NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
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MARIGOLD, DWARF FRENCH, NEW GOLDEN. 
A pure golden dwarf Marigold, very double and constant. The habit is dwarf and compact, and 
the flowers have the appearance of miniature Afi’ioan Marigolds. 
Price \s, perpaelict. 
MIMULUS, DUPLEX-FLOWERING. 
EXTRA CHOICE MIXED. 
In oftering seed of these extraordinary novelties, Mr. W. B. thinks he cannot do better than quote 
the able and lucid description of them in the Gardeners’ Chronicle : — 
“ We have more than once had occasion to mention Mr. Bull’s strain of Mimulnses, and wo have 
now to notice another perfectly new strain, with veritable duplex monkey-flowers, thorough hose-in- 
hose, as though the calyx, justifying the name, had taken to mimicking the corolla. In these re- 
markable curiosities the corolla exactly resembles some of the forms commonly known in gardens 
as Mimulus maculosus, but instead of the calyx being the usual form and green colour, this organ is 
cou verted into a coloured body almost exactly like the corollainform, and, like it, brightly coloui’ed 
and handsomely spotted. 
“ Looking at Mimuluses as decorative plants, this new feature is a very great advantage. No one 
can doubt or dispute the beauty of some of the line varieties of Mimulus, but the defect, ft’om a 
garden point of view, is that the flowers drop too soon — the beauty is not enduring. Now, leaving 
out of question altogether the fact that the ornamental part of the plant is at once doubled in 
quantity, there remains the very important fact, that be the corolla ever so fleeting and evanescent, 
when it falls, the plant to all intents and purposes remains in flower ; the calyx is virtually in itself 
a Uower, so far as ornament is concerned, and this part does not fall like the corolla, but lasts as 
long as its substance will endure. The great merit of the new race is, that the flowers, as represented 
by the outer of the two floral whorls, remain persistent for a period hitherto unknown among 
Mimuluses.” 
This new strain is perfectly hardy, so that the varieties are valuable alike for open garden and 
greenhouse decoration. 
The varieties, from which the seed now offered was saved, received a First Class Certificate when 
exhibited before the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a similar award at 
the Royal Botanic Society’s Exhibition, Regent’s Park. 
Price \s. 6il. per packet. 
MYOSOTIS A20RICA CCELESTINA. 
A now variety of the well-lniown and popular favourite Forget-me-not, MyosotU azorica. The 
flowers are a rich turquoise blue, produced in the greatest abundance. The habit is the same as in 
the original type, and very constant. This is one of the most attractive and valuable novelties of the 
season. 
Price 26'. 6<f . 2 >er packet. 
NEMOPHILA DISCOIDALIS ARGENTEA.) 
„ „ NIGRA. ) 
Two now varieties. I’ho former is a charming little variety, with silvery white blossoms, spotted 
with chocolate ; and the flowers of the latter when young area pure jet black from centre to oircum- 
forcuco. 
Price 1«. per packet. 
NIEREMBERGIA FRUTESCENS. 
This cxtromcly pretty soft-wood shrub was introduced to Europe, about four years since, from tho 
Andes of Chili. It has stood unprotected for the last three winters in France, and may therefore bo 
o.xpoctod to prove nearly, if not quite, hardy in this country. Tho plants, when raised from seed, 
usually attain a height of from 18 inches to 2 feet, hut by carefully pinching back the shoots nice 
compact bushes may bo readily formed. Tho flowers are white, tinged with violet, tho throat being 
yellow, with deep violet rays. 
