Archive image from page 85 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 MO. PBICK Nat. Obd., Polemoniacea. 685 PbloX) Perennial, Mixed. From a collection of upwards of one hundred va- rieties, embracing ail those splendid varieties introduced during the last five years, of which the produce may be fully equal to the original . .25 PICOTEE PINK. Nat. Ord., Caryophyttacea. Favorite and well-known plants of great beauty, combining with the most per- fect form the ri


Archive image from page 85 of Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878 curtiscobbwashbu1878curt Year: 1878 MO. PBICK Nat. Obd., Polemoniacea. 685 PbloX) Perennial, Mixed. From a collection of upwards of one hundred va- rieties, embracing ail those splendid varieties introduced during the last five years, of which the produce may be fully equal to the original . .25 PICOTEE PINK. Nat. Ord., Caryophyttacea. Favorite and well-known plants of great beauty, combining with the most per- fect form the richest and the most beautiful colors. They have a delicate per- fume, are easily cultivated, and bloom profusely. Hardy perennial. 586 Picotee Pink. Good mixed 10 587 Perpetual, or Tree. Saved from stage-flowers. IJ feet . . . .50 PHYGELIUS. Nat. Okd., Scrophulariacea. A handsome free-flowering plant, with large, richly-marked, tubular blossoms; succeeds in light rich soil. Half-hardy perennial. 588 Phygelius Capensis. Large carmine, tubular flowers; inside golden-yellow. From CaflVaria. IJ feet. (See page 41.) 26 POLYANTHUS. Nat. Ord., Primtdacas. A profuse-flowering plant, too well known to need description. The seeds which we ofier may be expected to produce the richest color. Hardy pereimial. 589 Polyanthus (Primula elatiw). Good mixed 10 k 590 £xtra Mixed. Saved from named flowers 26 yOTENTlLLA HTBHIDA FLORE PLENO. POTENTILLA. Nat. Ord., RoscKea. These are very handsome herbaceous plants, and, from their hardiness and showy character, ai-e exceedingly useful and ornamental. They may be employed to advantiige in tilling up vacant nookn and comers. Hardy perennials. 591 Poteiitillii, Mixed. Finest mixed 592 Ilybrida flore pleno. This is a great improvement on the old varietios. producing a large projiortion of double and semi-double flowers PYRETIIRUM. Nat. Ord., Com/»iVn. Handsome, free-floworing, highly ornamental plants, producing a fine eflect in the mixed flower and


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