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NEW, RAEE AND DESIEABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
ARAUCARIA EXCELSA. 
Mr. W. B. has a fins lot of this handsome conservatory plant. 3s. Qcl., os. and 7s. 6d. 
Specimens 1, 1^ and 2 guineas and upwar ds. 
AEAUCAKIA exoelsa Anno-srioA, os. and 7s. 6d. \ AEUNDO Dorr.vx vatueoata, 3s. 6d. and Gs. 
Goldieana ! ASPARAGUS decumbens, 3s. Od. and os. 
ARSUINA OBANniFLOKA, 7s. 6.'/. paloatus, 7s. Gd. 
ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. 
An elegant evergreen climber, from South Africa, with slender smooth stems, and numerous 
spreading branches ; the henuaphrodite white flowers are produced from the tip of the branchlets. 
It is an exceedingly handsome ornamental irlant for the greenhouse or conservatory, and its pretty 
feathery growths are extremely useful for cutting for decoration. 3s. Gd., os. and 7s. Gd. 
ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS nanus, vide page 51 | ASPARAGUS tenuissimus, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
ASPARAGUS VIRGATUS. 
This remarlcably elegant featheiy-lookinsr plant of fruticoae habit has been recently introduced 
from the Cape of Good Hope. The stems bear at the upper end a corymbose head of erect branches, 
of which the lowest is the youngest or most recently developed. 3s. Gd. and os. 
AZALEA BALSAMiNiEFl.OEA, vido page 53 for Illustration, description and price. 
AZALEA INDICA. 
The great value of Indian Azaleas for decorative pm’ijoses can hardly bo over-estimated. The 
varieties of this effective plant can be had in blossom for four mouths of the year ; well selected 
plants affording such a magnificent display of colour aud wealth of bloom, that the low price at 
which beautiful kinds are now offered, should en.suro a place for them in every gr'eenhouse 
and conservatory. 
Good selections can be nrade by Mr. W. B. at 30s., '12s. and COs. per dozen. 
New varieties, os., 7s. Gd. aud lUs. Gd. each. 
NEW HYBRID AZALEAS. 
The following nerv Hybrid Azaleas have been raised between H . amana and some of the Indiurr 
varieties. Corirbirred with the well-lcrrown proliferousness arrd early blooming habit of A. amcena, 
they have fine well-shaped attractive flowers, wlrich borne irr such i>rofusion are most effective for 
every description of decorative work, being especially rrseful for early forcing whore cut flowers 
are required, as with little trouble they may be had in bloom irr November. 
ILLUMINATOR, a well-fomred bright rosy mageirta-pink flower, the irpper portion of the throat 
faintly speckled crinrson, the base of throat veranilion, giving it a very bright and attractive 
appearance. This chanrrirrg variety has beoir awarded a Fh'st-class Certificate by the Floral 
Corrrmittce of the Koyal Horticultmal Society. 5s. 
MAGNET, tlris variety produces a profirsion of soft rosy-pink flowers, the centre bright pink, which 
extends through the centre of each petal to the tips, the uiqrer petals speckled at the base with 
bright rose. 5s. 
ORACLE, large well-formed flowers of a bearrtiful bright rosy-pink colorrr shaded with magenta ; 
the flowers of this beautiful variety are rendered additiorrally attractive by their lustr'oua 
satiny appearance. 5.s. 
STARLIGHT, a medium-sized senri-dorrble flower of a beautiful soft rosy-irink colorrr, faintly 
shaded with pale magenta, os. 
SYBIL, a pretty bright rosy-nragenta flower of medium size, arrd serrri-doublo ; very floriferous 
and of excellent habit. 5s. 
VICTORY, soft magenta-pink flowers, the rrpper divisiorrs of the flowers faintly marked and 
speckled with carmine ; very attractive, os. 
The collection of six varieties. 21s. 
BAMBUSA, vide page 69 
BARKLAYA sykino2Rfloha, 7s. Gif. 
BEGONIA, vide Irrdex 
BERBERIDOPSIS ooeallina, 3.s. 6if. 
BIGNONIA CHEEEEe, 3.S. Gd. and 5s. 
EXCELSA, 7s. Gd. aud 10s. 6i/. 
OEANnrPLOEA, 2s. Gd. aud 3s. Gd. 
JASMINOIDES, 2s. Gd. 
ALBA MAGNA, 2s. Gd. to Ss. 
I BIGNONIA JASMINOIDES SPLENDIDA, 2s. Gd. to 6s. 
SPEOIOSA, 3s. 6(7. 
I VENUSTA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
• vide also jrago IS 
j BLANDEORDIA aueea, 10s. Gd. 
j FLAMMBA, lOs. 6(7. 
! NOniLis, OS. and 7s. Gd. 
FEiNOEPS, vide page 5-1 
BLANDEORDIA CUNNINGHAMII. 
The late Dr. Lindley, in describing the previously known species of this genus, thus refers to 
lilandfordia Cimniughamii : — “ None of them are to be compared for beauty with the plant of which 
the late Allan Cunningham gave me a specimen, the flowers of which are fully twice as large as 
J). marginata fgrmdijlora) .” The flowers are of a deep rich red thrt, except at the end of the 
petals, where they are yellow. 5s., 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
