Washburn and Co.'s amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden - containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds - also a list of French hybrid (14782889812)

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Title: Washburn & Co.'s amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden : containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds : also a list of French hybrid gladiolus,
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Washburn & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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arming and generally useful genus of dwarf-growing hardyannuals. All the varieties have a neat, compact, and uniform habit of growth, with shadesand colors the most strikingly beautiful, so that ribboned, sown in circles, or arranged in anystyle which the fancy may suggest, the effect is pleasing and very striking. They are also very useful for pot-culture. Hardy annual. 1048 Nemophila Atomaria. White, with blue spots. 1 foot 05 1049 Oculata. Light-blue, blotched with black; fine 1 foot 10 1050 Discoidalis. Black, with white edge 05 105 1 Marmorata. Black-marbled, with white, x foot 05 1052 Insignis. Bright-blue 05 1053 Alba. White. 1 foot 05 1054 Marginata. Sky-blue, edged with white 05 1055 Grandifiora. Bright-blue, with white centre, x toot 05 1056 Striata. Blue and white. 1 foot 05 1057 Maculata. White; large purple spots. 1 foot 05 1058 — —— Variegata. White, veined with lilac, and blotched with violet; foliage finely variegated; very effective. 1 foot 10 1059 Good Mixed 05
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TO THE FLOWER GARDEN. 65 NO. PRirE NIEREMBERGIA. Nat. Ord., Solanaceoe. Profuse-blooming, elegant, and charming little plants, exceedingly valuable for small beds,edging and rustic baskets or vases. Half-hardy perennials. 1060 Nierembergia Gracilis. White, veined with lilac; from Uraguay. Half-foot . $0.25 1061 Intermedia. Deep-crimson. Half foot 25 NOLANA. Nat. Ord., Nolanacece. Very pretty trailing-plants, after the character of the Convolvulus Minor ; fine for rock-work, hanging-baskets, old stumps, &c.; succeeds best in a light rich soil. Hardy annuals. 1062 Nolana Mtriplicifolia. Blue, violet, and yellow; from Peru. Half foot . . . .05 1063 Alba. White; yellow centre 05 1064 Subcosrulea. A fine variety, with mauve-colored flowers . . .10 1065 Prostata. Fine blue, streaked with black; from Peru . . . .05 NYMPHiEA. Nat. Ord., Nymphacea.Beautiful hardy aquatics, thriving in rich loamy soil at the bottom of ponds or lakes. 1066 Nymphaea Alba. White; a magnificent variety; from En