The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . & SONS Beg to direct special attention to this STERLING NOVELTY. The above illustration is taken from the photograph of a plantgrowing in our Chelsea Nursery. rTHIS beautiful new race of STREPTOCAKPUS originated at the Royal Gardens, Kew,-*- where Mr. Watson crossed S. Bezii and S. parviflorus with S. Dunnii, and raised severalchanging new varieties. From the numerous complimentary letters which reach us respecting the very satisfactoryresults obtained from the seed distributed last season, and the fa
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . & SONS Beg to direct special attention to this STERLING NOVELTY. The above illustration is taken from the photograph of a plantgrowing in our Chelsea Nursery. rTHIS beautiful new race of STREPTOCAKPUS originated at the Royal Gardens, Kew,-*- where Mr. Watson crossed S. Bezii and S. parviflorus with S. Dunnii, and raised severalchanging new varieties. From the numerous complimentary letters which reach us respecting the very satisfactoryresults obtained from the seed distributed last season, and the favourable comments of theHorticultural Press, we feel sure that these hybrids have a splendid future. The results of lastvears woik upon these has been to give us larger and more expanded flowers, and a considerablyincreased proportion of the rarer and the brighter colours, particularly among the rose, rosy-purple, reddish, and magenta shades ; and from the seed now offered, which has been furtherhybridised, many entirely new and striking varieties may be confidently expected. The plant is a greenhouse perennial, of dwarf, neat habit, growing about 9 in
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