Cox seed and plant co. catalogue (1897) (20676564836)

Title: Cox seed and plant co. catalogue

Identifier: coxseedplantcoca1897coxs (find matches)

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Cox Seed and Plant Company; Cox Seed and Plant Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection

Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs

Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Cox Seed and Plant 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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JAPANESE MORNING GLORIES EXQUISITE NEW COLORS GIGANTIC FLOWERS MAGNIFICENT FOLIAGE

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The vines of this new race of Ipomaeas are of strong and robust growth, attaining a height of from thirty to fifty feet. The foliage is most luxuriant, distinct and varied; some vines have rich vivid green leaves, others have silvery, leaves, some with yellow leaves,and many produce leaves mottled and check- ered like rich mosaics of light and dark green, white and gray. But the surpassing charm of these Imperial Japanese Horning Glories lies in the ENTRANCING BEAUTY and GIGANTIC SIZE of the FLOWERS They measure from four to six inches across, and their greater substance causes them to remain open much longer than ordinary Morning Glories. The colors of the flowers, shadings and markings, are limitless, and are really wonders of nature, of such incomparable beauty that descriptions are inadequate. Some flowers are of deep, rich velvety tones, others more daintily tinted and shaded than an artist's brush could portray. The solid colors range through reds from soft rose to crimson, bronze and garnet- maroon; from daintiest light blue to ultramarine, indigo and blackish purple; from snow-white to cream and silver-gray; some are striped, starred and spotted; others have magnificent edges and throats. We especially noted a royal purple with broad white edge and a red throat, a blue with pink throat, a white flushed pink with a wine-red throat, a crimson with white throat, a carmine with white edge and red shaded throat, a claret-purple with snow-white throat, copper color with white throat, etc., etc. • PRICE Single, choicest mixed, per pkt ioc 3 pkts 25c DOUBLE PYRETHRUA\S This charming group of plants has only existed for a few years, consequently is scarcely known to the general public interested in horticulture. The improvement has been so great that few persons can reconcile themselves to the fact that the lovely flowers are simply varieties of the old Pyrethrum roseum. The flowers are exceedingly varied in colored, having a great resemblance to a well-formed aster or large-flowered chry- santhemum, and are produced in such abundance as to render them invaluable during the summer months for purposes of cut bloom, whilst their fern-like foliage is extremely handsome, particularly during the spring months. They are amongst the most useful hardy flowers we have, thriving in almost any soil or situation, being true perennials, and when once established lasting in condition for many years without replanting. Pkt.25c. XIV

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