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SPECIALITIES. 
GOURDS, ORNAMENTAL.— rac page 35. 
GRASSES, ORNAMENTAL.— page 36. 
93 HELIOTROPE. — From six new vaiictics. la. per packet. 
94 HIBISCUS MUTABILIS ALBUS PLENUS. — A superb variety, with double wliite 
flowers. Is. 6cl. per packet. 
95 HIBISCUS MUTABILIS PURPUREO-STRIATUS PL. PL.— This is also a new 
variety, of great beauty, and can be highly recommended. Is. 6d. per p.acket. 
96 HIBISCUS VITIFOLIUS. — A bushy growing plant, well furnished with branches to its base, 
the leaves are deeply lobed, the flowers solitary, nearly as large as those of II. Syriaom, of a 
rose colour, marked with chamois rose on the lobes, and bright purple in the throat. Is. per 
packet. 
97 HOLLYHOCK, extra choice mixed. — From first-class flowers. Is. per packet. 
98 HYACINTHUS CANDICANS. — A hardy summer- flowering bulb, throwing up a flower 
stem about 3 feet high, at the summit of which is borne numerous bell-shaped pure white 
flowers. Is. per packet. 
99 IBERIS TENOREANA. — This showy perennial fonns large, dense, very rich green tufts, 
which are entuely covered with bunches of bluish lilac flowers. 6d. per packet. 
100 IPOMiEA PENTAPHYLLA. — Is peculiarly char.acterised by its foliage, which is distinctly 
five lobed ; it may be compared in this respect to Tropmolum pmtaphyllum. The flowers are 
large, and of a magnificent violet lilac colour, darker in the centre ; it is a most desirable 
acquisition. Is. 6d. per packet. 
IPOMiEA, other varieties . — Vide Climbing Plants, page 31. 
101 LANTANA HYBRIDA. — Charming bedding plants, with beautiful Verbena-like heads of 
flowers, of rich colours and changing hues. 6d. per packet. 
102 LAPAGERIA ROSEA. — One of the most beautiful greenhouse and conservatory climbers 
yet known, with numerous brilliant carmine-coloured boll-shaped flowers. 2s. 6d. per packet. 
103 LEPTOSIPHON ROSEUS. — Similar in habit to Leptosiphon aureus, from which it dillers in 
its rather large flowers of a charming tender rose colour. It is vciy dwarf, rarely exceeding 
three inches in height, and produces its flowers in clusters terminating the stem and branches. 
6d. per packet. 
104 LEPTOSYNE MARITIMA. — This is an introduolion from California. It grows about 
li feet high, producing many stems, which are terminated by a long peduncle, bearing very large 
Coreopsis-like flowers, of a delicate lemon yellow colour, and emitting an Acacia-like fragrance. 
6d. per packet. 
106 LOBELIA CRYSTAL PALACE COMP ACTA. — This beautiful variety unites the deep 
colour of the true Crystal Palace sort with the compact habit of the erecta section. The flowers 
are produced in great ahundance, and are of a fine ultramarine blue. It is suitable for dwarf 
masses, and is of great value used as an edging in riband bedding, but is equally appropriate 
for cultivation in pots. Is. per packet. 
106 LOBELIA ERINUS SPECIOSA. — Cobalt blue, very compact, producing in great profusion 
large blue flowers with white centre j lighter in colour than the preceding. 6rf. per iiacket. 
107 LOBELIA HERBACEOUS . — A well-known summer-flowering perennial, extremely useful 
either for beds or borders. Is. 6d. per packet. 
108 LYCHNIS LAGASC.S. — This is a charming dwarf Alpine species, of densely tufted trailing 
habit, evergreen, with small neat lanceolate foliage, and numerous deep rose-coloured flowers, 
produced in terminal clusters. It is rvell suited to pot culture, as well as to rock-work, or the 
open borders in light sandy soils. Is. per packet. 
109 MANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS. — A useful greenhouse climber, with largo pure white 
flowers. Is. pier packet. 
110 MARIGOLD, AFRICAN (orange) BULL’S SUPERB.— A really magnificent selection 
from a Prize strain, bearing immense brilliant orange coloured flowers, which are fully double 
like a Hollyhock but almost globular, instead of semi-globular in shap>e, the bottom petals 
curving nearly back to the foot-stalk, the flower head often measuring 7 to 8 inches over ; the 
plant which is of an exceedingly vigorous habit attains a height of from 20 to 24 inches, and 
will bloom most abundantly until checked by frost ; strongly recommended as a showy and 
extremely effective pdant. &d. pier packet. 
