Title: Spring 1899
Identifier: CAT31284138 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Storrs & Harrison Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Painesville, Ohio : Storrs & Harrison 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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ZINNIAS. The Zinnia ranks high in public estimation as a showy, free-flowering, easily grown plant for the Summer garden. The seed can be sown early in hot-bed and transplanted or sown later in the open ground. Hardy annuals. Zebra. Flowers of perfect shape of all colors, or- ange, crimson, yellow, scarlet, white, etc., three- fourths of which are striped and spotted with dif- ferent shades, hardly any two plants producing flowers alike. Mixed colors 5 Dwarf Double Pompone. The flowers are consid- erably smaller and much better shape than the ordinary Zinnia; very double and of the most beautiful form and vivid colors. The habit of growth is compact and dwarf, rarely growing over two feet high. Fine mixed colors 10 VERBENA MAMMOTH FLOWERED. VERBENA. No plant excels the Verbena for masses in beds. Half-hardy perennials, or treated as hardy annuals, they bloom freely the first sea- son from seed, with beautiful dazzling self- colored, striped and variegated flowers. 1 foot. Pure White 5 Striped. Saved from finest striped varieties. . 5 si§^ Blue 5 Scarlet. Scarlet blossoms 5 Extra Choice Mixed. Seed saved from all named flowers; very choice 10 Fine Mixed. Various colors 5 Mammoth Flowered. This beautiful strain has flowers nearly twice the size of the ordinary sorts, of very brilliant colors and large, distinct eyes. The plants are vig- orous growing and very free flowering Mixed, all colors 10 VIOLET VIOLA ODORATA. Well-known fragrant, early Spring blooming plants; they thrive best in Summer in a shady situ- ation in a rich, deep soil. Hardy perennials. Single Blue, very sweet scented blue flowers 10 Single White, fragrant 10 WALL FLOWER. The large, massive spikes of the Wall Flower are very conspicuous in beds or borders, and are very useful in making bouquets. They are deliciously fragrant, perfectly double, and combine many shades of color, the orange, purple and chocolate predominating; tender perennial, \y2 feet. Mixed. 10 XERANTHEMUMS. Showy Everlastings; flowers white, purple and yellow, single and double. Sow in Spring and thin to one foot apart. Hardy annual; 1 foot. Mixed. 5
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CURLED AND CRESTED. Curled and Crested. The flowers of this fine class of Zinnias are of perfect form—large, round, full, and double, the petals being twisted, curled and crested, rendering them entirely free from the stiffness which was heretofore characteristic of this family. A variety of splendid colors 10 Mammoth Flowered. The plants of this New Giant race from handsome bushes 3 feet high, and the mammoth perfectly formed double flowers meas- ure 5 and 6 inches across and are of striking colors. Mammoth Mixed 10 Tall Double Large Flowered. A class too well known to need any description. Double Scarlet 5 « White 5 Orange 5 " Purple : 5 " Mixed 5

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