Identifier: springcatalogueo1873hanf (find matches)
Title: Spring catalogue of new and beautiful plants
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hanford, R. G Columbus Nursery Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Flowers Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Nursery stock Plants, Ornamental Flowers Seeds
Publisher: Columbus, Oh. : Columbus Nursery
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ne,making a pleasing contrast; suitable for the center of baskets and vases, and plantingout in beds. Price 25 cents each. Achyranthus Gilsonii. This is an improvement on the well-known A. Yerschaffeltii, being of a muchbrighter crimson color, and more dwarf and bushy in habit; a really showy andeffective plant of the easiest culture. Price 25 cents each. Achyranthus Cordata. Similar in habit and color to A. Gilsonii, but with heart-shaped leaves. Price 25cents each. Salvia—Splendens. One of the most gorgeous of all our summer flowers, blooming abundantly through-out the season in dense spikes of brilliant scarlet. Price 25 cents each; $2 per dozen. 14 Catalogue of the Salvia—SPI.ENDENS Gohdonii.This differs from the old variety in being more dwarf, with dense flower spikes ofbrilliant scarlet, but is not so free a bloomer. Price 25 cents each; $2 per dozen. Salvia—Pateks. Well suited to contrast with the above, the flowers being of the richest shade ofblue. Price 30 cents each.
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Richar&ia Alba Maculata. A plant belonging to the same family as the Calla Ethiopica, with beautifullyspotted leaves. The flowers are shaped like those of the Calla, pure white, shadedwith violet inside. It is a deciduous plant, requiring to be kept dry in winter, andstarted like a Dahlia, in the Spring. Price 35 cents each. C olumbus Nursery. 15 Santolina Tomentosa. A plant with fine, neat foliage of silver hue, bears sun and heat well, and can becut or pinched into any shape desired ; fine for edging, or baskets and vases. Price25 cents each. Sedum Telephium XLoseum. A splendid new variety of the Sedum tribe, hardy, grows about one foot high,flowers in large umbels from six to eight inches in diameter ; in flower from Augustto November, or if taken up and potted the flowers last longer yet. Price 35 cents each. Ivy Leafed Geranium.—Innocence. A plant with pretty Ivy shaped leaves, of a deep, glossy green and dark marking,with pure white blossoms; of trailing habit, well suited

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