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Title: Choice flower seeds
Identifier: choiceflowerseed1899emma (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Emma V. White (Firm : Minneapolis, Minn. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : E. V. White
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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KING OF BLACKS PANSY. The color is a Vjeautiful rich coal tlack, with a plossy, velvety "Tiish; flowers large and of good substance, coming true from seed. PkT., 100seeds, Sets. METEOR PANSY. A large, rich mahogany-colored Pansv, with soft, velvetv fin- ish, the upper petals margined with tints of diver or gold. 'Pkt., 100 seeds. 4 cts. PEACOCK PANSY. A handsome variety of a deep ultra-marine blue. The upper petals have a narrow edging of white, the blue shading from this to the center, the colors blending to resemble the feathers of a peacock. Pkt., 100 seeds, 4 cts. RUBRA, OR RED PANSY. A beautiful collection of red and fiery shades, including "Fire King,"Cardinal/'"Victoria'" and others of the most desirable named varieties. Pkt., 100 seeds, 4 cts. SNOW QUEEN PANSY. A mixture of pure white and white with a dark center, making a wonderfully pretty show when massed by themselves. Pkt., 100 seeds, 4 ctg.' SWEET SCENTED PANSY. This is another new class of Pansies, obtained by hybridization, of the Pansy with the Violet, affording the sweet perfujne of the latter and retaining the large and many-colored blooms charao* teristic of the Pansy. Pkt., 100 seeds. 5 cts. NEW TUFTED PANSY. Seedsmen are introducing this year this variety, so popular in England. It may be called the "Violet Pansy,'" as it has the spreading habit of the Violet plant combined with the large and vari-colored blooms of the Pansv familv. Pkt., 100 seeds, 5 cts. FINEST MIXED PANSY. A mixture of the above named Pansies, together with number' less other shades and combinations. Pkt., L^O seeds, 3 cts.

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