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LATEST NOVELTIES 
Amalthee (L,) 
A vigorous sort with long lustrous leaves, ^nd large flowers, slightly bloU 
ched pale pink, 2/ — each. 
Belle Etoile (L.) 
A vigorous and very free flowering sort; large well expanded flowers, petals 
milk-white with a purple blotch, very sweet-scented; the hardiest of purple-eyed 
varieties (A. G. M. R. H. S.), 2/6 each, 25/ — doz. 
Innocence (LJ 
Long arched branches carrying a wealth of large single flowers of the purest 
white, assuming the appearence of snowy sheaves of blooms, 1/6 each,\^t — doz. 
Philadelphus brachybotrys 
We consider this species as the best Philadelphus introduced from China* 
Its tall branches are covered with large fragrant flowers, 3/6 each. 
TREE P^.ONIES 
NEW HYBRIDS OF P^ONIA LUTEA 
Alice Harding (L.) 
This striking novelty, raised from across between P^on/a fuiea and the Japanese 
variety Yaso Okina, carries large^ fall fragrant flowers of the purest yellow, 
exactly the colour of Rose Soweuir de Claudius Fernet. It was greatly admired by 
everyone who saw it, and especially by the well-known plant lover after whom 
it is named, 60/ —- each. 
Aurore (L.) 
This new variety produces tall steins, well showing their numerous single 
flowers with broad petals of a coppery terra-cotta colour, 15/ - each. 
Chromatella (L.) 
This is a sport from the beautiful variety Souvenir de Maxinie Cornu, whose 
it is a true counterpart; it is quite identical to it but for the colour of its flowers, 
which are of a pure sulphur yellow, without any shade of salmon or bull, 
30/— each. 
Flambeau ( L.) 
A variety carrying large full double flowers, of a bright salmon red 
with purple veins, passing to a paler shade after some days, a striking novelty, 
21/— each. 
