NEW AND CHOICE BEDDING AND SOFT-WOODED PLANTS. 171 
SINGLE-FLOWERED DAHLIAS. 
These are extremely effective as decorative plants for grouping in beds or borders, and their 
blossoms are very useful for cutting ; they bloom so continuously and profusely that they are highly 
attractive. 9 s., 12s. and 18s. per dozen. 
ECHEVERIAS, vide page 172. 
GAILLARDIA ADMIRATION. 
A veiy fine free-blooming variety, producing large reddish crimson flowers bordered with 
citron-yellow. 2s. 6 d. 
GYNURA AURANTIACA. 
An extremely ornamental and attractive plant, having its stems and leaves thickly covered with 
soft hairs of a dark violet colour, giving tho foliage a rich velvety appearance. The flowers are of a 
brilliant orange colour. It will be found well adapted and very effective for planting out for 
decoration in summer. Is. 6 d. 
HELIOTROPE ALBERT D^LAUX. 
A dwarf-habited variety of freo growth, producing profusely fine heads of bloom of a violet 
colour shaded with rose, deliciously fragrant ; tho foliage is beautifully marbled with golden yellow ; 
a charming novelty. 5s. 
HELIOTROPE Peesident Garfield, Is. I IRESINE Wallisii, Is. 
White Lady, Is. | LANTANAS, of sorts, 18s. per dozen. 
LOBELIA ERINUS. 
This dwarf-growing section of the Lobelias is exceedingly useful and effective. Their neat and 
compact habit and the redundancy with which their blossoms are produced, render them almost 
invaluable for bedding, especially for edgings and ribbon borders. 
INGRAMI, pure white ; received First Class Certificate. Is. Gd. 
OMEN, a beautiful rose-coloured flower, with distinct white eye. Is. 
LOBELIA SYPHILITICA, vide page 173. 
LOBELIA WALLICHIANA. 
An elegant herbaceous perennial introduced from the mountains of India, where it grows at an 
elevation of 7,000 feet. It has an erect stem three or four feet in height, much branohed with 
lanceolate attenuately pointed leaves, and many-flowered racemes of showy purplish flowers, about 
the size of those of L. cardinalis. 3s. 6<f. 
MIMULUS. 
The new and improved varieties of this showy flower are veiy handsome, many of them blotched 
or freckled and spotted, on white, sulphur and yellow grounds ; the lobes margined with crimson 
and maroon. Selections at 9s., 12s. and 18s. per dozen. 
MIMULUS GRANDIFLORUS. 
BRILLIANT, freoly produces large and finely-formed flowers of an intense bright crimson colour. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 2s. 6(1. 
NOVELTY, a very distinct variety, bearing large “hose-in-hose” flowers, the foremost pale gold, 
dashed with amber and orange, spotted crimson, the neat flower reddish orange margined with 
gold. Awarded First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society. 2s. Gd. 
MIMULUS MOSCHATUS. 
GRANDIFLORUS, a new and robust hybrid Musk, an excellent bedding plant, freely producing 
large pure yellow flowers of fine shape. Awarded First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee 
of the Royal Horticultural Society. 2s. Gd. . 
RUBER, this remarkable novelty is a hybrid Musk of very dwarf and compact growth, produemg 
large flowers of a reddish buff colour. 2s. 6 d. 
PENTSTEMON FOLIO-VARIEGATIS. 
A pretty variety with purple flowers, the foliago being variegated in a most pleasing manner 
with yellow and cream colour. 5s. 
The following Pentstemons are three Californian species : — 
CENTRANTHIFOLIUS, a very distinct and showy species, producing fine tubular-shaped scarlet 
flowers. 3s. 6d. ' 
CORDIFOLIUS, an extremely showy species, giving fine spikes of beautiful scarlet -flowers. 3s. 6«. 
SPECTABILIS, this species produces long racemes of very fine purple -coloured flowers. 3s. 6 d. 
