Archive image from page 72 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 UUFOTIAN OR BOnQDET DAHLIA. ANTTRRHHrCM MAJU8 VWASF. DAHLIA. Nat. Ord., ComposiUe. A noble autumn-flowering plant. The seed offered by us has been saved from one of the best prize collections. Half-hardy perennial. Dahlias, Extra Fine. Saved from a choice prize collection .... 458 Liliputian. Dwarf variet)'; beautiful .25 .26 DATURA. Nat. Ord., Solanacece. A tribe of highly ornamental plants, pr
Archive image from page 72 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 UUFOTIAN OR BOnQDET DAHLIA. ANTTRRHHrCM MAJU8 VWASF. DAHLIA. Nat. Ord., ComposiUe. A noble autumn-flowering plant. The seed offered by us has been saved from one of the best prize collections. Half-hardy perennial. Dahlias, Extra Fine. Saved from a choice prize collection .... 458 Liliputian. Dwarf variet)'; beautiful .25 .26 DATURA. Nat. Ord., Solanacece. A tribe of highly ornamental plants, producing large, sweet-scented, trumpet- shaped flowers of the most attractive character, and succeeding in most any rich soil. The roots may be preserved in and through the winter in a dry cellar, in same maimer as the Dahhivs. Half-hardy perennials. 459 Datura, Wright's, or Meteloides. Flowers of extraordinary size, pure white at the centre, and passing to a lilac-blue at the border. 3 feet . 460 Chlorantha. A magnificent variety, producing a profusion of deep goklen-yellow flowers, very large, double, and sweet-scented. 2 feet 461 Fastuosa Alba. Double, white. 2 feet 462 Violacea. Violet, double. 2 feet .10 .10 .10 .10 DELPHINIUM. Nat. Cud., Ranunadacea. A highly ornamental genus of splendid profuse-flowering plants, of an unusually high decorative character. When planted in large beds or groups, their gorgeous spikes of flowers, of almost endless shades, from pearl-white to the ven- richest and deepest blue, render them the most conspicuous and striking objects in the flower garden or pleasure-trround. Delight in a deep, rich soil. Hardy perennials. 463 Delphinium, Chinese. Finest mixed; the most desirable of the tribe. 2J ft .05 464 Ccelestinum Grandiflornm. Celestial blue; long spikes; fine. 8 feet . .10 465 Elatum (Bee Larkspur). Blue. 8 feet 05 466 Formoenm. New flowers; large color; exquisite blue, with white; will flower the first season from seeds; finest of the tribe.
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