Floral 
Novelties for Spring 1893. 
ASTER, 
COMET PURE WHITE. 
( See coloured plate.) 
Wo have much pleasure in offering 
this beautiful variety, which is 
undoubtedly one of the grandest 
novelties of the season. The 
flowers, which are larger and more 
perfectly double than those of the 
other varieties, are of the most 
exquisite pure glossy satiny white, 
and the petals being longer and 
more twisted, give them a pecu- 
liar and elegant appearance. The 
blooms closely resemble a large- 
flowered, pure white, Japanese 
Chrysanthemum. This is a splen- 
did novelty that cannot be too 
highly recommended for exhibi- 
tion or decorative purposes. 
Per packet Is. 6d. 
CALENDULA OFFICIN- 
ALIS GRANDIFLORA 
SULPHUREA, fl. pi. 
New variety of the improved compact 
growing Pot Marigold, producing 
very large and extremely double 
flowers of a pleasing sulphur 
yellow colour. Per packet Is. 6d. 
COSMOS BIPINNATUS GRANDIFLORUS ALBUS. 
COSMOS BIPINNATUS 
GRANDIFLOR. ALBUS. 
A boautiful new half-hardy atinual, 
growing to the height of three 
or four feet, with elegant finely 
divided foliage, and bearing a long 
succession of handsome pure white 
flowers, as shown in our illustra- 
tion. The blooms are borne on 
long wiry stems, and as they will 
last for a long time when cut and 
placed in water, this will prove a 
most welcome and valuable addi- 
tion to the white flowers at present 
used for church and home decora- 
tions, bouquets, &c. The plants 
are easily raised from seeds, and 
sown any time up to the end of 
April, and transplanted out of 
doors will bloom freely from July 
till killed by the frost. 
Per packet Is. ; smaller packet 6d. 
SESBANIA 
GRANDIFLORA. 
A valuable introduction from Western 
Australia, which will become 
popular as a Conservatory and 
Greenhouse Plant. It produces 
gigantic and magnificent pea- 
shaped flowers in racemes of four 
blooms usually. The individual 
flowers are about three inches long. 
Foliage elegantly pinnate. 
Per packet 2s. 6d. 
INULA ENSIFOLIA. 
Very free-flowering and showy hardy perennial Composite. Tt 
grows from twelve to fifteen inches in height, bearing lanceo- 
late, slightly toothed foliage, and forms a neat round bush. 
The flower-heads, which appear at the summits of the erect 
branches, are of a pure golden yellow, and fully 11 inches 
across. When sown early, the seedlings will flower the first 
season. It is perfectly hardy and succeeds in any soil. 
Per packet Is. 6d. 
PAPAVER NUDICAULE COCCINEUM. 
FL. PL. 
New double-flowering form of the bright orange-scarlet variety of 
the Ioeland Poppy, producing about forty to fifty per cent, 
of true plants with perfectly double flowers. The different 
varieties of this lovely Poppy, ranging amongst the most 
attractive of early flowering perennials and having beoome 
great favourites in all countries, we think, that this new 
variety will be greeted as a valuable addition to this tribe. 
Per packet Is. 6d. 
HUMULUS JAPONICUS VARIEGATUS 
(Variegated Japanese Hop). 
The Japanese Hop is one of the fastest growing and most useful 
of annual climbing plants in cultivation. In this new variety 
the leaves are beautiful and distinctly variegated with silvery 
white yellowish green and dark green irregularly striped, 
blotched, and marbled, whilst sometimes the leaves are almost 
white. This Hop is especially valuable from the fact that it 
is not injured by insects, and retains the full beauty of its 
foliage through the hottest weather to late in Autumn 
when killed by the frost. Is easily raised from seeds. 
This was favourably noticed by “ The Gardeners’ Chronicle,” 
October 8th, 1892. Per packet Is. 
VERBASCUM PANNOSUM. 
Magnificent new hardy Mullein, a native of the Ilhodope moun- 
tains in South Bulgaria It produces a very large rosette of 
downy silvery-grey foliage, in the centre of which rises the 
stately flower-spike, attaining a height of four to five feet by 
II inches in diameter, and being mostly uubranched. The 
individual flowers, which appear profusely every day during 
its flowering time, are rather large and of a bright yellow 
colour. The single leaves often measure more than three 
feet in length. Per paoket Is. 6d. 
HEUCHERA SANGUINEA. 
One of the finest introductions amongst hardy perennials, and 
well-worthy to be recommended as a really good plant. It is 
allied to the Saxafragas. The plant grows about a foot high, 
with rich green slightly hairy foliage, the flowers being of a 
beautiful coral red. The graceful flower spikes furnish a 
splendid material for bouquets. Per packet Is. 
GODETIA, LADY HASTINGS. 
We have much pleasure in introducing this charming new variety, 
which has been much admired at our Seed Grounds during 
the past Summer, and which will prove itself one of the finest 
and very best hardy annuals of recent introduction. The 
plants grow only one foot high, and are of the same compact 
habit as Godetia, Duchess of Fife, and others of the class. 
Its individual blooms are of immense size, 4 to 4i inches 
across, the petals being blotched with brilliant scarlet, and 
edged with creamy white. The blooms are produced in the 
greatest profusion, often quite covering the plant, and for a 
long period they have the most beautiful appearance. 
Per packet Is. 6d. 
