E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 .10 MANDEVILLEA SUAVEOLENS. PELARGONIUM. Nat. Ord., Geraniacece. A genus of indispensable and beautiful greenhouse plants: whether for the adornment of the conservatory or the drawing-room, they stand unrivalled. Greenhouse perennial. 733 Pelargonium. Finest mixed. From named prize flowers .... 734 - 735 - 736 737 - Fancy. Saved from the newest and best varieties in cultivation - Ivy-I/Caved. These Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums are useful from their grace- ful, drooping growth,
E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 .10 MANDEVILLEA SUAVEOLENS. PELARGONIUM. Nat. Ord., Geraniacece. A genus of indispensable and beautiful greenhouse plants: whether for the adornment of the conservatory or the drawing-room, they stand unrivalled. Greenhouse perennial. 733 Pelargonium. Finest mixed. From named prize flowers .... 734 - 735 - 736 737 - Fancy. Saved from the newest and best varieties in cultivation - Ivy-I/Caved. These Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums are useful from their grace- ful, drooping growth, for vases, rustic, or suspending baskets; their rich, wax-like foliage alone is ornamental - Spotted. This strain has been obtained by hybridizing the attractive French kinds Avith the best varieties of the most eminent English growers - Tricolor Varieties. The seed now offered was saved fi'om distinctly- marked vai-ieties; Avhich, having been carefully hybridized, may be ex- pected to yield a good proportion of this deservedly popular section . (For other varieties, see Geranium.) PETUNIA. Nat. Ord., Solanacece. A highly ornamental and profuse-flowering, easily cultivated garden favorite, equally effective and beautiful whether grown in pots for the decoration of the greenhouse or sitting-room window, or planted out in beds or mixed borders. The brilliancy and variety of its colors, combined Avith the duration of its blooming period, render it invaluable. Seeds sown in spring make fine bedding-plants for summer and autumn display; succeeds in any rich soil. Half-hardy perennial. 738 Petunia Grandiflora Hybrida. IMixed; saved from named flowers .25 .25 .50 .25 .50 Marginata. Green-bordered ; a fine variety .... Inimitable. Eed-margined and blotched, with pure Avhite; fine Countess of EUesmere. Deep rose, with white throat . Striatifolia. A beautiful striped variety 68 .25 .10 .10 .10 .10 V f 'I L
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