Identifier: vicksgardenflora1922jame (find matches)
Title: Vick's garden & floral guide : spring edition
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: James Vick's Sons (Rochester, N.Y.) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Flowers Catalogs Fruit Catalogs Mushrooms Catalogs Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : James Vick's Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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chdeepens with age. In structure, it is always full double, and bearsa large proportion of long, partly tubular florets, which are irregu-larly cut and slashed, so that it looks like a ragged Chrysanthe-mum. The flowers are borne in profusion on long, slender, wirystems. The plant is erect and of medium height, branching closeto the ground. It belongs with the early sorts. Indeed for theamateur it is about the earl iest variety of value for out door planti ng. Packet, 15 cents ; two for 25 cents. My mother grew magnificent asters last year from seeds purchased of youshe being eighty years old. 1 see a Michigan patron boasts of being a customerfor the last forty-eight years. Perhaps you would be interested to know thatmy mother is still a customer. She purchased both vegetable andflower seedsof fames Vicks Sons as early as 70. Bainbridge, N. Y., May 13 1Q3I. Mrs. Geo, Nichols. Prizes were awarded at many of the leading fairs throughout the country to Vicks Asters grown by our customers
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VICKS PINK ENCHANTRESS VICKS TRIUMPH COMET A magnificent new class of mid-season Asters with extra longstems and large, fluffy, full, double flowers of the finest type.Splendid Mikado or Rochester flowers on tall, upright plants,blooming early in the season. In comparing Vicks TriumphComet Asters with other upright Comet Asters as they are grownon our farms, under as favorable conditions as our Asters everreceive, we find that the plants of Vicks Triumph Comet aretaller, the stems longer and the flowers more double than thoseof other varieties of the same class. We offer Triumph Comet Asters in these colors : White,Purple, Shell Pink, Rose. Packet, 15 cents; two packets, 25 cents. Vicks Tri-umph Collection of the four colors,four packets, 50 cents.Triumph Comet, mixed colors, packet, 15 cents. TRIUMPH COMET, ROSY RED This distinctive, popular, new Rosy Red color, originally introeuced in the Branching Type, is a wonderfully pleasing additionto the Triumph Comet Class. Tha great fluffy

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