COMPANION TO THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
31 
its predecessors, and maintains their well-earned reputation. It contents 
are :—Im ant op hyllum miniatum, a double-paged plate, giving this stately 
spring-flowering plant its natural size. Swainsona violacea, the beauti¬ 
ful Australian plant figured in our last volume, and one likely to be most 
extensively grown; the red-coloured form of fern-leaved Chinese Primrose, 
Primula prcenitens (sinensis) filicifolia rubens, interesting for its very beau¬ 
tiful foliage, and a fourth plate embracing fruit and flowers, having a 
figure of the new Titien Strawberry, with the curious Reineckia carnea 
varieyata. Nor must we forget the letterpress, which is copious and po¬ 
pular, giving full information on the subject of the various plates. A 
sight of the plates will, we should think, tempt many to be purchasers 
of the flowers figured. 
CATALOGUES. 
A Catalogue of Coniferce, Evergreens, etc. James Ivery and Son, Dorking 
and Reigate. 
Descriptive Catalogue of Grapes. James Ivery and Son, Dorking and 
Reigate. 
A select, priced, and partially descriptive List of Hardy British and Hardy 
Exotic Ferns. 
Nursery Seed Catalogue. 
List of New Roses of 1863. B. R. Cant, Colchester. 
New Roses of 1863. W. Wood and Son, Maresfield, Sussex. 
Catalogue of Chrysanthemums, etc. John Salter, F.R.H.S., Versailles 
Nursery. 
Those who have seen the very extensive and interesting collections of 
hardy Ferns, exhibited frequently by the well-known firm of Ivery and 
Son, will not be surprised at the very carefully prepared and extensive 
list of varieties ; some of the varieties of British Ferns, such as Athy- 
rium Filix-foemina, Fieldice, and Frizelliee, and the projectum, imbricatum, 
and other forms of Blechnum Spicant, are very interesting and rare. The 
Catalogue of Grapes is exceedingly well arranged, and is an excellent 
guide to purchasers; while that of Coniferce, etc., contains the most de¬ 
sirable varieties, especially in what are technically called American plants. 
The Lists of New Boses, published by Mr. Wood, of Maresfield, and 
Mr. Cant, of Colchester, contain all those most likely to be acquisitions, 
and we can testify from experience, of the excellent character of the plants 
supplied by them; they do not describe the new Boses from personal 
observation, but from the accounts they have received from the raisers. 
Mr. Wood informs us that he never had so fine a stock of young plants. 
Mr. Salter’s Catalogue, as usual, contains all the novelties in Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, as well as Iris, Dahlias, etc., etc. His collection of hardy varie¬ 
gated plants is unique, no expense being spared to make it complete. 
