. McCullough's seed catalogue and amateur's guide 1896. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Cincinnati; Vegetables; Flowers; Fruit trees; Agricultural implements; Commercial catalogs. Gaillardia Lorenziana. EUPHORBIA. per pkt. ^^n^^^M^^Smlf' '312 Euphorbia Heterophylla. The Annual Poinsetta, "Mexican JSâ¢* â â â Fire Plant," or " Fire on the J^^S^^^»S^EPcw^H7^^ Mountain " An annual of the ^^Tm^^E&Pr'/lm \G&!Mtam easiest culture, forming bushy plants three to four fee
. McCullough's seed catalogue and amateur's guide 1896. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Cincinnati; Vegetables; Flowers; Fruit trees; Agricultural implements; Commercial catalogs. Gaillardia Lorenziana. EUPHORBIA. per pkt. ^^n^^^M^^Smlf' '312 Euphorbia Heterophylla. The Annual Poinsetta, "Mexican JSâ¢* â â â Fire Plant," or " Fire on the J^^S^^^»S^EPcw^H7^^ Mountain " An annual of the ^^Tm^^E&Pr'/lm \G&!Mtam easiest culture, forming bushy plants three to four feet high, with glossy green leaves, which form at the ends of the branches into large whorls and bracts, IISReSMPIBMM which in summer and autumn rmwmXaKnmli become blazed with a darker, fiery scarlet, so that only a tip of green is left. The effect is indescribably grand. The seeds ^afj^TIHlWS gt ow ea ^ily, if sown in the open ground as soon as it is warm enough, but if they can be started early in the house or ^^^^^B^HMSU^ hot-bed the brilliant scarlet color will appear much earlier in the season, and is always re- /^^HKTBP!W^S»SM^ZtoA- â tained until frost. The plants W&^X^s&MES^mi should be grown in a warm sit- uation fully exposed to the sun, which enhances the brilliancy and hastens the coloring. If they are pruned when young they branch out into finely- formed bushes. This "Annual Poinsettia " is also valuable as a pot plant for house culture. Seeds sown early in the sum- Euphorbia Heterophylla. mer will produce plants that retain their glowing scarlet leaves and bracts all winter. (See cut.) 10 203 Variegata. " Snow on the ; A hardy, showy border plant, with foliage veined and margined with white. Very attractive ; V/,it. Hardy annual 5 FERNS. These ornamental plants are too well known to need any description. Sow in spring, in shallow boxes, lightly covering the seed with soil. Keep moist with a cov- ering of fine moss, and
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