NEW AND EARE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
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NEW AND RARE GREENHOUSE 
PLANTS. 
AGAVE AMERICANA LONGIFOLIA VARIEGATA. 
Tlio leaves of this variety are nearly double the length of those of the old varie- 
gated Aloe : the ^ ariegation is also much whiter and cleaner. 21s. 
AGAVE AMERICANA MEDIO-PICTA. 
A very handsome American Aloe, in which the loaves have a broad golden yellow 
stripe down the centre, and are margined with dark green. 21s. to 63s. 
AGAVE SCHIDIGERA. 
Eemarkablo for the broad white filaments which hang from the margin ef the 
leaves, and, according to the name, resemble carpenters’ shavings. 15s. 
ARAUCARIA RULEII. 
This truly noble plant was discovered and introduced from Port Nolle, by Mr. 
W. Duncan, who thus speaks of it Although the nearest approach in appearance 
to A. Euleii is A. imhricata, the latter is not for one moment to be compared with 
the grandeur of the former, being without exception the grandest and most 
beautiful tree at present existing on the face of the whole earth. Only imagine,” 
he adds, "A. Ruleii growing to the height of about 50 feet, and 30 feet in diameter, 
with sLx times the number of branches of A. imbricaia, but of a more rigid and 
tabular form, forking in all directions at equidistances in the most symmetrical 
arrangement, feathered down to the ground, and the whole covered with the fine 
glistening imbricated very dark-green foliage, shining in the sun as so many polished 
mirrors ; and the ti-eo itself growing on the very summit of an extinct volcano, 
in debris as hard as adamant in summer, and deluged with rains in winter, accom- 
panied with hurricanes of stormy cold winds, and where not a blade of grass, or 
other sign of vegetation exists for hundreds of feet below, and also that the whole 
group of trees is confined only to the limited radius of half-a-mile.” Vide Gar- 
deners Chronicle, Sept. 28th, 1861, page 868. This is unquestionably one of the 
handsomest greenhouse and conservatory plants yet introduced. Price 1^, 3, and 
5 guineas. 
ARAEIA SIEBOEDI VARIEGATA. 
A handsome ornamental plant, with foliage similar to A. Sieboldi, but prettily 
variegated. 31s. 6d. 
BRACHYCHITON POPULEFOLIA. 
This is the remarkable and curious growing bottle tree of Australia. 21s. 
CEPHALOTU3 FOLLICUEARIS. 
This most singular and highly interesting little object is the New Holltnd Pitcher- 
plant, forming a neat dwarf growth of one to two inches in height, with small oblong 
leaves and remarkable roundly-oblong depressed pitcher-shaped organs of a compa- 
ratively largo size. It forms one of the most wonderful illustrations of vegetable 
structure and economy yet known. It thrives well in any warm greenhouse during 
the winter, and with the usual temperature of such structures in the summer months. 
10s. 6d., 21s., and 31s. 6d. 
