E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 PEH PKT. toSi 1086 1987 1088 logi logs Oxalis rosea delicata. —A piirtioularly chjinnintj variety of the O. rosea. Flow- ers rosy-salmoii, tunuiifr to a darker shade tow ards Iho edges of the petalB. Admirably adai)ted either tor edgings or small (lower-beds Parsley, New Fern-leaved. — Most exquisite in form and color. Invaluable as a eaniishinj' plant, and admirablv suited for laLxing with dwarf oruameiilal foliated plants in the flower-garden, and also for table olle
E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 PEH PKT. toSi 1086 1987 1088 logi logs Oxalis rosea delicata. —A piirtioularly chjinnintj variety of the O. rosea. Flow- ers rosy-salmoii, tunuiifr to a darker shade tow ards Iho edges of the petalB. Admirably adai)ted either tor edgings or small (lower-beds Parsley, New Fern-leaved. — Most exquisite in form and color. Invaluable as a eaniishinj' plant, and admirablv suited for laLxing with dwarf oruameiilal foliated plants in the flower-garden, and also for table ollen taken from blooms of the newest and best doable fringed sorts, the flowei^s rivalling in doubleness those of the I>ouble Garden Poppies, and cnudating in color the richness and delicacy of tuit of the linest Carnations. (See cut.) Petunia, double, lar^e-flowering, green-edged. — Tliis is a very superb strain. The seed will produce about thirty per cent, at least, of double flowers Drummondii Nana Compacta. — This t)l:nit is a beautiful comj)act dwarf bush, closely covered wiih flowers. On account of its dwarf habit, it is equally suitable for border or bedding purposes as for pot culture. Tliere are two vaiieties of this new type; one a tier>-red, and the other a bright rose, i)roducin^ together the most beautiful elTect, and proving an efficient substitute for ijedding genmiums Phlox Drummondii Nana Compacta. —Fiery re»l Phlox Drummondii Nana Compacta. —Chiunois rose Phlox Drummondii Nana Fireball. — New robust variety, fonning dense dwarf bushes studded with scarlet dowel's. It is remarkably prof use in bloom, and will be found valuable for bedding Phlox Drummondii GrandiHora. — Kxt:ee' striking by a large centre, aud fine dark violet eye .... Rhodanthe Manglesi flore pleno Prince Dismarck.—This is a double flower- ing form of the pretty and well-known Eiiodanthe Manglesi. This is really a valuable acquisition Silene Pendula Compa
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