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NEW, EARE AND DESIRABLE HARDY PLANTS. 
SPIRiEA ASTILBOIDES. 
One of the most handsome of hardy herhaoeons perennials, whicli lias liccn certificated hoth by 
the Royal Horticultural and Royal Botanic Societies on account of its gi'cnt merit. The stems 
■frow from two to three feet higfh, and are tenninated by compound feathery branches of elegant 
white flowers, jiroduced in the ffreatest profusion. A channin”' plant for pot culture. This is 
one of the Twelve New I’lants with which Mr. AV. B. gained the First Prize at the Groat Show 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, hold at Kensington, in 1882. 10s. Gil, 
