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Title: Farm and floral guide
Identifier: CAT31283796 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: L. L. May & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Minnesota Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flower Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : L. L. May & 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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CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, PLANTS, BULBS AND FRUITS. 113
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DaIIa The largest flowering pink rose IJvllv* we have ever seen, many of the blossoms measuring over four inches in diameter. Color is a rosy pink; very handsome and a grand addition to our list of roses. Price 25c. Pure white flowers of good size and substance. An ex- ceedingly free bloomer and a most desir- able rose for house culture. Price 20c Peerle$$! Grand Roses No one should fail to secure these Four New Roses, as they are without exception the finest in the class of Everblooming Teas. (Darkness, Color deep crimson, bios-© soms incessantly the year " (around, and is by far the most free bloom- ing dark red rose we know of. Price 20c , Golden iUonder. JSfow "i'^ I have ever seen. It is easily grown, and I one of the most valuable varieties for ( either house or garden culture we have \ ever known. Price 20c. SPECIAL—The Above Four Roses for 75 Cents, Postpaid. 7 Standard fiardy Roses $ 50c One Strong Plant of Each of the Following Seven Varieties for 50 Cents. King of Siam—One of the best garden roses ever introduced. An imperial rose in every way. It is one of the very darkest of all roses. The flowers are large, full and fragrant, and of the most intense dark, rich, velvety-crimson imaginable. They are so dark, in fact, that at a little distance they look almost black. Very rare and handsome, and always greatly admired. Price 15c each. Earl of Pembroke—Soft crimson petals frequently tinged with cardi- nal red. The flowers are large, very double and wonderfully fragrant. Price 10c each. Mrs. John Laing—An elegant, new, constant blooming, Hybrid Perpetual Rose. One of the very finest of its class. Color a clear, bright shell-pink, exquisitely shaded. The buds are long and pointed, the flowers extra large and full, borne on long stems and exceedingly sweet. Valuable, both for open ground and green house culture. A most ex- quisite rose Price 15c each. Charlotte Corday—One of the handsomest roses we know of. The flowers are of an immense size, cup shaped, double and of a deep rosy purplish color. It is a remarkably strong grower and produces its im- mense flowers in great profusion the summer through. Price 10c. La Reine—Sometimes called "Pink Queen." The flowers are full, double, and sweet-scented. Color, rosy pink. An elegant rose for all sections. Price lOc. Coquette des Blanches—A fineW formed, pure white rose, occasionally shows light flesh when first opening; beautiful shell-shaped petals, evenly arranged. Flowers of good size, perfect, and of fine form and finish. One of the finest, freest and most beautiful of white hybrids. Very suitable for cemetery planting. Price 10c. "•• „ •' . . , . , Madame Plantier—The iron-clad white rose so extensively used in cemeteries. Plant is a strong, vigorous grower and as hardy as an oak. Succeeds anywhere and produces hundreds of flowers during the summer months. Price 10c. Two-year-old Plants of the Above at 40 Cents Each. The Seven, Postpaid for $2.50.

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