d^qqell & $oi\£’ C^oiUcplete $eed (^uide. 
h.h.b. HUMEA ELEGANS — A well- 
known and very useful decorative garden plant, 
producing large graceful plumes of rose-tinted 
flowers. Superior in appearance to the Tobacco 
Plant , the leaves having a distinct and powerful 
perfume. Also valuable for conservatory or 
room decoration in winter if lifted before the 
frost, id. per packet. 
h.h.b. HTJMEA ELEGANS PURPUREA 
—Darker in all its parts, dark green in foliage and 
dark reddish brown in flowers and spike. A very 
handsome variety of this so much esteemed 
species, id. per pkt. 
H.n.n. HUME A ELEGANS ALBA— Un- 
commonly free-flowering, graceful habit, dark 
green foliage, pure white flowers; very novel. 
Is. per pkt. 
Sow in August , and ptace in a warm pit 
or greenhouse, shift into larger pots until bedding- 
out time ; if large, fine specimens are required , 
they must never become pot-bound. 
H.H.B. HYACINTHUS CANDICANS— A 
noble bulbous plant, with narrow leaves, and 
bearing from 18 to 20 largo, white, bell-shaped 
flowers on a stont stem, 3 feet high ; quite hardy. 
id. per pkt. 
o.p. IMPATIENS SULTANI (Balsam) — One of the most distinct and beautiful of all decora 
tive plants of recent introduction, and owing to its gorgeous colouring and profuse and continuous 
flowering is rapidly becoming popular. It is of neat, compact growth, almost a perpetnal bloomer ; 
in the stove it is quite at home, in cool houses it does well. The flowers are of a brilliant rosy 
scarlet colour, a peculiarly distinct but most effective hue, and are produced so freely that a well 
grown specimen appears to be quite a ball of flower. Seedlings make dwarfer and more compact 
plants than cuttings, and flower with much greater freedom, commencing to bloom freely when only 
a few inches high. Small plants, with their brilliant rosy scarlet flowers, are always in request for 
decorative purposes, especially for dinner table and drawing rooms. It is also very effective grown 
into specimen plants. One was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society, measuring 3 feet 
G inches in diameter, of semi-globular form. 2s. G d. per pkt. 
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