. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. Burpee's $ Collection of TEN NEW AND EAEE GLADIOn This is the ^andest collection of Neiv and Rare Gladioli euer offered^ embracing tzvo entirely new sorts, now offered for the first time {the Sultan and Octoroon), •which can be procured onlyfrojn us. The Sultan, a very long spike, enormously large flow- ers, set so perfectly on the spike that they form one solid mass of bloom 6 to 7 inches wide to i foot or more in lengtn; r
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. Burpee's $ Collection of TEN NEW AND EAEE GLADIOn This is the ^andest collection of Neiv and Rare Gladioli euer offered^ embracing tzvo entirely new sorts, now offered for the first time {the Sultan and Octoroon), •which can be procured onlyfrojn us. The Sultan, a very long spike, enormously large flow- ers, set so perfectly on the spike that they form one solid mass of bloom 6 to 7 inches wide to i foot or more in lengtn; rosy flesh, splashed and flamed with deep pink; large, distinct blotch, of crimson-velvet appear- ance. This blotch is distinct from any other in exist- ence, so deep and brilliant is its color. Duchess of Edinburgh, purplish rose with a carmine stripe on the lower divisions, a flower of fine form and great substance; in England considered, without ex- ception, the finest variety ever sent out. Octoroon, Light, delicate buff, with soft tinge of rosy salmon, lemon blotch on lower petal; flowers of fine form and substance, spike tall and straight; an entirely new color in Gladioli. Saundersoni. Rich orange-scarlet; the texture of the petals has a remarkably soft appearance, glistening and sparkling like cr>-staL 50 cts. Africain. An entirely distinct variety' of quite a novel color; slatj-- brown on scarlet ground, streaked with scarlet and pure white, with white blotch. 50 cts. I Masque de Fer. Bronze-red and velvety black, with ' yellow arrow. 50 cts, Astree. Pure white, with distinct \nolet-carmine blotch; | throat suffused with pale lilac. 25 cts. Flamboyant. Ver>'large flowers, fier\-scarlet sects, i Ondine. White, tinted with lilac; small dark violet I blotch, flamed with lilac-carmine on the edges. 30 cts. \ Hesperide. Profusely blotched and flaked bright rosy ; salmon on a pure white ground. 50 cts. 0"0ne good bulb of each of the above rare varieties will be s
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