NEW AND RARE HARDY PLANTS. 
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QUERCUS CONCORDIA. 
A very ornamental Oak, with fine large foliage of a beautiful golden yellow ; one of the prettiest 
and best of hardy ornamental deciduous plants. 7«. 6cl. 
RAPHIOLEPIS OVATA. 
A fine perfectly hardy evergreen shrub, producing spikes of white flowers 3 to 4 inches in length, 
and succeeded by clusters of rich purple berries. 2s. 6d., 3s. Gd., and 5s. each. 
' REINECKIA CARNEA VARIEGATA. 
This is an exceedingly pretty neat-growing variegatod-foliagod plant, producing very attractive 
rosy white flowers. Is. 6d. • 
RETINOSPORA LEPTOCLADA. 
A distinct and handsome plant, and one of the hardiest of hardy Conifers. It is erect and pyra- 
midal in growth, branching proportionately wide at the base, and tapering upwards to a gracefully 
attenuate point. Tho colour of its growth is a fine silvery glaucous tint. 2s. Gd., 3s. 6d., and 5s. 
RHODODENDRON CAUCASICUM FLAVIDUM. 
This new and interesting addition to our hardy evergreen shrubs is very distinct from tho ordinary 
type of Ji. caucasicumi with rose coloured flowers, and long known in cultivation. In tho now 
variety now introduced the flowers are of a pale straw yellow, thickly spotted on the upper seg- 
ment with deep green ‘dots. It is a native of the Caucasian mountains. Small plants, 7s. Qd. 
RHODODENDRON METTERNICHII. 
A fine ornamental evergreen shrub, with oblong or obovate-oblong acute leathery leaves, which 
are ferrugineo-tomentose beneath, and terminal corymbose heads of from ten to fifteen largo sub- 
oampanulate flowers, of a beautiful rose colour. Being a native of the mountains of Japan, it is 
probably quite hardy in this country. 10s. Gd. 
RHODODENDRON MULTIFLORUM. 
This beautiful and truly novel variety is a dwarf bushy-growing hardy evergreen plant, with 
Myrtle-like leaves, bearing white flowers about tho size and form of an Indian Azalea, which are 
produced from the axil of every leaf about half way down each branch, forming a perfect mass of 
flowers ; it grows freely, and endures the winter unprotected without the least injury, though to 
bloom it well it should be taken up, potted, and placed under glass in October. It will then flower 
in mid-winter or early spring, according to the temperature of the place. 5s. and 7s. Gd, 
RHODODENDRON PR-ffiCOX, 3s. Gd, and 5s. RHODODENDRON PR.ffiCOX SDPER- 
„ PR.2ECOX RUBRTTM, RDM, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
3s. Gd. 
SAXIFRAGA FORTUNEI. 
Tliis is an exceedingly bandsome Japanese plant ; it produces fine corymbs of white blossoms at a 
season when flowers are very scarce — viz., September, October, and November; being an easily 
cultivated plant, it is an exceedingly desirable introduction. Is. Qd., 2s. Qd.^ and 3s. 6rf. 
SELAGINELLA JAPONICA. 
This interesting plant has been introduced from Japan, and has proved itself to bo quite hardy 
in this country. Is. 6d, and 2.9. Gd, 
SKIMMIA OBLATA. 
A most beautiful Japanese evergreen shrub, producing berries of the brightest vermilion. This 
is one of ilr. Fortune’s discoveries, and proves to be quite distinct from all other Skimmias as yet 
known, in the remarkably oblate shape of its bright red berries, so obviously difierent from the dull 
red oblong fruit of other Skimmias. It is also strikingly distinct in its foliage, which is of a difierent 
texture, as well as in its habit, from the other species known to us. It is a free-growing shrub, 
with dense clear green leaves, the panicles of bright coloured berries nestling amongst tho foliage 
at the ends of the branches. Gs. Gd., 6s., and 7s. Gd. 
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