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Title: Johnson's garden & farm manual : 1913
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson Seed Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs Flowers Seeds Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs Fruit Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Johnson 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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. La France pink. SPECIAL OFFER—15 Packets Popular Flower Seeds 25c Asters, Carnations, Candytuft, Cosmos, Dianthus or Pinks,Nasturtium, ComprisingPansy,Petunia,Phlox, Poppies,Sweet Alyssum,Snapdragon, Sweet Peas, Verbenas, Zinnias. JOHNSONS FAMOUS WILD FLOWER GARDENPer packet, 5c.; ounce, 10c.; % pound, 30c.2960. Our Wild Flower Mixture consists of many varieties of beautiful, easy-growing flowers,producing a constant and varied bloom the whole season, for sowing in shrubbery, under trees and in bedson which no care will be bestowed, or even for sowing in exposed situations, where wildness is preferred toorder and precision. The mixture comprises mignonette, candytuft, larkspurs, marigolds, poppies, fox-gloves and many other garden favorites, which will flower successively and yield an abundance of bloom.Large pkt., Sc; oz., 10c.; % lb., 30c.; lb., $1.00. PRIVET AND HARDY CLIMBING PLANTS 81 PLANT CALIFORNIA PRIVET For an Ideal HedgeYour Unsightly Lawn can be made a Marvel of Beauty
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HEDGE OF CALIFORNIA PRIVET For beautifying your home surroundings, enhancing the value of your property, for large grounds,parks, drives, etc., California Privet is unsurpassed. It is a rapid grower, remarkably vigorous, hardy,adapted to every situation, particularly to the seashore where it luxuriates in the salt air; is immune frominsects, easily transplanted and retains a glossy green foliage until frost. • If a border is desired keep the hedge low; if to screen an unsightly place allow it to grow^ 5 or 6 feet.It is admirably adapted to replace a fence or train into cur\-ed arches or any geometrical designs for lawndecoration. Can be pruned at any time and the oftener the better to produce stocky plants. The plantswe offer are of the highest quality, stocky, well-branched and cut back to the ground one year after plant-ing. Plant 6 inches apart for a single row or if a more compact hedge is desired plant in double rows 6inches apart, diagonallv opposite in the rows. Per lOO Per l

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