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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rious shell-like flower, giving abundance of bloom for a long season. Asmall bed of these bulbs is scarcely ever without flowers. About eighteen inches in height.Tigridia pavonia, red, spotted with crimson. 10 cents each; 31.00 per dozen.Tigridia conchiflora, yellow and orange, with dark spots. 15 cents each; $1,50 per dozen. HARDY PLANTS, BULBS, &c. The following are very desirable Hardy Plants that endure the winter well, and once set, willcontinue to improve for a number of years. They may be increased by dividing the roots, whichwill be a benefit to the plants. ANEMONE JAPONICA ALBA. One of the most beautiful of our hardy herbaceous plants. The plant attains a height of twofeet, flowering in profusion from August to October. Price, 80 cents each; $3.00 per dozen. DICENTRA SPECTABILIS. A hardy, beautiful, tuberous-rooted plant, with fine gracefully drooping racemes nearly a footin length, of heart-shaped, curious, pinkish flowers, sometimes called Bleeding Heart; 25 cents each.
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LILIES. each. fFer a splendid lot of Japan Lilies, magnificent bulbs, w 11 preserved for spring planting. n auratum, the new magnificent Japan Lily; large and sound bulbs, . . . . . . $0 7-5 atrosanguineum, dark red, marbled with orange, Japonicum longiflorum, pure white, trumpet shaped, five inches long, 25 50 Martagon, Yellow, 20 Thunbergianum citrinum, beautiful delicate salmon color, eighteen inches . . 20 ... 75 Thunbergianum grandiflorum, large cluster of dark red flowers, two feet, ... 75 25 venustum, very fine, dwarf, delicate red, ... 50 I offer to Florists fine seed of the Auratum Lily, saved last season. Price, 50 cents perpackage. Amateurs would not be pleased with it, or be likely to succeed. CHINESE PEONIES. The Chinese Paeonies are so valuable on account of their large size, beautiful coloring anddelightful fragrance, and so entirely hardy and vigorous, that I am anxious all my customersshould have at least a White and Pink variety. To encourage their culture, I have re

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