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NEW AND RAEB HARDY PLANTS. 
VERONICAS. 
Where the climate is mild these make handsome decorative shrubs for the open border, and pro- 
duce freely an abundance of showy flowers. 
They are well adapted for training against low walls or trellises, vide page 43. 
VIBURNUM SIEBOLDII. 
A bold and effective evergreen shrnb, with dark brown warted branches, and opposite dark green 
flat leaves, which are thick, coriaceous, and laurel-like in character. The leafstalks are about an 
inch long ; the blades broadly oblong oval, entire in the lower half, and obscurely and bluntly 
serrated towards the apex. It is a native of Japan, and has sometimes appeared under the name of 
7. amafurka, which is probably its vernacular name. 7«- and 15«. 
VIBURNUM MACROCEPHAIiUM, 3«. 6rf. I VITIS HETEROPHYLLA VARIEGATA, 
PLICATUM, 2s. Gd. I !«• Gd. and 2s. 6</. 
WEIGELA HENDERSONI. 
A free-flowering and effective variety, producing beautiful carmine flowers, which are spotted 
with white on the edge ; the stamens are pale sulphur white, and the buds bright rod, contrasting 
admirably with the fully expanded flowers. 2s. Gd. 
WEIGELA LAVALLEI. 
The flowers of this attractive variety are of a rich purplish rod colour, with yellow centres, and 
are very freely produced in exceedingly long bunches. It is a distinct and handsome variety of 
robust growth, and is also an excellent plant for forcing. 3s. Gd. 
WEIGELA LEMOINEI. 
An extremely floriferous variety ; the flowers are very large, of a very brilliant scarlet colour, 
marked with purple in the centre of each lobe ; the buds are of a dark purple colour. 2s. Gd. 
WEIGELA LOWII. 
This effective variety produces fine flowers, of a rich deep red colour, three times as large as those 
of Diervilla muUiJlora ; the buds are of a purplish crimson colour. 2s. Gd. 
WEIGELA AMABILIS VARIEGATA, Is. 
WEIGELAS, of sorts. Is. Gd. and 2s. Gd. 
YUCCA GLORIOSA, 2s. 6^/., 3s. Gd., and 5s. 
WEIGELA PURPURATA, 2s. Gd. 
YUCCA FILAMENTOSA, Is. and Is. Gd. 
RECURVA, 2s. Gd., 3s. Od., and 5s. 
WISTARIA MACROBOTRYS. 
This variety, introduced from Japan, is of vigorous growth, and exceedingly free flowering, pro- 
ducing fine large full bunches of flowers, of immense length. The foliage is dark green ; the flowers 
are white, tinted with bluish purple, and very large and fine. It is a most attractive and- ornamental 
plant. 15s. 
OFFICINAL AND MEDICINAL PLANTS, TROPICAL 
FRUITS, &c. 
Mr. WiLLUSi Bull’s collection of living economic plants contains specimens of 
nearly all the species and condiments in domestic use^ many of the most highly 
esteemed tropical esculent fruits, many of those from which furniture and other 
woods are obtained, the principal gums and medicinal products, the poison trees 
from Brazil and Madagascar, at one time only heard of in tales of fiction, plants 
which supply our daily beverages and food, as well as many of historical interest. 
The individual prices of the following depend upon the sizes of the plants and 
rarity of the species, particulars of which can be furnished on application. 
African Hangostccn 
Alligator Pear 
AllsJJico 
Arnotto Dyo Plant .. 
Arrowroot 
Australian Banyan 
Balsam of Peru 
Bamboo Cane 
Banana 
Bark of Commerce .. 
Betel Nut Palm 
Betlo Pepper 
Bitter Aloe 
Gavcinia Livingstoni .. 
P6rsca gratlssima 
Eugenia Pim6nta 
Bixa OrellAna 
Marfinta orundin&cea.. 
Ficus macroph'ylla 
MyrAxylon Pereira 
BambiJsa arundindcea 
Musn sapiAntum 
Cinchona ofllcindlis 
Ar6ca CAtechu 
Piper B6tlo 
Aloe aocotrina 
A/rica 
Indies 
Indies 
Tropical America^ 
S. America 
Australia 
Peru 
India 
W. Indies 
Tropical America 
E. Indies 
E. Indies 
Island of Socotror 
