. Dreer's garden book : seventy-third annual edition 1911. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Arabis Alpina. Aquilegia or Columbine. Columbine^. Miss Ida D. Bennett, the well-known horti- cultural author, has written the following ex- pressly for this book: " No hardy plant grown from seed is more easily handled than the Columbine, as the seeds possess great vitality, and, given any sort of chance, ever)' one may be expected to grow. " Seed may be plante
. Dreer's garden book : seventy-third annual edition 1911. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Arabis Alpina. Aquilegia or Columbine. Columbine^. Miss Ida D. Bennett, the well-known horti- cultural author, has written the following ex- pressly for this book: " No hardy plant grown from seed is more easily handled than the Columbine, as the seeds possess great vitality, and, given any sort of chance, ever)' one may be expected to grow. " Seed may be planted in the open ground early in spring, and will, in the case ot the single varieties, bloom the same season, or they may be planted in August or September and will come up early in spring and make vigorous plants, which will bloom abundantly during late spring and early summer. Many volunteer plants appear where the plants have bloomed the preceding year, and these may be lifted and moved to any desired position; but it is better in moving large established plants that the work should be done in the autumn, as spring transplanting frequently interferes with the perfection of the blooms '•Columbines should be planted wherever their presence will serve to lighten up a too stiff and formal planting, for no other plant has so airy a grace as the Columbine, is more generous of its blooms, or more effectively adapted for cut ; _ perpkt. 1181 Californica hybrida. Exquisite flowers, mostly in yellow and orange shades, all with long spurs. \ oz,, 50 cts 10 1182 Canadensis. This is the scarlet and yellow native species, and one of the brightest of all. { oz., 30 cts 5 1183 Chrysantha (Golden Spurred). Golden-yellow. \ oz., 30 5 1184 — alba ( White Spurred). Beautiful pure white. } oz., 50 cts. .. 10 1185 Coerulea [Rocky Mountain Columbine). Violet-blue and white. 2 feet. £ oz., 40 cts 10 1186 Coerulea hybrida. Beautiful hybrids, bearing large, long spurred flowers
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