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NEW HYBRID HELLEBORES. 
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appearance to the flowers. Some of the sepals were fringed, while in other 
flowers the tubular petals (formerly called nectaries), instead of being in a single 
row, were developed in two or three series. 
The varieties raised in the Berlin Garden have, it appears, passed into the 
hands of MM. Ant. Boozen and Son, of Overveen, near Haarlem, by whom they 
will be distributed next autumn. They are catalogued under numbers as follows :— 
Hybrid Hellebore. 
“ 1. Flowers beautifully formed, 3 in. iu diameter, bright dark purple and rose-colour, 
with numerous carmine-red streaks, charming leaves, rich and early variety. 
“ 2. Decidedly the finest and most remarkable hybrid raised till now; flowers of fine form, 
stately, and well above the leaves; petals finely cut and covered, very large, often 3 in. in 
diameter; colour, pale-brown and purple-rose, with numerous sharp-bordered dazzling dark 
carmine-red spots, splendid variety. 
“ 3. Flowers irreproachable in form and attitude, very large and free-flowering, of dazzling 
purple rose colour. 
11 4. Smaller flowers, but in other respects exactly the same as No. 3. 
“ 5. Flowers very large and flat, fine form, 3 in. in diameter, petals finely cut and covered, 
colour snow-white, very recommendable plant. 
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