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Title: Seeds, plants, bulbs, fertilizers
Identifier: CAT31284011 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Schlegel & Fottler; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Schlegel & Fottler
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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4 SC11LRGEL &r> FOTTLBlt S SEED CATALOGUE. FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES. (Descriptions by the Introducers.) Pkt. Amaranthus Hybridus, 44 Brilliant." The most beautiful of all the Amaranthus, the bril- liant, variegated foliage producing a striking effect. 4 feet high .10 Antirrhinum Grandiflorum, "Golden Queen." New, large-flowered, semi-dwarf sort, with pure yellow flowers. 10 Antirrhinum Grandiflorum, Extra Mixed." Choice, large flowering sorts. ... .10 Anthemis 44 Tinctoria." (Hardy Golden Marguerite.) Bushy plants, 2 feet high, covered with showy yellow flowers all summer. ........... .05 Anthemis 44 Kelwayii." With deeper yellow flowers than the preceding 10 Aquilegia 44 Ccerulea Hybrida." Large, sulphur-yellow flowers, with blue spurs and sepals. . 10 Asparagus 44 Sprengeri." Excellent for pots or hanging baskets, the fronds are often four feet long, of a rich green shade, and remain fresh for weeks after being cut. It is an excellent house plant, as it succeeds in almost any situation. . . . . . . .25 Aster, 44 Comet, Deep Mauve," 44 Giant Rose," 44 Giant Rose and White," 44 Giant Sulphur Yellow," 44 Giant Violet and White." New colors of recent introduction. Each color. .10 Aster, 44 Giant Ray," 44 Bright Rose," 44 Pure White." Large flowers with long, slender, quilled petals. Each color. ............. .10 Aster, 44 Japanese. Mixed." Large, branching class, with curled and twisted petals. . .10 Aster, 44 Ostrich Feather, White." Free bloomer, of branching habit, flowers very large, snow-white, with long, loose petals. ........... .10 Aster, 44 Single flixed." Large, graceful, single flowers, in choice colors. Valuable for cutting. * . .05 Begonia, 44 Butterfly." Remarkable new strain of the large-flowered, single, tuberous-rooted Begonias. The flowers are scarlet or bright carmine, marbled and spotted with white ; free flowering and showy. .............. .25 Begonia Fringed and Frilled. (Tuberous Rooted). This is the finest strain of Tuberous Rooted Begonias ever introduced, being far ahead of any of the older types. The flowers, which are of immense size and finest colors, have the additional attraction of being superbly fringed and frilled at the edges. They are of easiest culture from seed, bloom- ing in three months from time of sowing and continuing throughout the summer. For outside bedding they surpass all others, while for flower work and table decorations they are without an equal, the fringe adding greatly to their beauty and attractiveness. No gardener after getting this new strain in bloom will continue growing the old sorts. .50 Mr. Laurie, gardener to Cornelius Vanderbilt, Esq., who grew the above strain largely last summer, says they are the novelty of the age. Begonia, 44Gigantea Cristata." (Bearded Tuberous Rooted Begonia). The flowers are single, very large, and in great variety of color. The remarkable feature, however, is that attached to each petal is an irregularly fringed appendage which adds greatly to their
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