NHW, RARE AND’ DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
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GREENHOUSE RHODODENDRONS. 
ANDBRSONI, a Imndsomo introduction from the Himalayas, giving very large and lino tnisscs of 
blossoms, which are of a bright rich carmine colour. 5s. 
ASSAMICUM, vide page 20. 
BARBATUM, bright scarlet flowers, distinot and olTeotivo. 5s. 
CALOPHYLLUM, a handsome species, producing large funnel-shaped pure white flowers. 5s. 
COUNTESS OP DERBY, bell-shaped flowers of great substance and large size ; pure white, and 
most deliciously fragi'ant ; a very free-blooming variety. 7s. 6d. 
COUNTESS OP HADDINGTON, very largo blush-white flowers ; an exceedingly beautiful hybrid 
variety. 5s. and Is. 5d. 
DUCHESS OP SUTHERLAND, a robust growing variety, producing pure white sweet-scented 
flowers, with beautifully fringed margin. 7s. 5d. 
EDQWOBTHH,-a handsome free-flowering species, with large pure white spreading shallow cup- 
shaped fragrant flowers. 5s. and 7s. 6(7. 
PALCONBRI, magnificently ornamental ; this speoies has the largest leaves of the genus. 7s. 5d. 
PORMOSUM GRANDIPLORUM, a free-blooming variety, with finely formed pure white flowers ; 
a neat growing kind, and very useful for conservatory decoration. 3s. 6(7. and 5s. 
PRAGRANTISSIMUM, deliciously fragrant flowers, of the purest white, lightly spotted with ochre 
on the upper segment ; tho back of the flower pencilled and shaded with rose. 5s. and 7s. 6(7. 
PULGENS, blossoms of a rich fiery crimson colour ; showy and offectivo ; compacit habit. 5s. 
JAMESONI, florvers bright red, produced in largo terminal trusses ; handsome and attractive. 5s. 
JASMINIPLORUM, an elegant free-blooming speoies, with fragi'ant white flower tubes, borne in 
clusters. 3s. 6(7. and 5.s. 
JENKINSH, flowers exceedingly largo, funnel-shaped, and of snowy whiteness ; tho handsome wax- 
liko attractive blossoms render it a most beautiful plant for conservatory decoration. 6s. 
LADY SKELMBRSDALE, a very handsome variety, producing pure white trumpet-shaped fragrant 
flowers. 5s. 
MRS. JAMBS SHAWE, a variety of bushy habit, producing in profusion pure white sweet-scented 
flowers, which are cup-shaped and of groat substance. 5s. 
NILAGIRICUM, a splendid species from the Neilgherry Hills, and Nepal, producing immense 
terminal trusses of fine large sliowy flowers, of a beautiful blush colour, blended with deep rich rose 
and shaded with soft rose ; light throat. 6s. 
NUTTALLH, a magnifloent spooios ; flowers pure white, the largest of the genus. 5s. 
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, a pretty hybrid variety, of compact growth, with similar flowers to those 
of Ji. jasniiniflorum, but larger and longer tubed, pure white, with pink stamens. 6s. and 7s. 6(7. 
PRINCESS ALICE, a neat dwarf bushy-growing variety of the ciliaium type, producing clusters 
of deliciously-scented bell-shaped white flowers, flushed with pink. 3s. 6(7. and 5s. 
PRINCESS HELENA, this pretty hybrid form, with M. Pnneess Alexandra, was obtained from a 
cross with R. jasniiniflorum, but is readily distinguished from it by its much longer tubed flowers, of 
a delicately tinted soft pink colour, streaked with darker shades. 5s. and 7s. 6(7. 
PRINCESS ROYAL, a handsome and distinot variety of neat compact growth, with clusters of 
richly-shaded rose-coloured funnel-shaped flower tubes, 6s. and 7s. 6(7. 
RETUSUM, this distinot species produces clusters of tubular orange-coloured florvers. 6s. and 7s. 6(7. 
THIBAUDIENSE, this remarkable Rhododendron has been introduced from Bhotan ; its .bright red 
tubular flowers are produced in terminal trusses ; in form they somewhat resemble those of tho 
Correas and Thibaudias, and have the same alabaster-liko translucent lustre, hence its name. 5s. and 
7s. 6(7. 
THOMaONI, bright scarlet ; cup-liko flowers of good form. 6s. 
TUBULATUM, a fine variety, with large tubular pure white flowers ; it is a most useful plant for the 
decoration of tho greenhouse or conservatory. 7s. 6(7. 
VEITCHIANUM, a beautiful species, with very large white flowers, relieved by a yellow centre or 
base, and elegantly fringed or frilled on the margin. 5s. and 7s. 6(7. 
VIRGATUM, tube of tho corolla short and obconical, and tlio limb segments spreading ; the flowers 
in tho difl'ercut plants that have been raised from seed, vary in hue from blush to white. 5s. 
VIRGATUM HYBRIDUM, a neat-habited bushy-growing variety, producing fine trusses of beautiful 
pure white flowers, of good form. 5s. 
VIRGINALE, tho pure white flowers of this beautiful variety are large and funnel-shaped. It has 
leathery dark green foliage, and forms a splendid plant for conservatory decoration, the great size 
and snowy whiteness of its blossoms rendering it extremely attractive. 7s, 6(7, 
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