NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
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SALVIA RUSSELLIANA. 
A valuable border perennial, producing its beautiful sky blue flowers in great abundance. Price 
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SAXIFRAGA FORTUNEI. 
This is an exceedingly handsome hardy J apanese plant ; it produces fine corymbs of white blossom 
at a season when flowers are very scarce-viz., September, October, and November ; being an easily 
■cultivated plant, it is an exceedingly desirable introduction. Price Is. 6 d. per packet. 
SCHIZOSTYLIS COCCINEA. 
. A beautiful hardy plant, with brilliant crimson cup-shaped flowers, which are produced succes- 
sively on spikes during the summer and autumn months, often in winter, thus rendering it a very 
eflective plant for greenhouse decoration. Price Is. per packet. 
SIPHOCAMPYLUS HUMBOLDTIANUS (FULGENS). 
mffn h „V ree ' fl T riI1S f ective p,ant lias been introduced from South America, and is a great acqui- 
rlnantb b-fr,- 8 ’ T \ perpetuatos it8 sh °"T blossoms nearly throughout the year ; it is of 
compact habit, fohage dark green, ovate acuminate, the blossoms rich orange scarlet, with yellow 
Being such a free bloomer, and producing its attractive flowers over such a lengthened period it 
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SWEET WILLIAM, AURICULA-EYED. 
(BRAGG’S IMPROVED.) 
A greatly improved variety, with very rich beautifully coloured and smooth-edged flowers 
producod in immense trusses. Price Is. per packet. 
Sam the end of Map or in June, in prepared beds of good soil, and prick out, as soon as strong enough 
■i nto-the place inhere the plants arc to bloom , choosing a situation sheltered from heavy rains android 
minds. Top-dress with well-decomposed manure in spring. 
TACSONIA VAN VOLXEMI. 
This beautiful climber was found by the Cauon Cuervo in the lofty regions of the Cordillera 
which soparates the basin of the Cauca from that of Magdalena, in tho proviuoe of Antioquia, in 
New Zealand, and introduced by M. Van Volxem, who speaks of it as a plant that flowors most 
abundantly, and for almost tho whole year ; the flowers individually are about 5 inches in diameter 
and of the richest scarlet. Price 2s. Gd. per packet. 
TETRANEMA MEXICANA. 
A pretty little greenhouse perennial, producing profusely its beautiful rosy purple flowors 
throughput tho year. Price lx. Gd. per packet. 
TRICYRTIS HIRTA FLORE NIGRO. 
An interesting and useful hardy herbaceous perennial, introduced from Japan by M. Haximowicz. 
It grows about 18 inches to 2 feet in height, and produces very freely during the autumn, from tho 
axils of tho leaves, large flowers of the type of 1’ricyrtis hirta, nearly black, blotched with white. 
Price 1 s.Gd. pa’ packet. 
