. 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. '4^ MATEUR CULTIVATOR'S VIDE. 4 PRICA house, and flower-garden. By good culture in pots, the tall varieties assume a magnificent etroct, attaining five to seven feet or more in height, with lateral flower racemes from tlie base, four to five feet in longtli. The beautiful white variety fonns a mo, aikl nearly approaching the rich deep coloring of the I)raca;na - Sanguinea Chatei. Deep red, dark foliage, and
. 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. '4^ MATEUR CULTIVATOR'S VIDE. 4 PRICA house, and flower-garden. By good culture in pots, the tall varieties assume a magnificent etroct, attaining five to seven feet or more in height, with lateral flower racemes from tlie base, four to five feet in longtli. The beautiful white variety fonns a mo, aikl nearly approaching the rich deep coloring of the I)raca;na - Sanguinea Chatei. Deep red, dark foliage, and stems very large. 6 feet - Warczcwiczii. Brilliant red, with variegated foliage; one of the best. 3 ft - Zebrina. , zebra-striped foliage. 3 feet - Finest mixed Si v. \1 CARNATION (Dianthcs). Nat. Ord., Caryophyllacece. A Tiagnificent class of popular favorites, most of them dcliciously fragrant, and with colors extremelv rich and beautiful. The seed we oft'er may be relied upon as being the finest, all liaving been selected expressly for us from some of the best collections in , prodi^cing mostly all double flowers. Hardy perennial. 446 Carnation Pink. Good; mixed, for bonier-culture 10 147 Fine German. A good selection from a named collection . . .25 448 Sardinian. From choice double varieties 25 449 Choice Bizarres and Flakes. Saved fix)m pot-plants • . .60 450 Perpetual, or Tree. Fine Gennan; from selected flower . . .60. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Curtis, Cobb & Washburn Seed and Horticultural Warehouse; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Boston, Mass. : Curtis, Cobb & Washburn Seed and Horticultural Warehouse
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