. Dreer's garden calendar : 1898. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. ^^» COSMOS Beautiful autumn-blooming plants. The flowers are borne profusely on long stems and present a charming appearance when the plants are in full bloom. Should be sown in spring, in the open ground, w-hen danger of frost IS past, or the seed may be started under cover and afterwards transplanted. It is of the easiest culture, planted about 18 inches apart in rows or in masses in beds. When the plants are about a foot high, the lops should be pi
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1898. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. ^^» COSMOS Beautiful autumn-blooming plants. The flowers are borne profusely on long stems and present a charming appearance when the plants are in full bloom. Should be sown in spring, in the open ground, w-hen danger of frost IS past, or the seed may be started under cover and afterwards transplanted. It is of the easiest culture, planted about 18 inches apart in rows or in masses in beds. When the plants are about a foot high, the lops should be pinched out to induce a bushy growth, and this should be continued until the middle of July, when they should have formed nice bushy plants 3 feet high by the same in diameter. They produce, from September until cut down by frost, thousands of beautiful flowers in pure white, pink, and crim- son shades, furnishing an abundance of cut blooms for autumn decoration when other flowers are scarce. (See cut.) OZ. PKT. OZ. PKT. 5651 Crimson 75 5654 Liffht Pink .75 Coreopsis Lanxeolat*. COREOPSIS. 5356 Lauceolata. Thi^ is one of the finest of hardy planis, with large, showy, bright golden-yellow flowers, fiecly produced on long stalLs from June till frost, excellent for cutting, will thrive in almost any situation. 5 cts. per pkt 6371 Lanceolata gran- diflora,Calitoruia Suubeanis. Fhese lovely improved varie- ties are much larger and more beautiful than any heretofore offered ; the flow- ers are exquisitely formed, some sau- cer-shaped, others cupped, delicately incurved, while some are quite flat, others like great Buttercups. The petals are broad, with plain round edges in some flow- ers, in others they are pinked, toothed or irregularlyfring- ed; some are semi-double ; in many the petals are dain- tily curled. They vary in color from pale light yel- low to orange-yellow, some of them being darker in shade around the eye. The stems are long and the flowers keep fresh in water for a we
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