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Title: Autumn catalogue : 1903
Identifier: autumncatalogue119pete (find matches)
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & 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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ARUM SANCTUM (BLACK CALLA). ACHIMENES. These are splendid and profuse Bummer-blooming plants for the conservatory or warm window garden; flowers of many charming colors, ranging through all shades from white to crimson, including many beautifully spotted. (Ready in November.) Mixed Varieties AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS. the blue African lily. The old favorite; flowers bright blue. These are noble ornaments on lawns, in pots or tubs, on terraces or piazzas, or for the decoration of the greenhouse. Foliage luxuriant and graceful, flowers borne in clusters of 20 to 30, and measure fully a foot across. The flower stalks frequently attain a height of three feet, the flowers opening in succession for a long period during the summer and autumn. (Ready in November.) ALLIUM. Beautiful for pot culture or garden decoration; of easiest culture. Azureum. Truly beautiful, either for pot or garden culture, being quite hardy, flowers deep azure-blue, borne in large umbels. Height, 1 to 2 feet Aureum. (Molly, or Golden Allium.) One of our most showy border plants, perfectly hardy, bearing large umbels of golden-yellow flowers in June. A very old favorite, andfinefornaturalizing in the garden, where it forms large clumps. Height, 1 foot.... Hermitll Crandiflorum. A splendid winter-flowering and forcing variety; the flowers last a long time after being cut. The flowers are large, of immaculate whiteness and continue to bloom from December to the end of April Neapolitanum. Another excellent variety for winter flowering, now extensively forced by florists for cut flowers, being of pure white, with green stamens, borne in large loose umbels. Height, 15 to 18 inches Ostrowskianum. A beautiful new species from Asia Minor, with large heads of beauti- ful rose-colored flowers, on stalks 2 feet high ; very early, free-flowering and hardy ALSTROMERIA. PERUVIAN LILIES. Tuberous-rooted plants with beautiful, large, lily-like flowers of gr^at beauty; borne in clusters during the summer, they are splendid for cutting, being of much substance and lasting in perfection for a long time. Splendid subjects for either pot culture or for planting out in frames. Very robust and abundant blooming varieties. Colors, crimson, rose, yellow, purple, etc.. shaded and marked. 2 to 4 feet, Mixed Colors. (Ready in November.) AMARYLLIS. (See page 23.) ANEMONES. Highly ornamental winter, spring and summer flowering plants, hav- ing both single and double flowers, the colors of which are wonderfully beautiful, running through shades of blues, scarlets, rose, white, lavender, etc. If the flowers are wanted in succession from spring to fall—the roots should be planted in pots or cold frames in the fall for spring blooming—and another lot in the same way toward spring for summer—and another lot in the open groundin May for autumn flowering. They are splendid for pot culture, flowering in the house or conservatory. ANEMONES, Double Poppy-Flowered. (Coronaria, fl. pi.) The flowers of this class are very double, and are surrounded at the base with large guard petals resembling a Double Hollyhock. For cutting purposes they are grand, and we know of no class of plants with more gorgeous colors, two or three colors usually being blended in the flowers of each variety. Mixed Colors ANEMONES, Single Poppy-Flowered. (Coronaria.) These handsome Single Anemones have large beautiful saucer-shaped Poppy-like blos- soms, flowering continuously throughout spring and early summer. Mixed Colors ANEMONE FULCENS. The rich, dazzling scarlet flowers and light elegant growth render it the most attrac- tive flower of spring. It is valuable for cutting, as it lasts a long time Fulgens, fl. pi. A double-flowering variety of the above, very beautiful ANEMONES. HARDY VARIETIES. These are beautiful subjects for permanent situations, where they soon form large clumps of great beauty; a situation partially shaded suits them to perfection. (Ready in November.) Apennina. Beautiful rich blue flowers, as large as a fifty-cent piece, elegantly cut foliage; it blooms profusely in early spring, also beautiful grown in pots. Y2 foot Blanda. The earliest and largest-flowered of the spring-blooming Anemones, blooming with Snowdrop and Crocus; colors range from pure white to deep blue. The flowers are 1M> inches across. It is a lovely variety, and as hardy as a rock. It spreads it- self in large clumps, grows freely. If potted at intervals from August to September, and housed afterwards in the greenhouse, they may be had in flower from November to February ARUM. Dracunculus. (Dragon Arum.) Flowers 1 foot long, purple, red and black- blue, stem beautifully marbled, leaves handsome, resembling a small palm; a rapid grower, making a curious and ornamental pot plant Cornutum, or Red Calla. A very handsome Arum with red flowers spotted with black; stems curiously mottled green and white; foliage palm-like and very handsome; a showy pot plant for winter decoration Sanctum, or Black Calla. The plant produces one large flower the shape of a Calla, but from 14 to 18 inches long and 4 inches broad and of a rich, dark purple color and green underneath. The spathe rising from the centre of the flower is about 10 inches long, velvet-like and quite black. The leaves are large and of a rich green color, and resemble those of the Calla .45thiopica. Large bulbs PRICES Delivered in U. S. (except noted). Each. I Doz. ; 100 8c. 75c. 25c. $2.50 8c. 75c. 2c. 10c. 2c. 20c. 2c. 15c. 3c. 30c. 10c. $1.00 3c. 25c. 2c. 20c. 5c. 4c. 50c. 40c. 3c. 25c. 3c. 35c. 15c. $1.50 20c. 2.00 25c. 2.50 5.00 60c. $1.25 1.00 2.00 1.75 1.00 3.50 3.00 2.50 10.00 15.00 We deliver Free in the U. S. ^VSffsS&SSiSS Bulbs, Vegetable and Flower Seeds and Books, StSe.W

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