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Title: Farm, vegetable and garden seeds
Identifier: CAT31284082 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: W. E. Barrett Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Rhode Island Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Providence, R. I. : W. E. Barrett 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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ORNAMENTAL CLIMBERS Annual Descriptive Catalogue Ornamental Climbers. Vines are the tapestry of the garden, embroidered with their own blossoms, be found here: tender sorts, among seeds of Greenhouse Plants. All the most popular hardy annual and perennial kinds will
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JAPANESE MORXING-GLOKIES. AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII (Japan, or Boston Ivy). A beautiful vine for covoring walls and buildings, to which it adheres closely. The leaves color beautifully in autumn. 10c. per pkt. CENTROSEMA GRANDIFLORA. Large, pea-shaped flowers, produced in clusters; in color rosy violet, with broad, feathered markings of white. Foliage abundant and graceful. A hardy perennial, climbing 6 or 8 feet in a season, and blooming abundantly. 10 cts. per pkt. COB/EA SCANDENS. A tender annual of very rapid and luxuriant climbing habit. The deep violet-blue flowers are large and bell-shaped, averaging 2 inches in length and 1% inches across. 10 cts. per pkt. DOLICHOS LABLAB Hyacinth Bean). Noted for its large clusters of snowy white or purple flowers. It grows rapidly, and makes a fine screen of thick foliage. A tender perennial. 5 cts. per pkt. HUMULUS JAPONICUS (Japanese Hop). Annual climbers of very rapid growth, with dense foliage. The leaves remain bright and fresh and rich-looking until late in the fall. Humulus Japonicus. Leaves plain green, something like those of the common hop. Seed sown in early spring produces plants which will cover a wide spread in a short time. 5 cts. per pkt. H. — variegatus, Leaves broadly edged with cream color, and marked and shaded with silvery white and deep green: often a whole branch and its leaves will be pure white. At a little dis- tance the plant looks as ii it were covered thickly with white blossoms. It is very vigorous and hardy. 10 cts. per pkt. LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS (Everlasting Pea). Hardy perennial climber, growing 6 to 8 feet high when trained on a trellis. Flowers borne in large clusters. Red and white, mixed, 10 cts. per pkt. MAURANDYA. Graceful annual climber for window or conservatory: admirable to hang from vases, cover stumps and low trellises; blooms very freely. 10 cts. per pkt. Grand "Imperial Japanese" MORNING-GLORIES. These grand climbers have given unbounded satisfaction and sur- prise at their great beauty and variety. The vines are of strong and robust growth, attaining a height of from 30 to 50 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 checkered like rich mosaics of light and dark green, white and gray. The intermingling vines and brightly contrasting colored leaves are wonderfully pretty and effect- ive, even when the flowers are not open. But their surpassing charm lies in the entrancing beauty and gigantic size of the flowers: they measure from 4 to 6 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 daintily tinted and shaded. 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. They are of the easiest culture. Sow early in a warm, sunny position in good, rich soil, and give plenty of water in dry weather. Mixed colors, 10 cts. per pkt. CONVOLVULUS MAJOR (Morning-Glory). A well-known and favorite annual, rapid in growth and prodigal of bloom. Splendid Mixture. Will produce flowers of all the best colors. 5 cts. per pkt. IPOMCEA. In the large class of tender annuals are included many handsome climbers, Evening as well as Morning-Glories, and other favorite vines almost as popular and beautiful. Ipomcea setosa. Brazilian Morning-Glory. Beautiful rose-colored flowers and huge leaves: remarkably luxuriant in growth. 10 cts. per pkt. I. Leari. Flowers violet-blue: an elegant greenhouse species. 10 cts. per pkt. I. quamoclit (Cypress Vine). Delicately cut foliage and small, star-shaped flowers of scarlet or white. Mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. I. grandiflora (Moonflowen. The large, pure white flowers of this plant open at night; produced in great abundance, and quite fra- grant. 10 cts. per pkt. I. Heavenly Blue. Foliage very large and heart-shaped: flowers 4 to 5 inches across, borne in large clusters; light blue, with yellow throats. The bloom also hides the foliage. 10c. per pkt. I. Bona Nox (Good-Xight, or Evening-Glory). Most beautiful large violet flowers. 5 cts. per pkt. NASTURTIUMS, or TROPAEOLUMS. (For Dwarf Varieties, see page 25.) The gay and picturesque Nasturtiums are almost as popular among climbers as sweet peas. Their rapid and luxuriant growth quickly covers trellises, verandas, fences, or any unsightly object, with a beautiful mass of oddly pretty leaves and brilliant "flowers. No plant could be freer with its blossoms, or display them in a more graceful way. Tropaeolum majus atropurpureum. Crimson. 5 cts. per pkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Edward Otto. Brownish lilac. 5 cts. per pkt.. 20 cts. per oz. T. — hemisphericus. Orange. 5 c)s. per pkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Pearl. White. 5 cts. per pkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Rcegelianum. Violet-ruby. 5 cts. per pkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Scheurianum. Pale yellow spotted. 5c. perpkt., 20c.peroz. T. — Schillingii. Spotted. 5 cts. per pkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Von Moltke. Ruby-rose. 5 cts. perpkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Yellow. 5 cts. per pkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Finest Mixed. Seed saved from a choice collection of flowers. in many colors: will produce charming results if planted freely in ground that is not too rich. 5 cts. per pkt., 15 cts. per oz. T. — peregrinum (Canary Creeper). Graceful, winged flowers of pure light yellow. 5 cts. per pkt., 20 cts. per oz. T. — Lobbianum. Very superior for trellises, arbors or vases; flowers very brilliant and rich, borne profuselv. Mixed colors, 5 cts. per pkt., 25 cts. per oz. 28 •

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