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Title: Germain : (catalog)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Germain Seed and Plant Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Trees Catalogs Grasses Seeds Catalogs Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Germain
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ing of the seed-pod making a handsomeornament for winter bouquets. Purple. A biennial.Height 1 y2 ft HUNNEMANNIA HUNNEMANNIA FU MARIA EFO LI A. A showy plantbelonging to the Poppy family. Yellow. Height 2 ft HYACINTH US HYACINTHUS CANDICANS. A bulbous plant, throwingup a spike bearing 20 to 30 yucca-like flowers; purewhite and fragrant. Height 3 ft IPOMOPSIS IPOMOPSIS (Texas Plumes). Showy scarlet and goldpyramidal blossoms and feathery foliage. Fine mixed.Biennial. Height 3 ft LANTANA LANTANA. B. White, rose and yellow particolored fra-grant flowers, like heliotrope in form. Finest mixed.Height 1ft LAVENDER LAVENDER SWEET. Blue; a hardy shrub, well-knownand esteemed for its delicious fragrance. Height 3 ft.. LI MAR IA LIN ARIA CYMBALARIA (Kenilworth Ivy). White andpurple: very pretty for rock and hanging-baskets:trailer $0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10 .10 .10 10 .10 ,10 .10 .10 Due to market conditions, all prices (79) are subject to change without notice LOS ANGELES ^gg^22£S^ CALIFORNIA
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PANSY or HEARTSEASE CULTURE—To have pansies in perfection, sowings should be made every monthfrom the end of July to the end of April. Young, vigorous stock always gives the bestresults. Sow in pans or fiames and transplant when large enough to a border of richsoil. Water must be given freely in bright weather and the flowers gathered as soonas they begin to wilt in order to keep up a succession and prevent running to seed, whichinjures the plants and tends to smaU flowers. GERMAINS GIANT PRIZE PANSIES For Plants See Nursery Department What could be more interesting to any lover of flowers than a bed of Pansiesfresh with the morning dew, some clad in then* rich velvety petals and others turn-ing their smiling faces upward asking only to be appreciated in their brief effortto make the world a little more beautiful! GIANT PURPLE. Very showy. Pkt. GERMAINS SUPERB GIANT PRIZE Pkt. Velvety Royal Purple $0.25 MIXTURE 25 GIANT KING OF THE BLACKS 25 Germains Giant Prize Mixture con- GIANT M

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