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NEW AND RARE HARDY PLANTS. 
SOLANUM DULCAMARA VARIEGATA. 
This new and beautiful Solauum is quite hardy, of free growth and excellent habit. The ground 
colour of the leaf is bright green, distinctly margined with pure white ; the blooms are a rich 
purple, succeeded by bunches of scarlet berries, giving the plant a very effective appearance. It 
is an ornamental plant for pot culture, and, being quite hardy, will prove a great acquisition for 
bedding purposes. 5s. 
SPIR/EA PALMATA. 
In a description of this plant, given in the Botanical Mayazinc, No. 285, Dr. Hooker says : — 
■“ By far the handsomest species of the genus hitherto imported, and certainly one of the moat 
beautiful hardy plants in cultivation ; the deep purple red of the stems and branches, passing into 
the crimson-purple of the glorious broad corymbs of flowers, contrasts most exquisitively with the 
foliage, which in autumn assumes beautiful tints of brown and golden yellow.” 
It is a native of Japan, and was discovered and introduced by Mr. Fortune. 
SPIR/EA THUNBERGII. 
A neat-growing and attractive plant, of bushy compact habit, producing its pretty white flowers 
in the greatest profusion. It will force well, and makes a pretty object for conservatory decoration. 
2s. 6d. 
STYRAX JAPONICA, vide page 6. 
TAXUS HIBERNICA FASTIGIATA VARIEGATA. 
(THE GOLDEN IRISH YEW.) 
This is the exact type of the Irish Yew, with foliage of the same fine golden colour as the old 
variegated Yew. It was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Show in Juno, 1863, whore 
it received a First Class Certificate, and again at the International Horticultural Exhibition it 
was awarded another First Class Certificate. 15s. 
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS GLOBOSA GRACILIS. 
This hybrid Thuja, although raised from seed of Thuja occMentalis, has not the slightest resem- 
blance to it. In growth it is globular and compact, with glaucous green foliage. Tho parent plant 
was first publicly exhibited at the International Horticultural Exhibition hold in Erfurt, in 1865, 
and then attracted considerable attention. 7s. 5d. 
TBICYBTIS HIBTA, Is. 6rf. I TBICYBTIS HIBTA PLOBE-NIOBO, 
TBITOMA GBANDIS, 2s. M. \ Is. Gd. and 2s. 6tl. 
VERONICAS. 
Where the climate is mild these make handsome decorative shrubs for the open border, and 
produce freely an abundance of showy flowers. 
They are well adapted for training against low walls or trellises. Vide pages 23 and 24. 
VIBURNUM SIEBOLDII. 
An evergreen shrub, with dark brown warted branches, and opposite dark green flat leaves, 
which are thick, coriaceous, and laurol-liko in character. Tho loaf stalks are about an inch long ; 
the blades broadly oblong oval, entire in tho lower half, and obscurely and bluntly serrated towards 
the apex. A bold and effective evergreen shrub. It is a native of Japan, and has sometimes 
appeared under the name of V. areyfurha, which is probably its vernacular name. 7«. Gd. 
WEIGELA PURPURATA. 
A very distinct variety, of robust habit, and very free blooming ; tho flowers are of a beautiful 
deep red, shading towards tho edge to a brilliant rose colour. This elegant variety will prove to 
be a very decided acquisition for tho decoration of the flower garden, &c. 2s. Gd. 
