. CROSS FERTILIZING PETUNIAS AT OUR NURSERIES AT RIVERTON. (From a Photograph.) We have long been celebrated for our magnificent strains of double and single Petunias, which we endeavor to improve from year to year by careful hybridization and selection. •01- PETUNIA. & For out-door' decorations or house culture few plants are equal to this class. They commence flowering early, and continue a mass of bloom throughout the whole season, until killed by frost; easily cultivated, requiring a rich soil and a sunny situation. Of late years the single-striped, mottled and double varieties have be
. CROSS FERTILIZING PETUNIAS AT OUR NURSERIES AT RIVERTON. (From a Photograph.) We have long been celebrated for our magnificent strains of double and single Petunias, which we endeavor to improve from year to year by careful hybridization and selection. •01- PETUNIA. & For out-door' decorations or house culture few plants are equal to this class. They commence flowering early, and continue a mass of bloom throughout the whole season, until killed by frost; easily cultivated, requiring a rich soil and a sunny situation. Of late years the single-striped, mottled and double varieties have been greatly improved. The strains we offer of our own growing, we can safely say without contradiction, are the best that can be procured either in this country or Europe. SINGLE VARIETIES. PER PKT. 6290 Dreer's Single Large Flowering Fringed. A choice selection ; the flowers are of very large size and beautiful shape, deep throated, and of varied and bril- liant colors, and beautifully fringed 25 6285 Giants of California. Flowers very large, in great variety of colors and markings, with broad deep yellow throats, veined 25 6286 Clematis-Flowered. A distinct form of this popular flower, the rich purple-blue of one of the vari- eties bearing a striking resemblance to the Clematis Jackmanii. Dark and light blue mixed 25 6275 Dwarf Inimitable. Star Petunia, compact grow- ing variety, flowers cherry-red with a white 10 6274 Pure White. Desirable for cemetery beds, or where large masses of white are wanted 10 6300 Striped and Blotched, Mixed. All colors. Per oz. § 10 6310 Fine Mixed. Oz. 75 cts 5 6299 Imported Collection of Petunia, Large- Flowering Single, 12 varieties $ PENTSTEMON. One of our most beautiful and attractive herbaceous plants ; bearing long, graceful spikes of rich-colored flowers ; will bloom the first season if sown early in March, and planted out in May; half-hardy perennials; 2 feet. (See cut.) 6260 Pentstemon, Mixed. Crimson, purple,
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