NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
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ASPARAGUS VIRGATUS. 
This remarkably elegant feathery-looking plant of fruticose habit has been recently introduced 
from the Cape of Grood 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. 3». 6d. and 6i. 
AZALEA BALSAMIN.S;FL0RA. 
Si/n : — A. Eos®rLOEA, A EoLussoini. 
This distinct species has been imported from Japan. In general character it is quite unique ; 
its flowers are bright salmony red, beautifully double, rosette-Uke, and regixlarly imbricated, surnlar 
to those of a Camellia-flowered Balsam. Being very double, it lasts in perfection a long time, and 
is invaluable for bouquets as well as for general decoration. 2». 6d., 3*. Gd. and 6s. 
AZALEA INDICA. 
The great value of Indian Azaleas for decorative purposes can hardly be over-estimated. The 
varieties of this effective plant can be had in blossom for four months of the year ; well selected 
plants affording such a magnificent display of colour and wealth of bloom, that the low price at 
which beautiful kinds are now offered, Mould ensure a place for them in every greenhouse 
and conservatory. 
Good selections can be made by Mr. W. B. at 18s., 30s. and 42s. per dozen. 
New varieties, 6s., 7s. 6d. and lOs. 6d. each. 
NEW HYBRID AZALEAS. 
The following Hybrid Azaleas have been raised between A. mnesna and some of the Indian 
varieties. Combined with the well-known prolLferousness and early blooming habit of A. amtsna, 
they have fine well-shaped attractive flowers, which, borne in such profusion, are most effective for 
every description of decorative work, being especially useful for early forcing where out flowers 
are required, as with little trouble they may be had in bloom in November. 
ILLUMINATOE, a well-formed bright rosy magenta-pink flower, the upper portion of the throat 
faintly speckled crimson, the base of throat vermilion. This charming variety has been awarded 
a First-class Certificate by the Eoyal Horticultural Society. 5s. 
UAONET, this variety produces a profusion of soft rosy-pink flowers, the centre bright pink, which 
extends through the centre of each petal to the tips, the upper petals sijeckled at the base with 
bright rose. 5s. 
OB&CLE, large well-formed flowers of a beautiful bright rosy-pink colour shaded with magenta, 
rendered additionally attractive by their lustrous satiny appearance. 6s. 
STAELIOHT, a medium-sized semi-double flower of a beautiful soft rosy-pink colour, faintly 
shaded with pale magenta. 6s. 
SYBIL, a pretty bright rosy-magenta flower of medium size, and semi-double ; very floriferous 
and of excellent habit 6s. 
VICTORY, soft magenta-pink flowers, the upper divisions of the flowers faintly marked and 
speckled with carmine ; very attractive, os. 
The collection of six varieties. 21s. 
BAUBITSA FAXCATA (syn. Arundinaeia faxcata, 
Thamnooaxamus Faxconeei). 3s. 6d. & 6s. 
vide page 51. 
BABKLAYA SYRINOiEFXOEA, 7s. Gd. 
BEGONIA, vide Index 
BERBERIDOFSIS cobaxxina, 3s. Gd. 
BIGNONIA (Tbcoma) capensis, 2s. Gd. 
CAPREOXATA, 2s. Gd. 
CHEEERE, 3s. Gd. and 6s. 
EXCEX3A, 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
GEANDiFXOEA, 2s. Gd. and 3s. 6<i. 
JASMINOIDES, 2s. Gd. 
BIGNONIA JASMINOIDES AXBA MAONA, 2s. Gd., 
3s. Gd. and 6s. 
JASMINOIDES SPXENDIDA, 2s. Gd. to 5s. 
8PECI0SA, 3s. Gd. 
Tweedxana, 3s. Gd. 
VBNUSTA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
vide also pages 10, 11 and 51. 
BILLAESIEEA xonoifxora, 2s. Gd. 
BLANDEORDIA aurea, 10s. Gd. 
FXAMMEA, lOs. Gd. 
NOBixis, 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
PEiNOEPS, vide page 38. 
BLANDEORDIA CUNNINGHAMII. 
The late Dr. Bindley, in describing the previously known species of this genus, thus refers to 
Blandfordia Cunninghamii : — “ 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 ■ 
B. marginata (grandifiora) ." The flowers are of a deep rich red tint, except at the end of the 
petals, where they are yellow. 6s., 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
BOMABEA Caedeei, 10s. Gd. and 16s. 
BOBONIA DEumiioNnn, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
ELATIOR, 2s. 6d. 
HETBEOPHYXXA, 5s. 
BOBONIA MEOASnoMA, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
BOUTARDIAS, vide Index 
BOWIEA voxuBixis, 3s. Gd. 
BREDIA HIRSUTA. 
A pretty neat-growing Melastomaceous plant, native of Japan, producing erect panicled cymes 
of charming rose-coloured flowers, individually about half an inch in diameter. The plant has 
slender spreading branches, furnished with ovate acute dark green leaves. It has been figured m the 
Botanical Magazine, Tab. 6647. Is. Gd. 
