NEW PLANTS. 
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Aucuba japonica macrophylla is a fine plant, with leaves of a lighter green than its 
very dark-hucd neighbour, latifolia, which has also very large leaves, and promises 
to make another noble shrub ; maculata is a very fine spotted variety, w'ith broad 
leaves, quite flat ; elegantissima is a groat leaved variety, with one immense blotch 
of clear yellow, and the remaining green portion lightly dappled over with small 
yellow spots ; elegans is rather deeply serrated, with a broad centre of yellow and 
dark green margin ; sulphuroa has the variegation suffused all over the leaf, and is 
quite distinct from the other strikingly-marked kinds ; marginata has the variegation 
round the leaf margins ; and oblonga is another green form, almost sure to make a 
noble shrub. The Himalayan, Fortune's, the normal male and female foi-ms, and 
other Aucubas, all are here. Fortune’s maculated male being a most lively subject, 
and yielding more and better pollen than any of the other males. Great as is the 
immediate pleasure of introducing such fine plants, it is very little compared to what 
wo should experience a dozen years hence, when they shall have done much to 
embellish our islands. I have omitted the ‘ mascula ’ in naming them, but almost 
all spoken of are male forms. 
“ I cannot now go over the florist flowers, but must mention a now strain of 
Mimulus, with hoso-in-hose flowers ; and so bid good bye to this fine colleotion of 
novelties. — W. R.” 
Mr. W. P.’s ZUNALE PELARGONIUMS are unrivalled; vide T/ie 
Gardeners Magazine for August 12, 1865, page 158. 
“ Classifjdng all the good ones (Zonale Pelargoniums) according to 
their trade origins, I repeat what I have said three years ago that 
Mr. William Bull has sent out more good Zonale Geraniums than any 
other trade cultivator.” 
NEW DOUBLE FLOWERING ZONALE PELARGONIUMS. 
Four of these novelties, the forerunners of an cntirtdy new race, are 
now offered at 10s. 6d. each. 
For Soft wooded and other New Plants, see Ifr. W. Bull’s Spring 
Lists, which can he had on application. 
