NEW AND CHOICE BEDDING AND SOFT-WOODED PLANTS. 169 
LOBELIA ERINUS— Continued. 
DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH, a free-blooming variety of good compact habit, producing 
profusely pure white flowers. Is. 6 d. 
IMPERIAL, a splendid variety, of a lovely turquoise blue colour with clean attractive white centre ; 
of close compact habit. Is. 6 d. 
MAGNIFICA, a dwarf bedding Variety, of the pumila section ; admirably effective for masses ; 
the flowers are of a deep indigo blue colour. Is. 6 d. 
OMEN, a beautiful rose-coloured flower, with distinct white eye. 2s. 6 d. 
PUMILA FLORE-PLENO, this splendid variety produces in the greatest profusion fine large 
double flowers of a beautiful blue colour ; it is a most desirable acquisition and an exceedingly 
attractive and valuable bedding plant. Is. and Is. 6 il. 
SERENA, pure white, with upper lobes and tube light blue. Is. 6 cl. 
VIOLETTA, a charming light blue, with distinct white eye spotted with blue ; a fine large flower, 
very effective and pretty. Is. 6 cl. 
HERBACEOUS LOBELIAS. 
MARVEL, puce, with light centre ; an exceedingly attractive and well-formed flower. 3s. 6 d. 
RINGLEADER, light purple, a very pretty colour ; free grower. Is. 6 d. 
SIPHILITICA GRANDIFLORA, very light pink, with white eye ; a pretty flower. Is. 6d. 
UMPIRE, violet puce, with light centre ; dwarf habit, throwing fine spikes of flower. 3s. 6<t. 
MIMULU.S. 
The new and improved varieties of this showy flower are very handsome, many of them blotched or 
freckled and spotted, on white, sulphur and yellow grounds ; the lobes margined with crimson and 
maroon. Selections at 9s., 12s. and 18s. per dozen. 
PENTSTEMONS. 
As an attractive and decorative plant, either for flower beds or borders, the modern varieties of 
Pentstemon have scarcely any rival, their cultivation being of the easiest description, while they are 
suitable to almost any soil and their large and showy flowers are given with a remarkable redundancy 
from June to September. Choice sorts, 12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
NIEREMBERGIA RIVULARIS, Is. 6 cl. | PELARGONIUMS, vide Index. 
PETUNIAS. 
Choice selections of double-flowered kinds, including blotched, fringed and variegated varieties, 
12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
Choice selections of single-flowered kinds, including striped, blotched and reticulated varieties, 
12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
NEW STRIPED PHLOX, CROIX D’HONNEUR. 
An extremely attractive variety, giving immense spikes of large well-formed flowers of a beautiful 
rosy mauve colour ; each petal being distinctly and effectively margined with white, thus giving the 
flower the appearance of a cross. 2s. 6 d. 
PHLOXES (HERBACEOUS). 
Selections of good and choice kinds at 12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
PRATIA ANGULATA. 
A dwarf herbaceous perennial, with slender glabrous stems furnished with small roundish 
angulately-toothed leaves, and comparatively large pale blue flowers, which in some forms have a short 
and in others a long peduncle. It is a very variable species, and is sometimes called Lobelia littoralis. 
In New Zealand, its native country, it is abundant in watery places and on moist banks, sometimes 
reaching on the Southern Alps an elevation of 5,000 feet. 3s. 6d. 
SALVIA CARDUACEA. 
A shorvy biennial producing large blue flowers. It grows from 1 to 2 feet high, has white woolly 
leaves and is very spiny. 3s. 6 d. 
SALVIA GRAHAMI PURPURATA, Is. 
| SALVIA VERSCHAFFELTII, Is. 
SALVIA HEERII, Is. 
