lEARLT 50,000 SUPERFICIAL FEET OF CLASS FILLED WITH 
NEW AED RARE PLANTS. 
“ At all seasons it is one of tlio sights of London to see Mr. W. Buli’s Collection of New and 
Rare Plants.” 
“ Mr. Wint.iAif Bull’s Establishment is particularly noted for supplying the Rarest, Choicest, 
and Best of evorything.” 
In announcing the following NEW PLANTS, Mr. William Bull begs to say 
they will all be found to partake of the usual excellence of bis introductions, and to 
maintain the high reputation of tbe Plants previously sent out by him. 
NEW PLANTS Offered For The First Time. 
ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS AUREO-VARIEGATIS. 
A new and exceedingly elegant form of variegated grass of an effective character. It is a hardy 
perennial, having the leaves streaked and margined with golden yellow, which gives to the herbage 
a distinct golden tinge, such as may he seen from a distance. It will be a useful and picturesque 
edging plant for beds and borders in arrangements where the yellow tint is required. Ct/.each, 
guineas per dozen. 
ANTIGONON LEPTOPUS. 
“ The first time I saw this plant,” writes Dr. Seemann (vide Gar(lc7icrs* Chronicle j June 20th, 1868), 
“ was in the autumn of 1818, when making a botanical excursion from IVIazatlan, on the West Coast 
of Mexico ; and in a letter addressed to the late Sir W. J. Hooker (published in Hooker's Journal 
and Kcm Miseidlanyy page 119), I wi*ote, full of enthusiasm, ‘The finest flower wo saw during the 
journey was your Antlgonon leptopus. It covered nearly every bush, and the deep rose coloured 
blossoms were so abundant, that scarcely a leaf could bo seen.’ In that part of Mexico where I 
first met with the plant, the natives term it ‘ Rosa do Mayito j’ and in Nicaragua, where I found it 
in 1867 and 1868, ‘ Rosa de Montana/ or Mountain Rose. Of course, when looking closely at the 
shape of the flowor.s, there is not the faintest resemblance to a Rose ; but at a distance, a com- 
parison with the Queen of Flowers would readily suggest itself, the outer three sepals being of a 
beautiful rose colour, the centre of a much deeper tint. The flowers, arranged in racemes and 
panicles, appear in the greatest profusion, and the bushes look as if a large rose coloured sheet had 
been spread over them — a sight never to be forgotten. The flowers, as those of most Polygonaceae, 
last for some weeks. I have traced the plant on the West Coast of America from Nicaragua to 
Northern Mexico, and often looked for ripo seed, but I could never find any, and my belief is that 
it does not produce seed readily. During my last visit to Nicaragua, however, I was fortunate 
enough to procure, after many a fruitless search, a few seeds — not more than half a dozen j but of 
these, it is satisfactory to add, Mr. Bull succeeded in raising several strong plants, which may 
possibly flower this autumn, and the species will then become deservedly popular. I am well 
acquainted with the contents of our gardens and the vegetation of most parts of tho world j but I 
have no hesitation in giving it as my deliberate opinion, that there is no more graceful and beautiful 
climber than. Antiponoii, leptoptis. It is hardly possible to exaggerate its beauty, and were I to 
add more in its praise, I might lay myself open to the suspicion that I wished to write up an 
introduction which is well able to stand on its own merits.” 
Referring to this magnificent plant, Mr. Weir, one of the Botanical Collectors for tho Ro 3 ^al 
Horticultural Society, writes in the Gardeners' Chronicle^ 712 ; — 
“ It may interest your readers to know that tho fine Polygonacoous climber, Anfigonon leptopus^ 
described by Dr. Seemann recently (see page 654), grows plentifully in tho forests on tho lower 
Magdalena. When I first wont up that river, in December, 1863, many of tho ti'oos m parts not 
subject to inundation were literally covered with its blossoms, reminding mo very much of the 
Bougainvilleas in the forests of Brazil. Being on board a steamer when I thus saw it, I could not 
then got ashore to ascertain what it was, and on my return down the river a few months later, I 
