. Amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden: containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds; also a list of French hybrid gladiolus. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. 26 AMATEUR cultivator's GUIDE NO. PRICE Nat. Ord., Temstromiacea. Favorite winter and spring-flowering plants of great beauty. The amateur, in sowing seed saved from tlie following choice sorts, has a fair chance of raising some valuable varie- ties ; succeed in sandy peat and loam. Half-hardy shrubs. 230 Camellia Japonica, Mixed. From
. Amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden: containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds; also a list of French hybrid gladiolus. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. 26 AMATEUR cultivator's GUIDE NO. PRICE Nat. Ord., Temstromiacea. Favorite winter and spring-flowering plants of great beauty. The amateur, in sowing seed saved from tlie following choice sorts, has a fair chance of raising some valuable varie- ties ; succeed in sandy peat and loam. Half-hardy shrubs. 230 Camellia Japonica, Mixed. From a choice named collection of double flowers . $ :I» Nat. Ord., Cajnpamilacex. The Campanulas are strictly biennial plants by pot-culture, and, without exception, some of the finest of all garden plants for decoration in conservatory, greenhouse, and flower-gar- den. By good culture in pots, the tall varieties assume a magnificent effect, attaining Yive to seven feet or more in height, with lateral flower racemes from the base, four to five feet in length. The beautiful white variety forms a most striking contrast. By good arrange- ment, a rich and imposing effect can be formed, altogether unequalled by any other plants. 231 Campanula Loreii. Fine, with large, expanded blue blossoms, which continue to be pro- duced in succession through the summer; will grow in almost any situation; should be well thinned, so that the plants will be eight or ten inches apart; desira- ble for edging, or bedding, 01 masse. Half foot 05 232 — Alba. Differing from the above only in color; white. Half foot . .05 233 Mixed. The above two varieties mixed 05 234 Pentagonia. Blue; will bloom beautifully in open ground; requires the same treatment as C. Loreii. Three-quarters foot 05 235 Alba. White variety of preceding 05 236 Carpatica. Light, violet dwarf, and free; fine for beds and edging, &c. Half- hardy perennial 05 237 Alba. White variety of the preceding 05 238 Persicifoll
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