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Identifier: CAT31284921 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Schmidt & Botley; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Springfield Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Springfield, Ohio : Schmidt & Botley
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Schmidt & Botley, Florists, Springfield, Ohio 23 OUR WEDDING-RING COLLECTION Of Fourteen Choicest Single Geraniums. This Collection Embraces only the very Finest Varieties and Colors. Price, IOC each; the entire set of 14 magnificent sorts for $1. Wedding Ring—This Geranium we grew the past summer for the excUence and great beauty of its flowers. It is a Ge- ranium that one never tires of. Dazling orange-scarlet florets, circular and sUghtly cupped, giving it the appearance of a beautiful ring.
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The New Snow-White Geranium, Dr. Nansen. The Snowy-White Geranium, Dr. Nansen—Trusses large and of perfect form: pure snowy white, Purer than the variety "Queen of the Belgians," and of still freer blooming habit. See cut. P. A. Stewart—A new Geranium and a new color very dif- ficult to describe, xt is a very light Cerise pink-shaded sal- mon. A splendid bedder and exceedingly free bloomer. General Grant—One of the best bedding Geraniums in cul- tivation. Grows freely; blooms with greatest profusion; color a vivid scarlet. W. A. C half ant—Single; dazzling scarlet; florets circular and sUghtly cupped, forming a magnificent truss; heavy Bru- ant-Uke foliage, assviring it a good bedder. The Bride—A beautiful Geranium and a splendid bedder; color a soft blending of white and salmon. Madonna—A magnificent bedding variety; trusses are of extraordinary size, of almost pansy form; tne color is a soft, light pink, a beautiful and distinct shade. This variety has been universally admired by all who have seen it in flower; variety that will prebab.y never be eqxialed. Crimson Beauty—Dark crimson, shaded to dark scarlet; very dark and beautiful; the richest-colored Geranium in existence. The Beautiful Peach-Blossom Geranium, Souvenir de Mirande— It is entirely distinct from anv other variety shown and is ?uite different from the usual marked varieties that have rom time to time mada their appearance. It has round florets, upper petals cream-white with a distinct rosv-pink border, lower petals salmon rose, streaked with pure wnite. IVIonarch—This is a superb new variety, both as to gi~ow£h and bloom, and probably the largest flowering Geranium ex- tant. It carries its immense trusses of vivid scarlet high above the foHage, and is a continual mass of bloom during the entire summer. It well merits the proud name of Monarch. Frau Louise Volth—Perhaps the grandest single pink Qe- ranium out. Color a beautiful, clear, briUiant carmine rose, with a very large, pure white eye: trusses large and of a very beautiful shape. Giant—A flne sort; bright crimson scarlet, shaded vermil- ion ; free bloomer; immense trusses, 5^ to 6 inches in diame- ter ; a monstrous flower and a giant grower. Cinderella—^A flue truss of bright rosy salmon; a beautiful color; an excellent grower. Granville—A most beautiful, soft, delicate, pink color; very dwarf and free.

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