]2 
SPECIAL LIST OP NEW PLANTS. 
ACHIMENES ADMIRATION. 
This is a magnificent variety, of free robust habit and growth ; the flowers, whieh are beautifully 
formed and of immense size (about 2 inches across), arc of a rich deep rose colour ; the throat is 
ornamented with a white streak, which is spotted at the base. It is very free blooming, and cioccdingly 
attractive. 3s. 5d. each ; 30s. per dozen. 
ACHIMENES MASTERPIECE. 
This variety is of similarly robust growth to the preceding, but the flowers, which are very smooth 
and well formed, are rather larger, e.vceeding 2 inches in diameter ; the colour is a very rich rose, with 
violet shade ; the flowers have a large white throat, which is darkly spotted at the base. It is a 
splendid variety, very floriferous, and extremely showy and effective. 3s. Od. each ; 80s. per dozen. 
BEGONIA CARMINATA. 
An elegant tuberous-rooted hybrid of the holiviensis group. The leaves, which are narrowly ovate- 
acuminate and biserrate, are stained with a coppery brown tint between the veins, while the flowers 
are large, of a pretty delicate salmony hue, tinged with rose, the males having four oblong segments 
upwards of an inch long, and the females five petals of smaller size. The plants come into flower 
while quite dwarf, and continue blooming in the most profuse manner. 5s. 
BEGONIA MINIATA. 
A pretty tuberous-rooted hybrid Begonia of the bolivicnsU group, having pale green stems, narrowly 
ovate-acuminate, biserrate, hairy clear green leaves, and flowers resembling those of holiviensis in 
form, but of a bright rosy carmine. It will form a distinct and elegant contrast with the other new 
varieties of this affinity. 7s. Od. 
TYD/EA DISPLAY. 
A splendid variety for winter blooming, freely producing large, beautiful, well-formed flowers ; the 
tube is of a bright carmine colour, densely covered with short crimson hairs ; the lobes, which arc very 
broad and ample, are pink, beautifully reticulated with rich crimson ; the mouth is a rich violet 
carmine colour, and the throat white, blotched with deep orange. 5s. each ; 42s. per dozen. 
NEW PLANTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
In announcing the following NEW PLANTS, Mr. William Bull begs to say that 
they will all bo found to partake of the usual excellence of his introductions, and to 
maintain the high reputation of the Plants previously sent out by him. 
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS VAR. DAPHNITES. 
This Fern differs in a remarkable degree from all other varieties of the “ English Maiden Hair,” the 
pinnules of each of the branches being confluent (united), and the apex of the rachis dilated, spreading 
out the ultimate confluent pinnules into a crest-like crispy mass, often to the width of IJ to 2 inches. 
Erect in habit, the pinna: ascending, and the frond attaining a height of 14 inches. The stipes is plum 
coloured, and stouter than in any other form, and the pinna: are a blue green. This is the most distinct 
and remarkable variety ever yet sent out. It received a First Class Certificate from the Koyal Horti- 
cultural Society on June 27th, 1871. Every grower of Adiantums should possess it. Price lOs. M. ; 
a few large plants 21s. 
ANTICLEA FREMONTII. 
A hardy perennial bulbous plant, belonging to the order Melanthacece; and oloscly related to the 
genus Zygadenus, sometimes mot with in cultivation, and notable for its curious green flowers. The 
plant now offered is a native of California. 5s. 
ARECA NENGA. 
A stove Palm, slender and elegant in the young state, in which the leaf-stalks are smooth and 
terete, and the leaf-blades are two-lobcd, with elong.atc lanceolate lobes about an inch long. It has 
been raised from seeds received from Java. 10s. Gd. 
BRACHYSEMA MELANOPETALUM. 
A tall subscandent evergreen greenhouse plant, attractive when in blossom, on account of the Very 
unusual colour of its flowers. It has long flexible branches, producing from their alternate or opposite 
leaf axils numerous small flowering twigs. The leaves are oblong-ovate, mucronatc, silky beneath, 
and the flowers arc solitary or sometimes in pairs in the leaf axils, with a broad inflated brownish 
silky calyx, and deep maroon corolla having a broad obtuse keel. It is a native of the West Australian 
colony. IOj. Gd. 
