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NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES. 
TROP/EOLUM TOM THUMB C/ERULEA ROSEA. 
The first step towards a blue Nasturtium, and a groat novelty. This variety is quite distinct from 
and superior to the Rose Tom Thumb Nasturtium sent out last year. The flowers, which are thrown 
well above tho foliage, are of brilliant rose, shaded and undcrlayed with a peach blue — a colour never 
seen before in Nasturtiums. 
Price 2s. Qd. per pachet. 
VALLOTA PURPUREA. 
This attractive greenhouse plant is desirable in the most select celleotion for its charming and 
showy scai-Iet flowers. 
Price 2s. Gd. per packet. 
VERBENA. 
EXTRA CHOICE MIXED. 
Saved from a splendid collection of the best named varieties. 
Great care has been taken that this seed should be saved from such as ai’e really good bedding 
kinds, and of attractive colours. 
Price 2s. Gd. pc-r packet. 
VERBENA. 
NEW CARNATION STRIPED. 
This section is generally known as “ Italian Verbenas,” from the striped kinds having first 
oi'iginated in Italy. Prom their first introduction Mr. W. Bull has given particular attention to this 
class, and by constant selection is able to ofifer seed from greatly improved varieties, that may be 
expected to produce flowers variously striped, blotched, and spotted. 
Price 2s. Gd. per 2 >deHet. 
VERBENA, 
IN SEPARATE COLOURS. 
Saved from finest and most distinctly coloured varieties. 
VERBENA HYBRIDA, pure white per pkt. 2s. Gd. 
„ „ blue „ 2s. Gd. 
„ „ scarlet ,, 2s. Gd. 
„ „ purple „ 2s. Gd. 
„ „ bright red ,, 2s. Gd. 
Verbena seed, like many others, germinates more readily when sown in light rich soil in tho 
open ground, during the months of June and July ; from thence tlipy can be thinned out, potted, and 
protected in frames during winter. If, however, they are required for blooming tho same season as 
sown, the seed should be sown in pans early in February and placed in a gentle heat, prick out into 
store pots, and when established transfer to the open borders. 
VIOLA CORNUTA “ MAUVE QUEEN.” 
The stock of this seed has been purchased and received direct from Mr. Wills. During the past 
summer this beautiful and very useful hardy plant has fully sustained tho recommendations 
given with it when lately brought into notice, and has proved to be one of tho most attractive 
bedding and border plants in cultivation. 
Mr. Pish, in a letter in the Gardeners' Chroniele, Oct. 26th, 1867, page 1097, thus writes of it;— “ I 
must confess that until the other day I was one of those who had never run wild about Viola 
eornuta ; I have not seen it go right through tho summer like any other truly valuable bedding 
plant. Beautiful enough in the spring — tolerable in tho early summer — it has invariably seemed 
weedy or seedy in the autumn. Such was my experience until a few days since, when a basket of 
Mauve Queen arrived from Mr. Wills of Huntroydo Park. Tho plants were one mass of bloom. I 
gathered a whole vaseful of them for my employer’s table, and I have no hesitation in admitting that, 
if this can bo maintained in such a state of health and bloord as these plants wore throughout the 
summer, no plant can be more welcome or valuable for bedding purposes. They have, brought me 
over to the side of tho Violas at last, and I have divided and ^rlanted in accordance with the 
