For vegetable SEEDS, 
SEE PAGES 38 to 49. 
FOREIGN ORDERS. 
Seeds, &c., for transmission abroad, selected and packed with the greatest possible 
care, according to the nature of the goods, and shipped to any part of the world. 
Clieques to he crossed “London Joint Stock Bank.” 
Post-ofBce Orders to be made payable at KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 
N.B.—ln ordering Flower Seeds from this Catalogue, it will be sufficient to quote 
the marginal number affixed to each article. 
NOVELTIES FOR 1881. 
^ BEGONIA HYBRIDA GIGANTEA (NEW). — tlu strain produces flowers of 
gigantic size, each blossom measuring four to flve inches, and embraces the various rich 
and attractive colours of the handsome-flowered section. The plants are of stiff compact 
habit and produce their immense flowers in the greatest abundance. 2s. 6d. per packet. 
^ CALENDULA OFFICINALIS, METEOR (NEW). — Splendid new variety of 
the Pot Marigold, with very large and beautifully imbricated double-striped flowers, the 
colours being a deep orange on a pale straw-coloured almost white ground. The Marigolds 
rank among the most showy and effective of our hardy annuals, being profusely covered with 
flowers from May until late in the autumn, and are particularly well adapted for bedding 
purposes. Is. per packet. 
3 CASTILLEJA INDIVISA. — a splendid half-hardy annual, its attractions are due 
less to the flowers properly so called than to the highly coloured bracts or floral leaves 
accompanying them, which are of a bright scarlet or crimson, of varied shade ; it attains a 
height of from 1 to IJ feet, being erect in habit, with rigid purplish stems and strongly 
nerved foliage, the seedlings should be pricked off early and kept near the glass prior to 
planting out, though it may be cultivated in pots, the colour is much flner in the open air 
and the habit dwarfer, and more disposed to branch. Is. 6d. per packet. 
J CYCLAMEN PERSICUM GRANDIFLORUM (NEW). — For size and substance 
of bloom, free-flowering habit, and general excellence, this new and magnificent Cyclamen 
is unsurpassed. It has been awarded a First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the 
Boyal Horticultural Society. 
The “Gardeners’ Chronicle,” in its report on these Cyclamen, observes: — “A large Gold 
Banksian medal was awarded for as grand a lot of plants, both as regards number and quality, 
as has ever been seen at any time or place.” 5s. per packet. 
‘ SENECIO SPECIOSUS (NEW). — For illustration and description, next page. 
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