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NEW AND RARE HARDY PLANTS. 
ACTINBLL& GRANDIFLOBA — Close-growing lanceolate leaves, forming rosettes, and large yellow flowers 
on short steins ; easily grown, quite hanly. 2s. 6(f. 
ADONIS WALZIANA — Flowers laige, yellow in early spring. 2 to 3 ft. 3s. 6(f. 
ANEMONOPSIS MACROPHYLLA — Flowers produced in loose racemes, and are largo, exterior sepals 
purple, interior sepals lilac ; sumiiier-floweriug ; prefers shady position in loamy or jieaty soil. 3.(. 6d. 
ANEMONE LORD ARDILAUN — A gigantic Honorinc Jouhert, perha[is a little taller, stronger stems, 
larger foliage, and of great texture ; has also a doulde row of petals. All desiring a splendid border plant should 
have this. 2s. dd, 
ANEMONE PUDSATILIiA ALBA — Flowers white, produced in great profusion on short stems : easily 
grown, and well adapted for the rockery and front row of the border. Ss. 6d. 
ANEMONE SYLVESTRIS FL. PL. — Flowers perfectly double and pure white, are large and resembling 
Chrysanthemums. A most beautiful and useful herbaceous plant, well adapted for cutting, mixed borders, and margins 
of shrubbery. 3.«. 6d. 
A'QXJILEGIA STXJARTI— Very dwarf flowers, large and much expanded ; the sepals of a deep rich blue with 
a pure white corolla A finer plant than A. glandulosa, and easier grown. Is. 6d. 
ASTER PURPURIMUS —Dwarf, compact habit, forming complete bouquets of deep purple flowers, blooming 
early in autumn. Is. 
ASTILBE CHINENSI8— Distinct from all others of this f.amily" erect branching stems, terminating with 
pretty feathery jdumes of |iiuk flowers ; fond of a moist situation. 2.J ft. 3.s. 6d. 
CAMPANULA MIRABILIS — This beautiful new variety was recently introduced from the Ceucasus. In .sha|ie 
ami size of flower it resembles C. .Vediwm, but in every other resfieot it is absolutely uni([ue. The plant forms a densely 
iirauched ]iyramidal bush about 2 feet high, each branch bearing a multitude of pale blue or lilac flowers. When in full 
bloom the ]dauts ]>resent a regular pyramid, at least a hundred blossoms being open at one time. Seeds, per pkt. Is. 6rf. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM MAXIMUM 'G. H. Sage) — One of the most distinct hardy Marguerites ; flowers 
large and abundant, pure white ; florets deeply notched ; habit good. 21. ft. 2s. 
CIMICIFUGA JAPONICA— Large ornamental foliage and long compmnd racemes of white flowers. 3 to 4 ft. 
bs 6d. 
GAILLARDIA SULPHUREA OCULATA— tiuite a new type of Gaillardia, obtained by careful hybri- 
dising and selection. The flower is of medium size, good substance, well set up on long thiu stalks, and is very chaste 
ami refined. The colon’ is pale sulphur, having a well-defined bright maroon eye, giving it a distinctiveness quite 
unique in this family. It is the mo.st striking of all tiaillardias, whether as a cut flower or in the border. 2s. 
GERANIUM SANGUINEUM ALBUM— A fac-simile of the ordinary 0. sanguiiieuni, but with pure white 
flowers ; prostrate growing ; dense mass of foliage literally covered with white flowers ; very free growing. 2s. 6d. 
GEUM HELDRECHI— Large, rich, orange-coloured flowers in late spring, growing vigorously in .almost any 
soil or situation. 1 ft. Is. 
GNAPHALIDM GRANDICEPS {Australian Edelweiss) — .A remark.able and beautiful plant, one of the 
treasures of New Zealand Alpines : silvery leaves, and forming a neat bush. ,’-ft. 3s, Sd. 
HEDY8ARUM MULTIJUGUM — The most beautiful of the family : pretty pea-shaiicd flowers of a bright 
eiimson-purple colour ; <]uite hardy and perennial. Is. 6d. 
HELENIUM AUTUMNALE SUPERBUM — Amongst the great family of Cumposihr,, it has remained for 
Ueleniuvi aaiumnalc, a species not very attractive in its typical form, to endow on^ gardens and shrubberies in this 
new and improved variety with the most tloriferous, the most showy and the most vigorous and hardy perennial plant 
yet seen in cultivation, grows 4 to 8 feet high, according to soil, with strong angled stems 4 to J’inch in diameter, 
branching at the top into twenty to fifty branches, these dividing again and bearing several (live to ten) flowers. 
Is. fid. deeds Is. per pkt. 
HELIOPSIS B. LADHAMS —This tine herbaceous plant received an Award of Jlerit. The flowers are 4 to 
5 inches across, golden yellow, home on long gi aceful stalks, and having a slight twist at the end of each petal, giviim 
to the whole flower a charming and starry appearance. When fully developed the plant forms a handsome and 
symmetrical bush, 4 feet high, the flowers being produced in large quantities from every joint, particularly well adapted 
for cutting purposes, lasting in water, as they’ do, for some weeks. The blossoms are well set up on long elegant foot- 
stalks, a fact which makes them wonderfully suitable for light specimen glass and epergne decoration. 2s. 6d. 
HEMEROCALLIS AURANTIACA MAJOR — Magnificent new species, one of the finest plants for ordinary 
■ 'ardeu culture introduced for many years. The habit of the plant is very vigorous, the foliage rises to a height of 2 feet, 
and is of a deep green ; the flower spikes are strong, bearing as many ns twelve flowers in succession, which are very 
large, some 7 to 8 inches across, of a rich orange-yellow ; quite distinct. The plant is perfectly hardy, and we have 
eveiy confidence in recommending it. The plant is described and figured in the Gardeners' Chronicle for July 20th, 
1805, where on page 62 I'rofessor Laker states that it “ is the finest Hemerocallis 1 have seen.” First Class Certificate, 
Ifoyal Horticultural Society. 3s. id. 
HYPERICUM MOSERIANUM TRICOLOR — A very handsome shrubby plant ; leaves greenish yellow 
on green ground ; margined reddish yellow flowers with scarlet stamens. 3s. 
IBERIS SEMPEBVIRENS, var. “LITTLE OEM” — Of close compact habit, flowers white; wel 
adapted for planting in sunny parts of the rockery. ft. Is. 
