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NEW AUOUBAS. 
BEGONIA HYBRIDA FLORIBUNDA. 
A cliarming hybrid from J'uchsioiJes nnd vwltiflora ; it has very elegant and delicate foliage, and 
is a most abundant bloomer, continuing to produce throughout the winter its pretty bright rose 
flowers in the utmost profusion. 2s. 6d, and 3s. Gd, 
BEGONIA PEARCEl. 
This possesses the quality so seldom found in the same plant, of having both beautifully coloured 
loaves, and large showy flowers, and is a most desirable acquisition to this popular section of plants. 
Its foliage is very pretty, the upper surface being of a dark velvety green, traversed by pale straw 
coloured veins, and the under side of a dull rod colour. 
The flowers are large, and bright yellow, and are borne on slender stems well above the foliage. 
It has boon figured in the Botanical Magazine, Vol. XXI., Tab. 5,545, and has received numerous 
awards. 2s. 6d. 
BEGONIA SAGITTATA. 
An erect smooth-stemmed species, of considerable beauty, flowering at less than a foot in height, 
and apparently not acquiring any great elevation. The leaves have longisb footstalks, and a blade 
(7 to 8 inches long) having a somewhat arrow-shaped form, with a one-sided base, the margins 
indistinctly lohed, and serrate. The green upper surface is dotted closely over with small pearly 
spots, from each of which projects a short blunt transparent seta. The rose pink two-petalod 
flowers grow in small dichotomous axillary cymes. This elegant plant is a native of South 
America. 3s. Gd. 
BEGONIA VEITCHI. 
This remarkable and beautiful plant, which was discovered near Cuzco in Peru, introduces quite 
a new feature into the now well-known family of Begonias. It differs in all respects from .any other 
Begonia yet known, having immense blooms of a vivid vermilion or cinnabar rod, and being com- 
paratively hardy. 15s. 
NEW AUCUBAS. 
Those now hardy evergreen shrubs are most desirable novelties ; indeed, they may bo looked 
upon as the most permanently useful introductions of modern times. Many have been the novelties 
reoently added to our collections from Japan, but for durable importance none of them come up to 
these plants, and for this reason : the common Aucuba is a shrub that grows and thrives better in 
towns and cities than any other evergi’een ; it thrives vigorously where everything else dies, as 
some of the gardens of London can testify. To us, however, it has hitherto been a fruitless shrub, 
but now we have the male form of this plant, and as soon as it becomes sufficiently circulated, all 
the Aucubas will be covered with large bunches of berries about four times the size of those of the 
common Holly, and of the brightest glossy red colour. This can bo soon, at the pi-esent time in 
perfection, at Mr. W. B.’s establishment, as well as the male and female plants hereafter named. 
Nothing in the way of hardy evergreen shrubs will at all compare with Aucubas when laden with 
their coral-like red berries. 
As some little misunderstanding exists about Aucubas, perhaps it may bo as well to state that the 
Aucuba is a dioecious plant, that is to say, some of its individuals produce only male, and others 
only female flowers. iSomo eighty years ago the ordinary Aucuba was introduced to this country 
from Japan, hut the plant or plants so introduced happened to bo females only. The whole stock 
in Europe sprang by propagation from this original introduction, and Japan from that time being a 
sealed country, the male plant could not bo obtained. To the celebrated Chinese and Japanese 
traveller and collector, Mr. Robert Fortune, is due the merit of introducing the first male plants 
with which wo are acquainted. Lately, however, there have been several most important and 
distinot varieties introduced by Dr. A'^on Siebold, including male and female kinds, with plain green 
unspotted leaves ; also others of both sexes, having blotched and variegated foliage. 
