. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 68 B. K. Bliss &" Sons* Catalogue JAPANESE PLANTS It ia with much gratiticatiou that we offer this ricli c
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 68 B. K. Bliss &" Sons* Catalogue JAPANESE PLANTS It ia with much gratiticatiou that we offer this ricli collection of Japanese Plants, and are justified in promisiuf? others equally interesting and now in course of propagation. Our facilities for making an exhaustive draft upon the Flora of Japan have been unusuallj- good, through the efforts of 3Ir. Thomas Hoes, whose love for plants is only equaled hy his appreciation of their commercial value. JAPANESE These Maples an; among tlu; most chiiiiiiiiig of the introductions from .Jai)an. Thej' are of dwarf liahit, rarely grow lag over fifteen or twentj' feet high, and have proved perfectly hardy duiing ten of our severest Winters. Wo offer twelve distinct varieties; some with highly colored le;i\ es, fioiu a pure white variegation to pink and dai k ])inple, and others with leaves as deeply cut as lace. A mass of them on a lawn is a thing to bo remem- bered, the color of the leaves being constant under the hottest sun. The whole class is destined to a popularitj^ uuequaled bj' any other hardy trees or shrubs. The plants Ave have for sale are one and a half to two feet high, and in pots. Prices from $ to $ each. Acer (Maple) polyinorphuin, the young shoots and foliage have a bright crimson tint, changing to a pleasing green in the Summer and very varj'- ing tints in the Autunm. each. atropurpureum, a verj^ showy variety with deeply lobed leaves of a claret tint, and keeping its dark color far into the Autumn. |2.
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