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NEW PLANTS. 
Mr. william BULL’S NEW PLANTS. 
The following extracts arc taken from the '•^Journal of Horticulture^ 
and. the “ Oarcleners' ” respectively, and are copied entire as 
conveying a little idea of the interest and importance of some of the 
New Plants now offered, as wcU as of many others to be seen at his 
Establishment. 
Extract from Jotvrnal of Horticulture, April 4th 1865, p. 265. 
“ I thought the other day, that when I noticed some of the novelties in Mr. 
Bull’s establishment, I had had enough of new plants to last mo some time ; but 
having heard that the importations which he had expected from abroad had arriv cd, 
and that I should fine some remarkable things amongst them, I took the opportunity , 
while in town on other matters, of running over to Chelsea and seeing with my own 
eyes as far as I could the treasures he had received; and as far as my poor opinion 
goes, I am convinced that there are many plants which will ho of groat interest both 
in a botanical and horticultural point of view. Many of them were in a condition 
in which it would he impossible to form a very decided opinion, while others gave 
evidence of their beauty and singularity. 
“ I have already alluded to the very interesting variegated Aucuhas received by 
Mr. Bull from the continent, where they were introduced by Dr. Von Siehold ; hut 
he has some green-leaved varieties which will he, I think, equally interesting, and 
which have already received certificates both at the Royal Horticultural and 
Botanic Societies. Then there was A. japonioa macrophylla, with a light spinach- 
coloured green leaf fully 9 inches long by wide ; latifolia, very broad dark green 
leaf, quite distinct; and mascula angulata, very narrow leaf. The variegated varie- 
ties were lancifolia vaiiegata, margined with gold ; mascula elegans and mascula 
elogantissima, broad leaf, yellow blotch ; mascula bicolor, deep yellow centre to 
leaf ; sulphurea, edged with sulphur yellow, the yellow also interspersed in the 
green; varia, distinct deep yellow blotch; mascula picta, also yeUow-hlotched. 
These are all distinct, although it may seem that in describing them as yellow- 
blotched and green there is groat sameness ; but any one can at once see the groat 
distinctness that there is in the difierent varieties, and what a fine feature they will 
by-and-hy make in our gardens. 
“Of new Camellias there were Prince Camille, fine shaded rose, of exquisite shape’ 
and Comtesse de Gonda, a very pretty light pink fiaked with deep crimson, promising 
to be a very pretty variety. Then there was an older kind— Mrs. Abbey Wilder, a 
beautiful white, but interesting from the fact that Queen of Beauties is a fixed sport 
from it. Some of these new varieties of Camellias are quite putting the older ones 
into the shade. 
“ Ferns— that ever increasing family whoso name now is legion, and some of 
whose memhei's are ever arriving from different parts of the world — were well 
