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Title: Annual descriptive catalogue of bulbs and other flowering roots with directions for their culture and management
Identifier: annualdescripti1882jmth_0 (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: J. M. Thorburn & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds New York (State) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: New York : J. M. Thorburn & 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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28 J. M. Thorburn & Co.'s Catalogue of Bulbs. RANUNCULUS. The main soil for these should be a loam or clay with a good dressing of rotten manure and leaf mold, and if heavy a little sand. To have them in perfection the soil should be well drained, cool, deep, rich, and moist. Plant late in the Autumn, claws downward, from four to six in- ches apart, and three inches deep, covering with fine pul- verized soil. The Turban sorts are more hardy, and although the same treatment is desirable, they may be dealt with in a rougher fashion. FERSIAN SORTS. each. ^ doz. Btlladouua, violet spotted $0.05 $0.50 Charles Dickens, riokt rose 05 .50 Commodore Napier, yellow and brown border 05 .50 Queen of Yellows, b7'ighi yellow 05 .50 Snowball, white 06 .60 Thackeray, scarlet 06 .60 Double Mixed Persian,.. ^ 100, $1.50 .05 .40 " French..100, 3.00 .05 .50
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DOUBLE RANUNCULUS. TURBAN SORTS. Romano, scarlet 05 .40 Turban grandiflora, purple variegated 05 .40 Hercules, white 06 .60 Seraphique, Citron. yelloiP 05 .50 Sultan Osmar, purple 05 .40 Viridiflora, scarlet with green centre 05 .50 Mixed Turban f 100, $2.00 .05 .40 SCILLAS. No garden can be complete without these beautiful flowers. They are quite hardy, with the exception of Peruviana, and may be suffered to remain in the ground several yeai-s without taking up. each ^ doz. ^100. Campanulata, blue $.08 $0.75 $4.00 alba, 'White 10 1.00 5.50 " cwnez,, rose color.. .08 .75 4.00 'SsihmcA, fine blue early 06 .60 8.SO cernua coerulea j, 10 1.00 4.00 " rosea 10 1.00 6.00 Nutans coerulea 08 .75 4.00 alba 10 1.00 6.00 carnea 06 .60 4.00 patula coBrulea 06 .60 4.00 " rubra 10 1.00 6.00 Peruviana alba ) (Star of ) .30 3.00 " cxarnlc&S Bethlehem.) ) .30 3.00 3^ SNOWDROPS. ~ Perhaps no Spring Flower is a more general favorite than the Skcwdrop. The earliest flowering of its varieties is the common Single sort, which is also very graceful and beauti- ful, commencing to bloom before the snow is fairly off the groimd in the Spring. This is succeeded by the double-flowered variety, with its elegant drooping snow-white blosso ms ^ doz. f 100 Galantlius nivalis (Singh Snowdrops) $0.30 $2.00 " " -pleTia. (Do^iVx Smxcdrops) '^0 3.00

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