ORNAIIBNTAL-FOLIAGED AJTD SUB-TROPICAL PLANTS. 
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NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Wiini.AViA OLOXINIOIDES (item), tlio tube of tbo coi’olla pui'o white, aud the 
limb a delicate blue ....... 
* ,, GRANDIFLOKA, blue !«■ POI’ 
,, ALBA, pm-e white 
Xeuanthemum annuum, purple everlasting flowers 
„ ,, ALBUM, white 
,, CABYOPHYLLOIDES FL. PLENO (ncw) 
,, coMPACTUM NANUM, double white, dwarf 
,, „ COOCINEU.M, scarlet . 
,, „ PURPUREUM, purple . 
Zinnia blbgans, sec page 25. 
Hardiness 
Height 
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All varieties not enumerated can be supplied at current prices. 
OEMIESTAI-EOIIA&ED MD STJB-TB,OnOAL 
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The great success wliicli has attended the introduction of ornamontal-foliaged 
plants into our largo gardens and public parks, necessarily increases the demand for 
them, to meet which Elr. "W^. B. offers a choice and extensive collection, including 
many new Continental varieties. Amongst those most easily and readily grown from 
seeds may bo mentioned Amarantlms nielancholicus ruber, with its rich blood red leaves ; 
Perilla nanhmensis, with its rich, dark, and effective foliage ; Geniaurea candidissima, the 
most popular of all silver-leaved plants, and its pretty and graceful compeer, Gentaurea 
gymnocarpa, admirably adapted for centres of beds and riband borders ; the neat and 
pretty Cerastium tomcniomm and Biebersteini, than which there are none more useful 
for edgings ; also Gvneraria maritiina, now so well known and extensively used ; 
all most effective in themselves, and still more striking ivhen arranged and contrasted 
with tasto. Cannas, (of which Mr. W. B. holds a most extensive collection) in their 
now almost endless variety of both size and colour, foliage and flowers ; Ricinus, with 
their gigantic and beautifully divided leaves ; Bocconias, handsome in foliage, and 
elegant °in flower ; Wigandias, Ferdinandias, and Nicotianas, with theii- noble and 
masshm foliage, now so well known and generally appreciated ; Solanums, pretty and 
curious, both in foliage, flower, and fruit; and the striped-leaved Japanese Maize, 
which for effect cannot be excelled. Taken collectively, they are all alike noble, grand, 
and imposing, in their gigantic size and picturesque appearance. 
NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
Amarantuus bicolor, soarlot ami green foliage • . • 
„ MELANCHOLious RUBER, rich bloofl red foliage 
„ sPECiosissiMUS, carmine ....•••• 
TRICOLOR, scarlet, yellow, and green foliage . . • 
Exceedingly attractive pud beautiful plants, well adapted 
for centres of beds and as a background in borders. 
Argyrantiibmum yrutesobns, a very elegant greenhouse shrub, with 
laoiniated leaves, and large umbels of odoriferous orange coloured 
Artemisia annua, a beautiful foliaged iilant, with sweet-scented yellow 
flowers 
„ aroentea, silvery foliage, flowers yellow 
Hardiness 
and 
Duration. 
Height 
in 
Feet. 
Price 
per 
Packet. 
S. (1. 
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0 3 
1 
0 3 
2 
0 G 
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2 
0 3 
li 
1 0 
h h a 
5 
0 6 
3 
0 6 
