Archive image from page 34 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1930 curriesfarmgarde19curr Year: 1930 ( Incarvillea. FOXGLOVE (DIGITALIS) Remarkably handsome, hardy perennials, bearing beautifully mottled thimble shaped Rowers in great abundance on tall, upright stems. Sow in spring and transplant in fall. Finest Mixed Colors. Pkt., 10c. GIANT SHIRLEY FOXGLOVES Digitalis—-This magnificent strain raised by the late Rev. \V. Wilks, to whom we are also indebted for the Shirley Poppies, is unquestionably the greatest improvement ever made in Foxgloves. The
Archive image from page 34 of Currie's farm and garden annual. Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1930 curriesfarmgarde19curr Year: 1930 ( Incarvillea. FOXGLOVE (DIGITALIS) Remarkably handsome, hardy perennials, bearing beautifully mottled thimble shaped Rowers in great abundance on tall, upright stems. Sow in spring and transplant in fall. Finest Mixed Colors. Pkt., 10c. GIANT SHIRLEY FOXGLOVES Digitalis—-This magnificent strain raised by the late Rev. \V. Wilks, to whom we are also indebted for the Shirley Poppies, is unquestionably the greatest improvement ever made in Foxgloves. The very vigorous plants attain a height of 5 to 7 feet, with spikes of bloom 4 fed in length, closely set with flowers of unusual size, ranging in color from the purest white to dari handsomely spotted and blotched with crimson, maroon and chocolate. This is certain to super- sede all other strains of Foxgloves. Seeds sown this spring will produce plants that will make a glorious show next season. Pkt., 15c; 2 pkts, 25c. GERANIUM Seed sown early in the season will produce flowering plants the first year. Pkt. Zonal—Choice Mixed $ Lady Washington (Fancy Pelargoniums) —Choice Mixed 15 INCARVILLEA Hardy Gloxinia VARIABILIS HYBRIDS A new perennial, which, if planted early in the spring, can be handled as an annual. It is quite valuable for filling and border work and produces a good showing of medium-sized, at- tractive trumpet-shaped flowers the entire sum- mer. The colors range from yellow and white to deep pink, with many shades of pink in the collection. It is also good as a filler in bouquet work and is a very prolific grower, being easily crown from seed. This mixture of hybrids Incarvillea is a result of several years of pains- taking hybridizing by our plant breeder and we consider it a valuable addition to the per- ennial border. Pkt., 25c. GEUM Pkt. Mrs. Bradshaw—A beautiful hardy peren- nial, bearing a profusion of large, double, scarlet flowers all summer u
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