NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
9 
71 CINERAKIA HYBEIDA FLOBE BLENO. — This new strain of Douhlc-floweving Cinerarias 
are of the greatest possible interest, and will doubtless prove the forerunners of an entirely new 
race, they are perfectly and evenly double, being entirely made up of ligulate florets, as in the 
case of a double-flowered Jacobara, Senccio elcgans, which they much resemble ; they embrace 
all the colours usually found amongst Cinerarias, viz., crimson, magenta, purple, both dark and 
light ; as well as flowers tiirped rvith several different tints of violet and magenta. 2s. 6(i. per 
packet of 50 seeds. 
72 CLIANTHTJS DAMPIERI “ aERMAN FLAG” (New).— A splendid novelty; the uirper 
petals of this new Clianthus arc fiery red, the centre bluish black, with velvet-like shine ; the 
lower pjetals are pure white ndth red edge, thus showing the German national colours ; black, 
white, and red ; it is a most profuse bloomer, one plant fretpiently producing from two to three 
hundred well fonned flowers ; in the part of Prassia from whence this plant originates, it is 
looked upon as quite hardy. 3s. fid. per packet containing 10 seeds. 
73 COLETTS, choice hybridized. — These seeds have been produced by fertilization, and saved from. 
the handsome varieties introduced by Me. William Bull. The greatest pains have been 
taken that the varieties should be so blended as to give, not only a diversified, but an entirely 
now character. The colours in the different seedlings will embrace many shades of glowing red, 
magenta, crimson, purple, and claret ; while in the different varieties the marking and^blotches 
will be varied almost indefinitely, some of the leaves being handsomely marked with crimson on 
an olive gi’ound, blotched with crimson on a green giound, while others will be green margined 
with crimson, and vice versa, the lustrous tints, striking venations, and peculiar shot silk -like 
appearance making them immensely attractive. Is. fid. and 2s. fid. per packet. 
74 COELINSIA HETEROPHYLEA.— This very pretty species resembles the well known ColUnsia 
bicolor in general habit, but is readily distinguished from it by its three-lobed, and sometimes 
piunately divided lower foliage, and by the violet puiple of its flowers. The throat of the 
corolla is always open, whilst in C. bicolor it is almost closed, fid. per packet. 
75 COLLINSIA VIOLACEA.— Of similar habit to C. vema, but more compact and bushy, glowing 
from 9 to 12 inches high, the foliage narrowly lanceolate, in whorls of from five to eight leaves, 
from the axils of which the flowers are produced. Tliesc are slightly smaller than those of C. 
verna, but arc of a better form, and have the upper lip nearly pure white, and the lower one of 
a doep violet blue. Qd. per packet. 
76 CONVOLVULUS MAURITANICUS. — A beautiful trailing half liardy perennial, bearing a 
profusion of l.avender-coloured blooms, admirably adapted for suspending baskets, rock-work, 
and edgings, fid. per packet. 
CYCLAMEN PERSICUM. — Fiidc page 6. 
77 DAHLIA. — Saved from the finest show flowers. Is. per packet. 
78 DAUBENTONIA COCCINEA A shrubby growing plant, .attaining a height of from 18 to 
24 inches, of neat compact habit. The branches are horizontally produced, and are furnished 
with oblong elliptic foliage. The flowers are borne in .axillary bunches, and are of a reddish 
crimson colour outside, and orange red in the interior. Is. per packet. 
79 DELPHINIUM IMPERIALE FL. PL. (Emperor Larkspur.)— Of symmetrical bushy 
habit, forming fine compact equally proportioned specimens of 1^ feet in diameter ; both in 
respect to habit and doubleness of flower this novelty is possessed of great constancy, whereby 
it is most particularly adapted for groups, &c., a single plant frequently having upwards of 50 
close erect spikes of flowers upon it. Mixed colours, fid. per packet. 
80 DELPHINIUM NUDICAULE. — A plant of dwarf, compact, bi'anching growth ; its usual 
height is from 12 to 15 inches. The flowers are produced in spikes, each blossom being about 
an Inch in length ; the colour varies from light scarlet to a shade verging closely on crimson ; 
it is perfectly hardy. It has been exhibited both .at the Koyal Horticultural and Royal Botanic 
Societies’ Shows, and on each occasion received the award of a First Class Certificate. Is. per 
packet. 
81 DELPHINIUM REaUIENI.— A very useful and effective variety of elegant habit, with bright 
green foliage and showy reddish purple flowers, which are freely produced in fine long spikes, 
fid. per packet. 
82 DELPHINIUM, extra choice mixed. — Saved from all the finest and most distinct varieties. 
fid. per packet. 
DIANTHUS, Eastern Queen and Crimson Belle, vide page 1. 
