. 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. RARE FLOWERS AND NOVELTIES, PREVIOUSLY INTRODUCED. PER rKT. Ageratum Countess of Stair. — A fine robust-growing variety, with large dense coryinl>s of briglit^blue Uowers '.'5 Alyssum Bcnthami Compactum.—A compact-growing variety of the favorite olil wliito-llowereil Sweet Alyssum. A valuable acquisition I.') Anchusa Capensis, or Cape Forget-me-not. — A charming perennial plant for ihv:irf be Roezli. — I
. 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. RARE FLOWERS AND NOVELTIES, PREVIOUSLY INTRODUCED. PER rKT. Ageratum Countess of Stair. — A fine robust-growing variety, with large dense coryinl>s of briglit^blue Uowers '.'5 Alyssum Bcnthami Compactum.—A compact-growing variety of the favorite olil wliito-llowereil Sweet Alyssum. A valuable acquisition I.') Anchusa Capensis, or Cape Forget-me-not. — A charming perennial plant for ihv:irf be Roezli. — In habit of growth it is entirely dilfercnt from all other I'row- allias, Uie plants fonning dense compact bushes from sixteen to twenty inches in hcij'ht, and clothed with shining green leaves. The (lowei-s are eiihi-r of a deucatc .•izuro blue, or white witli yellow tube. Size of the flower double that of any other sorts. Blooms in uninterrupted succession from spring until autumn 50 Campanula, medium Calycanthema. — We look upon this variety a. a real acquisition amongst hardy bienniiils. Culture precisely like that of Uie com- mon Cantcrbuiy Bell 15 Celosia Pyramidalis " Raid's ; —Is of remarkably vigorous growth, the giiicoful pendants of bloom being of the purest magenta. The extreme brilliancy of color, combined with the general and eftectivo habit of growth, stumps it ad :\ vahiablu addition to our repertoire of decorative plants . .:;5 Celosia Japonica, or New Japan Cockscomb. —This is an entirely new variety. It is far better ami more brilliant than the old vaiicty, a single plant being ;iu object of great l>eauty; while a bed containing a dozen plants is noteqiiallcil for garden disjilay by "any thing we ai-e acquainted with 15 Celosia Huttonii. — Beautiful dixrk-foliagcd piant, attaining a heightof frotna foot and a lialf to two feet by about a fool and a half in <liaineter. Owing to its rich coloriiiR and hardy natur
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