. 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 ^gULTIVATOK'S '^UIDE PRICK CONVOLVULUS. Nat. Ord , Convolmlacta. A benutiful, frce-flowcriiig, and remarkiibly slio«-y class of plants, with exceed- ingly handsome, rich-colored flowers, producing in beds and mixed borders an unusually brilliant eflect, either in distinct colors, ribboned,or beds. Half- hardy annuals. 12G Convolvulus 3Iiiior Tricolor. Rich violet-purple, with white centre; tra


. 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 ^gULTIVATOK'S '^UIDE PRICK CONVOLVULUS. Nat. Ord , Convolmlacta. A benutiful, frce-flowcriiig, and remarkiibly slio«-y class of plants, with exceed- ingly handsome, rich-colored flowers, producing in beds and mixed borders an unusually brilliant eflect, either in distinct colors, ribboned,or beds. Half- hardy annuals. 12G Convolvulus 3Iiiior Tricolor. Rich violet-purple, with white centre; trailer. .05 127 Striped. Blue; beautifully striped with white; trailer 05 128 Alba. White; beautiful trailer 05 129 Flore Pleuo. A new double variety. From France 10 130 Moiistrosus. Deep violet-puqile; extremely large, and handsome trailer . .05 131 Subcrcruleas. Dove-color; trailer; very pretty. From Levant . .05 132 Caiitabricus Stellatus. Beautiful pink, witli pure white double star in the centre, and are jiroduced in tlie greatest profiision. A splendid bed- ding-plant, and is exceedingly elegant in hanging-baskets . . .15 133 Mnuritanicus. A beautiful creeper, with silvery foliage, and lovely blue tii)wei-s; fine for hanging-baskets and rock-work .13 131 Mixed. Good assortment of colors 05 135 £xtra Mixed. All tlie Huest varieties 2i. DIDISCIS CIUIXEA. DIDISCUS. Nat. Ord., UmbeHiferm. 136 Didiscns Cacmlea. 15hip; a distinct and elegant plant. I'rom Australia. Half- hardy annual. 1 foot ERYSIMUM. Nat. Oed., Cruciferx. Very fliowy, free-flnwcring, handsome hardy annuals; very cfTcctlve in beds, mixed borders, or ribbons; succeed hi any light, rich soil. Hardy annuals. 13T Erysimnm Arkansanum. Sulphur-yellow; ven,-handsome. From N. A. IJ ft. 138 PeroQskianum. Orange; very showy. From Palestme. 1J feet . ESCnSCIIOLTZIA. Nat. Ord., raimveracecB. Annual plants, with showr flowers; natives of Califoniia; on which account, the first species introduced was called the California Po


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