4. 
NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
AUBERGINE, GIANT, VARIEGATED. 
A very pretty variety from Guadaloupo, producing fruit of extraordinary size, and beautifully 
spotted. 
Price Gd. per pachet. 
AUBERGINE, GIANT, WHITE. 
■\Vhito Egg Plant, with fruit three times ns large as tho ordinary kind. 
l^ricc Gd. perpnclict. 
AUBERGINE, BLACK. 
A very robust-growing variety from Pekin, to 3 feet high, with very dark foliage, and black 
stems and fruits, the latter sometimes attaining a weight of 7 or 8 pounds; spherical in 
form. 
Price Gd.per paciict. 
AUCUBA JAPONICA. 
These have been gathered from tho well-known Japan Aucuba, so familiar in gardens ; they may 
bo 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 tho sexes in the seedlings wall most likely bo somewhat equally divided. 
Price 3.«. per dozen herries. 
AURICULA, ALPINE. 
Saved from tho finest flowers. 
Price 2.1. Gd. per paciiet. 
AURICULA, SHOW. 
Prom a splendid oollection, comprising all tho best green-edged, grey-edged, 
self coloured varieties. 
Price 2.S. Gd. per pachet. 
white-edged, and 
Sow early in spring, in a mixture of leaf mould and loam, the latter predominating. Do not coyer 
the seed. Place in a cold frame or pit, shaded from the sun, and keep the surface of tho pot moist. 
Pot oif the seedlings, when large enough, into 4-inch pots ; replace them in a cold frame, admitting 
plenty of air. 
BERTOLONIA PUBESCENS. 
This stove plant has been introduced from Ecuador. Its leaves are light green, broadly banded 
down tho centre with dark chocolate. It received Pii’st Class Certificates from the Royal Horticul" 
tural and Royal Botanic Societies. 
Price 3s. Gd. per pachet. 
CALCEOLARIA. 
EXTRA CHOICE HYBRIDISED. 
Saved from the finest formed and most beautifully marked varieties. 
Price 2.1. Gd. per pachet. 
Sow in June, July, aud August. If large plants are required early, the former month is the best. 
The seed germinates best without heat, and should bo sown in pans or pots, following the directions 
here given as near as possible :■ — Tho pots to bo half filled with drainage, over which place tho rough 
siftings of the mould, filling up the pot with very fine soil, half of which should be composed of 
sand. When thus prepared, water through a fine rose, and carefully sow the seed, and do not coyer 
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 oft 
into pans prepared as before, and placed in a similar position. From the store pots pot off singly, 
placing them on shelves near tho glass. 
