NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
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AUBERGINE, GIANT, WHITE. 
White Egg Plant, with fruit three times as large as the ordinary kind. Price Qd. per packet. 
AUBERGINE VERTE DU THIBET. 
(GREEN EGG PLANT PROM THIBET.) NEW. 
A beautiful and excellent variety, producing green fruit of a remarkable character. Price l.v. 
per packet. 
AUBRIETIA GR/ECA. 
A pretty dwarf perennial, blooming early in spring, admirably adapted for borders and beds. 
The flowers are of a rich violet purple colour, and produced in great abundance. Price l.v. per packet. 
AUCUBA JAPONICA. 
these have been gathered from the well-known Japan Aucuba, so familiar in gardens; they may 
be expected to produce plain-leaved, blotched, and maculated varieties, also many quite new sorts, 
the flowers having been carefully and variously fertilised for that object. It may be worthy of 
remark that the sexes in the seedlings will most likely be somewhat equally divided. Price 2s. per 
dozen; 12$. per 100. 
AURICULA, ALPINE. 
Saved from the finest flowers. Price 2a’. 6d. per packet. 
AURICULA, SHOW. 
From a splendid collection, comprising all the best green-edged, grey-edged, white-edged, and 
self coloured varieties. Price. 2s. 6d. per packet. 
Sow early in spring, in a mixture of leaf mould and loam, the latter predominating. Do not cover 
the seed. Place in. a cold frame or pit , shaded from the sun , and keep the surface of the pot moist. Pot 
ojf the seedlings, when large enough, into 4 -/ nek pots ; replace them in a cold frame , admitting plenty 
of air. 
BERTOLONIA PUBESCENS. 
This stove plant has been introduced from Ecuador. Its loaves are light green, broadly banded 
down the centre with dark chocolate. It received First Class Certificates from the Royal Horticul- 
tural and Royal Botanical Societies. Price 2s. 6d. per packet. 
CALANDRINIA SPECIOSA ALBA. 
(NEW.) 
A pure white variety of the popular C. speciosa, the abundauce of its blossoms and dwarf habit 
making it particularly attractive and useful for edging of beds, rockeries, and very pretty as a pot 
plant. Price Is. per packet. 
CALCEOLARIA, HERBACEOUS. 
EXTRA CHOICE HYBRIDISED. 
Saved from the finest formed and most beautifully marked varieties. Price 2a*. 6*Z. per packet. 
Sow in June, July, and August. If large plants are required early , the former month is the host. 
The seed germinates host without, heat , and should be sown in pans or pots, following the directions here 
given as near as possible : — The pots to be half filed with drainage , over which place the. rough sf tings of 
the mould, filing up the pot with very fne soil , half of which should be composed of sand. When thus 
prepared , water through a fine rose , and oare fully sow the seed , and do not cover it. Place the pots in a. 
close frame, or under a hand-glass, in a shaded part of the garden, taking care to protect from exposure, 
to the sun. When the seedlings are strong enough, prick them of ' into pans prepared as before, and 
placed in a sim ilar position. Prom the store pots pot of * singly, placing them on shelves near the glass . 
