. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CANNA (IXDIAN SHOT). These stately spedcB of planie are hig)ily omRmental In flower-gardens, producing a rich and Oriental effect by their large, broad, mawsive foliage, and ric-h crimeon and scarlet flowers. They will make luxuriant growth and bloom. lu late autumn they should be carefully potted, and allowed to mature their bloom in the greenhouse or , and df
. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CANNA (IXDIAN SHOT). These stately spedcB of planie are hig)ily omRmental In flower-gardens, producing a rich and Oriental effect by their large, broad, mawsive foliage, and ric-h crimeon and scarlet flowers. They will make luxuriant growth and bloom. lu late autumn they should be carefully potted, and allowed to mature their bloom in the greenhouse or , and dfti rwards preserved in a cool, dry cellar. In spring, again start them into growth, and replant them in the open air last of May or first of June. Price, 25 to 50 cents each. ASPARAGUS. Giant, two years (by express only). Per hundred, $; per thoi'sand, $ Conover'8 Colossal.— A European variety introduced several years since, which, by a careful selection of seeds from the most \igorou8 shoots, has been wonderfully improved, both in size and quality, in point of which it surpatines all other varlt'ties in euliivaiion. Specimens were exhibited the past season, which were grown alongside the best Oyster B,ay varieties, and received the same care and treatment, which attained four times tie size of that popular variety. One-year-old roots, per dozen, 30 cents; per hundred, $; per thousand, $ One-year roots only can be sent by mail at $ per hundred. DIOSCOREA BATATAS (NEW CHINESE POTATO). One of the most valuable esculents in cultivation, though but little known. Stem twelve to twenty feet in length, of rapid growth, of creeping or climbing habit, forming an excellent cover- ing for a screen. Flowers small, white, in clusters. Leaves heart-shaped. The root is of a pale russet color, oblong, regularly rounded, club-shaped, largest at the lower end. Plant in a deep, light soil, tolerably rich, and thoroughly stirred two feet deep. A well-grown root will measur
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