. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. 57 TIGRIDIAS (Tiger Flower). A genus of Mexican Ijulbs, growing about one and a hall feet
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. 57 TIGRIDIAS (Tiger Flower). A genus of Mexican Ijulbs, growing about one and a hall feet liigti, and producing flowers of tlie most exguisite beauty; flowers large, about four- incbes across, of singu- larly curious sbape, and tbe color of eacb variety gorgeous and purelj- contrasted. Xoflower can surpass it in beauty. In bloom from Julj' to tbe fiist of October. Tbe bulbs may be planted anj' time in May, or tbe first of June, about two inches deep, in anj' garden soil, and require no particular care. In Autumn after tbe tops are killed by frost, take up tbe bulbs and keep tbem in a dry place away from tbe frost until tbe time of planting in tbe Spring. Each. Boz. Conchiflora, richest orange, variegated with golden yellow, and spotted with black § § Pavonia, richest scarlet, tinged and spotted with pure yeUow 15 CAIiADIOIS (.Fancy Lieared Varieties). Having tried the last season to grow the Caladium as a bedding plant we are satisfied they will become a general favorite at no distant day. Planted in the open ground about the first of June, they grow rapidly and spread their leaves, glowing with the rich colors of the tropics, until faded by the Autumn frosts. Margined and delicately traced with a net-work of shaded green on a snow-white ground, bronze tipped with lake, showing a metallic luster in the sun, rose, violet, caiTuine, golden green, crimson, al- most all colors shaded and marked as can be seen on ne other leaves, give them a rare beauty, i
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