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NEW AND CHOICE AZALEAS. 
NEW AND CHOICE AZALEAS— Continued. 
CHARMER. This handsome variety is of a colour quite new in Azaleas, viz., a bright amaranth, 
which will make a charming contrast to existing kinds ; the flowers are well formed, with petals 
of great substance ; it is of excellent habit, and a profuse bloomer. Figured in the Floral Magazine 
for August, 1866 
COLORIS NOVA, a novel and distinct variety, beautiful reddish purple, shaded with lilac j very 
bright and showy 
COMTE DE HAINAUT, bright rose, beautifully maculated ; good shape, very double 
COQUETTE DE GAND, very large semi-double flowers, beautiful purple, edged with white, and 
spotted and striped with dark purple 
DOMINIQUE VERVAENE, large flowers, of a bright orange red, very double j or perhaps better 
to describe them as imbricated; each flower has twelve to fifteen petals, regularly disposed, as in 
a Camellia-flowered Balsam. This superb variety received a First Prize, as a seedling, when 
exhibited at the International Horticultural Exhibition held at Brussels 
DUCHESSE ADELAIDE DE NASSAU, rich rosy red, shaded with violet 
ETENDARD DE FLANDRE, white, flaked and spotted with rosy carmine ; very free bloomer 
ETOILE DE GAND, rosy salmon, largely margined with white ; fine, large, well-formed flower 
EUGENE MAZEL, very large and beautiful flowers, exceedingly well formed, of a bright red, 
shaded with lilac and maculated with blue ; good compact habit, and very floriferous 
GLOIRE AVANT TOUT. This striking and effective variety produces large flowers of excellent 
shape, pure white, largely striped with rosy carmine ; very beautiful and showy 
GRANDE DUCHESSE DE BADE. This extremely handsome rich colourod variety will be 
found an acquisition in every collection. Its colour is a bright orauge scarlet, flower well formed, 
sometimes showing a slight inclination to be double, petals very thick and wax-like ; excellent 
habit 
GUILLAUME III. , a large handsome flower of a bright orange scarlet, spotted with deep crimson 
HERCUL6, very large flowers, colour a reddish purple 
HORTENSE VERVAENE, bright rosy carmine, edged with white, large aud well formed 
LEOPOLD I., very large semi-double rose coloured flowers ; a free-blooming variety 
MADAME DE CANNiERT D’HAMALE, an immonse flower, so large, and of such wax-like 
substance, as to almost resemble a Lily in appearance, of a beautiful satiny white, cleanly spotted 
with yellow in the upper petals. It received a First Prize at the Exhibition of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society at Malines ; it also received a First Prize when exhibited at the Royal Horticultu- 
ral Society’s Exhibition at Brussels 
MADAME DOMINIQUE VERVAENE. This variety produces flowers of the most perfect form, 
of a soft rose colour, the upper petals largely spotted with bright red purple ; it is also striped with 
lilac and red, and margined with white. This splendid variety received a First Prize at the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s Exhibition at Brussels 
MADAME MARIE VERVAENE, large fringed flowers, puro white, striped with rosy carmine ; 
good shape 
MAXIMILIAN I., fme double flowers, light rose colour, bordered with white, largely spotted with 
carmine and striped with red 
PRESIDENT CLAEYS, beautiful bright rose, with wide white margin 
PRESIDENT HUMANN, fine large flower, dark red, shading to a beautiful clear rose, and 
blotched with purple 
PRESIDENT VICTOR VAN DEN HECKE, white, distinctly striped and mottled with bright 
red ; an attractive variety 
PUNCTULATA OMNICOLOR, an attractively-variegated variety, flowers white, very much 
striped, mottled, and splashed with orange scarlet 
PUNCTULATA VARIEGATA. This is another showy variegated kind ; rosy scarlet, striped, 
mottled, and splashed with white and orange scarlet 
QUEEN OF BEAUTIES, salmon pink, margined with white aud flaked with carmine, densely and 
very richly spotted with crimson, flowers large, of good shape and substance ; one of the best 
Azaleas ever offered 
QUEEN OF ROSES, flowers a beautiful bright rose, finely formed ; one of the best of the rose 
coloured varieties 
