. Burpee's farm annual written at Fordhook Farm. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. FORDHOOK FLOWER SEEDS. 109 ESCHSCHOLTZIA (California Poppy). A packet contains about four hundred seeds. PER PKT. Mixed. Flowers yellow, orange, and white, .... 5 Mandarin. Rich orange and a mandarin-scarlet, . 5 Crocea, fl. pi. Of a deep orange; semi-double, ... 5 Maritima. Each single flower is of a bright canary- yellow, with an orange center; the leaves are sil- very-gray and beautifully laciniated, 10
. Burpee's farm annual written at Fordhook Farm. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. FORDHOOK FLOWER SEEDS. 109 ESCHSCHOLTZIA (California Poppy). A packet contains about four hundred seeds. PER PKT. Mixed. Flowers yellow, orange, and white, .... 5 Mandarin. Rich orange and a mandarin-scarlet, . 5 Crocea, fl. pi. Of a deep orange; semi-double, ... 5 Maritima. Each single flower is of a bright canary- yellow, with an orange center; the leaves are sil- very-gray and beautifully laciniated, 10 FEVERFEW. The highly esteemed Bachelor s Buttons of the old-time garden. Plants are pyramidal in growth, eight inches high, with dark-green laciniated leaves. The plant is surmounted by numerous tall, freely-branching flower- stems, which attain a height of eighteen inches, and are literally covered with very double pure white flowers, an inch in diameter. The great profusion of fine flowers, with long, slender stems, make this valuable to grow for cut-flowers. Per pkt. 5 cts. FUCHSIAS. Fine plants ^^~-/"^0) of Fuchsias can eas'*y be raised from the seed, which will bloom freely during the sum- mer in a cool, moist situation in the open air. Ontheapproach of frost in the fall, they can be taken up and planted in pots, and will con- tinue to flower freely during the winter months. A "packet" contains about twen ty-five SINGLE AND DOUBLE FUCHSIA. PER PKT. ... 15 FUCHSIAS, Double and Single, mixed, . SUPERB MIXED. The very finest Double and Sin- gle Fuchsias, saved from splendid varieties, .... 25 THE TRAILING FUCHSIA (Procumbens). This species makes one of the prettiest trailing plants imaginable. While the flowers are small, the vines are of graceful habit, with pretty leaves and bright- red berries, which make a fine effect hanging over the side of a pot, basket, or vase. The berries are about the size and shape of robins' eggs, of deep crimson red,
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