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NEW AND CHOICE AZALEAS. 
NEW AND CHOICE AZALEAS— Continued. 
IIACANCE DE CANN.SIRT D’HAIXAXE, an immenao flower, ao large, and of snoh wax-like 
substance, as to almost resemble a Lily in appearanoe, of a beautiful satiny white, cleanly spotted 
with yellow in the upper petals. It received a First Prize at the Exhibition of the Eoyal Horti- 
cultural Society at Malines ; it also received a First Prize when exhibited at the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society’s Exhibition at Brussels. 
miADAME DOMINIQUE VERVAENE. This variety produces flowers of tho most perfect 
form, of a soft rose colour, the upper petals largely spotted with bright red purple ; it is also 
striped with lilac and red, and margined with white. This splendid variety received a First 
Prize at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition at Brussels. 
ECADAME MARIE VERVAENE, large fringed flowers, pure white, striped with rosy carmine ; 
good shape. 
MAX IMILIANT I., fine double fiowers, light rose colour, bordered with white, largely spotted 
with carmine, and striped with red. 
PAULINE MARUNER, light rose, £ffine semi-double flower. 
PRESIDENT CLAEYS, beautiful bright roae, with wide white margin. 
PRESIDENT HUMANN, fine large .flower, dark red, shading to a beautiful clear rose, and 
blotched with purple. 
PRililSIDENT VICTOR VAN DEN HECEE, white, distinctly striped and mottled with bright 
rod ; an attractive variety. 
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH, salmon scarlet, vei'y showy. 
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, flowers large, of good shape and substance ; one of tho best 
Azaleas ever offered. 
QUEEN OF ROSES, flowers a beautiful bright rose, finely formed ; one of the best of tho rose 
coloured varieties. 
REINE DES BLANCHES, fine pure white. 
REINE DES PAYS BAS, violet pink, margined with white, and richly spotted with deep 
crimson. This will bo a favourite variety ; it elicited universal admiration, and obtained a Prize 
when exhibited as a seedling at the Grand International Horticultural Exhibition hold at 
Amsterdam. 
ROI DES BEAUT^S, a double-flowering kind, colour soft rose, broadly margined with pure 
white. 
ROI DES DOUBLES, deep rose, very largo and double. 
SENATOR KESSLER, shaded crimson, very rich. 
SOUVENIR DE LEON MAENHAUT, bright rosy carmine. 
SOUVENIR DE VAN PEENE, a beautifully formed flower, of a deep bright rose colour, shading 
into a pale satin-like pink, richly spotted in the upper petals with dark purple red. 
SOUVENIR DE L’EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, white, striped and spotted with rose; a 
magnificent flower, of perfect form, and immense size. 
SOUVENIR DE PRINCE ALBERT, a most distinct and beautiful double-flowered variety, 
colour a warm poach rose, prettily margined with clear white ; a groat novelty. 
STELLA, a very vigorous-growing variety, of a bright orange scarlet colour, stained with rich 
violet on tho upper segments of tho corolla. 
THUSNELDE, lilac, shading to amaranth, with elevated central petals. 
VIRQINALIS, pure white, spotted with yellow, fringed edge. 
VIVID, flowers of good form, with thick wax-like petals, and the colour of the richest scarlet ; 
really superb, entirely surpassing for brilliancy all the varieties at present in cultivation. 
WILLIAM BULL, a fine variety, raised in Belgium, and named by M. Ambroise Verschaflfelt ; 
the flowers individually are of unusual size and substance, double and well formed, colour crimson 
and violet. 
