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Title: Horitucultural guide : spring 1892
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Currie Brothers Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Milwaukee, Wis. : Currie Bros.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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it isdesirable toproduce a striking effect with solid colors:ACME—Pink, brown and yellow.HER MAJESTY—Golden bronze.GOLDEN BEDDER-Best yellow.JOHN GOODE-Greenish yellow.VERSCHAFFELTII—Maroon; a general favorite.PROGRESS—Green ground, mottled with brownish spots.Price, each, 10 cts.; per doz., $1.00. Per 100, our selection, $6.00;per 100, customers selection, $7.00. CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS. (UMBRELLA PLANT.) This well-known plant, always popular, seems now to bein greater demand than ever it was. It well deserves the atten-tion it is attracting, for it is a pretty, unique and strikingobject. Moreover, it is of very easy culture, growing andthriving under almost positive neglect. Being an aquatic itis at home in the aquarium, but it succeeds equally well as.anordinary pot plant, if only an abundance of water is given.it.Next to Palms this plant deservedly takes rank among themost beautiful and most useful foliage plants for house cul-ture. Price, each, 25 cts. to 50 cts. FUCHSIAS.
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FROM a large and varied collectionof these popular plants we haveselected a few of the very bestwhich we oifer in the full confidencethat they will invariably givesatisfaction.BULGARE—Sepals brilliant red corolla violet, a free bloom-er; single.BLACK PRINCE—Tube and sepals carmine, corolla rose, a profuse bloomer; single.ELM CITY—Sepals crimson, 1^;^: corolla purple, very large and full; double, an old favorite.FRAU EMMA TOPFER OR STORM KING-A superb variety, very large and double, sepals bright crim-son, corolla white suffused and veined with delicate rose. Each 15 cts.MRS. E. G. HILL—(See cut). Flowers very large and double; corolla pure white, sepals dark red. A grand variety and very free bloomer. Each, 15 cts.MRS. MARSHALL—An excellent variety; corolla carmine, tube and sepals white; single.PRINCE ALBERT—Resembles that old favorite Speciosa although much more desirable; single.ROSAINS PATRIE—Sepals rosy carmine, corolla white; double. A very desirable variety. Each,

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