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Title: Beautiful flowers : spring 96
Identifier: beautifulflowers1896banc (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bancroft, Joseph; Joseph Bancroft (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Iowa Cedar Falls Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nursery stock; Flowers; Vegetables; Bulbs (Plants); Plants, Ornamental
Publisher: Cedar Falls, Iowa : Joseph Bancroft
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Catalogue of Seeds and Plants. 11 Heuchera Sanguinea. A new hardy perennial of great merit. Plants grow about eighteen inches highj form neat bushes and produce their flowers in long graceful trusses of tlie brigKteet crimson. They are exceedingly handsome and valuable for cut flowers'. 25 cents each. New White Double Anemone. Whirlwind. A beautiful semi-double form of the autuiim blooming White Anemone, in habit the plant is like tlw old Anemone Japonica Alba, the same strong growth and healthy foltftge, and fully as fr.ee a hloomer. The Bowers are two and one-half to three inches across, with several rows of large white petals; very durable, lasting much longer than those of the single variety. One of the finest hardy plants for cemetery planting, and excellent for cut flowers. 20 cents each. New Hibiscus. Giant Yellow, or Sunset. The flowers from this mag- nificent new Hibiscus are from six to nine inches in diameter. Their color is a rich, deep cream, with a velvety crimson maroon center : they Open in the morning and remain open all day. The plants grow from three'to nve feet high,have a central stalk with numerous side branches and hear from ten to twenty of their gigantic, hell-shaped flowers at one time. They commence to bloom when the plants are quite young and continue till late in the fall. They are perennials and can be taken up in the autumn and wintered over in pots, while in the south and California they are quite hardy. Kxtra strong plants, 'JO cents each ; three for .">() cents: seven for SI .00. New Hardy White Pink. Her Majesty. It is unquestionably one of the finest va- rieties of this century, and one that will hold its own as long as Pinks are cultivated. It is far ahead of anything yet seen, and all the old white varieties will sink into insignifi- cance by the side of this great beauty. It has become one of the most popular of the day, and is grown by the acre to supply the demand for cut llowers. It was awarded nine first-cla88 certificates at various exhibitions in England, which 18 an unprecedented list of honors and the greatest number of certificates ever awarded for a plant of like character. Young plants, I") cents each; SI.50 per dozen. Strong one year old clumps, :!() cents each ; four for $1.00. . . Our Special Trial Collection of Vegetable Seeds . . Containing eighteen large packets of- the very cream of the later introductions in Vegetables. The above, valued at si.00. sent prepaid tor only 50 cents, or live collections by express for $2.00, at purchaser's expense. We do it simply to introduce our stock, feeling sure it will uive satisfaction in every way. ONE FULL Bean—Burpee's Bush Lima. Beet—Crosby's Egyptian. Cabbage—Select Early Jersey Waliefield. Cabbage—Holland. ('arrot—Danver's Select Stock. Celery—Giant Golden Heart. Corn— New White Cory. Cucumber—Improved Early White Spine. Lettuce—Denver Market. PACKAGE EACH: Muskmelon—Xew Banquet. Watermelon—Sweetheart. ! Onion—Prizetaker. , Parsnip—Improved Guernsey. Squash—Chicago Warted LIubbard. Peas—Yorkshire Hero. Radish—Scarlet Turnip, White Tip. Kadish—White Strasburg. : Tomato—Atlantic Prize.
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BKIDES' BOUQUETS.—(See page 29.) Try one of our $1.00 boxes of Cut Elowers for your sick friends; it will surprise and please them. Sent prepaid, anywhere, on receipt of $1.00.

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