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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
iPACL 
LAVATERA ARBOREA VARIEGATA. 
r of norticidlure, in noticing this decorative Voider plant, wliidi received a First Class 
Ceitificate from the Floral Committee of the Koyal Horticultural Society, thus writes of it: 
rarely mdcoil does >t fall lo our lot to figure for the first lime and introduco to our renders a border plant so sirikinc 
n appearanra as tl.e Vamgated Tree Mallow. When Mr. Smith first sent us leaves of hi.ZcTac^ 
ramarka’lL arara ' '"'■T' ■'"rk sreen, pale greenish grey, and pure wh?le, impart to the plant a 
whom Mr. AV. B. pnrchascil the entire stock, wrote respecting it : — 
“”<'«rstood that it is something like the Variegated Maize, 
Therfi 1 « ® pin nt8 from fctfl Fown In^t spriiiR nro now beautifully variegated, 
yy.l L’L ' a* "f ‘'’0 "nil most etfcclive plants for large beds and borders that has 
honJ? a 1 It''’'*' ^r‘ "’'"’“r It stood out witliout injury ; it is bo.st, however, to pot some up, ami keep them in a cool 
o?Sd 'T" f"?' 1" 'T’rm?, but a alight proteclion outside would bo sufticient to keep the pbiiils undisturbod in beds 
or borders, which is desirable, for m spring of the second year t he beauty of such plants is beyond dcscrii tion.’* 
3s. 6d. each. 
