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Title: Price list and descriptive catalogue
Identifier: CAT31284080 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kansas Seed House; F. Barteldes & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Kansas Lawrence Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs
Publisher: Lawrence, Kan. : F. Barteldes & 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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F. BARTELDES & CO., LAWRENCE, KANSAS. 57 PETUNIA. PETUNIA.
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One of the best flowers for a splendid display through the entire season. Beautiful new colors, striped and marked in the most diversified manner. The ease of culture, profuse and continuous bloom, adaptation for different styles of growth—indoors and in the garden—render the Petunia one of the most valuable of the annuals, and entitled to a generous share of the space in every garden. In bloom fiom the first of July to October. Hardy perennial. Petunia Hybrida, iouble mixed, packet »c. Petunia Hybrida, Giants of Califor- nia, packet 15c. Petunia Hybrida, striped, blotched, packet 5c. Petunia Hybrida, single, mixed, packet 5c. PYRETHRUM (Insect Powder Plant.) Practical entomolo- gists have long been looking for some ef- fective, safe and cheap insecticide, and now tell us they have found it in the Persian Insect Pow- der. This is the dried and powdered flowers of the Pyrethrum Roseum, and it is cer- tain death to Plant Lice, Flies, Cabbage Worms, and nearly every form of insect life. It is harmless to man, but when di- luted with ten times its bulk of flour, kills every Cabbage Worm or other insect it touches. Height 1 foot. Pyretnrum rose- urn, packet 10c. Pyrethrum a u - rerum, imp. Golden Feather, pkt. 10c. An exceedingly elegant and graceful variety of ornamental grass, with delicate hanging spike-lets, which nod and tremble in the breeze. Handsome ven as border plants, but especially useful in the formation of winter bouquets, either with other grasses or mixed with everlasting flowers. Gather When green, and dry in the shade. They can be dyed any color, and will last for years. Height 1 foot. Hnrdy annual. Gynerium argeutanmn, packet 5c. PAMPAS GRASS. PORTULACA (Rose Moss). SSaSSSSSjSJfSS a dazzling display of beauty as a bed of many-hued. brilliant-colored Portulacas. They are in bloom from about the first of July until killed by frost in autumn. Plant in open ground after it has become warm, in a light, sandy soil, and in a dry situation. After the plants appear, withhold water, and if the beds have a full exposure to the sun, the ground will be covered with the plants, and the effect beautiful. Tender annual. Height 9 inches. Portnlaca, single, mixed, packet 5c. Portulaca, double rose, mixed, packet 10c. SALPIGLOSSIS. A beautiful annual, that deserves to be more widely known; when once grown in the garden will be one of the first to be chosen for the next year. Flowers of the rich-i est colors, blue, crimson, yellow, purple, scarlet, etc., with texture like rich velvet, each petal beautifully penciled. Splendid for bouquets. Height 2 feet. Salpiglossis, mixed colors, packet 5c. ^HI7ANTHII^ Tnis annual should be more widely cultivated. gniLnil I nug. Flowers different shades of blue, curiously cut and delicately spotted; laced with crimson, white, yellow, etc. Adapted for garden and indoor culture. Excellent for bouquets. Height 18 inches. Shiznutnus, mixed colors, packet 5c.

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