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Title: Farm, vegetable and garden seeds
Identifier: CAT31284082 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: W. E. Barrett Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Rhode Island Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Providence, R. I. : W. E. Barrett Company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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The W. E. Barrett Company â SEEDS OF HARDY PERENNIALS MYOSOTIS (Forget-Me-Not). Thrive best in moist, shaded places, forming neat, compact little plants, bright with graceful sprays of starry blue flowers, which form one of the chief attractions of the garden in early «nring. For pot-cul- ture, too, they ar? very pretty, if given cool treatment, and frequently bloom the first season. Myosotis palustris (the true Forget- me-not). Flowers bright blue, with a large golden yellow eye. 10 cts. per pkt. M. alpestris Victoria. Anew dwarf variety, which forms shapely, rounded plants, and is well adap- ted to pot-culture, although it loves the hardy green quiet as well. its sky-blue flowers are borne in thick clusters, the center ones being double. 10c. per pkt. M. rosea. A new rose-colored variety of the Victoria. 10 cts, per pkt.
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MYOSOTIS. PENTSTEMON (Beard Tongue). The flowers are borne in graceful spikes. The plants are herbaceous, and bloom from early summer until frost. The flowers are white, blue, scarlet, crimson, yellow, etc. Mixed, 10 cts. per pkt. PAPAVER ORIENTALE. Large, brilliant flowers, rich and bright in their color. The loose, silken petals have each one a blotch of black at the base. The plants are about 2 feet high, and entirely hardy. 10 cts. per pkt. SILENE (Catchfly). Appear in early spring, and last until the late autumn; vary in height, color of flowers, etc., but all free-blooming; well adapted to exposed borders, etc. Mixed, 5 cts per pkt. SWEET WILLIAM. See Dianthus barbatus. VIOLA ODORATA (Sweet-scented Violet). Well-known, delightfully fragrant little flowers, which bloom most freely in early spring and fall. The seed should be sown early. Mixed, 10 cts. per pkt. WALLFLOWERS (Chionanthus). Their exquisite perfume and their rich, quaint, bright colors, usually brownish red, yellow and violet, should give them a place in every garden. When grown in the open ground the plants should be potted in autumn. Will bloom in winter if kept cool. Double Mixed. This variety gives fine flowers in all the Wallflower colors. 10 cts. per pkt. Single Mixed. This seed is chosen from select plants of best colors. 5 cts. per pkt. 5eeds of Ornamental Foliage Plants. FOR SUMMER BEDDING, BORDERS AND POT CULTURE. We include in this department all the best ornamental foliage plants largely used in outdoor bedding, for house and conservatory decoration, will be found under Seeds of Greenhouse Plants. More tender sorts, useful chiefly ACANTHUS LATIFOLIUS. A tall, herbaceous plant of beautiful and stately habit, grown, like the ricinus, for its rich tropical leafage. Handsome and effective, whether grown as a center for foliage beds or as a specimen plant for lawns and borders. 10 cts. per pkt. AMARANTHUS. Tall-growing plants, with showy leaves, variegated with many shades of red, yellow and green, and long racemes of curious flowers. A -naranthus caudatus (Love-lies-bleeding). Three feet tall; blood- red. 5 cts. per pkt. A cruentus. The well-known Prince's Feather. 5 cts. per pkt. A. Henderi. Of beautiful habit; brown, dark red and bronze. 5 cts. per pkt. A. nobilis pyramidalis. 5 cts. per pkt. A. tricolor (Joseph's Coat). Leaves a beautiful mosaic of color. 5 cts. per pkt. BEET. Ornamental-foliaged, Best. In various colors. 5 cts. per pkt. CENTAUREA (Dusty Miller). Silver-leaved and indispensable for ribbon beds and borders, their soft, natural tints of greyish green being very effectual in toning down and harmonizing contrasts in more brilliant leaves. Centaurea candidissima. Leaves broader and whiter than in any other silver-leaved sort. 10 cts. per pkt. C. gymnocarpa. Of very graceful growth; a fine variety. 10 cts. per pkt. COLEUS. The leaves are of many shapes and bright colors, and nearly all varieties have a rich, velvety appearance. Seed sown in March or April will produce fine plants for bedding. 15 cts. per pkt. CINERARIA MARITIMA CANDIDISSIMA. Another fine silver-leaved plant, used in ribbon-bedding, vases, etc, Leaves are silvery white; flowers yellow. 5 cts. per pkt. EUPHORBIA (Painted Leaf). Euphorbia heterophylla. Glossy green leaves, forming large bracts on the ends of the branches, changing in midsummer to brilliant scarlet. 10 cts. per pkt. E. variegata (Snow-on-the-mountain). Of robust growth, with fine green leaves, striped with white. 5 cts. per pkt. PERILLA NANKINENSIS. A beautiful plant; leaves rich, dark purple; fringed. Contrasts finely with silver-leaved foliage plants. A half-hardy annual. 5 cts. per pkt. PYRETHRUM AUREUM (Golden Feather). Golden yellow foliage, finely cut, producing rich, soft effects in bedding; hardy annual. 5 cts. per pkt. RICINUS. (Castor-Oil Bean.) Plants of stately growth, with fine fruits and leaves. Ricinus Borboniensis a:'= boreus. Growth 15 feet; leaves enormous. 5 cts. per pkt. R. Cambodgensis. Red- black stems; very dark leaves; very distinct. 5 cts. per pkt. R. Cibsoni (Duchess of Edinburgh). Dark pur- ple leaves and stems. 5 cts. per pkt. R. Zanzibariensis. An en- tirely new and distinct class. The plants attain great dimensions, pre- senting a splendid as- pect with their gigantic leaves. Seeds also very distinct, very large and of exquisite tints. Mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. kicinus.

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