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NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
DIGITALIS ALBA MACULATA SUPERBA. 
From the most beautifully spotted varieties in cultivation ; a superb strain, and a decided improve • 
ment upon all previously known sorts. 
Price Is. per packet. 
DIGITALIS TOMENTOSA. 
In the stylo of P. purpurea, with more erect flower stems ; flowers larger and of a deep purple 
colour, beautifully spotted with bright carmine. 
Price Is. per packet. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA DENTATA AURANTIACA. 
„ M SULPHUREA. 
Two new varieties of groat curiosity and importance ; they may bo justly ranked as a now section 
of Eschscholtzia. The flow'ers take the form of a Maltese cross, each petal having its edges lapped 
upon itself, and is intersected by a mark of deeper colour running up the centre j the edges are 
very curiously jagged or toothed. From the peculiar construction of the petals, the blossoms of 
these varieties (unlike all other Fschscholtzias) are always open. 
Price Is. per packet. 
FUCHSIA. 
I’er pkt. — s. d. 
DOUBLE VARIETIES, extra choice mixed ........ 20 
SINGLE VARIETIES, extra choice mixed ........ 26 
"WHITE CORALLED VARIETIES 2 0 
The above were saved from a splendid collection, consisting only of the finest named varieties. 
Sow in pans, covering the seed very lightly with flue soil, and place a square piece of glass on the 
top of the pan. 
GLADIOLUS. 
Saved from the fiuest named hybrids of G. fjandaeeusis. 
Price \s.per packet. 
Sow in beds during June and July, and when ready prick out into prepared beds or borders. 
GLOXINIA. 
EXTRA. CHOICE HYBRIDISED. 
This seed has been saved from the splendid new varieties enumerated in Mr. William Bull’s 
Plant Catalogue at pages 4i, 46, and 46. 
Price 2s. 6d. per vacket. 
HEBECLINIUM ATRORUBENS. 
M cultivated free-flowering attractive plant was discovered and sent from Mexico by 
• les reght ; and now that nearly all the newly introduced plants are merely remarkable for 
tneir ornamental or variegated foliage, a beautiful flowering plant like this is really an acquisition. 
usua time of flowering is from January to April ; the bright lilac feathery-like flowers are freely 
proauoedm immense corymbs, the footstalks of which are dark red, covered with crimson hairs, 
w 10 , in contrast with the flowers, imjiart a pleasing feature ; the plant can easily be grown in a 
cool stove or warm greenhouse. Added to the flowers of this plant being handsome, they are very 
sweet scented. > j j 
Price 2iJ. Qd, per luichcte 
