. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., EUKPEK S SNOW-QUEEN CANDYTUFT,—SINGLE PLANT, DRAWN FROM NATURE. BURPEE'S SNOW-QUEEN CANDYTUFT. This is certainly our most beautiful novelty, and we are justified in regarding it one of the most remarlcable varieties ever introduced. It is an entirely distinct species, horn. Spain, and is of ?narvel- ous beauty. The above illustration was accurately engraved from a painting we had made of a
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., EUKPEK S SNOW-QUEEN CANDYTUFT,—SINGLE PLANT, DRAWN FROM NATURE. BURPEE'S SNOW-QUEEN CANDYTUFT. This is certainly our most beautiful novelty, and we are justified in regarding it one of the most remarlcable varieties ever introduced. It is an entirely distinct species, horn. Spain, and is of ?narvel- ous beauty. The above illustration was accurately engraved from a painting we had made of a single plant. It is an Annual and grows voy rapidly, quickly coming into bloom and reinaining in full flower for three months. The very handsome tufted, pure white flowers are produced in such great abu7idance that each plant resembles a ball of snow^ and would seem, at a little distance, to be a single mass of white. It bears but little foliage, which is almost entirely invisible, and the stalks are most gracefully disposed. The stalks bend—some parallel with the ground—others at varying angles until they meet the center stalks, which are upright. As the stalks are completely hidden by the hundreds of charming white flo\\ ers, crowded together, some idea can be formed ot the unique effect produced. The Snow Queen grows very regularly—each plant bemg almost an exact counter- part of every other—and shows 7to variation whatever, as it has never been hybridized. It is invalu- able for ribbon beds, borders, or for massing alone in a bed, while even a single plant is a most attract- ive object. When we first saw " The Snow Queen " in Southern Europe, last May, we were astonished that a Candytuft could hs so extremely beautiful—we spent much time in admiring it, and other rare flowers that liy themselves would have attracted our attention were eclipsed by the loveliness of this fnost charming of all new Annuals. So impressed were we with its great value that we
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