. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. 6i. Hyacinthus Candicans. A inagiiiticent Yucca-like plant, pioiluciiig in J
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. 6i. Hyacinthus Candicans. A inagiiiticent Yucca-like plant, pioiluciiig in July and August u tlower-sti'm 3 to -4 foot high, cov- ered with from twenty to thirty pure wliite, pen- dent, bell-shaped flowers. This plant sluuild find a place iu every collection. It is lielieved that it will prove perfectly hardy, having stood the recent .severe winters without injur3-. Price, 30c. ea(!li. HYDRAJSra-E^. Thos. Hogg.—This beautiful new Japanese variety has large lieads of p^r^^ white flowers, and is a very free and abundant bloomer. It grows very thrift- ily, and soou forms a large specimen plant; one of tlie finest novelties ever introduced into this country. 25c. each. Otnksa.—A new variety from Jajian. with very large, flowers. 25c. each. Hortensis.—Tlie old garden variety, with large corymbs of rose-eolored flowers. 3oc. each. Paniculata Grandiflorn.—See hardj' plants. IRIS. Among the many forms of floral beauty wliich adorn t lie flower boi'ders in June, the Iris has claims which entitle it to a more than ordinarily promi- nent position; the flowers are large and handsome, tJie colors extremely rich and vai ied; the height of the plant is from eigliteen to twenty-four inches, wliile its cultivation is unusually simple, succeed- ing in any ordinary garden soil: wlien planted in clumps of three or nu)re, and allowed to remain un- disturbed, tliey improve in beauty each successive year. English.—Twenty-flve finest named varieties. Kacli, 10c,; pe
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