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Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide.
WILD CUCUMBER.
A well-known vine, common in many sections, and the quickest climber known for covering verandas, old trees and houses, trellises, etc.; never suffering from the heat, but retaining its fresh and lively green color; never infested with insects, and very profuse in bloom. It will sow itself and come up every year in the same place. Pkt. 10c.
CENTAUREA CYANUS fl.pl.
New Double Flowered Ragged Sailor, Corn Flower or Blue Bottle.
The National Flower of Germany and celebrated as the late Emperor William’s favorite flower.
Who does not know and love the old-fashioned Ragged Sailor or Bluets, cherished in our gardens, and its praises sung by poets? It retained its primitiveness for years, but at last has sported, and produced what may be justly called double flowers of unusually large size and filled up to the center with florets, forming handsome globular heads. We offer the seed in mixed colors, which contain, in addition to the usual colors of light and dark blue, white, pink and red, several striking new shades, such dark red with light blue edges, white striped with red and blue, etc. A continuous bloomer of great value as a cut flower, destined to popularity and highly recommended. Per pkt. 10c.
EUPHORBIA HETEROPHYLLA.
(The Gorgeous Annual Poinsetta.)
“Mexican Fire Plant,” or “Fire on the Mountain.” This novelty is an annual of the easiest culture, forming bushy plants three to four feet high, with glossy green fiddle-shaped leaves, which form at the ends of the branches into large whorls or bracts, among which small green flowers appear in summer, and immediately after the leaves commence to color up. The smaller bracts among the flowers are of a brilliant orange scarlet, and the large surrounding leaves soon become blazed with a darker fiery scarlet, so that only a tip of green is left. these colored bracts almost cover the plant, the effect is indescribably grand. Retain their superb beauty from May until December. Pkt. 150.
COSMOS.
A magnificent race of plants growing about four feet in height, and in the fall literally covered with graceful flowers resembling single Dahlias, but neater and better for cutting. They are about two inches in diameter; rose, purple, flesh color and pure white. As a cut flower for vases or personal wear their grace and beauty are unequaled. They commence to bloom in September and continue through October, the flowers bearing a slight frost remarkably. Cuttings struck in August in rich soil make fine dwarf plants covered with bloom. Potted and taken indoors in November (like Chrysanthemums) the plants will bloom freely and last for a considerable time. Easily raised from seed and if sown early bloom the first season. Our strain is the true “American Improved,” and much superior to imported seed. Perennial. Mixed colors. Per pkt. 10c.
MARTYNIA.
A handsome, large free-flowering annual, deserving of more extensive cultivation, It is quite ornamental in growth, quickly forming large bushes and bearing showy flowers, as large and beautiful as Gloxinias, of various colors, red, white, yellow, purple, cream color, very handsomely spotted, stained and striped. The flowers are of the shape shown in our engraving, and are produced in great abundance. These are succeeded by the fruit, or seed-pods, which are large and curiously shaped. When young and tender (test by pinching with the nail) these seed-pods make excellent pickles, and as they are produced in great abundance a few plants will suffice for an ordinary garden. When allowed to fully mature the pods will split open at the end, and become very hard and horny, and are sometimes called “Devil’s Claws.” Per pkt. 10c.
The garden seeds received from you are O. K. and doing nicely.
Νοv. 26, 1892.
W. W. Woodby,
Mt. Auburn, Ia.
Your seeds turned out most satisfactory this season.
Wm. Crawford,
Prop. Fairview Gardens,
Plattsmouth, Neb.
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[image caption: WILD CUCUMBER.]
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[image caption: DOUBLE CENTAUREA.]
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[text in image: THE ANNUAL POINSETTIA]
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[image caption: MARTYNIA.]
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[image caption: COSMOS]
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