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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE HARDY PLANTS. 
SCIRPUS TABERN..®MONTANI ZEBRINUS (JXJNCUS ZEBRINUS). 
This remarkable Japanese plant has a most peculiar appearance, tlie idea suggested by a group of it 
being that of a cluster of porcupine quills. The plant, which is a true Eush, throws up erect terete 
leaves, but these, instead of being green, aro transversely banded with white and green, the colours 
being, in most cases, pretty evenly distributed ; sometimes the white preponderates, the surface bein<' 
either wholly white, or the green bands being narrower and less conspicuous ; but in the best marked 
leaves the green and white portions occupy alternately nearly equal bands. 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
