SPIR^A, FUNKIA, HEPATICA, THE DAY LILY, AND TROPvCOLUM, 
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SPIRAEA. 
The Spirxa Japonica, when forced, is remarkable for its large graceful feathery pure white fragrant flowers, and 
Palmata for its bright red feathery flower spikes. These plants are exceedingly decorative in the conservatory, 
and their flowers are much prized for bouquets. They are also both valuable border plants. 
Mch— 8. d. each— 8. J. 
1642 Japonica, strong clumps, specially pre- I 1643 Japonica, smaller clumps perdoz., 6i. o 9 
paredforforcing.perdoz., loj.drf., i o | 1644 Palmata, reef in 6rf. and 2 6 
FUNKIA. 
These are handsome ornamental-foliagcd hardy plants from Japan. They develope their leaves early in 
Spring, and in Summer and Autumn throw up a profusion of fine Lily-like flower spikes. Amongst herbaceous 
plants they will always command a prominent position, owing to the great diversity of their foliage, which 
ranges from the miniature to the gigantic. The massive glaucous-green foliage and purple flowers of Sieboldiana ; 
the massive light fresh green leaves and snow-white flowers of Subcordata grandiflora, and the large massive 
green foliage of Ovata, with its deep purple flowers; than these anything more handsome in flower and shrubbery 
borders or in sub-tropical gardens can hardly be desired. Of the smaller leaved varieties, those with golden 
variegation and those with silver variegation make grand edgings; others again with the foliage intermediate in 
size have representatives with leaves beautifully variegated and of various shades of green. Besides these, the 
three small leaved varieties of Spathulata make neat compact edgings, while the leaves of the PlantanifoHa are 
characteristically distinct. For naturalization all the Funkias are most valuable, and the large-leaved varieties 
are beautiful when grown in pleasure parks in the grass. In shady and somewhat moist situations the foliage 
attains its largest size. 
each—?, d. 
1646 Ovata, foliage green, flowers purple o 9 
1646 
1647 
1648 
1649 
1660 
1661 
1652 
1663 
1654 
1666 
aurea varlegata, golden variegated 
foliage I 
undulata aurea, foliage golden 
yellow o 
,, maculata, golden varie^ 
gated foliage o 
, , argentea, white and green 
variegated foliage ... i 
,, elegans, foliage beau~ 
tifully variegated ... o 
lanceolata, green foliage, and 
purple flowers perdoz., 4/6 
plantanlfolla, green foliage^ and 
purple flowers per doz., 7/6 
sinensis, green, par doz. , 7/6 
,, md,rmovsitQ,,golden marbled 
foliage 
,, <soxdAio\\gin foliage greeti... 
o 6 
each — ?. 
1666 Ovata small green foliage ... o 
1667 ,, ,, marg;inata, margin- 
ed foliage, perdoz., 5/6 o 
,, speciosa, small foliage, 
pure white flowers i 
foliage green, flowers purple o 
,, mz.Tgin.dX9,, foliage conspicu- 
ously margined white o 
,, univlttata, broad white cen- 
tral line to each leaf o 
1662 Fortune!, blue green foliage, very distinct 2 
1663 Sieboldiana, large glaucous green foliage, 
perdoz., \ 0 s.\ 3 d. i 
1664 ,, marmorata, yellow margined 
foliage .* I 
1666 Subcordata grandiflora, large light green 
foliage, and large pure white 
flowers ...per doz., 10 s. 6d. i 
1668 
1669 
1660 
1661 
HEPATICA. 
These charming Spring flowers have been favourites in English gardens from time immemorial, but like 
many of our old-fashioned plants, the present generation are comparatively unacquainted with the flower in its 
best aspect. It succeeds best in a shady or northern situation. In our garden of hardy plants we have beds of 
these, during the spring months, one sheet of flower — red, blue, purple, and white. As established masses are 
most decorative, we maintain a fine stock of large clumps, and these we recommend to purchasers in preference 
to single plants. each— a. d. 
1666 Single blue, plants, perdoz., 5/6 to 7/6 o 9 
1667 ,, ,, clumps. ..IJ. 6c/., 2J. 6</., to 3 6 
1668 Double blue, plants r^. 6rf. to 2 6 
1669 Double red, plants ...per doz. 5/6 to 7/6 o 9 
1670 ,, ,, clumps ...IS. 6 d., 2 s. 6 d. to 3 6 
each —8. 
1671 Single red, plants per doz. 51. 6 d. toyi.brf. o 
1672 ,, clumps II. 6(f. , 21. to 3 
1673 Single white, plants per doz., 71. 6 d. o 
1674 Single purple, plants i 
1676 Angulosa, n'ci blue, plants ii. td. to 2 
d. 
9 
6 
9 
o 
6 
HEMEROCALLIS (THE DAY-LILY). 
Showy hardy herbaceous plants. The varieties, Fulva and Kwanso, fl. pi., make noble specimens in 
shrubberies, and arc exceedingly decorative in semi-wild places. The varieties with silvery foliage are beautiful in 
flower borders, and grown under glass they are as handsome in Spring as the variegated Pandanus. Sieboldiana, 
Flava, Lutea, and Graminea are neat dwarf effective border plants. 
1676 Disticba.fl. pi. , orange, shaded crimson, 2 \ ft. 
1677 Y\ 9 XJ 9 ., bright yellow, early, i.J ft o 
1678 Fulva, bron.c:e orange, 3 ft. per doz., 4/6 o 
1679 „ variegata, leaves white and green; 
beautiful, 3ft 1 
1680 Graminea, rich orange, i ft i 
1681 Kwanso, fl. pi., orange, marked crimson, 
3 ft per doz. js. 6 d. 
1682 ,, ,, varlegSitd., /oliage 7 ohi/e 
and green ; very beautiful, 3 ft 
1683 Lutea, rich yellow, very early, 2 ft 
1681 Sieboldiana, orange, outside brown, ft. 
1685 Tbunbergi, rich cUar yellow, ft 
TROPzEOLUM. 
Azureum, Jarrattii, Tricolor, Spcciosum, and Pentaphyllum, are of slender and rapid growth : and for neat 
trellis work or for globes, they are most charming. Pentaphyllum and Speciosum are liardy, the former succeeding 
in a sunny situation, and the latter requiring a moist soil and a sunless aspect ; Polyphyllum is also hardy, 
and in a sunny situation is a highly decorative plant covered for months in succession with a profusion of large 
rich golden yellow flowers. each— s. 
1686 Azureum, blue y. 6 d. & 5 o 
1687 BT 9 .chYCeTa. 9 , yellow 3 6 
IQQS jBTisXtii, scarlet, yellow, andblack... 1/6 8 c 2 6 
1689 Pentaphyllum, scarlet and green ...is. & i 6 
1690 Polyphyllum, golden yellow is. 6 d. 8 c 2 6 
12 and 13, King Street, Covent Garden, 1879. 1 
I 1691 Speciosum, scarlet 
ready to plant out) 
1692 Trlcolorum, scarlet, yellow, 
each— 8, 
(established pots, 
and black, 
IS. 6d. 8 c 2 
1693 Tuberosum, yellow and red i 
