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NEW AND CHOICE AZALEAS. 
NEW AND CHOICE AZALEAS— Continued. 
MADAME MARIE VERVAENE, large fringed flowers, pure wliito, striped with rosy carmino; 
good shape. 
MADAME VAN DER CRUYSSEN, fine large semi-doublo flowers of good form, of a boautiful 
satiny rose colour, lightly shaded, spotted with black, and bordered with a fresh amaranth 
colour. 
MAXIMILIAN I., fine double flowers, light rose colour, bordered with white, largely spottod 
with carmine, and striped with red. 
MONSTRUOSA ALBA, a magnifioent flower of immense size, and of the most pure snowy white. 
NONPAREIL, a superb variety; flowers of immense size and good form, colour a pale orange, 
largely bordered with pure white, and spotted with chocolate. 
PAULINE MARDNER, light rose, a fine semi-doublo flower. 
PRESIDENT A. VERSCHAFFELT, a remarkable variety of a bright satiny orange colour, the 
upper petals have a bluish tint, and the whole flower is spotted with jot black. It is a very free- 
flowering variety, and the flowers are of immense size and perfect form. 
PRESIDENT CLAEYS, boautiful bright rose, with wide white margin. 
PRESIDENT HUMANN, fine large flower, dark red, shading to a beautiful clear rose, and 
blotched with purple. 
PRESIDENT VICTOR VAN DEN HECKE, white, distinctly striped and mottled with bright 
red ; an attractive variety. 
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH, salmon scarlet, very showy. 
PRINCESSE STEPHANIE CLOTHILDE, double white, imbrioated, sometimos striped with 
rosy lilac in some of the petals ; a magnificent thick wax-like flower. 
PROFESSOR KOCH, a beautiful rose, semi-double. 
PUNCTULATA OMNICOLOR, an attraotively variogatod variety, flowers white, very much 
striped, mottled, and splashed with orange scarlet. 
PUNCTULATA VARIEGATA. This is another showy variegated kind, rosy soarlot, striped, 
mottled, and splashed with white and orange scarlet. 
QUEEN OF BEAUTIES, salmon pink, margined with white and flaked with carmino, densely 
and very richly spotted with crimson, flowers large, of good shape and substance ; one of the best 
Azaleas ever offered. 
QUEEN OF ROSES, flowers a beautiful bright rose, finoly formed : one of the host of the roso 
coloured varieties. 
REINE DES BLANCHES, fine pure white. 
REINE DES PAYS BAS, violet pink, margined with white, and richly spotted with deep 
crimson. This will be a favourite variety ; it elicited universal admiration, and obtained a Prize 
when exhibited as a seedling at the Grand International Horticultural Exhibition held at 
Amsterdam. 
ROI DES BEAUTlSS, a doublo-flowering kind, colour soft rose, broadly margined with pnro 
white. 
ROI DES DOUBLES, deep rose, very large and doublo. 
SENATOR KESSLER, shaded crimson, very rich. 
SOUVENIR DE LEON MAENHAUT, bright rosy carmine. 
SOUVENIR DE VAN PEENE, a beautifully formed flower, ofa deep brightroso colour, shading 
into a pale satin-like pink, riohly spotted in the uppor petals with dark purple red. 
SOUVENIR DE L’EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, white, striped and spottod with rose ; a 
magnifioent flower, of perfect form, and immense size. 
SOUVENIR DE PRINCE ALBERT, a most distinct and beautiful doublo-flowered variety, 
colour a warm peach rose, prettily mai-gined with clear white ; a great novelty. 
STELLA, a very vigorous-growing variety, of a bright orange scarlet colour, stained with rich 
violet on the upper segments of the corolla. 
THUSNELDE, lilac, shading to amaranth, with olevatod central petals. 
VIRCUNALIS, pure white, spotted with yellow, fringed edge. 
VIVID, flowers of good form, with thick wax-like petals, and the colour of the richest scarlet ; 
really superb, entirely surpassing for brilliancy all the varieties at present in cultivation. 
WILLIAM BULL, a fine variety, raised in Belgium, and named by M. Ambroiso Verschaffelt ; 
the flowers individually are of unusual size and substance, double and well formed, colour crim- 
son and violet. 
