. Plants, seeds, bulbs, and flowers. Nursery stock New Hampshire Keene Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. ELLI8 BBOTHEBS' CATALOGUE. 27 VIOLETS Lady Hume Campbell. Tins is a disUnct and lovely new Violet that has become the most popular double variety among florists, thousands of them now being grown for cut flowers. Among the doubles it is beyond question the best for amateur culture, for the reason that it excels all others in strong, licaltliv growtli, and it will produce under ordinary conchtions, a won- derful abundance of flowers. Foliage
. Plants, seeds, bulbs, and flowers. Nursery stock New Hampshire Keene Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. ELLI8 BBOTHEBS' CATALOGUE. 27 VIOLETS Lady Hume Campbell. Tins is a disUnct and lovely new Violet that has become the most popular double variety among florists, thousands of them now being grown for cut flowers. Among the doubles it is beyond question the best for amateur culture, for the reason that it excels all others in strong, licaltliv growtli, and it will produce under ordinary conchtions, a won- derful abundance of flowers. Foliage laryf, clem and bright. The flowers are perfectly double, with most delightful violet fragrance. (See cut.) Price lo As.; 3 for 25 As.; 12 for 75 dts. California. For size it is easily superior to any Violet now in cultivation, while for richness and pur- ity of color, and fragrance of its flowers, it is immeas- urably superior to all other single blue varieties. It is a single flower, and while of extraordinary size, it does not by this improvement lose any of that sweet sim- plicity peculiar to the Vio- let, but with its clearly out- lined petals, it is the embodi- ment of graceful beauty. In color it is decidedly rich— a deep pure violet blue that does not fade but remains pure to the end. The flow- ers are exquisitely fragrant and borne on long stems, ten to fourteen inches in length, and well above the foliage. Price 10 dls.; 3 for 25 6ts.; 12 for 75 u have tried tliis one. Price 2 for 15 6t^.; 5 for 25 dts.; 12 for 50 Jts. Luxonne. A new French variety, not quite as profuse as abov-e, but with larger and longer stemmed flowers. This is looked upon with great favor by florists, who have given it a trial. Price 10 dts.; 75 dts. per doz. Russian. A hardy sort for open ground culture at the North. Nearly all varieties of the fine double sorts are not hardy enough to stand northern winters without glass protection. This Violet has been grown for years, planted in the open gr
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