10 
NEW PLANTS. 
as some of the gardens of London can testify ; to ns, however, it has 
hitherto been a fruitless shrub, but now we have the male foi-m of this 
plant, and as soon as it becomes efRciently circulated all the Aucubas 
will be covered with large bunches of berries about four times the size 
of those of the common Holly, and of the brightest glossy red colom- ; 
this can now ho seen, at present in perfection at my Establishment, as 
well as the male and female plants hereafter named. 
Nothing in the way of hardy evergreen shrubs will at all compare 
with Aucubas when laden with their coral-like red berries. 
As some little misunderstanding exists about Aucubas, perhaps it 
may be as well to state that the Aucuba is a dioecious plant, that is to 
say some of its individuals produce only male, and others only female 
flowers, and that some eighty years ago the ordinary Aucuba was intro- 
duced from Japan, but the plant or plants so introduced happened to be 
females ; by propagation the whole stock in Europe sprang from the 
original introduction, and Japan from that time being a sealed country 
the male plant could not be obtained. To the celebrated Chinese iind 
Japanese traveller and collector, Mr. Eobeet Fortune, is due the merit 
of inti’oducing the first male plants with which we are acquainted. 
Lately however, there have been Jseveral most important and distinct 
varieties introduced by Dr. Yan Siebold, including male and female 
kinds, with plain green imspotted leaves ; also others in both sexes 
having blotched and vm-iegated foliage, as follows : — 
FEMALE AUCUBAS. 
MALE AUCUBAS. 
8. 
d. 
s. 
d. 
Aucuba jabonica fcemina 
Aucuba jabonica mascula 
42 
0 
AlfGUSTATA . . . 
42 
0 
— t.attfotja 
31 
6 
— r.TMBATA 
21 
0 
BICOLOR 
31 
6 
LONGTFOLIA .... 
21 
0 
(Fortune's) .... 
42 
0 
VARIEGATA , , 
31 
6 
MACBOPHYLLA . , 
31 
6 
MACULATA 
42 
0 
YIRTDI8 
10 
6 
VIRIDIS 
42 
0 
AMARYLLIS IMPERATRICE DE BRESIL. 
A species with veritable blue flowers. When in blossom this plant 
is a truly enchanting object. It has been introduced from Brazil. 
Price 63«. each. 
