Archive image from page 54 of Currie Bros' horticultural guide . Currie Bros.' horticultural guide : spring 1888 curriebroshortic1888curr Year: 1888 ( ECHEVERIA. A showy, thick-leaved plant, easy of cultivation in the house, or when used for rockeries, carpet or ribbon beds. Metallca—Ljargely used, both as a pot-plant for decorative purposes and for bedding 50 Secunda Glauca—Used largely as a border plant,25 ERIANTHUS RAVANN. A hardy, ornamental grass, somewhat resembling the Pampas Plume 10 ERYTHRINA-Coral Tree. A beautiful shrub, with broad leaves and large spikes of deep scarlet, pea-shape
Archive image from page 54 of Currie Bros' horticultural guide . Currie Bros.' horticultural guide : spring 1888 curriebroshortic1888curr Year: 1888 ( ECHEVERIA. A showy, thick-leaved plant, easy of cultivation in the house, or when used for rockeries, carpet or ribbon beds. Metallca—Ljargely used, both as a pot-plant for decorative purposes and for bedding 50 Secunda Glauca—Used largely as a border plant,25 ERIANTHUS RAVANN. A hardy, ornamental grass, somewhat resembling the Pampas Plume 10 ERYTHRINA-Coral Tree. A beautiful shrub, with broad leaves and large spikes of deep scarlet, pea-shaped flowers. Take up in fall before bard frost sets in, cut back, ana put away in the cellar over winter. Half-hardy shrnb. Chrlsta Galla—Scarlet 25 EVERLASTING FLOWERS. (See Uelichrysum, Xeranthemum, etc.) EUTOCA. Coarse-growing plants, with blue flowers; flowering best in light, sandy soil. Hardy annuals. Multiflora—Flowers freely 5 i Vlscida—Dark blue, pretty 5 Wrangeliana—Lilac 5 PENZLIA. splendid profuse-blooming, neat little plant, graceful and flne for pot culture, and very effective K„.i„. : ;j—i,i„ moisture. Hardy in beds; requires considerable annual Dianthlflora—Rosy lilac; '4 foot & FORGET-ME-NOT. (See Myosotie.) GAILLARDIA. One of the best annuals for bedding, being constant bloomers, and presenting quite a diversity of color. Half-hardy annual. Coccinea—Scarlet; 1 foot 6 Grandiflora Hybrida—Fine crimson and yellow; 114 foot 5 Picta Nana—Crimson and yellow; 1 foot 5 Picta Liorenziana—A fine new double variety, with heads 3 inches in diameter 10 Fine Mixed Colors B
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