. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. ^"^MATEUR ^Cultivator's SPRAGUEA. Xat. Oho., Portuhceoe. A charming plant, resembling the Calanilrina, with Amaranthns-like flowers; extremelv frracel'ul ami heautil'ul; very eflective as an edsiiifr, and valuable for rock-work; delifilitins; in a rich loamy "soil. Half-hardy ainiual. 341 Spraguea Umbellata. White, shaded and spotted with purple; from Cal. J ft. .25 I. STOCKS. (Ten-weeks). Nat. Or
. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. ^"^MATEUR ^Cultivator's SPRAGUEA. Xat. Oho., Portuhceoe. A charming plant, resembling the Calanilrina, with Amaranthns-like flowers; extremelv frracel'ul ami heautil'ul; very eflective as an edsiiifr, and valuable for rock-work; delifilitins; in a rich loamy "soil. Half-hardy ainiual. 341 Spraguea Umbellata. White, shaded and spotted with purple; from Cal. J ft. .25 I. STOCKS. (Ten-weeks). Nat. Ord., O-un/em. The Stork Gillyflower is one of the most popular, beautiful, and important of our garden favorites; and whether for bediliiig, massing, edginfr, or rihhoninir, it is un- surpassed, cither for brilliancy and diversity of color, or profusion of bUiom. 1 he Ten-week .Stock is the most universally cultivated, and usually blooms ten to twelve weeks after being sown. They grow from six to fifteen inches high, and when cultivated in rich soil, and occasionally watered with weak guano-water, throw out an immense quantity of lateral spikes of bloom, so that each plant forms a perfect bouquet; and it would, indeed, be difficult to surpass the grand effect produced in beds or ribbons by these exquisite gems. 312 Stocks, Xew Larse-flowered P>Tainidal. The most popular stock in enlti- viition ; viM-vcliuice; received from one of the most celebrated florists in Ger- many. Twenty briglitest and most distinct colors mixed . . .25 "j 343 Good Mixed. A great varietv of colors 05 314 Pure M'hite . . 10 315 Scarlet 10 34G Purple 10 317 Carmine 10 318 Xew Hybrid. Mixed between the rough and smooth-leaved varieties . .10 319 Dwarf Carman (from pot-plants). One of the finest. Mixed. .10 330 3Iiniaturc. Dwarf; 4 inches high; fine for edging; finest mixed . .10 351 Giant, or Tree. A very valuable acquisition, bv its large flowers being from one and a half to'two inches in diameter;
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