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Title: Cottage Rose Garden : 1901
Identifier: CAT31285084 (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: G. Drobisch (Firm); Drobisch, G; Cottage Rose Garden; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Columbus Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : G. Drobisch
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 COTTAGE ROSE GARDEN, COLUMBUS, OHIO. 37 FUCHSIAS (1 f UCHSIAS or Ladies' Eardrops, are elegant flowers, delicate in coloring and exquisitely graceful in form. There are many partially shaded sides in the garden, where they succeed ad- mirably. A position where they are protected from the sun from 10 a. m. till 4 p. m., will suit them best, or even shaded all day will answer quite well. Price, unless otherwise noted, 10c each; three for 25c; thirteen for $1.00, all your selection; sixteen, entirely our selec- tion, for $1.00, all labeled.
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pie. Abundance—Tube and sepals red, single corolla; pur- Arabella—White tube and sepals corolla rose; the best light colored variety. Aurora Superba — Tube and sepals salmon; corolla bright orange. Black Prince—Large, expanded corolla of reddish color, habit of growth extra fine; one of the most abundant blooming varieties that we have. Bland's New Striped—A very free blooming variety, crimson tube and sepal and very double, purple corolla, striped scarlet. Carl Halt—White sepals, rose colored corolla, striped with white; fine. Criterion—Bright crimson sepals, dark corolla. Colbert—Sepals salmon-rose, corolla a dark azure. Elm City—Sepals rich crimson, corolla purple, globular, double, very prolific. Elegance—Single crimson tube, sepals deep purple cor- olla. Custave Dore-Crimson sepals, double white corolla. Jupiter—Erect grower; very large flower; corolla very double, of rosy-violet; long recurving sepals of bright cor-- ral-red. Lord Byron—Tube and petals bright crimson; large open bell-shaped corolla. Lustre—Tube and Sepals pure white, vivid crimson cor- olla ; good habit and a free bloomer. Mrs. G. Rundel—A much improved Earl of Beacons- field; tubes and sepals blush-white, corolla rich orange; a good variety; single. Polhymnia—Corolla golden orange; free flowering. Mons. Thiebaut—Tube and sepals dark red; corolla rose-vermilion, tinted violet. Mme. Von Der Strase—Fine, large and elegantly formed, sepals long and well reflexed; pure red; corolla large, double white; extra large. Oriflamme—Long bright red sepals, nicely waved, deep crimson, purple corolla. Purple Prince—Tube and sepals waxy carmine-scarlet; corolla rich violet; very double and compact. Phenomenal—This is the largest Fuchsia we have yet seen, larger than the Champion of the world; light red tube and sepals, bright violet corolla; habit dwarf and free flower- ing. Rose of Castile—Sepals and tube blush, corolla large, rosy purple; extra fine. Rosaiii's Patri—A free bloomer and quite early; tube and sepals rosy-carmine; corolla double, pure white. Speciosa—A well-known Winter blooming variety, pro- ducing large flowers two inches in length: tubes and sepals blush, corolla crimson. Some plants of this variety, grown in eight or nine inch pots, will produce from three hundred to five hundred flowers from December to May. In bloom nearly all the year around. Trailing Queen—Different from all other large flower- ing varieties in its habit of growth, as it is a trailing vine. The flowers are borne in large, drooping clusters, long and graceful, buds, tubes and sepals being bright, rosy-scarlet, while the corolla, when it first opens, is a deep, rich, violet purple. Storm King—The flowers are of extraordinary large size and very double; corolla a beautiful blush-white, veined with carmine, tube and sepals carmine red. Trophee—Double; buds quite round and beautiful deep red color; open flower dark-purple and very beautiful; one of the very finest. Las Cruces, N. M., April 13, 1899. G. Drobisch, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Sir—The plants I ordered from you reached me in excellent condition. Please accept thanks for extras. I shall take pleasure in recommending you to my friends. Very Respectfully. Mrs. Jacob S.

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