NEW HERBACEOUS LOBELIAS, 
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NEW AZALEAS (INDICA) Continued. 
SOUVENIR DU PRINCE ALBERT. 
A most distinct and beautiful double-flowered variety, colour a warm peaob rose, prettily mar- 
gined with clear white ; a great novelty. 
Trice 5s. each. 
SOUVENIR DE VAN PEENE. 
A beautifully fomod flower of a deep bright rose colour, shading into a pale satin-like pink, richly 
spotted in tho upper petals with dark purple red. It obtained a First Prize when shown at the 
Exhibition in Ghent, it also has received a similar honour at Malines. 
Price 7s. 5d. and 10s. 6d. each. 
STELLA. 
A very vigorous-growing variety, of a bright orange scarlet colour, stained with rich violet on 
tho upper segments of the corolla. It is one of tho best varieties in cultivation, and has received 
numerous Fii'st Class Certificates. 
Trice 7s. 5d. and 10s. 6d. each. 
WILLIAM BULL. 
A fine variety raised in Belgium, and named by M. Anibroise Verschaffelt, from whom the stock for 
circulation in the United Kingdom was purchased. The flowers individually are of unusual size and 
substance, double and well formed, colour crimson and violet. 
Trice os. each. 
Selections of well known good sorts, in fine plants, can he made from W. JB.’s general collection, 
at 30s., 42s., and 60s. per dozen. Handsome specimens, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 guineas each. 
ALTERNANTHERAS. 
Amoena. Spathulata. 
Paronycliioides. Versicolor (Teleianthera). 
These are small grooving pretty little variegated plants from Brazil, adapted for planting out in 
summer, and especially suitable for small beds, edgings, &c. ; they are variously coloured, crimson, 
pink, amber, red, and chocolate-brown ; 3s. 6d. each. 
NEW HERBACEOUS LOBELIAS. 
Extract from the Gardeners' Chronicle, August 26, 1865, p. 792: — 
“ The Lobelia of the tall perennial type is, it seems, undergoing the same kind of improvement 
which is being eSectod in the case of other flowers, variety of colour as well as size being secm'ed ; 
scarlets and purples wo have long been familiar with, but other colours have till now been wanting, 
.and strangely enough the plants have been much less freely cultivated than their beauty has merited. 
Perhaps this has been owing to the absence of variety ; but, if so, we cannot but e.xpect to see the 
perennial Lobelia rise again in popular- favour, for in a bo.x of seedlings which has reached us, occur 
several decidedly new colours — pink, carmine, and ruby amongst them, with various intermediate 
shades. We hail them as' great acquisitions, for the Lobelia is one of the good old summer flowers 
which has been elbowed out of the garden by the bedding system, though few subjects are more 
brilliant than it, when under good management. We are indebted to Mr. Boll for the flowers to 
which reference has been made.” 
From a magnificent batch of upwards of six hundred seedlings the following twelve superb 
varieties have been selected ; the flower spikes are large and tho blossoms individually of great size 
and substance. They are well adapted for large beds or groups, and when so planted produce a most 
striking effect. 
For names of sorts and descriptions, see over. 
