. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. CATALOGUE OF Till-: YOKOHAMA XURSKRY Ltd. (1913^-. P/KONIA MOUrAN. PyEONIA MOUTAN. (TREE PEONIES). ^^HESE immense beautiful and well known flowers form another source of Japanese pride. JL We open every year in April, the Annual Peony Show in our i^ardens, when we exhibit more than 5,000 plants of different colours, which attract a great deal of attentic n and surprise thousands of visitors. This
. Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. / for sale by the Yokohama Nursery Co., Nursery Catalogue. CATALOGUE OF Till-: YOKOHAMA XURSKRY Ltd. (1913^-. P/KONIA MOUrAN. PyEONIA MOUTAN. (TREE PEONIES). ^^HESE immense beautiful and well known flowers form another source of Japanese pride. JL We open every year in April, the Annual Peony Show in our i^ardens, when we exhibit more than 5,000 plants of different colours, which attract a great deal of attentic n and surprise thousands of visitors. This handsome hardy shrub throws its flower-buds earh' and if these are frozen and in this condition the sun's rays fall upon them they are more or less injured, therefore it is advisable to select position where the influence of the sun's ra}' is n( t felt till after 10 or 11 o'clock and net exposed too much to heavy winds, therefore a pc sitic n amcng.^t shrubs or under a west or north wall may secure the greatest amount of success. The plant is a greedy feeder and should have abundance of horse or cow dung given to it annually. The plant is grafted on the single purple stock and care should be taken to rub ( ff all grc wth from the stock and remove all suckers from time to time. As a pot plant it is handsome but after flowering it should be planted out to mature its growth. Our collection of best assorted varieties $ per 100 plants. Diameter of flower given in inches. 1. Yoyo-no-lioniare, beautiful rich scarlet petals with tasselled primrose anthers, 10 inches. 2. Y«aso-okiiia, white slightly tinted cream yellow, 12 inches. 3. Kainada-fiiji, purpler-rose petals shading to rosy lilac, 10 inches. 4. Kumoi-dziini, deep purple, very peculiar, 12 inches. 5. Gioku-slio-kaliii, pure white petals with tasselled golden anthers surrounded with rose- purple feathers, 12 inches. 6. Adzuma-saki, rosy scarlet petals, 9 inches. Price in U. S. Gold. Please note that these images are
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