Dreer's garden book 1922 (1922) Dreer's garden book 1922 dreersgardenbook1922henr Year: 1922 Autumn Giant, or Lady Lenox Cosmos COSMOS Beautiful autumn-blooming plants. They produce thousands of artistic flowers in pure white, pink and crimson shades, fur- nishing an abundance of cut blooms for autumn decorations when other flowers are scarce. Should be sown in Spring in the open ground, when danger of frost is past, or the seed may be started under cover and afterwards transplanted. Plant not less than 18 inches apart in rows or in masses in beds. When the plants are about a foot high the to
Dreer's garden book 1922 (1922) Dreer's garden book 1922 dreersgardenbook1922henr Year: 1922 Autumn Giant, or Lady Lenox Cosmos COSMOS Beautiful autumn-blooming plants. They produce thousands of artistic flowers in pure white, pink and crimson shades, fur- nishing an abundance of cut blooms for autumn decorations when other flowers are scarce. Should be sown in Spring in the open ground, when danger of frost is past, or the seed may be started under cover and afterwards transplanted. Plant not less than 18 inches apart in rows or in masses in beds. When the plants are about a foot high the tops should be pinched out to induce a bushy growth. They prefer a rather lipht, not too rich soil, but do well almost anywhere. The sorts offered below produce the finest flowers, but bloom late, and for points north of Philadelphia it is safer to get the extra early flowering type. AUTUHN GIANT, or LENOX This, the latest development in this popular autumn flower, bears gigantic flowers, with wide, overlapping petals of splendid substance, making perfectly circular flowers, which is borne on very long stems. We offer three colors and mixed as under PER PKT, 2093 Giant Pink. A beautiful deep rosy-pink. J oz., 25 cts 10 2094 Giant White. The white-flowered form of the above. \ oz., 25 cts 10 2096 Giant Crimson. Rich crimson. J oz., 25 cts 10 A packet each of the 3 colors, 25 cts. 2100 Giant Hix-ed. Contains an even proportion of the three colors. i oz., 20 cts.; oz., 50 cts , 10 EXTRA EARI^Y OR MIDSUMMER GIANT COSMOS Seeds sown in the open ground April 27lh produced plants that were covered with bloom July 20th, two months before the late-flowering kinds. By careful selection they now have flow- ers as large as the late-flowering kinds, and'will undoubtedly perfect their blooms in the most northerly States. PER )^ OZ. PER PKT 2085 Early Crimson. Very rich 30 10 2086 Early Pinl<. A pretty shade 30 10 2087 Early Pure White. 30 10 A pkt. each of the 3 colors for 2
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