NEW BEGONIAS— NEW AUCUBAS. 
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NEW BEGONIAS. 
The following are very elegant, and beautifully variegated. 
AMABILIS 
ELEGANS 
EXIMIA 
Price ‘2s. G d. each. 
MAGNIFICA 
MIBABILIS 
PICTUBATA 
SPECIOSA 
SPECTABILIS 
SPEENDENS. 
BEGONIA ERECTA MULTIFLORA. 
A pretty erect-growing variety, with ornamental foliage, but principally remarkable for its 
extremely floriferous character, the flowers bright pink. 2a. Grf. 
BEGONIA HYBRIDA FLORIBUNDA. 
A charming hybrid from Fuchsioides and Mult\flora ; it has very elegant and delicate foliago, and 
is a most abundant bloomer, continuing to produco throughout the winter its pretty bright rose 
flowers in the utmost profusion. 
Price 2.v. Gr7. and 3«. 6 d. each. 
BEGONIA PEARCEI. 
This possesses tho quality so seldom found in the same plant, of having both beautifully coloured 
leaves and large showy flowers, and is a most desirable acquisition to this popular section of plants. 
Its foliago is very pretty, the upper surface being of a dark velvety green, traversed by pale straw 
coloured veins, and tho under side of a dull red colour. 
Tho flowers aro largo, aud bright yollow, and are borne on slender stems well above the foliage. 
It is figured in tho November number of the Botanical Magazine for 18G5, and has received 
numerous awards. 
Price 2s. 6 d. each. 
NEW AUCUBAS. 
These new hardy evergreen shrubs aro most desirable novelties ; indeed, they may bo looked 
upon as tho most permanently useful introductions of modern times. Many have been the novelties 
recently added to our selections 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 evergreen ; it thrives vigorously whore 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 efficiently circulated all tho 
Aucubas will bo covered with large bunclios of berries about four times tho size of tliosj of tho 
common Holly, and of the brightest glossy red colour ; this can now be seen, at present in perfection, 
at Mr. W. B.’s establishment, as well os the male and female plants lioreafter 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 produco only male, and others 
only female flowers ; and that some eighty years ago the ordinary Aucuba was introduced from 
Japan, but the plant or plants so introduced happened to bo females ; by propagation the<€ hole 
stock in Europe sprang from the 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 duo tho merit of introducing the first male plants with which 
wo are acquainted. lately, however, there have been several most important and distinct varieties 
introduced by Dr. Van Siobold, including male and female kinds, with plain green unspotted leaves ; 
also others in both sexes, having blotched and variegated foliage. 
