Peter Henderson & Co.'s spring 1899 florists' and market gardeners' wholesale catalogue of plants, flower seeds, bulbs, vegetable seeds, farm seeds, fertilizers, insecticides, toolsetc . CANNA, AUGUSTA. A very striking and distinct new gilt edge variety. Flowers five inchesacross, intense scarlet, widely bordered with clear golden-yellow. Growsabout 3 feet high, and bears large, open spikes of rich and handsomeflowers. Entirely different from all others in color and form. (See cut.)Price, roots . %\b 00 per 100 ;plants, ready May ist, $ doz. JAMES WOOD. We have pleasure in offeringthis
Peter Henderson & Co.'s spring 1899 florists' and market gardeners' wholesale catalogue of plants, flower seeds, bulbs, vegetable seeds, farm seeds, fertilizers, insecticides, toolsetc . CANNA, AUGUSTA. A very striking and distinct new gilt edge variety. Flowers five inchesacross, intense scarlet, widely bordered with clear golden-yellow. Growsabout 3 feet high, and bears large, open spikes of rich and handsomeflowers. Entirely different from all others in color and form. (See cut.)Price, roots . %\b 00 per 100 ;plants, ready May ist, $ doz. JAMES WOOD. We have pleasure in offeringthis fine new Canna, raised byAlexander Marshall, gardenerto Mr. John B. Dutcher, Pawl-ing. N. Y., and was named bythe latter gentleman in honorof his friend, Mr. Jarnes Wood,of Mount Kisco, N. Y., Presi-dent of the Eastern New YorkHorticultural Society. Thecolor is very distinct, being atrue burnt-orange, the shadeso popular at the present is handsome in foliage andhabit, blooms most profusely,grows in ordinary seasonsabout four to four and one-half feet high. The substanceof the petals is one of its ex-celling merits; the flowers,though large and of fine finish,hold on bette
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