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NEW. EAEE AND DESIEABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DIEFFENBACHIA SPLENDENS. 
A stri^ng plant of great beauty, remarkable for the lustre of its colouring. The stem is faintly 
mottled with dark and light green. The leaves have a thick ivory-white mid-rib, and the ground 
(xuour 18 of a rich deep velvety bottle-ggeen, ■ndth a resplendent lustrous surface, freely marked with 
whitish striated blotches. It is a remarkably fine and telling plant, imported from the United 
States of Colombia. This was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the 
First Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition held at Ghent. 7s. 6d. 
SISFFENBACHIA SFLENSEKS. 
