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NEW AND CHOICE AZALEAS— Continued. 
HA1DA13£!E AL!QX. VAN LANGt-ENHOVE, an exceedingly effective and charming variety; 
flowers white, with transparent edges, the whole flower broadly flaked, barred, and spockled with 
bright rose shading to deep red, and spotted with light green. 
StADAME CAMILLE VAN LANGENHOVE, snow white, anumber of the flowers being barred, 
with salmon, while others are striped with light rose and carmine j all these markings may bo 
occasionally seen on the same flower. A very beautiful and effective variety. 
MADAME DE CANN^KT D’HAMALE, an immense flower, so large, and of such wax-like 
substance, as to almost resemble a Lily in appearance, of a beautiful satiny white, cleanly spotted 
with yellow in the upper petals. It received a First Prize at the Exhibition of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society at Malines ; it also received a First Prize when exhibited at the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society’s Exhibition at Brussels. 
MADAME DOMINIQUE VERVAENE. This variety produces flowers of the most perfect 
form, of a soft rose colour, the upper petals largely spotted with bright red purple ; it is also 
striped with lilac and rod, and margined with white. This splendid variety received a First 
Prize at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition at Brussels. 
MADAME IRIS LE FEBVRE, flowers exceedingly double and constant, of a dark orange, with 
very broad spot of deep chocolate, charmingly enlivened by a shading of bright violet extending 
over the whole of the upper petals, and also suffusing the lower rows. 
MADAME LEON MAENHAUT, amaranth crimson, spotted with black ; a splendid flower of 
exquisite shape, and quite a novelty in colour. It is very floriferous. 
MADAME LOUIS VAN HOUTTE, a splendid flower, of model form, with smooth well- 
rounded petals, of good substance ; white, broadly banded with rose, and flaked with cochineal. 
MADAME MARIE VERVAENE, large fringed flowers, white, striped rosy carmine ; good shape. 
MADAME VAN DER CRUVSSEN, fine large serai-double flowers, of good form, of a beautiful 
satiny rose colour, lightly shaded, spotted with black, and bordered with a fresh amaranth colour. 
MADEMOISELLE L^ONIE VAN HOUTTE, a variety with magnificently formed flowers, 
white, flaked with rose, and handsomely spotted with sulphur yellow. 
MADEMOISELLE MARIE LE FEBVRE. This variety produces fine white flowers of extra- 
ordinary size, and of excellent form. 
MADEMOISELLE MARIE VAN HOUTTE, an exceedingly attractive variety, its immense 
semi-double white flowers being striped, flaked, and blotched with rosy salmon, somewhat like 
a Carnation ; the petals are broad and finely rounded. ' 
MONSTRUOSA ALBA, a magnificent flower, of immense size, and of the most pure snowy white. 
NONPAREIL, a superb variety ; flowers of immense size and good form, colour a pale orange, 
largely bordered with pure white, and spotted with chocolate. 
PRESIDENT A. VERSCHAFPELT, a remarkable variety, of a bright satiny orange colour ; the 
upper petals have a bluish tint, and the whole flower is spotted with jet black. It is very 
free blooming, and the flowers are of immense size and perfect form. 
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH, salmon scarlet, very showy. 
PRINCESSE STEPHANIE CLOTHILDE, double white, imbricated, occasionally striped with 
rosy lilac in some of the petals; a magnificent thick wax-like flower. 
PROFESSOR KOCH, a beautiful rose, semi-double. 
PUNCTULATA OMNICOLOR, an attractively variegated variety, flowers white, very much 
striped, mottled, and splashed with orange scarlet. 
PUNCTULATA VARIEGATA. This is another showy variegated kind, rosy scarlet, striped, 
mottled, and splashed with white and orange scarlet. 
QUEEN OF BEAUTIES, salmon pink, margined with white and flaked with carmine, densely 
and very richly spotted with crimson j flowers large, of good shape and substance. 
QUEEN OP ROSES, flowers a beautifulbright rose, finely formed; one of the best of the rose 
coloured varieties. 
REINE DES BLANCHES, fine pure white. 
REINE DES PAYS BAS, violet pink, margined with white, and richly spotted with deep 
crimson; a very attractive variety. 
ROI D’HOLLANDE, fine well-formed flowers, of an exceedingly rich dark rod colour, spotted 
all over with black ; a remarkably attractive variety, of good habit, and very free flowering. 
ROI DES DOUBLES, deep rose, very large and double. 
SENATOR KESSLER, shaded crimson, very rich. 
SOUVENIR DE LEON MAENHAUT, bright rosy carmine. 
SOUVENIR DE L’EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, white, striped and spotted with rose; 
a maguifioont flower, of perfect form and immense size. 
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