NEW AND CHOICE BEDDING AND SOFT-WOODED PLANTS. IGl 
PENTSTEMONS. 
As an attractive, anil deoorative plant, either for flower heds or hordei's, the modern varieties of 
Pentstemon have scarcely any rival, their cultivation being of the easiest description, while they are 
suitable to almost any soil and their large and showy flowers are given with a remarkable redundancy 
from June to Soptomber, Choice sorts, 12s., 18s, and 30s. per dozen. 
PETUNIAS. 
Choice selections of double-flowered kinds, including blotched, fringed and variegated varieties, 
12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
Clioice selections of single-flowered kinds, including striped, blotched and reticulated varieties, 
12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
NEW STRIPED PHLOX, CROIX D’HONNEUR. 
An pxti’emely attractive variety, giving immense spikes of large well-formed flowers of a lienutiful 
rosy mauve colour ; each petal being distinctly and effectively margined with white, 2s. 6d. 
PHLOXES (HERBACEOUS). 
fielections of good and choice kinds at 12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
PRATIA ANGULATA. 
A dwarf herbaceous perennial, witli slender glabrous stems furnished with small roundish angulately- 
tootlied leave.s, and comparatively large ]iale liluo flowers, wiiieh in some forms have a sliort and in 
others a long ])edunele. It is a very variaide spceie.s, and is sometimes called Lobelia lillorahs. In 
New Zealand, its native country, it is abundant in watery places and on moist banks, sometimes reacli. 
ing on the .Southern Alps an elevation of .O.OOO feet. 3.v. 6d. 
SALVIA GEAHAMI PtJRPITEATA, Is. 
SALVIA HEERII, l.s. 1 SALVIA VBRSCHAFFELTII, Is. 
SALVIA NIGRESCEN3. 
I A n herbaceous species discovered in Bolivia by Mr. Koczl. It has oblong eordiform leaves, which are 
whitish above and woolly undemeath, and have a strong aromatic odour. The flowers are produced in 
very long drooping bunche.s, and are of a dark violet colour with lavender blue ualyx. Is. Cd. 
SALVIA SCHIMPERI. 
A distinct species from the mountains of Abyssinia. It has .stout pubescent stems, bearing thick 
ovate-lanceolate leave.s, elothed on both surfaces, especially beneath, with white woolly hairs. Its puie 
white flowers “'grow in a twiggy branched panicle, and arc subtended by broad floral leaves or bracts. 
8s, 6d. 
SEMPERVIVUM CHRYSANTHUM. 
A useful and attractivo succulent, of branching shrubby habit. The stems are ns thick ns one s 
finger, and terminate in flattened rosulate heads of spathulate acute leaves, 8 to 4 inches long, of a pale 
glossy green colour, and finely ciliated at the margin. The plants form a branched conical mass about 
a foot and a half high and as much through, and produce spikes of pale yellow flowers. 2s. 6d. 
SEMPEEVIVUM 
ARACHNOIDEXTM, Oil. 
ARBOREUM, Is. 
,, ATRO- 
PURPUREUm, 2s. 6d. 
CALCAREtTM (CALI- 
FOENICUM), 9d. & l.v. 
CILIATtrm, Is. 6d. 
SEMPERVIVUM 
GLOBIFERUM, Od. 
GLUTINOSUM, 3.s. 6il. 
HAWORTHII, Is. 
HIETUM, 9d. 
PITTONI, 9d. 
SPECIOSUM, 2s. Gd. 
TECTORUM, 9rf. 
STENOTAPHRUM GLABRUM VARIEGATUM. 
A curious and ornamental grass, introduced from New South M alc.s, and well adapted foi a gii i n 
house l.n.skct plant, since it has freely creeping stoloniferous stems, which rapidly spread over the 
surface of the ground, rooting at every node. The shoots are compressed, and the blades spieading, 
freely striped with creamy white, the flattened sheathing bases being also striped in the same \ia\. It 
is remarkably di.stinct, and grows well out of doors during summer. Is. Gil. and 2s. (id. 
VERBENAS. 
CHOICE KINDS, for bedding and pot culture, at 9s, and 12s. per dozen. 
VERONICA CHAM/EDRYS AUREA. 
A golden-leaved form of this pretty plant, which for garden decorative purposes will be an 
acquisition. 2s. 6d. 
WIOANDIA CARA CAS ANA, 3s. Qil \ WIOANDIA MEXICAN A, 2s. Gd. 
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