NEW AND CHOICE BEDDING AND SOFT-WOODED PLANTS. 153 
PENTSTEMONS. 
As attractive anil decorative plants, either for flower beds or borders, the modern varieties of 
Pentstemon have scarcely any rival, their cultivation being of the easiest description, while they are 
suitable to almost any soil, and their largo and showy flowers are given with a remarkable redundancy 
from June to September. Choice sorts, 12s. and 18s. per dozen. 
PETUNIAS. 
Choice Selections of Double-flowered kinds, including blotched, fringed and variegated 
varieties, 18 s. and 30s. per dozen ; choice new kinds, 42s. per dozen. 
Choice Selections of Single-flowered kinds, including striped and blotched varieties, 
12s. and 18s. per dozen. 
PHLOXES (HERBACEOUS). 
Selections of good and choice kinds at 12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
SALVIA BETHELII. 
A very efl'ective variety, of compact sturdy habit, producing in great profusion its attractive flowers, 
which are of a bright rosy-pink colour, tipped with white ; it is a useful plant for winter blooming. 
2s. 6 d. 
SALVIA BRUANTII. 
A dwarf-growing variety, producing fine large flowers of a dazzling velvety-red colour ; exceedingly 
attractive. Is. 
SALVIA CCELESTINA. 
A vigorous-growing variety, with quadrangular whitish stems and foliage, having toothed edges ; 
the flowers, which aro freely produced in long branched spikes, are of a bluish lilac colour. Is. 6d. 
SALVIA FARINACEA. 
A very showy and effective variety, of good branching habit, producing freely from July until late 
in the autumn fine spikes of beautiful rich blue flowers, which have the lip and throat marked with 
white. 3s. 6 d. 
SALVIA HOVEYI. 
This is a most desirable and handsome variety, of the habit and general character of S. splendcns, 
lmt with dark blue flowers. 2s. 6 d. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS, Is. 
VERSCHAFFELTII, Is. 
SEMPERVIVUM ARACHNOIDEUM, 0 d. 
CALCAREUM (CALIFORNICUM), 
9 d. and Is. 
CHRYSANTHUM, 2s. 6d. 
SEMPERVIVUM HAWORTHII, Is. 
SPECIOSUM, 2s. 6 d. 
TECTORUM, 9 d. 
TORENIA BAILLONII, bright yellow, Is. 6d. 
FOURNIERI, sky-blue, Is. 6 d. 
VERBENAS. 
CHOICE KINDS, for bedding and pot culture, at 9s. and 12s. per dozen. 
VERONICA CHAM/EDRYS AUREA. 
A golden-leaved form of this pretty plant, which for garden decorative purposes will be an 
acquisition. Is. 6 if. 
VITEX TRIFOLIA VARIEGATA. 
A pretty and attractive variegated plant of the Labiate order, introduced from the South Sea Islands. 
It has downy branches, which are furnished with opposite leaves ; these in this variety have a 
marginal variegation of white, which in some places leads to irregularity of outline. The flowers are 
violet purple. 2s. 6 d. 
