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NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
NIEREMBERGIA PRUTESCENS— Continued. 
The Paris Correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle thus notices this new species : — “ By far tho 
best new plant in tho grounds, and to me the most interesting I have seen for a long time, is 
Nierembcrgiafrutescens. This, as the name indicates, is slightly shrubby j it is an exquisite plant, 
and luckily hardy — at least so I am told. The flowers are lai’ger a good deal than tho kinds wo 
have been accustomed to gi'ow, while it is perfectly neat in habit, and profuse of flower. Tho 
largest samples are about 18 inches high, and of a nice habit, while there is a bed of smaller plants 
flowering freely at a few inches high.” 
Price 1«. and 1«. ^d. per imehet. 
CENOTHERA CHRYSANTHA. 
(NEW.) 
An ornamental perennial, growing 6 to 7 feet high, its flowers greatly resembling those of (E. 
Lamarchiuna, but diflering from that variety in the flower stalks being of a more gigantic size. 
Price 1«. per packet. 
CENOTHERA GRANDIFLORA MAJOR. 
(NEW.) 
A very beautiful variety of an already well-known species, which has long been regarded as 
useful and effective, and from which the present vai’iety is distinguished by its robust habit, 
abundant foliage, and bright yellow flowers. A hardy perennial, from North America, 4 to 5 foot 
high. 
Price Xs. 2 >er packet. 
CENOTHERA HUMILIS. 
(NEW.) 
A very pretty new perennial, growing about 18 inches high, and producing successively fine long 
spikes of bright yellow flowers. Although this variety possesses small foliage, and a less imposing 
appearauce'thau tho preceding, it is strongly recommended as a border plant. 
Price \s. 2 >er packet. 
PANSY, FANCY VARIETIES. 
EXTRA CHOICE MIXED. 
Tho collection from which this seed was saved comprised all the most distinctly blotched and 
striped varieties in cultivation. Those kinds having been most carefully hybridised, will, no doubt, 
produce a largo proportion of more curiously blotched and striped varieties than the originals. 
Price 2s, M. ]>er itaoket. 
PANSY, SHOW VARIETIES. 
EXTRA CHOICE MIXED. 
Saved from a splendid collection of the most distinct and best named varieties, including dark 
seifs, yellow and white ground varieties. 
Price 2». 6rf. per packet. 
PARMENTIERA CEREIFERA. 
This tree is confined to tho valley of the River Chagres, Isthmus of Panama, and has been 
discovered and introduced by Dr. Seemanu. In Botany of the Voyage of JI.M.S. " Herald f Flora 
of ike Isthmus of Panama, Dr. Seemann thus speaks of it : — “ In entering a forest of these trees, a 
person might almost fancy himself transported into a chandler’s shop. Prom all the stems and 
lower branches of the trees hang long cylindrical fruits, of a yellow wax colour, so much resembling 
a candle as to give rise to the popular appellation, ‘Palo do velas’ (Candle Tree). The fruit is 
generally from two to three, but not unfrequently four feet long, and about au inch in diameter.” 
