. 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. CANNA (INDIAN SHOT). These Btntely upoclcii of plants ore highly ornamental in flower-gordctiB, producioK a rich and Oriental ofToot tiy tlitlr large, broad, massive foliage, and rich crimson and scarlet llowers. They will make luxuriant growth and bloom. In late autumn they should be carefully potted, and allowed to mature their bloom In the greenhouse or parlor, afterwards preserved in a cool, dry ce
. 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. CANNA (INDIAN SHOT). These Btntely upoclcii of plants ore highly ornamental in flower-gordctiB, producioK a rich and Oriental ofToot tiy tlitlr large, broad, massive foliage, and rich crimson and scarlet llowers. They will make luxuriant growth and bloom. In late autumn they should be carefully potted, and allowed to mature their bloom In the greenhouse or parlor, afterwards preserved in a cool, dry cellar. In spring, again start them into growth, aiid 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 tbonsand, $ C«>iiover'« ColofHul.—A European variety introduced several years since, which, by a careful selection of seeds from the most vigorous shoots, has been wonderfully improved, both in size and ( In point of which it surpasses all other varieties in cultivation. Specimens were exhibited the season, wldch were grown alongside the best Oyster Bay varieties, and rei eiveil the same care and treatment, which attained four limes ti e size of that popular variety. One-year-oM roots, per dozen, 30 cents; per hundred, $; per thousand, $ Oue-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 , forming an excellent cover- ing for a screen. Klowers 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 ricli, and thoroughly stirred two feet deep. A well-grown root will measure two feet in leiigili, and
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