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NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
140 DIPTEBACANTHUS PEDUNCITLATT7S.— This pretty aoanthacoous plant produces single 
flower stalks from 12 to 15 inches high, which are covered with panicles of bright blue erect 
flowers, sometliing in the form of a Pentstcmon, which the plant also resembles in growth. This 
plant is as useful for pot culture as for the decoration of the ilower garden. 1«. per packet. 
141 ECHEVEBIA METALLICA. — This is really the most strikingly ornamental of all the 
Crassulacese ; its broad ileshy glaucous leaves, shaded with a rich metallic hue, rendering it 
highly decorative either bedded out in groups or singly in pots. Is. 6d. End 2s. M. per packet. 
142 ECHEVEBIA GLAUCO-METAIiLICA.— A very distinct hybrid between E. tnctalUca and 
glauca, a v.aluable addition to this class of summer bedding plants ; the loaves are nearly as 
large as those of E. mctallica, and in colour are intermediate between its two parents, having 
the” deep glaucous green of the one, with the bronzy hue of tho other, by far the most showy 
and largest-leaved of all tho dwarf kinds. It is a very free grower, and has been awarded a 
First Class Certificate. Is. per packet. 
143 ECHEVEBIA SECUNDA GLAUCA.— An effective dwarf-growing plant with succulent 
foliage, producing a distinct and striking effect ; likely to become very popular for edgings. 
Is. 6dl. per packet. 
144 EPACBIS. — Splendid greenhouse shrubs, saved from fine varieties. Is. 6d. and 2s. 6cf. per pkt. 
145 EBICA.— Saved from choice kinds, mLxod. Is. per packet. 
146 EBIGEBON GLABELLUM. — A perennial introduced from North America. It is of dwarf 
compact habit and growth, .and freely produces pretty lilac flowers with yellow centres. It is 
an exceedingly attractive border plant. 6d. per packet. 
147 EBIOGONXnu: SUFFBHTESCENS.— Tliis exceedingly ornamental plant has been introduced 
from the mountains of California. It is of stout erect growth, from 1.1 to 2 feet high, and 
has small elliptic foliage. The flower stalks are divided at the top into numerous branchlets, 
which produce at the axils bunches of small white flowers. 6d. per packet. 
148 EUPHOBBIA VABIEGATA. — An exceedingly pretty half-hardy annual, with foliage richly 
veined and margined with white. 6d. per packet. 
149 ESCHSCHOLTZIA BOSEA. — This very beautiful variety is of great importance, adding, as it 
does, a new and lovely colour to one of our most familiar summer-flowering annuals. The 
inner side of the petals is of a whitish pink, while on the exterior they are of a rosy pink ; the 
effect produced by tho rose coloured flowers partly open — a state they remain in during the 
greater part of the day— is most charming. 6d. per packet. 
15» FUCHSIA, DOUBLE VABIETIES, extra choice mixed. — 2s. 6d. per packet. 
SINGLE VABIETIES, extra choice mixed.— 2s. 6d. per packet. 
The above were saved from a splendid collection, consisting only of the finest named varieties. 
Sow in pans, covering the seed very lightly loithfine soil, and place a square piece of glass on the top 
of the pan. . - 
152 GILIA'LINIFLOBA. — A very pretty species, of branching habit, with deeply palmate fohage, 
and large white flowers three-quarters of .an inch across, produced singly in tho forks of the 
branches. Each iflant forms a tufted bush 9 inches liigh, and as much in diameter, and from 
its dichotomous growth yields its flowers in long succession. It is a native of California, and 
proves to be a perfectly hardy annual, succeeding in any soil. 6d. per packet. 
153 GLADIOLUS, very choice. — Saved from “Kelway’s” prize varieties and stock. Collection 
of 12 varieties, 3s. 6d. 
154 GLOXINIA, extra choice hybridised.- This seed has been saved from the splendid new 
varieties enumerated in Mr. William Bull’s Plant Catalogue. 2s. Gd. per packet. 
155 GODETIA BEPTANS IN8IGNIS. — A very showy and effective variety, selected from 
O. reptans. The individual blooms are tivice the size of the old type, colour pure white, with a 
crimson blotch on each petal ; dwarf trailing habit. Is. per packet. 
156 GODETIA VEBSICOLOB GBANDIFLOBA. — A very profuse-blooming hardy annual, of 
dwarf spreading habit, ivdth flowers three times as large as (?. The Bride, and of various colours. 
6d. per packet. 
157 GOUBDS, OBN AMENT AL. — The diversified and grotesque forms which tho fruit assume, 
the unusual richness and beautifully marbled colours, combined with elegantly divided and 
handsome foliage, render Gourds objects of great interest and curiosity. In their style of growth 
there is always a charm, especially where many varieties arc cultivated ; even after the plant 
itself becomes unsightly (late in autumn), there remain behind tangible proofs of remarkable 
size and form, or miniature fruits of exquisite neatness and formation. 
Per assortment of 25 choice varieties 7s. 6ii. 
„ 12 „ is. 6d. 
6 ,, 2*. 6rf. 
