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Title: Catalogue 1892 : tested seeds
Identifier: catalogue1892tes1892wwba (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: W. W. Barnard & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Barnard
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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62 W. W. BARNARD & CO., 6 & 8 CLARK ST., CHICAGO.
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The popularity and usefuluess of these lovely little plants have en- couraged some of the best floriculturists to devote their time and skill for many years to the improvement of the different varieties and as a result of their earnest and successful work we can offer now a collection of Pansies that in beauty and combination of colors and immense size of flowers cannot be excelled Our seeds are contracted direct with Pansy Specialists in France, Germany, England and America. The mixtures are made up under our personal supervis ion, and therefore v:e have no hesitancy in pronouncing our strains the finest out. Our customers of last season, from many of whom we have received complimentary letters in regard to the superiority of our flower seeds, will find some very valuable new sorts in our Florist 3Iixtiire this year. We have spared neither expense nor time to maintain the high standard of excellence accredited to this mixture The seed can be sown from September to March- and in order to secure vigorous growth and largest flowers the soil should be well em'iched with decomposed mamu-e If sown in fall the plants, if slightly protected during winter, will bloom early in spring. The Pansy does best In the cool, rainy weather of spring and autumn, and plants which produce beautiful specimens during that season, show very inferior blossoms during dry. hot weather of summer BARNARD'S FLORIST'S MIXTURE. 3296. The varieties comprising thi.s mixture are of the richest and most brilliant shades of color, most perfectly and strikingly marked, blotched and mottled, delicately veined and margined; remarkable for perfection of foi-m. size of flowers, profuseness of bloom and strength of growth It represents the product of experts in Pansy culture in Europe and America. Recommended by our leading florists, the most critical cultivators It will not disappoint any one wlsning to secure tlie very best. >ioz.. $150; Pkt ,25c GIANT PANSIES. 3290 TRIMARDEAU MIXED. Very large leaves, three blotched, and of the richest and most varied shades of color, vigorous and compact growth, enduring the heat and drought of summer better than most other varieties. The flowers are of good form and remarkable size. Pkt . 20c. 3291. TRIMARDEAU YELLOW. Golden yellow with rich brown blotches. Pkt., 25c. 3292. TRIMARDEAU WHITE. Ptire white with three dark blue blotches, Pkt , 25c. 3293. GASSIER. The flowers, of immense size, are of the popular Odier type, being all three-spotted or five- spotted on backgrounds of very rich colors. The flowers of theCassiers are of good siibstance and fine form, while the plants are of neat, compact growth. Pkt.. 15c 3m BUGNGT'S SUPERB BLOTCHED, Very beautiful, extra large flowers with very broad blotches, the two upper petals finely lined: yields a great diversity of the hand- somest colors only. Pkt., 25c. 3295 GIANT PANSIES IN MIXTURE. Pkt.. 25c. The darkest out. Pkt., 10c. and fine substance. 3297. Faust's Kins of the Blacks. Pkt., 10c. 3-298. Black and Crimson. Very fine. 3303. Bronze Colored. Very showy Pkt.. 10c 3304. Brown Shades. Light and dark. Pkt., 10c. 3305. Candidissima or Snow Queen. Flower of a delicate satiny white, very pretty. Pkt.. lOc- .3306. Emperor William. Brilliant ultramarine blue \^-ith purple eye. Pkt., 10c. 3311. Fancy Red. Reddish shades of pm-ple from rosy to almost crimson A beauty. Pkt., 10c. 3312. Gloriosa Perfecta. Beautiful markings with rich, steel blue shadings over the colors. Pkt.. 15c. 3323. Golden Gem. Pure yeUow. Pkt., 10c.

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