Identifier: vicksillustrated00jame_0 (find matches)
Title: Vick's illustrated catalogue and floral guide, 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: James Vick's Sons (Rochester, N.Y.) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds, Catalogs Flowers, Catalogs
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : James Vick

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y Lind, red, tipped frith white. John Downie, yellow, tipped with red. John Powell, golden yellow. Lady of the Lake, blush, edged with purple. Lady Jane Ellis, creamy white, rose tipped. La Phare, brilliant scarlet. Leah, golden yellow. Little Crimson, crimson, dwarf. Little Gem, buff orange, dwarf. Little Julius, carmine red, dwarf. Little Madonna, crimson, tipped with white. Little Model, rosy crimson, light center, dwarf. Little Phillip, creamy Duff, lilac edge, dwarf. Mirefield Beauty, fine red, splendid form. Miss Henshaw, white. Miss Kennedy, violet, striped with crimson. Mrs. Chas. Keynes, lilac, crimson striped. Mrs. Hogg, clear rose. Mrs. Savory, white, laced with lilac. Mulberry, new color. Othello, very dark purple. Pearl, white, dwarf. Purple Acme, purple. Queen of Primroses, primrose yellow. Queen of Sports, lilac, striped with purple. Rose of Gold, orange and red. Sambo, maroon, tinted with black. Sir H. Havelock, orange scarlet. Snowdrift, pure white. Vesta, pure white.
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TUBEROSE. A beautiful, white, wax-like, very sweet-scented, double flower, growing on long stems twofeet in height, each stem having many flowers. Plant as soon as the soil is warm. The originalbulb will not flower the second time, but the small bulbs or offsets may be saved in a dry, warmplace, and planted the next spring for future flowering. It will take two years culture to makeflowering bulbs. 15 cents each; §1.50 per dozen. MADEIRA VINE. An excellent climber, with beautiful, thick, glossy, light green, almost transparent leaves,climbing almost to any desired height. The flowers are small, borne in racemes, and very sweet-scented. It thrives in the house better than any climber, except, perhaps, the Ivy; makes anexcellent screen for windows; is unsurpassed for baskets, and extremely useful as an out-docrclimber, growing very rapidly. 10 cents each ; 31.00 per dozen. TIGRIDIA. A beaiitiful and curious shell-like flower, giving abundance of bloom for a long season. Asmall bed of t

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