



2568 „ myrtifo'lia 1 6 



MOMOR'DICA, Nat. Ord. CucurUta'cecc. 

 Trailing plants with curious and very ornamental foliage ; the fruit is of a golden yellow 

 colour, warted, and, when ripe, opens, disclosing its seeds and brilliant carmine interior. 

 Planted on rockwork, stumps of trees, sloping banks, or amongst ruins, and allowed to ramble, 

 they produce a very striking effect ; succeed best with the cultural treatment of the Gourd. 

 Half-hardy annuals. 



2569 Moaior'dica balsami'na, from E. Indies s 0 3 



2570 „ Charan'tia, from E. Indies 0 3 



2571 „ Elate'rium, from S. Europe 0 3 



XASTURTIUM (Tropae'olum majus), Nat. Ord. I'ropceola' cece. 

 A well-known and exceedingly ornamental genus of profuse-flowering plants, which are 

 admirably adai)ted for rockwork, banks, covering trellises, or rustic work ; the seeds if pickled 

 young arc an excellent substitute for capers. Hardy annuals. 



2672 Nasturtium, new dark 0 2 



2573 „ new orange 0 3 



2574 „ Scheucrmannia'uum, creamy spotted with rich crimson 5 3 



2575 „ Shilliug'ii, 5/)o«ec? 0 2 



2576 „ mixed, various 0 2 



PASSIFLO'UA (Passion-flower), Nat. Ord. Passijiora'ceoe. 

 A genus of magnificent ornamental twining shrubs, with flowers at once interesting, 

 beautiful, and curious, which are produced in the greatest profusion and in succession during 

 the greater part of the year under glass, and out of doors during summer and autumn. They 

 are amongst the most important and effective of plants for training in conservatories or cover- 

 ing the fronts of cottages and vilhis in town or country. For in-door cultm-e, P. Contessa 

 Clara Gigliucci is one of the most important, and for out-door decoration P. coerulca. At 

 Camden Town, in the summer of 1858, we saw a plant of this species trained over and literally 

 covering the front of a cottage with its elegant sky-blue flowers ; and at Sydenham, in the 

 autumn of 1859, we saw another plant covering the whole front of a large villa, where it was 

 growing in wild luxuriance, festooning the windows, doorway, and eaves of the house, pre- 

 senting a mass of golden egg-shaped fruit, while here and there the eye rested on flowers peeping 

 from amongst the graceful foliage. 



2577 Passiflo'ra alba, ichite, half-hardy shrub, from Mexico 0 G 



2578 „ angustifo'iia, white, half-hardy shrub, from W. Indies 0 4 



2579 Buonapar'tea (Buonaparte's Passion-flower), rec?,Wwe, ant/ zr/<zte, very handsome 1 6 



2580 „ coerulca, sky blue, hardy shrub, from Brazil 0 4 



2581 Comte de Nesselrode, beautiful rosy -lavender, free-flowering, a handsome 



new variety. Half-hardy slirub 2 6 



2582 „ Contessa Clara Gigliu'cci, lavender, shaded with rose, half-hardy shrub 1 0 



2583 „ Decaisneana, brilliant carmine, flowers of an immense size, foliage very 



large; a magnificent variety. Half-hardy shrub 2 6" 



2584 ,, edu'lis, Z6-Ai7e, half-hardy shrub, from Brazil 0 6 



2585 „ grandis'sima, pale blue and ichite, half-hardy shrub, from Brazil 0 6 



2586 „ gra'cilis, ivhite, half-hardy annual, from N. America 0 4 



PHASE'OIUS, Nat. Ord. Legumino'soi. 

 Handsome and very ornamental greenhouse twining shrubs, producing their brilliant and 

 beautiful coloured flowers in long splendid Wistaria-like racemes ; succeed in any light rich 

 soil, and during summer may be grown out of doors in warm sheltered situations, where 

 they are very effective. An interesting account of P. Caracalla appeared in the "Journal of 

 Horticulture," in an account of a visit to French Nurseries, by " D., Deal." 



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