60 NEW SPIR;I5A om'ekei) by AVTLLIAM BULI., F.L.S. 
SPIR-ffiA ASTILBOIDES. 
One of the mofit handsome of hardy herba(!oous perennials, and one wliich has been certificated 
both by the Royal Horticnltural ami Royal Botanic Societies on account of its gi’eat merit. The 
stems are furnished with tritenmte leaves, and terminated by compound feathery branches of elegant 
white flowers. It will be a channing and indispensable plant for pot culture as a decorative object 
in the early spring months, on account of its free growth and beaiitiful flow'ers, which are produced 
in the greatest profusion. This is one of the Twelve New Plants w itli whitdi Mr. W. B. gained the 
Fir.st Prize at the Great Show’^ of the Royal Horticultural Society, lield at Kensington, in 188*2. 55. 
