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SPECIALITIES. 
NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES FOR 1882. 
14 CASTILLEJA INDIVISA. — A splendid half-hardy annual, bearing highly ooloured 
bracts or floral leaves, whioh are of a bright soarlet or crimson, of varied shade; it 
attains a height of from 1 to 1| feet, being erect in habit, with rigid purplish stems 
and strongly nerved foliage, the seedlings should be pricked off early, and kept near the 
glass prior to planting out, though it may be cultivated in pots, the colour is muoh finer 
in the open air and the habit dwarfer, and more disposed to branch. Is. 6d. per packet. 
15 CYCLAMEN PERSICUM GRAND I FLO RUM. —For size and substanoe of 
bloom, free-flowering habit, and general excellence, this new and magnificent Cyclamen 
is unsurpassed. It has been awarded a First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of 
the Boyal Horticultural Society, and a quantity of plants of it were exhibited at the 
Spring Show of the K.H.S. 
The “Gardeners’ Chronicle,” in its report of these Cyclamen, observes A large Gold 
Banksian Medal was awarded for as grand a lot of plants, both as regards number and 
quality as has ever been seen at any time or place.” 3s. 6d. per packet. 
16 LAPAGERIA ALBA. — The seed offered has been saved from a white-flowering variety 
of this handsome climbing plant. 3s. 6d. per packet. 
17 MARIGOLD, FRENCH (STRIPED), BULL’S SUPERB.— The seed offered 
is the produce of plants that have been carefully selected from time to time; only the 
most perfectly striped and formed flowers having been retained for seeding purposes, it may 
therefore be depended upon to reproduce beautifully striped blooms equal in size and form 
to the largest double Zinnias. 6d. per packet. 
13 MARIGOLD AFRICAN (ORANGE), BULL’S SUPERB. -A really 
magnificent selection from a Prize strain, bearing immense brilliant orange ooloured 
flowers, which are fully double like a Hollyhock, but almost globular instead of semi- 
globular in shape, the bottom petals curving nearly back to the foot-stalk, the flower-head 
often measuring 7 to 8 inches over; strongly reoommended as a showy and extremely 
effective plant. 6d. per packet. 
19 MARIGOLD, AFRICAN (LEMON), BULL’S SU PER B.-ln excellence of 
habit, height, free flowering propensity, and general superiority, the same as above, but 
varying in colour, which may be described as pure lemon, both may be fully depended 
upon to produce remarkable effect. 6d. per packet. 
20 SEN EC 10 SPECIOSUS.— Th ® exceedingly bright and pretty magenta-coloured 
flowers of this plant make it very attractive ; it is a half-hardy perennial, and is 
exceedingly floriferous, planted in the open air its flower spikes are successionally 
produced from spring until the end of autumn, and in a cool greenhouse its cheerful 
blossoms are produced throughout the year; they are each about 1A inch in diameter, 
2s. 6d. per packet. 
21 TORENIA BAILLONII.— A very pretty and distinct species, bearing bright yellow 
flowers, with a purplish brown tube, similar in habit to T, Aslatica and T. pulcherrima ; 
it is very effective when cultivated as a basket plant in a compost of two parts peat and 
one part mam and leaf mould ; in a warm house, with a temperature of from 60° to 65°. 
Is. per packet. 
22 TORENIA FOURNIERI. — a most charming half-hardy annual, bearing large sky- 
blue flowers with three spots of a dark indigo blue and a bright yellow stain in the 
centre. Sown from February to April in pots, and kept under glass, it will flower 
profusely from June to September, or it will thrive equally well if planted out in the 
summer months in the open ground; very easily propagated from cuttings in the shade 
and under bell glasses. Is. per packet. 
