Washburn & Co.'s amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden : containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds : also a list of French hybrid gladiolus, . ced inbunches of large size, and continuing a long time to bloom. Contrasts admira-bly when bedded out with other plants ,25 2012 Palava flexuosa. Highly recommended, newly introduced from Bolivia by Mr. R. Pearce. 15 to 18 inches high, branching freely, it produces its charming flow-ers, of an inch in diameter, in the greatest profusion. Its leaves are very neatand graceful. The color of
Washburn & Co.'s amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden : containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds : also a list of French hybrid gladiolus, . ced inbunches of large size, and continuing a long time to bloom. Contrasts admira-bly when bedded out with other plants ,25 2012 Palava flexuosa. Highly recommended, newly introduced from Bolivia by Mr. R. Pearce. 15 to 18 inches high, branching freely, it produces its charming flow-ers, of an inch in diameter, in the greatest profusion. Its leaves are very neatand graceful. The color of the flowers is of a bright rosy pink ; the base of thesepals and petals is almost black, producing a dark eye, contrasting most beau-tifully with the other portions of the flower. For open-air and pot-culture, pro-ducing its numerous flowers throughout the greater portion of the summer andearly autumn. Received the first prize at the Great International HorticulturalExhibition at London, 1S66 50 2013 Petunia Hybrid striped large flowerinp. Mixed. First-class novelty, with large red, violet, purple, or crimson flowers, covered with large stains, spots or striped,of a pure white, often star-shaped * 25. POTKNTILLA HYKRYJja PLOKH PLBMOL 2014 Potentilla Hybrida fiore pleno. T!i:s fine perennial is a great improvement on the old varieties, producing a large proportion of double and semi-doubie flowers .25 2015 Phlox Drummondii Heynhoidi. The New True Scarlet Hhlox (Benary). There is already in our gardens a bright variety of much value, known under the nameof P. scarlet (coccinea); but its flowers, though of a very brilliant color, are tarof being the true scarlet, and only of a radiant, bright dark-crimson tint. Theflowers of this new variety offered here are of the pure true scarlet, with a slighttinge of copper-color. The Phloxes, among which we have a good portion ofdistinct tender and bright tints, belong to our best and most useful Annuals; butthis new variety will have the f
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