4 NOVELTIES & SPECIALITIES for 1887, offered by WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
NOVELTIES & SPECIALITIES. 
ASTER COMET. 
A now and beautiful variety of similar habit and growth as the Dwarf Poeony-flowered Perfection 
Aster, forming regular pyramids from 12 to 15 indies in height, profusely covered with large 
flowers, very full and double and distinct in form, the petals being' twisted and curled in an 
irregular manner, so as to closely resemble some of the large flowered Japanese Chrysanthemums, 
vide illustration. The colour is a beautiful soft pink, each petal edged with white. 
In Packets, Is. each. 
(For other varieties of Asters, vide pages 24 and 25.) 
12. BORONIA MEGASTIGMA. 
A moat desirable greenhouse plant of slender habit, remarkable for the delicious perfume of 
its flowers ; these are about half an inch in diameter, maroon purple outside and yellow within, and 
produced in the most profuse manner. 
In Packets, Is. 6d. each. 
i3. CLIANTHUS DAMPIERI. 
An extremely handsome greenhouse plant, bearing in short racemes, large pendent, gorgeous 
flowers of a beautiful crimson vermilion colour, marked at the base of the upper petal with a 
shining, velvety, purplish-black blotch. The flowers are about four inches long, and very effective. 
In Packets, Is. each. 
