E Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower &; kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 ImATEUK iguLTIYATOK'S ^UIDJ:. r jro. SPRAGUEA. Nat. Oed., Portulaceoe. A charming plant, resembling the Calandrina, with Amaranthns-like Ao'a ''rs/ extremely graceful and beautiful; very effective as an edging, and valuable for rock-work; delighting in a rich loamy soil. Half-hardy annual. 341 Spragnea Umbellata. White, shaded and spotted with pui-ple; from Cal. |ft. STOCKS. (Ten-weeks). Nat. Ord., Cruciferce. The Stock Gillyflower i
E Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower &; kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 ImATEUK iguLTIYATOK'S ^UIDJ:. r jro. SPRAGUEA. Nat. Oed., Portulaceoe. A charming plant, resembling the Calandrina, with Amaranthns-like Ao'a ''rs/ extremely graceful and beautiful; very effective as an edging, and valuable for rock-work; delighting in a rich loamy soil. Half-hardy annual. 341 Spragnea Umbellata. White, shaded and spotted with pui-ple; from Cal. |ft. STOCKS. (Ten-weeks). Nat. Ord., Cruciferce. The Stock Gillyflower is one of the mo=it popular, beautiful, and important of our garden favorite*: and whether for bedding, massing, edging, or ribboning, it is un- surpassed, either for brilliancy and diversity of color, or profusion of bloom. The Ten-week Stock is the most universally cultivated, and usually blooms ten to twelve weeks after being sown. They grow fi'om six to fifteen inches high, and when cultivated in rich soil, and occasionally watered with weak guano-water, throw out an immense quantity of lateral spikes of bloom, so that each plant forms a perfect bouquet; and it would, indeed, be difficult to surpass the grand effect produced in beds or ribbons by these exquisite gems. 342 Stocks, New Large^flowered Pyramidal. The most popular stock in culti- vation : very choice: received from one of the most celebrated florists in Ger- manv. Twentv brightest and most distinct colors mixed 343 344 345 346 347 318 349 350 351 25 ,05 Good Mixed. A great varietj^ of colors Pure White . . . 10 Scarlet 10 Purple 10 Carmine 10 New Hybrid. Mixed between the rough and smooth-leaved varieties Dwarf German (from pot-plants). One of the finest. Mixed . Miniature. D warf; 4 inches high; fine for edging; finest mixed Giant, or Tree. A very valuable acquisition, by its large flowers being from one and a half to two inches in diameter; height of plants two to two and a half feet; unsurpassed for bedding
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