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Title: Good seed book
Identifier: CAT31285661 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Missouri Valley Seed Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Missouri Saint Joseph Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo. : Missouri Valley Seed 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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PETUNIAS. The common Petimia is too well known to need description. It grows most readily from seed sown thinly and lightly covered early in Spring when trees are starting out in leaf. We offer below a number of the finest varieties of ^^is type, having flowers of good size and dis- tinct and brilliant colorings, but these should not be compared with the grand, large flowers of the special large-flowering strains. Single Flowers, best mixed, pkt. 5c; ^ 02. 25c. Large Flowering. Fringed sorts, very finest mixed, small pkt. 5c. PORTULACA. The Portulaca is of low-spreading growth, bearing a profusion of very brilliantly colored flowers. PlaiAs thrive in almost any location, Vit will grow more quickly and bloom more profusely in a sunny exposure and light or sandy "ioil. As the plant does best in warm weather, seed should not be sown until soil hr<.s become ;uite warm and should be barely covereu. Plants will grow rapidly and soon cover the surface of a large bed with foliage and flowers. Where double-flowered varieties are planted the flowers will be much larger and more finely double during latter portion of the Summer than when they first begin to bloom. They arr most attractive when sown in solid masses and allowed to cover the whole surface. Single Flower, mixed, pkt. be. Double Flower, mixed, pkt. oc. RICINUS (Castor-Oil Bean), Semi-tropical plants which are grown for their large, luxuriant foliage. When fully grown the plants arc surmounted by large spikes of flowers which are succeeded by brilliantly colored spiny seed-pods. As they arc quite sus- ceptible to frost, seed should not be planted in open ground until the weather has become warm and trees are well in leaf. When well started ^rinsplant or thin out, leaving only a single plant in a place. The smaller varieties should stand at least two feet apart; the larger four or five feet apart, to give ample room to develop. It is an excellent v'^n to start seed in the house in flower-pots during March and April, to have plants well started by the time it is warm enough to set them in the open ground. GIBSONI COCCINEUS. Growth about eight feet in height. Both stalks and large fringed leaves are of a bright metallic-bronze color. The fruits or seed-pods are of brilliant crimson. Per pkt. oc; oz. 20c. "NilXED. Many choice varieties which are distinct in growth and coloring of leaves as well .^s in coloring of the showy seed-pods. Per pkL 5c; oz. 15c. ZANZIBARENSIS. This is a grand tropica; strain. FYom seed sown in open ground in May plants attain a height uf from twelve to fourteen 8

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