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Title: 1896 greeting
Identifier: 1896greeting1896miss (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Miss C. H. Lippincott (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Miss C. H. Lippincott
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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FIRE KING PANSY. This novelty comes almost absolutely true, scarcely a plant bearing flowers at variance from the type, which is very dis- tinct and striking. The three lower petals each have a larsre blotch of deep brown-red or magenta ma^-gined with yellow, while the upper petals are of a bright, reddish brown, of a rent aery shaae. warranting the name Fire King. Pkt., 100 seeds,6c. SNOW QUEEN PANSY. Pure satiny white with yellow dot in center of flower, some- times marked near center with faint blue or purple lines; al- together the least picturesque of any of the different classes of Pansies, it is very highly priced by a great many pansy lovers for just that reason. Pkt., 100 seeds, 6 cents. METEOR PANSY. Color bright canary-yellow; the three lower petals are va- riously spotted with mahogany-brown, while the two upper petals vary from reddish-brown to dark purple, narrowly margined with gold or silver. Pkt., 100 seeds, 6 cents. PEACOCK PANSY. A beautiful variety of ultra-marin" blue in the upper petals of the flower, edged with a i bin white line, within which is a space of purplish-crimson, passing into a rich central blotch of deep blue, shading to black, named "Peacock" because The blending colors resemble the feathers of a peacock. Pkt., 100 seeds, 6c. NEW IMPERIAL GERMAN PANSY. This mixture embraces seed of over fifty colors and mark- ings, and is guaranteed to equal any strain offered as Imperial German. Pkt., 100 seeds, 6 cents. NEW GIANT PANSY. Remarkable for the extra large size of the flowers, which, however, are not so circular in form as the "Imperial German" or the "Eoyal Show." Pkt., 100 seeds, 8 cents. PANSY. GOOD MIXED. Fine for beddinj lOO seeds, 3 cents. many rich colors. Pkt.,

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