. 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. Tigridias. COLOCASIA (CALADIUM) One of the most beautiful and striking of th'e Ornamental Foliaged Pla
. 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. Tigridias. COLOCASIA (CALADIUM) One of the most beautiful and striking of th'e Ornamental Foliaged Plants in cultivation, either for culture in large pots or tubs, or for planting out on the lawn. It will grow in any garden soil, and is of the easiest culture. When of fun size it stands about five feet high, with immense leaves, often measuring four feet in length by two and a half in breadth, very .smooth, of a light green color, beautifully veined and variegated with dark green. The roots should be preserved in dry sand in the cellar during Winter out of reach of frost. A plant should be in every collection, however small. Price 25 to 50 cents each; §2 to ^ per doz. ; extra size roots, 75 cents and § each. i>lADEmA VIXE. A half-hardy tuberous root, climbing plant, of rapid growth, bearing copious and graceful racemes of deliciously fra- grant white flowers, very useful for screens, trellis or rock-work. 10 to 25 cents each ; § to § per doz. ; §5 per hundred. SUPEKB DOFBI^E DAHEIAS. Our stock of the above is the most extensive in the coimtry, and embraces every desirable variety in cultivation. Dry roots of Dahlias grown in small pots through the Summer, which will bear to any part of the world, will be furnished after tbe first of October. In consequence of the compact manner in which these can be put up, they are particularly adapted for sending to a distance. They will flower equally weU with the ground roots, and can be furnished at much
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