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NEW AND RARE HARDY PLANTS. 
SAXIFRAGA FORTUNEI. 
This is an exceedingly handsome Japan plant ; it produces fine corymbs of white blossom at a season 
when flowers are very scarce — viz., September, October, and November ; being an easily cultivated plant, 
it is an exceedingly desirable introduction. 
Price 5s., 7s. 6c/., and 10s. 6c/, each. 
SEDUM AZOIDEUM VARIEGATUM. 
A new and interesting ornamental plant ; the foliage a bright green, which is prettily contrasted 
with bands and margins of a creamy whiteness ; some of the shoots are also variously blotched with the 
same colour, which gives the plant a distinctive feature. It is of dwarf and compact bushy habit, a free 
grower, and one of the most effective novelties of the season. It will be found of great service for 
adorning the Greenhouse or Conservatory when flowering plants have ceased to bloom. 
It has received First Class Certificates from the Royal Horticultui*al and Royal Botanic Societies, 
and at the Crystal Palace, as well as numerous other awards. 
A well-executed drawing, by Andrews, can be seen at my Establishment. 
Price 7s» Gd, and 105. 6c/. each 
SPHACELE C/ERULEA. 
A useful winter-blooming plant belonging to the Labiata family. It is soft-wooded, with thick, 
ovate serrated foliage, and if cultivated in a greenhouse, gives its pretty blue flowers all through the 
winter in the most abundant manner. 
Price 3s. 6c/. and 5s. each. 
TACSONIA VAN VOLXEMI. 
This beautiful climber was found by the Canon Cuervo in the lofty regions of the Cordillera which 
separates the basin of the Cauca from that of Magdalena, in the provence of Antioquia, in New Zealand, 
and introduced by M. Tan Volxem, who speaks of it as a plant that flowers most abundantly, and for 
almost the whole year ; the flowers individually are about five inches in diameter, and of the richest 
scarlet. 
Price 3s. 6d. each. 
VALLOTA EXIMEA. 
A handsome variety of V, purpurea, with finely-formed flowers and distinct light centre. 
Price 5s. each. 
VERONICA IMPERIALE. 
Corymbs long and flowers large, of a brilliant reddish amaranth, shaded with purple and carmine 
magenta. The plant is of a vigorous dwarf habit, and is the most novel, and richest coloured Veronica 
yet offered. 
Price 5s. each. 
]JE¥ AND RARE HARDY PLANTS. 
BERBERIS STENOPHYLLA. 
A veiy hardy Hybrid between “ Darwinii ” and “ empetrifolia.” The flowers are of a fine Apricot 
colour, and produced in racemes of from three to five together from the leaf axils, instead of singly, as in 
B. empetrifolia, of which this new shrub has something the character, but it is more vigorous. The 
flowers are succeeded with purple-black berries, which, like the flowei-s, hang in racemes of from three 
to five from the leaf axils, and are about as large as cuiTants. This hybrid makes shoots four feet long 
in a season, is clothed in neat, narrow evergreen foliage, and adorned with a profusion of gay orange- 
coloured blossoms in early summer. It is decidedly a great acquisition. 
Price 35. Gd. each. 
