. 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. I GYPSOPHILA. Nat. Ord., Caryophyllacea. pmcb A pretty-free-flowering, elegant little plant, best adapted for rustic rock-work and edging; succeeding in any garden-soil. 509 Gypsophila Paniculata* White, in large panicles. Hardy perennial. 2 feet. .10 510 Steveui. White; incorj-rabs; fine for bouquets. Hardy perennial. 2 feet. .JO HONESTY (). Nat. Okd., Cmdferte. 511 Honesty (Lunaria Biennis).
. 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. I GYPSOPHILA. Nat. Ord., Caryophyllacea. pmcb A pretty-free-flowering, elegant little plant, best adapted for rustic rock-work and edging; succeeding in any garden-soil. 509 Gypsophila Paniculata* White, in large panicles. Hardy perennial. 2 feet. .10 510 Steveui. White; incorj-rabs; fine for bouquets. Hardy perennial. 2 feet. .JO HONESTY (). Nat. Okd., Cmdferte. 511 Honesty (Lunaria Biennis). An old plant, but singularly interesting, from the transparent, silvery-like tissue or coats of the seed-vessels in their dry, matured state, through which the fruit is conspicuously seen, and re- taining the same eft'ect for any length of time; well adapted, in a cut state, for grouping with everlasting flowers, &c. Hardy biennial. 2 feet .05 HUMEA. Nat. Ord., CoTtiposiUe. 512 Hamea Elegans. One of the most beautiful of all plants for decorations in gardens and pleasure-grounds; in appearance resembling a light, gi'ace- ful, drooping pyramid of innumerable ruby-red, grass-like florets, rising at first in erect panicles from four to eight feet in height, and gradually assuming its exquisitely beautiful outline of growth. Blooms the second season through the summer and autumn months. Half-hardy biennial . 10 HUNNEJIANNIA. Nat. Ord., Papaveracew. An exceedingly beautiful herbaceous plant, with very pretty tulip-shaped flow- ers. Grows in a light, rich soil. Half-hardy perennial. 513 Hunnemannia Fumariaefolia- Fine yellow; from Mexico. 2 feet . .18 it. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Curtis, Cobb & Washburn Seed and Horticultural Warehouse; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog
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