E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 Calendula Pongei, fl. pi. Double white, fine, 1 foot Raiiuiiculoides. Ranunculus-flowered Officinalis Superba. Golden orange, black eye, beautifollj imbricated, Sulphurea. New sulphur-colored pot marigold; very double and beautiful- CALLIRHOE. Nat. Ord., Malvacece. Too much cannot be said in praise of this beautiful summer-flowering annual, from two to three feet in height, with green sub-digitate leaves and leafy stercs, terminating in large panicled racemes of rich viol
E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 Calendula Pongei, fl. pi. Double white, fine, 1 foot Raiiuiiculoides. Ranunculus-flowered Officinalis Superba. Golden orange, black eye, beautifollj imbricated, Sulphurea. New sulphur-colored pot marigold; very double and beautiful- CALLIRHOE. Nat. Ord., Malvacece. Too much cannot be said in praise of this beautiful summer-flowering annual, from two to three feet in height, with green sub-digitate leaves and leafy stercs, terminating in large panicled racemes of rich violet or purple crimson close-petalled flowers, with white centre, each from one to one and a half inches m width, and partially clipped; commences to bloom when about six inches high, and continues to yield a succession of its numerous attractive flowers throughout the summer and autumn, till hard frost, forming an elegant object for groups or beds. 76 Callirlioe Pedata. Rich violet-purple, with white eye, from X. America. 2 f. 77 Verticillata. A pretty creeper; flowers like C. Pedata, but doable the size, CALLIOPSIS, or COREOPSIS. Nat. Ord., Compositce. This genus is amongst the most showy, free-flowering, and beautiful of hardy annuals. The tall varieties are very effective in mixed borders and fronts of slu-ub- beries; and the dwarf kinds, from their close, compact habit of growth, make fine bedding-plants, and are valuable for edgings; wliile the different varieties make very pretty ribbons. Hardy annuals. 78 Calliopsis Bicoior Tinctoria. A well-known favorite, the flowers having a dark-crimson, brown centre, with yellow rays. 2^ feet .... 79 Atropurpurea. Yellow centre, surrounded by a circle of dark pur- ple, beyond which, to the extremity' of the petals, it is a fine red. 2 ft. . 80 Cardiminifolia Hybrida. Brilliant yellow; growth, pyramidal. 1^ f. 81 Coronata. Yellow; disk encircled with crimson ?pots; handsome. 1-^ f. 82 Drummondii. Yellow, with crimson centre; fine; fro
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