. Spring 1899. Nurseries (Horticulture) Ohio Springfield Catalogs; Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Roses Catalogs. 68 THE C. A. REESER CO., SEEDSMEN AND FLORISTS,. NEW DWARF SWEET PEA, PINK CUPID. The illustration has been engraved accurately from a photograph of a single plant grown in ordinary field culture, lifted and set in a pot on a platform for the purpose of photographing on a level with the camera. The flowers are always of full size, meas- uring from one and one quarter to one and one half inches across the
. Spring 1899. Nurseries (Horticulture) Ohio Springfield Catalogs; Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Roses Catalogs. 68 THE C. A. REESER CO., SEEDSMEN AND FLORISTS,. NEW DWARF SWEET PEA, PINK CUPID. The illustration has been engraved accurately from a photograph of a single plant grown in ordinary field culture, lifted and set in a pot on a platform for the purpose of photographing on a level with the camera. The flowers are always of full size, meas- uring from one and one quarter to one and one half inches across the standard, covering a silver dollar. As this plant is a fair sample, I would state that it measured from six to eight and one half inches high by nineteen to twenty-four inches in diameter, spreading on the ground. 1 could give record of the number of flowers and buds, by actual count, but will merely refer to the extract from The Florists' Exchange, in which the editor says: "We counted one hundred and twenty-one stalks in blossom on one plant, and an average of three flowers-to the ; Burpee's Pink (lipid was discovered by C. C. Morse, to whom I paid rifteeu hundred dollars cash for the exclusive ownership when there were only 1060 seeds in existence. It is not a sport from the original White Cupid, but an actual departure from its parent, the tall Blanche Ferry. In habit and manner of growth it is strictly a Cupid, spreading from the root, from a foot to eighteen inches around; growing from six to eight inches high, and shooting up stems about six inches long, which bear, in full bloom at once, from three to four handsome large flowers, all borne close to the end of the stem. Price, per packet, 15 cents: I wo packets, 25 cents. NEW MAMMOTH VERBENA, Famous Mixture. In this grand new strain has been developed a mammoth Verbena that produces uniformly magnificent large trusses, with flowers of unusual size and of a wide range of colors. The individual blossoms are
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