. Catalogue of useful greenhouse and bedding plants : spring-summer, 1897. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Gainesville Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. Piedmont Greenhouses. 17. GERANIUM, BED OF GOLD. Geraniums, continued. Mrs, J. M. Gaar. Probably the finest of the single white bedders; semi dwarf; the plants have been a cloud of bloom all the summer. Florets nicely shaped and of me- dium size. Mrs. E. G. Hill. The center of each petal is a soft light salmon, bordered with rosy salmon and veined deep rose. Fre- quently throws six .petals. Resembles a rare begonia bloom more than a
. Catalogue of useful greenhouse and bedding plants : spring-summer, 1897. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Gainesville Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. Piedmont Greenhouses. 17. GERANIUM, BED OF GOLD. Geraniums, continued. Mrs, J. M. Gaar. Probably the finest of the single white bedders; semi dwarf; the plants have been a cloud of bloom all the summer. Florets nicely shaped and of me- dium size. Mrs. E. G. Hill. The center of each petal is a soft light salmon, bordered with rosy salmon and veined deep rose. Fre- quently throws six .petals. Resembles a rare begonia bloom more than a Geranium. Madonna. Color is the very softest shade of pale pink; the florets are large, and are arranged in hanctsome showy trusses well above the foliage; a most deli- cately beautiful color and a very striking variety, attracting attention at once. Perle. Trusses large and very perfect; purest white; very free in bloom. A good bedder. Pauline Lucca. Another fine white, with beautiful dark zone on foliage; a fa- vorite bedder. Queen of the West. Light orange scar- let ; large trusses, and a profuse bloomer. Ralph. Dark crimson, suffused with amaranth ; a fine bedder. Souv. de Mirande. Flowers round, trusses large, upper petals pure white, with a delicate edge of soft, salmon rose, lower petals bright salmon rose, with large shad- ings and a white center; very popular. Sign or Crispa. Immense florets, form- ing large trusses, of the most delicately beautiful pink, with white eye. Nicely zoned foliage, and a dwarf, bushy growth ; extra fine. Streak of Luck. A rival of New Life ; salmon, striped white; extra. The Wonder. This new Geranium with- out doubt is the finest that has ever been offered. The flowers are the most intense dazzling scarlet, and are borne in trusses of enormous size, with single florets measur- ing 7 inches in circumference. W. A. Chalfant. Dazzling scarlet, florets circular and slightly cupped, forming a magnificent truss; heavy Bruant-like foli- age, assur
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