. 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. No. 968.—Perilla Nankinensis. No. PETUNIA. Price. A highly ornamental and profuse flowering, easily cultivated, gar
. 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. No. 968.—Perilla Nankinensis. No. PETUNIA. Price. A highly ornamental and profuse flowering, easily cultivated, garden favorite, equally effective and beautiful, whether grown in pots, for the decoration of the greenhouse and sitting-room window, or planted out in beds or mixed borders. The brilliancy and variety of its colors, combined with tlie duration of its blooming period, render it invaluable; suc- ceeds in any rich soil. Half-hardy perennials. 971 Petunia argentea, silvery white 972 — nyetaginiflora, white, fragrant 05 973 — phcEnicia, small, deep purple 05 975 — hybrida grandiflora, from a cele- brated German collection, flowers beau- tifully blotched, marbled, fringed and variegated, quality unsurpassed 25 976 — new double, the seed of this variety is unquestionably the best ever offered. Many of the flowers from which it was gathered were as double as the Camel- lia and measured three Inches in diameter, most exquisitely marked with various shades of violet, purple, maroon and scarlet upon different colored grounds, producing a splendid effect. One-third of the plants raised from this variety of seed last season produced double flowers, while the single ones from the same packet of seed were marvels of beauty in their various shadings of color 25 982 — new fringed varieties, consisting of a great vaiiety of colors, beautifully and finely fringed and blotched 25 1472 — new double fringed.—This variety is the result of most careful fecunda- tion of the large f
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