. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. Tuberose, the Pearl One-half the average size. BEGONIA Begonia Tuberous-Rooted. Now hybrids of Bo
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. Tuberose, the Pearl One-half the average size. BEGONIA Begonia Tuberous-Rooted. Now hybrids of Boliviensis, Sedeni, Chelsoni, and others mixed. These splendid varieties produce branching and at the same time tufted plants from twelve to eighteen inches high, covered tlio whole Summer, until frosts set in, with bi iglit and elegant flowers, succeeding as well in the shade as in the suu. Its utility for bedding cannot be overestimated. Masses on a lawn present a gorgeous aspect and elicit general admiration. Flowering bulbs, 50 cents each ; $ per dozen. APIOS TUBEROSA. A liardj' herbaceous perennial belonging to the natuial order Leguminosae, or Pea family. It is an elegant climbing plant from two to five feet higli. The flowers grow in dense lateral clusters of from twenty to thirty flowers each, of a chocolate brown color, and very fragrant, resembling violets. It remains in flower from July to September. Tlie flowers are succeeded by pods about two inches long. It produces on its roots tubers a half inch in diameter and an inch long; in good soil they will grow to more than twice that diameter. 50 cents each. HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS (Native Varieties). A choice collection of our native plants, many of •which were collected by experiened in tlio newly explored r(>gions of tlie Sierra Nevada and the llocky Mountains, and are quite new in this section. 12 distinct species and varieties, early and late blooming, for $ 25 distinct species and varieties
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