NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
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SWEET WILLIAM, AURICULA-EYED. 
(BRAGG’S IMPROVED.) 
A greatly improved variety, with very rich beautifully coloured and smooth-edged flowers, 
produced in immcuBO trussoB. 
Sow the end of May or in June, in prepared beds of good soil, and prick out, as soon as strong 
enough, into the place where the plants are to bloom, choosing a situation sheltered from heavy 
rains and cold winds. Top-dress with well-decomposed manuro in spring. 
TACSONIA VAN VOLXEMI. 
This beautiful climber was found by the Canon Cuervo in the lofty regions of the Cordillera 
which separates the basin of the Cauca from that of Magdalena, in the province of Antioquia, in 
New Zealand, and introduced by M. Van Volxem, who speaks of it as a plant that flowers most 
abundantly, and for almost the whole year j the flowers individually are about 5 inches in diameter, 
and of the richest scarlet. 
Price 2s, Odj and ^s. per packet. 
TETRANEMA MEXICANA. 
A pretty little greenhouse perennial, producing profusely its beautiful rosy purple flowers 
throughout the year. 2,s-. M. per paohet. 
TRICYRTIS HIRTA FLORE NIGRO. 
An interesting and useful hardy herbaceous perennial, introduced from Japan by M. Maximowicz. 
It grows about 18 inches to 2 feet in height, and produces very freely during the autumn, from tho 
axils of the leaves, large flowers of the typo of Tricyrtis hirta, nearly black, blotched with white. 
Price 2«. 6rf. per packet. 
TROP/EOLUM COMPACTUM TOM THUMB, VARS. 
These fine bedding Tropooolums, tho results of a cross between some of tho varieties of the 
trailing Lobbianum and the ordinary Tom Thumb sections, are varied in colour, dwarf 
growing and compact, and very free blooming. A very favourable report of these new bedding 
Tropaeolums appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, of August 81st, 18C7, pages 906-907. 
Price Is. per packet. 
TROP/EOLUM LILLI SCHMIDT, TOM THUMB, 
A Tom Thumb variety of T. Lilli Schmidt ; a very profuse bloomer, with intensely bright scarlet 
flowers, which are very large and perfect. The present novelty partakes of tho good qualities of 
both sections, having tho beautiful form and colour of the Lilli Schmidt section, with the 
compact and free-blooming habit of the Tom Thumb class. 
Pr ice \s. per packet. 
TROP/EOLUM LOBBIANUM “CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.” 
(NEW.) 
A beautiful new variety, of vigorous growth and elegant habit, producing a profusion of blood 
red flowers. 
Price Is. per packet. 
TROP/EOLUM PYRAMIDALIS. 
An annual Tropseolum, growing in tho form of a dwarf pyramid or sugar loaf, which is covered 
with a quantity of bright scai'let flowers. This variety is said to be quite constant, and the habit 
Tery novel. 
Price Is. pen' packet. 
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