SPECIALITIES OFFERED BY WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
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217. PRIMULA JAPONICA. — A Primula a foot and a half high, hearing 4 or 6 separate 
whorls of flowers, each flower nearly an inch in diameter, and of a splendid magenta 
colour, and the plant, moreover, perfectly hardy, (i d. per packet. 
PRIMULA RETICULATA.— Vide page 2. 
PRIMULA ROSEA. — Vide page 6. 
PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA.— Of sorts, vide pages 2, 8 and 9. 
218. PYRETHRUM, from fine double varieties. The value of these highly decorative plants 
can scarcely be over-estimated. Is. per packet. 
219. PYRETHRUM AUREUM (Golden Feather).. — Its elegant feather-like golden leaves make 
it air effective plant for bedding or ribbon decoration. 6 d. per packet. 
PYRETHRUM AUREUM FL. PL. — Vide page 2. 
PYRETHRUM AUREUM SELAGINOIDES.— Vide page 7. 
220. RHODANTHE MACULATA FLORE PLENO. — A very elegant and pretty new everlasting, 
admirably adapted for pot culture. The flowers are of a bright rosy-carmine colour, 
perfectly double, and produced in the greatest profusion. Is. per packet. 
RESEDA 0D0RATA. — Vide Mignonette, pages 5, 17 and 34. 
RHEUM NOBILE. — Vide page 3. 
221. RICINUS ELEGANTISSIMUS. — A bushy growing variety of the Castor Oil Plant attaining 
a height of from 4 to 5 feet. The stems are dark reddish brown. It is exceedingly 
effective for sub-tropical gardening. 6 d. per packet. 
SALPIGLOSSIS, Assortments. — Vide page 28. 
222. SALVIA PATENS.— Lovely deep blue flowers, too well known to require description. 
Is. per packet. 
223. SALVIA RUBESCENS. — A new and handsome hardy annual, producing spikes of dark 
reddish purple flowers, the lip or lower petal being white. Very ornamental for beds 
and borders. Is. per packet. 
224. SAPONARIA COMPACTA PUMILA MULTIFLORA.— This dwarf and compact variety is 
very neat in habit. The plants are covered during the summer months with a mass of 
star-shaped pink floWers. For ribbon borders and similar purposes it will be a valuable 
addition in the flower garden. 6 d. per packet. 
SCABIOUS, Assortments. — Vide page 28. 
225. SCHIZANTHUS PINNATUS ROSEUS.— The flowers of this really beautiful annual 
are of a delicate rose, shading off at the centre to white, the upper petal being almost 
entirely covered with a blood-red spot, while in respect to height and growth, as well 
as the duration of its flowers, it ranks with the other varieties. Is. 8(7. per packet. 
226. SENECIO SPECIOSUS. — The exceedingly bright and pretty magenta- coloured flowers of 
this plant make it very attractive ; it is a half-hardy perennial introduced from South 
Africa, and is exceedingly floriferous ; planted in the open air, its flower-spikes are 
successively produced from spring until the end of autumn. Is. per packet. 
227. SILENE PENDULA COMPACTA. — A compact-growing form of the well-known Silene 
pendula ; the flowers are of the same size and colour as the type, but the plant is so 
dwarf and compact, that it forms dense cushions two or three inches in height, and 
during the season is perfectly solid with bloom. 6rf. per packet. 
228. SILENE PENDULA COMPACTA ALBA. —In habit same as above ; flowers white. 6d. per 
packet. 
229. SILENE PENDULA COMPACTA ROSEA FLORE PLENO. — This new double-flowering 
variety is of very compact growth, and its flowers, which are produced in the greatest 
profusion, are very double and of very long duration, rendering it far more valuable for 
bedding purposes than any of the old single varieties. 6(7. per packet. 
230. STATICE SUWOROWI. — The finest of all annual Statices. The branching flower-spikes 
are of a very bright rose, shaded with crimson, and ns each plant produces from 10 to 
15 of these, measuring from 12 to 18 inches each, they form striking objects. Is. per 
packet. 
