. 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. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. 32 AMATEUR CULTIVATOR S GUIDE. CHRYSANTHEMUM POMPONE. CHUYSA-IVTIIEjVITJM:. Nat. Ord., Compositie. The following are the tall, double-flowered annual Chr>'santhemums, wliich, when well grown, are amongst the most showy and effective of summer-flowering border-plants. They are also very effective in large pots for placing about terraces. The dwarf k
. 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. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. 32 AMATEUR CULTIVATOR S GUIDE. CHRYSANTHEMUM POMPONE. CHUYSA-IVTIIEjVITJM:. Nat. Ord., Compositie. The following are the tall, double-flowered annual Chr>'santhemums, wliich, when well grown, are amongst the most showy and effective of summer-flowering border-plants. They are also very effective in large pots for placing about terraces. The dwarf kinds make shov\^ bedding-plants. 345 Chrysanthemum, Double-white. Extra fine hardy annual; from Sicily. 2 feet . 346 Quilled. Extra fine 05 347 Yellow ; extra fine hardy annual; fi'om Sicily. 2 feet 03 348 Tricolor. Yellow and white; very showy; fi-om Barbary. i foot . . .05 349 ^^ Burridgeanum. Crimson, with white centre; extra fine hardy annual ; fi-om Bar- i foot . 10 350 Venustum. White, with crimson centre ; fine hardy annual; from Barbary .10 351 Mixed. The above varieties mixed 05 The Chrysanthemum Indicum and Indicum Nanum are well-known varieties, so exten- sively grown for late fall flowers. No garden should be without them. The seed we offer has been saved from the very finest new varieties, and will give a good proportion of doi'.ble flowers. 352 Chrysanthemum Indicum. Tall, double, extra fine half-hardy perennial; from China. 3 feet 25 353 Nanum, Double-mixed (Dwarf Pompone), Half-hardy perennial; from China, i foot 25 Nat. Ord., Ranunculacea. 354 Cimicifuga Americana. Fine, hardy herbaceous plant, with elegant tall spikes of white flowers. 5 feet 10 Nat. Ord., Composita. A well-known favorite free-flowering plant, which may be had in splendid bloom through the greater portion of the year, and, from the richness and diversity of its colors, is one of tlie most valuable of our early spring flowers. Succeeds best in a light,
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