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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE HARDY PLANTS. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA EMBLEM, a 
very distinct variety, producing most profusely 
reddish brown flowers, with bright yellow 
centre. 3s. 6 d. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA ETHEL, a beau- 
tiful violet peach colour, with large and con- 
spicuous primrose eye. 3s. 6 cl. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA HEROINE, 
purplish blue, withsmallbutbrightyelloweye ; a 
very free bloomer, trusses large and fine. 3s. Gd. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA IONA, reddish 
brown, with bright yellow centre ; a very dis- 
tinct and beautiful variety. 3 s. 6 d. 
m PRIMULA INTERMEDIA LUCIA, bright 
puce, darkly shaded towards the base of the 
lobes, very large primrose centre. 3s. 6 d. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA MENTOR, a 
large and well-formed flower, colour blue, 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA MINSTREL, a 
fine plum-coloured flower, with yellow centre ; 
a very attractive and free-blooming variety. 
3s. (id. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA PHCEBE, puce 
purple, with yellow eye ; free and pretty. 
3s. Gd. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA ROVER, bosy 
purple, with golden eye ; a striking and effec- 
tive flower. 3s. (id. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA SCEPTRE, red- 
dish purple, with yellow centre ; fine large 
flowers, freely produced in good trusses. 
3s. Gd. 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA SONNET, violet 
maroon, with sulphur centre ; a fine and very 
beautiful flower. 3s. Gd. 
shaded with rose, primrose centre. 3s. Gd. i 
PRIMULA JAPONICA ALBA This variety produces white flowers, with a golden yellow 
zone round the eye. 3s. 6 d. each ; 30s. per dozen. 
PRIMULA JAPONICA ALBO-MARMORATA. — -White flowers maculated with rosy crimson ; 
yellow eye ; very distinct and pretty. 3s. Gd. each ; 30s. per dozen. 
PRIMULA JAPONICA CARMINATA. — Pure carmine red, with a maroon crimson ring round 
the eye. 3s. Gd. each ; 30s. per dozen. 
PRIMULA JAPONICA CARMINATA VARIEGATA. — An attractive variety ; the rich 
carmine flowers being beautifully striped and marked with white and blush white. 3s. Gd. each ; 
30s. per dozen. 
PRIMULA JAPONICA LILACINA. — Eye surrounded by a zone of orange red, shading out- 
wards to a beautiful rosy lilac, the outer portion of the corolla lobes being white. 3s. Gd. each ; 30s. 
per dozen. 
PRIMULA JAPONICA ROSEA. — Very distinct, with flowers of a lilac rose, and having a 
•crimson ring round the eye. 3s. Gd. each ; 30s. per dozen. 
PRIMULA JAPONICA SPLENDID A.— Flowers of a deep bright magenta, the zone of a rich 
bright crimson colour. 3s. Gd. each ; 30s. per dozen. 
PRIMULA NIVALIS, 
A very desirable species, of dwarf and neat habit, freely producing dense trusses of pure white 
flowers. 2s. Gd. 
PRIMULA PARRYI, 
This extremely handsome Primrose is a native of the Rocky Mountains. In growth it is densely 
■tufted, with very stout rootstock, and narrow obovate-oblong leaves. The flowers are of a bright 
purplish crimson colour ; very attractive. 5s. 
QUERCUS ROBUR CONCORDIA, 
A very ornamental Oak, with fine large foliage of a beautiful golden yellow ; one of the prettiest and 
best of hardy ornamental deciduous plants. 5s. 
RETINOSPORA LEPTOCLADA, 3s. Gd. & 5s. ] RETINOSPORA OBTUSA AUREA, 5s. 
RHAPHIOLEPIS OVATA. 
A fine perfectly hardy evergreen shrub, producing spikes of white flowers 3 to 4 inches in length 
and succeeded by clusters of rich purple berries. 3s. Gd. 
RHEUM OFFICINALE. 
Very much interest attaches to this plant, as being the ascertained source whence is derived at least 
a portion of the true Turkey Rhubarb. Ji. officinale, which inhabits and is cultivated in Tibet and 
"Western China, is a very distinct and well-marked plant, of ornamental character. It is a perennial 
producing shallowly three-lobed to seven-lobed leaves, and flowering stems 4 feet to 10 feet high, 
■branching in a paniculate manner, the branches spreading and so densely packed with the greenish 
■flowers as to appear spiciform. 10s. Gd. 
