Vick's illustrated catalogue and floral guide for 1868 . r baskets, and desirable in the garden. Set the plants about eighteeninches apart. pkt. cts. Abronia umbellata, rosy lilac; white eye ; should be treated as a half-hardy annual,. 10 fragrans, white ; hardy perennial, 25 ADONIS, Nat. Ord. Ranunculacea. A class of plants not very much cultivated. The flowers are very brilliant, but notnumerous compared with amount of foliage and size of plant; bloom for a long twelve inches apart. The following are hardy annuals. [See engraving, p. 14.]Adonis aestivalis, summer; scarlet; 1 foot, 1
Vick's illustrated catalogue and floral guide for 1868 . r baskets, and desirable in the garden. Set the plants about eighteeninches apart. pkt. cts. Abronia umbellata, rosy lilac; white eye ; should be treated as a half-hardy annual,. 10 fragrans, white ; hardy perennial, 25 ADONIS, Nat. Ord. Ranunculacea. A class of plants not very much cultivated. The flowers are very brilliant, but notnumerous compared with amount of foliage and size of plant; bloom for a long twelve inches apart. The following are hardy annuals. [See engraving, p. 14.]Adonis aestivalis, summer; scarlet; 1 foot, 10 autumnalis, autumn; blood-red; 1 foot, 10 AGERATUM, Nat. Ord. hardy annuals for beds or borders, and exceedingly useful for cutting;continue in flower the whole summer, and do well in almost any soil; flowers small, inclusters. Good for winter flowers in the house. Set six inches apart. [See eng., p. 14.] Ageratum conspicuum, pure white; about 18 inches high; fine, 10 Mexicanum, blue : 1 foot 5 14 VICKS ILLUSTRATED SEED CATALOGUE. ADONIS. ARERATTTM. AGERATUM — Continued. Ageratum Mexicanum nanum, blue; dwarf; 6 inches, 5 albiflonim, wliite-flowered; fine ; 1 foot, 10 nanum, very fine dwarf white, 10 coelestinum (Phalacraea) Tom Thumb, light blue; about a foot in height and of compact habit; abundant bloomer; fragrant, 10 ALONSOA, Nat. Ord. attractive tender perennials, but may be treated as half-hardy or tender sown in a hot-bed will produce flowers during the late summer and autumn to the house, they bloom well during the winter. Alonsoa Warszewiczii, the best variety, growing about 18 inches; flowers small, bright scarlet, forming a very pretty spike; set plants 8 or 10 inches apart, 10 grandifloraj large-flowered; scarlet; 2 feet, 10 ALSTRCEMERIA, Nat. Ord. , free-blooming plants. They will flower the first year in open ground, iftreated as tender annuals, but as they require car
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