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Title: Everything for the garden : 1906
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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of the first of the now celebrated Bruant race of Double Geraniums, is still peerless in its class. It never burns, it is a sturdy, compact grower, marvelously free in blooming, flowers held well above the splendid foliage, large trusses ; color, intense scarlet with a touch of orange. (See cut.) Gloire de France. Bright salmon.^~-j Hedwige Buchner. Pure white.Dwarf, compact habit, very free. La Fraicheur. White, edged rosy-pink. A delightful color effect. Marquise de Castellaine. Beautifulred. A shapely grower. Miss Frances Perkins. Bright pink. Pasteur. Bright orange-scarlet. Amost brilliant color, fine truss. Profusion. Rich salmon. Very pro-fuse bloomer, grand habit. Richelieu. Fiery-scarlet, shaded crim-son. Dwarf, stands the sun well. Roi des Negres. Dark, glowing crim-son. A splendid bedding variety S. A. Nutt. Brilliant crimson-scarlet. White Swan. Pure white; a grandvariety. Splendid habit and trusses.Price for the above, 10c. each, SI.00 per doz., $8.00 per 100. ^STABLI^HS^S
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It is a brilliant orange-scarlet, the flowers are produced in mar-vellous profusion, the habit is perfect, semi-dwarf, branching and com-pact. On the whole, Single Geraniums are even more satisfactory for bed-ding than the Double ones, as in a very short time after a summer storm, theyare as fresh as before without any hand cleaning; the double flowers, on theother hand, have to be cleaned off and thev are long in appearing after a storm (Seecut.) Price, 10c. each, $1.00 per doz., $8.00 per 100. SINGLE GERANIUMS.—Standard Sorts. Andrew Lang. A glowing scarlet with a pure white centre.Camille Bernardin. Rosy-peach, veined rose, marbled white.Chas. Nab. Carmine-lake pink, centre white. Very distinct.■Clyde. A grand single Bruant Geranium. Rich scarlet.Commandant Pellogot. Large, fiery-red. Splendid bedder.C. W. Ward. Brilliant, deep apricot-salmon. Fine grower.Dryden. Pure white, with a flaming aureole of rosy-red.Ernst Bergman. Intense scarlet. A grand bedding sort.Fleur Poitevine.

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