NEW, RARE, AND SELECT PLANTS. 
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NEW LANTANAS. 
America. This and the following are two seedlings selected from a large 
number, and remarkable for their brilliant colors; flowers bright orange, with 
yellow centre, changing to rosy crimson. 
Aurora. Compact, dwarfish habit and a profuse bloomer; color deep, reddish 
orange, with small, clear, yellow eye, changing to purplish crimson; very brilliant. 
Price, 50c. each; 34.50 per dozen. 
MENTHA CORSICA FOL. VARIEGATA. 
A new, variegated mint, which we think will prove one of the most beautiful of 
dwarf, variegated plants for edgings or borders. The leaves have the most distinct 
marking of silver and white of any plant we have seen. 
Price, 75c. each. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CORDIFOLIUM VARIEGATUM. 
One of the most admired and beautiful of variegated follaged plants for summer 
bedding. The growth is dwarf, compact, and dense, and the fleshy, heaHt-shaped 
leaves are distinctly margined with creamy-white, forming a complete carpet of soft, 
silvery foliage which covers the entire surface of the ground 
Price, 30c. each; $3 per dozen; 320 per 100. 
MIKANIA VIOLACEA. 
A rare plant of great beauty, having very distinct foliage, deeply and finely cut, 
of a rich velvety-green, the stems and under side of the leaves of'a violet-purple. 
It is a rapid and free grower, like the well-known German Ivy. Beautiful for 
baskets. trice, 50c. each; 3-1.50 per dozen. 
PANDANUS VEITCHII. 
One of the most beautiful plants ever introduced by Messrs. Veitch, and far 
superior for exhibition or decoration to any other Pandanus. The leaves are 
light green, beautifully striped with broad* bands and lines of pure white, and are 
gracefully recurved, forming an elegant specimen. 
Price, 3^ each. 
PAPYRUS ANTIQUORUM. 
A very handsome, rusli-like looking plant, growing (I to 8 feet high, throwing up 
long stems, terminated by a tuft of slender, drooping branchlets, tipped with small, 
greenish flowers. For the lawn, as a single specimen, it produces a grand effect. 
Price, 31-00 each. 
PAULLINIA THALICTRIFOLIA. 
A lovely, half-climbing plant, of slender growth, producing very freely its beauti¬ 
fully cut leaves, which resemble the fronds of the Maiden Hair Fern; old leaves 
bright green, the young shoots and foliage being of a beautiful, rosy tint. 
Price, 33 each. 
PHORMIUM ATRCPURPUREUM. 
A very distinct kind, of the habit of 1\ tenax , but with leaves of a beautiful, red¬ 
dish purple. Price, 310 each. 
PHORMIUM COLENSOI VARIEGATUM. 
A beautiful variegated species, of smaller growth and more graceful habit than 
P. tenax , with its foliage uniformly margined with a creamy-white border. 
Price, 35 to 310 each. 
