Archive image from page 61 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 TA0ETE3 SICNATA PUMILA (full bIzC of flower). KO. PRICE. VENIDIUm. Nat. Ord., Composite. An exceedingly showy plant, with large, handsome flower, having a very gay appearance in beds or borders; thrives best in turfy loam. Half-hardy annual. 354 Yenidium Calendulaceum. Deep orange; rich brown centre. 1 foot . . .10 VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. Nat. Ord., Campanulacea. A free-flowering, pretty little plant,
Archive image from page 61 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 TA0ETE3 SICNATA PUMILA (full bIzC of flower). KO. PRICE. VENIDIUm. Nat. Ord., Composite. An exceedingly showy plant, with large, handsome flower, having a very gay appearance in beds or borders; thrives best in turfy loam. Half-hardy annual. 354 Yenidium Calendulaceum. Deep orange; rich brown centre. 1 foot . . .10 VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. Nat. Ord., Campanulacea. A free-flowering, pretty little plant, of nice habit of growth, especially adapted for beds, ribbons, or edgings; grows well in any garden soil. Hardy annual. 355 Venus's Looking-Glass ( C'iOT;jnnu/n). Finest mixed; from south of Europe. J ft .05 VISCARIA (Rose OF Heaven). Nat. Ord., CaryophijUacea. A genus of remarkably pretty, profuse-flowering plants, producing a striking effect in beds, ribbons, or mixed borders. Hardy annuals. 356 Yiscaria. Finest Mixed 10 357 Good Mixed 05 WHITLAVIA. Nat. Ord , Hydrophyllacea. A very handsome fiee-flowering plant, suitable for beds and borders; from Cali- fornia. Hardy annual. 358 Whitlavia Grandiflora. Vioet-bIue. 1 foot 05 ZINNIA. Nat. Ord., Ccmponita. A grand genus of autumn-flowering plants, combining the greatest richness and diversity of color with uneqiialled profusion and duration of bloom. Among the novelties of recent introduction, the New Double Zinnia has proved a most important acquisition. Its splend'd double flowers rival, in beauty, size, and form, moderate-size dahlias. Zinnia Elegans. Mixed. 2 feet â M .05 Donble. The seed we offer saved only from the finest double flowers, and will produce a large percentage of double-flowering plants. Mixed . .10 Mexicana. It is a neat dwarf plant, of compact habit, scarcely one foot high, much branched. It is offered in some lists under the Dame of Zinnia Haaguaua, and also Aurea and Sanvitalia Mexicana K) 36
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