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NEW AND RARE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
VERONICA EMBLEM. 
A very free-flowering variety, of dwarf, bushy, and compact habit: flowers bright bine, very - 
attractive. 
Price 2 s. 6 d. each. 
VERONICA IMPERIALE. 
This remarkable novelty produces fine flower spikes, in clusters, each spike about 5 inches long, 
of a brilliant amaranth red, changing to carmine magenta, which are elegantly set off with pro- 
jecting white stamens, giving to the flowers a Metrosideros-like appearance. It is of dwarf and 
vigorous habit, was awarded a prize by the Imperial Society of Horticulture in Paris, and is recom- 
mended by the raiser as the best Veronica yet introduced. 
Price 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. each. 
GREENHOUSE RHODODENDRONS. 
COUNTESS OF HADDINGTON, very large blush white flowers, an exceedingly beautiful 
hybrid variety. Is. 6 d. 
EDGWOETHI, a handsome free-flowering species, with large pure white spreading cup-shaped 
fragrant flowers. ‘2s. 6 d. 
FORMOSTTM GRANDIFLORUM, a very free-blooming variety, with finely-formed pure white 
flowers ; a neat-growing kind, and very useful for conservatory decoration. 2s. Gd. 
JASMIN I FLORUM, an elegant free-blooming species, with fragrant white flower tubes, borne in 
clusters. 2s. 6 d. 
J AVANICUM, a splendid species, with bright orange flowers. 3s. Gd. 
NTTTTALLI, large colossal trusses of snow white funnel-shaped flowers, relievod by a golden 
tinted centre, and elegantly suffused with a rosy tint outwardly. This magnificent variety pro- 
duces the largest flowers of any known Rhododendron ; it is a large-growing plant, only adapted 
for conservatories or large houses, and when in bloom is a truly magnificent object. 2s. Gd. 
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, a pretty hybrid variety, of dwarf compact growth, with similar but 
larger and longer-tubed flowers than R.jasminiflnrum, being pure white, with pink stamens. A 
free-blooming plant, well adapted for conservatory decoration. 10s. Gd. 
PRINCESS ALICE, a neat dwarf bushy-growing variety, with comparatively small leaves and 
producing dusters of deliciously -scented bell-shaped white flowers, flushed with pink on the' out- 
ward surface. 5s. 
PRINCESS HELENE. This pretty hybrid form was obtained with the foregoing from a cross 
with R. jasminiflorum., but is readily distinguished from it by its much longer-tubed flowors, of a 
dolicately-tmted soft pink colour, streaked with darker shades ; its profusion of bloom and neat 
dwarf growth are qualities which render it a valuable variety for greenhouse ornamentation. 7s. Gd. 
PRINCESS ROYAL, a handsome and distinct variety, of neat compact growth, with clusters of 
richly shaded rose coloured funnel-shaped flower tubes. 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
HIBAUDIENSE. This is one of the Bhotan kinds, and combines the merits of rarity, beauty 
and remarkable form. At first sight one would be apt to suppose that it might belong to the 
Correas, or rather to the Thibaudias, the -flowers having the same alabaster translucent lustre as 
that family, and a good deal of the form and colour of some of the species of the genus— hence 
its name. Its flowers are produced in terminal trusses, and are of a beautiful bright red, except 
at the mouth of the corolla, which is pale yellowish green, and the alabaster translucency of their 
texture adds greatly to their beauty. 
Having been collected nearly 10,000 feet above the level of the sea, it is a plant of somewhat 
hardy constitution and character, merely requiring the protection of a cool greenhouse. 6s. 
VEITCHIANTTM, a beautiful variety, with very large white flowers, relieved by a yellow centre 
or base, and elegantly fringed or frilled on the margin. 5s. 
