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NEW PLANTS. 
rich looking, or more easily cultivated plants. Camellia japonica 
variegata, a pretty plant from Japan, all the leaves have a more or 
less irregular broad margin of pure white; and the fish-tailed Camellia, 
from Japan, is a euriosity in its way. Dielytra spectabilis alba, this 
with its pure white flowers, makes a pretty contrast with the well-known 
D. spectabilis. Saxifraga Fortune!, produces its fine corymbs of white 
flowers, when flowers in the greenhouse are very scarce, viz., in the 
months of September, October, and November, and hence it is a very 
desirable introduction. 
NEW & RARE HARDY PLANTS. 
The most desirable novelty is the Male Aucuba, indeed this may be 
looked upon as the most permanently useful introduction of modem 
times, many have been the novelties recently added to our collections 
from Japan, but for permanent importance, none of them comes up to 
this plant ; and for this reason, the common Aucuba is a shrub that 
grows and thrives better in Towns and Cities than any other evergreen 
shrub, it thrives vigorously where everything else dies, as some of the 
gai'dens of London can testify ; to us however it has hitherto been a 
fruitless shrub, but now that we have the male, and as soon as it becomes 
sufficiently circulated, all the Aucubas will be covered with large bunches 
of berries, about four times the size of those of the common Holly, and 
of the brightest glossy red colour; this can now be seen, at present in 
perfection at my Establishment, as well as the male and female plants in 
flower. As some little misunderstanding exists about Aucubas, perhaps 
it may be as well to state that the Aucuba is a dioecious plant, that is 
to say some of its individuals produce only male and others only female 
flowers, and that some eighty years ago the ordinary Aucuba was intro- 
duced from Japan, but the plant or plants so introduced happened to be 
female ; by propagation the whole stock in Europe sprang from the 
original introduction, and Japan from that time being a sealed Coimtry 
the male plant could not be obtained ; to the celebrated Chinese and 
Japanese traveller and collector, Mr. Robert Fortune, is due the merit 
of introducing the first male plants with which we are acquainted, now 
however there is flowering in my Establishment another new Aucuba, 
also a male, introduced by Dr. Van Siebold, and a third variety from 
the same collector, is reported to bo a male ; nothing in the way of 
hardy evergreen shrubs will at aU compare with Aucubas when laden 
with their coral-like red berries ; besides the blotched and variegated 
Aucubas, Japan has yielded us both male and female varieties with 
