ti. Ciiquell Sori^’ S'loi‘h,l Quide. 
AN^£MONE SYIiVESTfilS EL, PL. — Flowers perfectly double and pure white, are large ' 
And resembling Chrysanthemums. A most beautiful and useful herbaceous plant, well adapted for 
onlting, mixed borders, and margins of shrubbery. 3.v. (jd. 
AQTTILEG’IA STUARTI — Very dwarf flowers, large and much expanded; the sepals of a 
deep rich blue with a pure white corolla. A finer plant than A. OinndulosUf and easier grown. 
\s. ad. 
ASTER PURPXJRIMUS — Dwarf, c )mpact habit, forming complete bouquets of deep purple 
flowers, blooming eaidy in autumn. U*. 
ASTILBE CSINEIV^SIS — Distinct from all others of this family; erect branching steins, 
terminating with pretty featheiy plumes of pink flowers ; fond of a moist situation. ft 3*-. fit/. 
CIMICIPUGA JAPOIilCA — Large ornamental foliage, and long compound racemes of 
wlilte flowers. 8-4 ft. Is. 6rf. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM MA XIM UM (G, H. SAGE) — One of the most distinct hardy 
Marguerites ; flowers large and abundant, pore white ; florets deeply notched ; habit good. ft. 
Q’AILLARDIA SULPHUREA OCUL ATA — Quite a new type of Gaillardia, obtained by 
careful hybridising and selection. The flow'er is of medium size, good substance, well set up on long 
thin stalks, and is very chaste and refined. The colour is pale sulphur, having a well-defined bright 
maiDOn eye, giving it a distinctiveness quite unique in this family, Jt is the most striking of all 
Gaillardias, whether as a cut flower or in the border. 2». each. 
GERANIUM SANGUINEUM ALBUM — A fac-simile of the ordinary O. isanffuineum, bnt 
with pure white flowers ; prostrate growing ; dense mass of foliage literally covered with white 
flowers ; very free growing. 2s. Sd. 
HELENIUM AUTUMNALE SUPERBUM — The great family of has given 
us inany showy and beautiful garden plants, particularly the section Helianthus and its near relations, 
but it has remained for Ilelenium autumnalef a species not very attractive in its typical form, to endow 
our gardens and shrubberies in this new and improved variety with the must tioriferous, the most 
showy and the most vigorous and hardy perennial plant yet seen in cultivation, grow's 4 to 8 feet high, 
according to soil, with strong angled stems J to J inch in diameter, branching at the top into twenty 
to fifty branches, these dividing again and bearing several (five to ten) flowers. The individual 
bluvssoms are 2 to 2| indies in diameter with wedge-shaped rays, and are of a rich golden yellow 
colour, the central disc being of the same colour as the mys. A single crown of this plant makes 
one of these tall stems with an oval moss of several hundred blossoms, a huge head of splendid 
' ^Tcrci - feet or more in diameter, and is a sight not easily forgotten. Is. fit/. Seed Is. per pkt. 
HELIOPSIS ^ B. LAJDHAMS — This fine herbaceous plant is the result of many years’ 
selection by seedlings, being four years’ development from the Scahra Alajor — a variety which 
received an Award of Merit — and upon which it is a vast improvement. The flowers are four to 
five inches across, golden yellow, borne on long graceful stalks, and having a slight twist at the end 
of each petal, giving to the whole flower a charming and starry appearance. When fully developed 
the plant forms a handsome and symmetrical bush, 4 ft. high, the flowers being produced in large 
quantities from every joint. The great value of this novelty is that the blooms have such width and 
texture of petal, rendering them particularly well adapted for catting purposes, lasting in water, as 
they do, for some two weeks. The blossoms are well set up on long elegant footstalks, a fact which 
makes them w'onderfuliy suitable for light specimen glass and epergne decoration ; or if whole 
branches are cut for large vases they have no equal, as they never drop or shatter, but seem actually 
to grow when treated in this way. 2«. fit/, each. 
GSUM HELDRECHI^Large, rich, orange-colonred flowers in late spring, growing vigorously 
in almost any soil or situation. 1 ft. Is. • 
GNABHALIUM GRANDICEPS-(^«stra/iVm Edtlweiss ^ — A remarkable and beautifnl 
plant, one of the treasures of New Zealand Alpines : silvery leaves, and forming a neat bush. J ft. 
3s. 
HBDYSABUM MULTIJUGUM — The most beautiful of the family; preity pea-shaped 
flowers of a bright crimson-purple colour ; quite hardy and perennial. Is. Qd. 
HEM ERO C ALLIS AURANTIACA MA J OR —Magnificent new species, one of the 
finest plants for ordinary garden cnlture introdneed for many years. The habit of the plant is very 
vigorous, the foliage rises to a height of 2 ft., and is of a deep green, the flower spikes are strong, 
bearing as many as 12 flowers in succession, which ore very large, some 7 to 8 in, across, of a rich 
oringe yellow ; quite distinct. The plant is perfectly hardy, and we have every confidence in 
n rommending it. The pbint is described and figured in the Gardener's Chronicle for J uly 20ib, 18U5, 
where on page 62 Professor Baker state»< that it “is the finest Hemerocallis 1 hare seen.*^ 
P' r^t-C lasB (’ertificate, Royal Elorticultnral Society. Ss. Gd. each. 
HYPERICUM MOSERIANUM TRICOLOR— A very handsome shrubby plant ; 
leaves greenish yellow on green ground ; margined reddish yellow dowers with scarlet stamens. 3*. 
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