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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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sPrepared Potting Soil is the same that we use in our extensive greenhouses.As needed, we mix with it peat, sand and pure raw ground bone meal—it isthen friable, rich, and will cause plants to grow and bloom luxuriantly. Leaf Mold. Essential in plant growing, in fact, indispensable for Ferns, etc. Hotted (Sandy) Peat. Fine for lightening soil, for sowing fine seeds, forAzaleas, Palms, Begonias, etc., mixed with garden soil. Fibrous Peat. Used for potting Orchids, Ferns, and many purposes. Priceof Potting Soil, Peat and Leaf Mold, 30c. per peck bag, SI.00 per bushelbag, S2.00 per bag containing about one barrel. Sphagnum Moss. Extensively used for filling fern and orchid baskets, mixingwith potting soil, covering tops of pots to preserve moisture, etc. Price,25c. peck, 75c. bushel; 3-bushel bag, $2.00; bale of about 5 barrels, S5.00. Bamboo or Cane Stakes. Six to ten feet long and largely used for stakingChrysanthemums, Roses, etc. Price, S1.00 per 100, SS.00 per 1,000. j§T£BUi312^
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CAMPBELLS EARLY. Berries large, often an inch or-more in diameter; black, with light purple bloom ; skin thin,but very tenacious; flesh firm, but tender, parting easily fromits few and small seeds. Flavor rich, sweet, slightly vinous, freefrom foxiness, and the seeds part readily. Season is early, andits keeping qualities remarkable, having hung upon vines soundand perfect for six weeks or more after ripening, with notendency to fall off or shell from the stem. (See cut.) 2-yearvines, 40c. each, $4.00 per doz. HARDY GRAPES IN VARIETY. (All 2-Year Vines.) Agawam. (Rogers No. 15.) Berries large, of bronze color. Brighton. Bronze-black; ripens with the Delaware. Concord. Black with a rich bloom. 20c. each, $2.00 per doz. Delaware. Red; bunches compact; berries small and sweet. Eaton. The equal of Concord but larger. Golden Pocklington. Very large; deep amber in color. Green Mountain. (Winchell.) Bunch shouldered; berriesmedium, greenish-white; skin thin, tough, pulp tender, sweet,with fe

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