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JAPANESE PLANTS. 
OSMANTHUS ILICIFOLIUS. 
A hardy evergreen shrub, with dark green foliage somewhat resembling an 
English Holly. It boms an abundance of small white flowers. This species and 
the following varieties rank high among Japanese ornamental shrubs. 7s. 6d. 
OSMANTHUS ILICIFOLIUS VAEIEGATUS NANUS. 
A Dwarf Holly-like plant, perfectly hardy, and from its freeness of growth likely 
to supersede many of the variegated species of Ilex now in our gardens. lOs. 6d. 
PACHYSANDRA TERMINALIS. 
A fine dwarf variegated plant, suitable for edging beds, or flower-garden decora- 
tion. 6s, 
POLYSTICHUM SETOSUM. 
A very fine perfectly hardy evergreen Fern, from Yokohami in Japan. It is a 
tufted growing species of moderate size, with firm ovate-acuminate bipinnate fronds 
of two to three feet or more in height; the pinnules are trapezio-oblong, acute, 
auricled, and sometimes slightly toothed, but most remarkable for bearing a fringe 
of setar or stiff hairs, which stand up from the plane of the frond, and give it a 
bristly appear ance on the srrrface. 6s. 
RETINOSPORA OBTUSA. 
A hardy Coirifer of the Arborvitae race, growing from 60 to 80 feet high ; stiffer 
in its foliage than anything known, having the character of Cedar of Lebanon, with 
Cypress leaves ; the wood is used by the Japanese in various ways ; it shines beau- 
tifully without any polish when worked up. It is the Hinoki (t. e., Tree of the 
Sun), and the glory of the Eastern forests. 3s. 6d. 
RHODEA JAPONICA MACROPHYLLA FOLIIS 
AUREO-MARGINATIS. 
A greenhouse or half-hardy perennial of bold habit, with broad lanceolate leaves 
broadly margined with yellow, a handsome or-namental plant. 42s. to 84s. 
