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NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
247 PHLOX HEBBAOEOTTS. — Saved from the best varieties in cultivation. Is. 6<7. per packet. 
248 PICOTEE, extra choice mixed.— Saved from one of the finest strains i)i cultivation, embracing 
the beautiful varieties with pure white grounds, elegantly margined or fringed with crimson, 
scarlet, or carmine, and the yellow gi’ounds, finely striped and fringed with lilac, rose, and 
scarlet. Is. 6rf. and 2s. 6d. per packet. 
249 PINK, DOUBLE, extra choice mixed. — Saved from the finest double laced ilowers. 2s. 6d. 
per packet. 
Pkotee and Pink seed ■may be soion in a cool frame early in sjrring, using light rich soil, covering 
about an eighth of an inch deep, giving plenty of air and protection from the sun. 
250 POINCIANA EEGIA.— Flowers crimson and orange, one of the most gorgeously beautiful 
flowering plants of the Leguminosse. 2s. 6d. per packet. 
251 POLYANTHUS, extra choice.— Saved from finest gold laced flowers. 2s. fid. per packet. 
252 POLYANTHUS, extra choice mixed. — Saved from flowers of various colours. Is. per packet. 
253 POLYANTHUS (Primrose), Magenta King: (new.)— A fine spring bedding plant, the 
flowers being as large as a Primrose, with the stem and habit of a Polyanthus, throwing up 
many trusses of bloom well above the massive foliage. A large bed of this makes a most 
striking effect during the early spring months. To make large plants, seeds should bo sown in 
March and April, and kept in a shady place during the summer. Is. fid. per packet. 
Sow in pans from the first week in Pebruary to the end of April, and place in a gentle heat ; when 
the seedlings arc strong enough, prick out into other 2 mns, and, when well established, harden ofi j trans- 
2 >lant in a shady border, free from drip, three inches apart. 
254 POETULACA GRANDIFLOBA FL. PLENO, extra choice mixed.— A very desirable 
double-flowered species, of dwarf compact habit, producing large brilliant coloured flowers, 
including golden yellow, purple, scarlet, and white varieties. Is. per packet. 
255 PBIMULA.COETUSOIDES. — A beautiful free spring-flowering herbaceous plant ; flowers rich 
rosy purple, produced freely in largo clusters well above the foliage, fid. per packet. 
250 PRIMULA JAPONIC A. — Home grown seed of this exquisitely lovely new Crimson Primrose, 
is now offered. Floral Magazine remarks — “Since the day when ‘Lilium auratum’ was 
displayed for the first time to the horticultural xrablic, we cannot recollect so great a sensation 
to have been occasioned by any plant as by that which we now figure, when Mr. William 
Bull c.xhibited it on May 3rd of the present year. Its history is now well known, and of its 
merits too much cannot be said. A Primula a foot and a half high, bearing 4 or 5 separate 
whorls of flowers, each flower an inch in diameter, and of a splendid magenta colour, and the 
plant moreover perfectly hardy — a more beautiful and more useful plant has not been for many 
years introduced into Europe. Of its hardiness there can be no doubt, as it has stood the 
ordeal of the last severe winter in the neighbourhood of London.” Is. per packet. 
257 PRIMULA JAPONICA ALBA. — This variety produces white flowers, with a golden yellow 
zone round the eye. Is. fid. per packet. 
258 PRIMULA JAPONICA CARMINATA.— Pure carmine red, with a maroon crimson ring 
round the eye. Is. fid. per packet. 
259 PRIMULA JAPONICA LILACINA.— Eye surrounded by a zone of orange red, shading 
outwards to a beautiful rosy lilac, the outer portion of the corolla lobes being white. Is. fid. 
per packet. 
260 PRIMULA JAPONICA ROSEA. — Very distinct, with flowers of a lilac rose, and having a 
crimson ring round the eye. Is. fid. per packet. 
261 PRIMULA JAPONICA SPLENDID A.— Flowers of a deep bright magenta, the zone of a 
rich bright crimson colour. Is. fid. per packet. 
262 PRIMULA JAPONICA, MIXED. — This will contain a mixture of all the above beautiful 
varieties. Is. fid. per packet. 
263 PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA ALBA, J 
264 PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA RUBRA, extra choice. — The magnificent dis- 
265 PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA MIXED, ) plays of Primulas annually presented 
in Covent Garden Market are now so well known and admired, and the strain is so decidedly 
superior to anything in the way of Primulas seen elsewhere, that Mr. William Bull has 
secured the entire stock of seed from the principal market growers, so that he is confident the 
produce of the seed now offered cannot be equalled, and it will be sent out unadulterated as 
received from the growers. Is. fid. and 2s. fid. per packet. 
266 PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA FILICIFOLIA ALBA. 1 — These two 
267 PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA FILICIFOLIA RUBRA. ) beautiful varieties 
of the Fern-leaved section possess most elegantly fringed edges, and having been procured 
from a most reliable source, are offered with the greatest confidence. 2s. fid. per packet. 
