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INDEX, ALPHABETICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. 
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Abobra viridiflora, an elegant, hardy and con- 
servatory climber, also decorative in 
hanging baskets 4 . 
Achimenes, plants of rare beauty, very effective 
when cultivated in hanging baskets 
Acorus japonicus argentea-striatus, a beautiful 
hardy summer ornamental-leaved plant ... 
Adonis vernalis, a hardy, pretty, early spring 
flowering plant 
Agapanthus uinbellatus, the blue and white 
African Lilies, are noble plants for con- 
servatory decoration, or for the sides of 
lakes and ponds. A. variegabus is a beauti- 
ful ornamental foliage plant 
Albuca, remarkable-looking plants, with pretty 
Star of Bethlehem-like flower's 29 
Album, strikingly effective border plants, espe- 
cially azureum. with its rich blue flowers ; 
descenders, rich purple; roseum, delicate 
rose j, and ciliatum, pure white 29 
Alocasia ; those named are strikingly beautiful, 
and should form part of every collection 
of hothouse plants 29 
Alpine Plants for rockwork. We can supply a 
fine collection of these by name, but do 
not publish a list. Any of our customer’s 
desirous of adding to their collections, if 
they will send us a list of what they have, 
we can recommend additions; or if they 
will leave the selection in our hands, we 
will take care that striking and beautiful 
varieties are supplied 3G 
Alpine Succulent Plants; such as are used at 
Battersea Park, for producing the Sub- 
Alpine scenery, &c and the Multum-in- 
parvo Window Garden, as illustrated in 
.Robinson’s Book of Alpine Plants. We 
can supply an extensive assortment of 
these, but do not publish a list. They 
consist of such things as Sedums, Semper- 
vivums, Echeverias, and plants of close- 
growing habit, such as Antennaria tomen- 
tosa, &o 
Alstrcemeria ; for table bouquets and vases, 
flowers of these hardy plants, with their 
rich coloured blossoms, are inestimable... 
Amaryllis. In the first section should be no- 
ticed the quaint beautv of A. formosissi- 
ma; the rich hue of Valotta purpurea; 
and the unpretending aspect of Lutea, 
Atomasco, and Candida. In the second 
section, the unbloomed seedlings offer to 
amateurs an opportunity of possessing 
something novel and valuable at a trifling 
cost. Every hothouse or greenhouse 
should have representatives from this 
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Anemone, double varieties ; to cut for baskets 
and jardinets where the individual beauty 
of the flower is exhibited, these will stand 
the closest inspection ; and in the flower 
garden, what amateur lias not been dazzled 
with the brilliant scarlet, intense blue, and 
other rich colours, combined with the 
perfect symmetry of this flue flower ?.. 
Anemone, single Wind Flower, is amongst our 
earliest and latest of spring flowers ; and 
who is there who lias not admired it in 
groups and beds with the sun’s rays re- 
flected on it? 20 
Anemone, species ; appenina , with its rich blue 
flowers and fudgms , brilliant scarlet, are 
matchless beauties in spring 30 
Anigozanthus coccineus, a grotesquely beauti- 
ful plant, admired equally in pots or the 
open ground 80 
Anisanthus splendens, with its singularly 
formed, intensely brilliant and beautiful 
flowers 30 
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Annuals, Spring blooming. Those who have 
not sown Annuals in autumn, and ob- 
served their developing beauties during 
the spring and early summer months, 
have a new pleasure in store; for combi- 
nations of colour may be had amongst these 
m the flower-garden which no summer 
display can surpass. The Fellows of the 
Icoyal Horticultural Society, who are in 
the habit of visiting their gardens at 
Chiswick, saw in spring a display of 
beauty from a collection of Annuals 
we presented which elicited from the 
heads of departments expressions of grati- 
fied surprise, that so. much beauty should 
be got with so little trouble. Sow in 
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Anomatlieca cruenta ; the flowers of this neat 
httle plant are charmingly beautiful 
Anthericum, the Lilies of St. Bernard andSti 
Bruno, perfectly hardy 
Antholyza ; these should: have a place wherever 
Cape Bulbs, of ornamental character, are 
cultivated 
Aphis brush, a boon to the Rose grower, and to 
the cultivators of plants in sitting-room 
windows 
Apios tuberosa, a hardy slender -growing grace- 
ful climber 
Arum, 
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singular, curious, aud ornamental, in 
flower and foliage 
Asclepias tuberosa, a highly ornamental hardy 
plant, with beautiful orange flowers 
Asphodelus, border plants of fine aspect, popii- 
larly called King’s Spear 30 
Aspidistra, useful plants for town decoration, 
for fern cases, and rustic ferneries 
Babiana, the shades of colour in these flowers 
are to be met with in few other plants 
Begonia ; some remarkable for beauty of flower 
others for splendour of foliage J 
Belladonna Lily, the beautiful associate and 
companion of the Guernsey Lily 23 
Bellevalia spicata, a charming plant, also 
known as Hyaeinthus and Seilki spicata... 
Bobartia aurantiaca, grown several in a pot, 
or in the open ground, the effect is Charm- 
ing 
Books^ ( Robinson’s Parks, Protmnades , and 
Gardens of Paris we recommend to those 
who desire to know what is being done 
in Horticulture amongst our I’renchneigh- 
bours, and, _ to quote from the author’s 
motto, “ prick in some flowers of that 
which hath been learned abroad into the 
customs of our own country”) 2 
Boussingaultia basseloides, a charming green- 
house climber, and fine plant for hanging 
baskets 5 
Bravoa geminiflora, the twin-flo'wemd Bravoaj 
with its exceedingly beautiful spikes of 
bloom 
Brodima, 
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rery effective hardy bulbs, especially 
grown several together 
Brunsvigia, exceedingly effective when in 
bloom, closely allied to the Armaryili 
Bulbocodium vernum. In gardening literature 
much has been written in favour of this 
earliest of spring flowers 
Caladium, unsurpassed for ornamental foliage ; 
some of rare beauty, others massively 
grand 
Calla ASthiopica, Lily of the Nile, a charming 
plant for the sitting-room and conserva- 
tory 
Calhprora flava, a pretty hardy buiL' with 
beautiful umbels of yellow flowers 
Calystegia pubescens, fl. pi., the blush-coloured 
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