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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
ASPARAGUS VIRGATUS. 
This remarkably elegant feathery -looking greenhouse plant of fruticose habit, has been recently 
introduced from the Cape of Good Hope. The steins, which issue from the crown of the stout fleshy 
roots, are of a dark green colour, and bear at the upper end a corymbose head of erect branches, of 
which the lowest is the youngest or most recently developed. These branches are again twice branched, 
the ultimate branchlets being furnished with acicular cladodia, half an inch long, which grow usually 
in threes. The berries are round, about as large as an early frame Pea. 1 guinea. 
AZALEA INDICA. 
Good selections can be made by Mr. William Bull at 30s., 42s. and 60s. per dozen. 
New varieties, 5s., 7s. 0 d. and 10s. Gd. each. 
NEW AZALEAS. 
The two following Azaleas will be found extremely useful for winter and early" 
spring blooming. They belong to the amcena section, indeed are varieties raised 
from that well-known kind ; they are both of neat and compact habit, and their 
flowers are produced in the greatest profusion, and being of small size are well 
adapted for bouquets and other purposes for which cut flowers are required. 
EMBLEM, the blossoms of this attractive variety are of a charming magenta crimson colour, brightly 
spotted in the upper segments. The rich colour of its flowers makes this variety extremely desirable 
for decoration during the winter. 10s. Gd. each ; six plants for 2 guineas. 
MARVEL, rose, slightly shaded with violet, and brightly spotted with carmine in the upper 
segments ; the anthers aro frequently developed into small petaloid segments, giving the flowers a 
semi-double appearance. This variety received a First Class Certificate from the Floral Committee* 
of the Royal Horticultural Society. 10s. Gd. each ; six plants for 2 guineas. 
NEW DOUBLE-FLOWERED INDIAN AZALEA. 
EMPRESS OF INDIA, an extremely beautiful variety, of sterling merit, remarkably free-blooming 
and of nice compact growth. Its attractive double flowers are of a very large size and excellent form, 
the outer petal elegantly undulated and slightly recurved, showing tho central petalloid filaments ; 
the ground colour is a warm rosy salmon tint, with a pure white border along the Undulated part 
of every segment, and the upper segment is marked with a blotch of carmine spots. It was awarded 
the First Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition held at Ghent in 1878, and has 
received a First Class Certificate from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.. 
15s. and 1 guinea. 
BEGONIA, vide Index. 
BERBERIDOPSIS CORALLINA, 3s. Gd. 
and 5s. 
BIGNONIA CHERERE, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
EXCELSA, 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
GRANDIFLORA, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
BIGNONIA JASMINOIDES ALBA 
MAGNA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
SPLENDIDA, 2s. Gd., 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
VENTJSTA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
BLANFORDIA AUREA, 10s. Gd. 
NOBILIS, 5s. and 7s. 6a!. 
BLANFORDIA CUNNINGHAMII. 
The late Dr. Liudlcy, in describing the previously known kinds of this genus, thus refers to 
Jtlanfordia Cimnmghamn “ None of them are to bo compared for beauty with tho plant of which tho 
late Allan Cunningham gave me a specimen, the flowers of which are fully twice as large as B. margi ■ 
nata (grandiflora ). The leavos have neither serraturcs nor roughness on the edge, but are perfectly 
smooth. The flowers are of a deep rich red tint, except at the ends of the petals, where they arc 
yellow. 5s., 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
BLANFORDIA PRINCEPS. 
This strikingly handsome greenhouse perennial gained the first prize as the best new flowering 
greenhouse plant at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition in the summer ot 1875. 1 he still 
sub-erect distichous leaves are narrowly -linear, five to eight ribbed, and with a serrulate border. The 
scape is a foot high, bearing a corymb of many flowers, which are 24 inches long, pendent, regularly 
funnel-shaped, with a bright crimson tube and deep golden yellow erect limb. It must be regarded as 
the most beautiful of the Blandfordias yet known. It has been figured in the Botanical Magazine for 
January, 1876, tab. 6209. For illustration, vide page 49. 2 and 3 guineas. 
