. Catalogue of hardy ornamental trees, shrubs, and vines, hardy flowers and large and small fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Catalogue of Reading Nursery, Mass.— J. W. Manning, Proprietor. 133. Potentilla Mars. POTENTILLA - Cinquifoil. (Rosacea!.) As a class, Potentillas are of the highest ornamental merit, both in the habit of growth and the foliage of the plant, as well as in their immense blooming qualities. The species
. Catalogue of hardy ornamental trees, shrubs, and vines, hardy flowers and large and small fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Catalogue of Reading Nursery, Mass.— J. W. Manning, Proprietor. 133. Potentilla Mars. POTENTILLA - Cinquifoil. (Rosacea!.) As a class, Potentillas are of the highest ornamental merit, both in the habit of growth and the foliage of the plant, as well as in their immense blooming qualities. The species are of a bushy habit, and generally bloom in large, broad panicles held well above the foliage, while the named varieties produce flowers in constant succession throughout a long season, and vary in different degrees of semi-double and double forms of flowers, and combine a wide range of color. All are brilliant and effective, and are of easiest culture in any good garden soil. They have proved perfectly hardy. A class we can especially recommend. Charming for the border or for massing. P. formosa. [Showy C] 2 ft., 6-9. Nepaul. Large- branched heads of showy, deep-red flowers. 35 cents. P. gracilis. 2 ft., 7-8. Amer. Broad heads of clear yel- low flowers. 35 cents. P. grandiflora. IS in., (5-7. Siberia. Broad heads of Flowers showily marked with deep rose in centre, shading to 6-7. Nepaul. 25 cents. Brilliant red bright-yellow flowers. 35 cents. P. Hapwoodiana. 18 in., 6-8. white at the edge. 35 cents. P. insignis (argyrophylla). 18 in Silvery foliage. Bright-yellow flowers. P. Thurberii. 2 ft., 6-8. Col. flowers. 25 cents. P. tridentata. [Three-toothed 6 in., 6-7. N. Eng. Handsome three-lobed evergreen foliage, form- ing broad tufts. Flowers pure white, in small clus- ters, but borne in immense profusion. Fine for cover- ing dry banks or forming edgings for the rockery. 15 cents; $ dozen; $10 per hundred. Named Hybrid Potentillas. A comparatively new class of hardy p
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