Identifier: manualofeverythi18pete_0 (find matches)
Title: Manual of everything for the garden : 1894
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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DIOLUS. LEMOINES J^VRQE STAINED HYBRIDS. Engeissiri. Very deep pink ; lower petals blotched bright maroon. Bnfant de Nancy. Flowers medium sized, purplish red, lower petals deep crimson. Color and blotching entirely unknown heretofore in Gladioli.Incendiary. Velvety dark red ; magnificently marked.Lamartine. Large flowers ; rosy flesh, large bright maroon blotch on the lower petals.Lemoinei. Good-sized flowers, closely set on the spike; upper petals of a creamy white color, tinted salmon-red, the lower ones spotted with deep purplish crimson, bordered with bright yellow and salmony red.W. E. Gumbleton. Flowers very large and open ; purplish rose, streaked with rich carmine; spots velvet, surrounded with yellow ; an unusually beautiful variety. Price for any of the abo?e, 10c. each, $1.00 per doz., or by mail, $1.10 per doz.; (he collection of 50 rarieties on this page for $4.00, or by mail, post-paid, $4.40. SINGLE BULBS MAILED FREE. 102 PETEf* HEriDEf*SO?i <St CO.—WATEf* MlilES.
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EGYPTIAN LOTUS. EGYPTIAN OR SACRED LOTUS. (JYelumbium Speciosum.)A noble aquatic; the leaves attain at the time of blooming a height of 5 to 6 feetabove the surface, and measure from 20 to 30 inches across ; the immense flowersare frequently over a foot across and of a lovely white shading into deep pink atthe edges. It is a luxuriant grower and blooms profusely, and is easily cultivated.When the roots are planted below frost-line it has proved perfestly hardy in NewJersey. (See cut.) Price of roots, $1.50 each ; seeds, per pkt., 25c. AMERICAN YELLOW LOTUS. (Nelumbium Luteum.)Though a native it is not common. In general appearance and habit it is almostidentical with the Egyptian Lotus, excepting the flowers, which are of a rich sul-phur yellow, 6 inches across and strongly fragrant. Price of roots, 75c. each; , per pkt., 15 cts. NYMPH/EA DEVONIENSIS The handsomest of all red varieties ; flowersbright rosy crimson, 8 inches or more across;leaves a foot or more across, of dark copperyg

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