Archive image from page 11 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( SUPERB DOUBLE DAIILIAS. A Que stock of this popular flower, embracing one hundred and fifty sorts of the standard and LlUputian varieties. $ to $ per doz.; 60 cents per dozen extra when sent by mail. OXALIS LASIANDRA. A fine species for summer-flowering. It (jrows rapidly, and soon forms a large round tuft from nine inches to two feet In diameter. Flowers freely produced from June to frost,
Archive image from page 11 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 ( SUPERB DOUBLE DAIILIAS. A Que stock of this popular flower, embracing one hundred and fifty sorts of the standard and LlUputian varieties. $ to $ per doz.; 60 cents per dozen extra when sent by mail. OXALIS LASIANDRA. A fine species for summer-flowering. It (jrows rapidly, and soon forms a large round tuft from nine inches to two feet In diameter. Flowers freely produced from June to frost, in trusses on long stalks, which bcirthem well above the foliage. Color, light crim/'ui; leaves, rich green, marlted with a brown bond. By mail, $ per doz. ACHIMENES. These tubers should be started in pots in n warm , .and either be kept In pots through the summer, or be planted out In June in a partially shaded spot. In turning out, care not to break the ball of earth. We ofl'er a mixture of many fme varieties. $ per doz. GLORIOSA (3IETHONICA) S&PERBA. Climbing lily. Every part of this is ornamental. The flowers arc and yellow, much like some lilies, but with petals bent backward like Its leaves, which in tendrils, are bright green, and very eloesy. The seed-vessel Is also extremely liamlsoine, and contains from twenty to thirty largo rouml scarlet seeds. The tubers should be potted In April. 60 cents to $ each. Seeds, 25 cts. per qt. COMMELINA CCELESTIS. A fine plant for the flower-garden, growing about two feet high, with slender stems and graBS-like leaves. The flowers open early, and arc? of the most intense blue, exceeding even the Salvia patens in this respect. By mail, per doz. $ ERYTHRIXA CRISTA GALLI. A magnificent plant, producing its crimson flowers on spikes eighteen inches long. They may be taken up in the fall, and kept in perfect preservation during winter, in a dry cellar, th
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