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Title: Semi-annual trade list
Identifier: CAT31283730 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Champion City Greenhouses (Springfield, Ohio); Good & Reese Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Springfield Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: Springfield, Ohio : Good & Reese 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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KEX U1GONIA. These Begonias have the handsomest foliage of any plant We ofTer a choice assortment of twenty of the best varieties. 10 cents each; 50 cents per dozen; $4.00 per hundred. BEGONIAS.—Flowering- Varieties. Argentea Guttata. -This beautiful sort has the silvery blotches of Alba Picta and the grace and beauty of growth of Olbia. It has purple-bronze leaves, oblong in shape, with silvery markings, and is in every way a most beautiful Begonia. It produces white flowers in bunches on ends of growth stems. 50 cents per dozen; $3.50 per hundred. Alba Perfecta Grandltlora—The foliage resembles Rubra in shape, but is a lighter green. It is a pure white-flowering Begonia of much merit. Try it. 60 cents per dozen; $3.50 per hundred. Alba Picta.—It is shrubby in habit and compact in form, having long, slender, lance-shaped leaves on short stems, thickly studded with silvery-white, the spots graduating in size from the center towards the margin. Foliage small, and the branches are upright and gracefully curving. 40 cents per dozen; $3.00 per hundred. Bertha de Chateaurocher.—Next to Dewdrop this is the freest- blooming Begonia we have. It blooms the year round. It makes a handsome window plant with its beautiful foliage and bright currant-red flowers. 50 cents per dozen; $3.00 per hundred. Decerns.—Foliage like Alba Perfecta, with beautiful shell-pink blooms, in great clusters. 60 cents per dozen; $4.00 per hun- dred. Fuchsoides Coccinea.—Beautiful pot plants. Graceful branches and pendulous clusters of coral-red flowers. Very florifer- ous. 40 cents per dozen; $3.00 per hundred. t Foliosa.—A beautiful small-leaved /ariety. Indeeo, the smalles. leaf of all the Begonias. Bright pink flowers in profusion 50 cents per dozen; $3.00 per hundred. Marguerite.—A seedling from the famous Metallica, which it re- sembles in foliage and bloom, but a belter grower. 60 cents per dozen; $3.50 per hundred. M. de Lesseps.—The finest pot variety up to date. Large, deep- notched leaves, immense trusses of white flowers of large , size. 60 cents per dozen ; $4.00 per hundred- Rubra.—Too well known to need description. 60 cents per doz- en; $4.50 per hundred, Sandersonii.—Stalks rise from the root without branching, leaves smooth, and small flowers, heart-shaped and bright scarlet. 60 cents per dozen; $3.50 per hundred. Seeptrum—Avery handsome new variety, with large, velvetv foliage and bright pink flowers. 75 cents per dozen; $5.00 per hundred. CA RNA. TIONS. STANDARD LIST.
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Our assortment includes all the leading sorts and are fine clean, healthy, field-grown plants. 75 cents per dozen; $5.00 per hundred. Good & Reese's World-Renowned COLEUS. Several years ago we selected a set from fifty thousand seed- lings. After the hot, scorching Summers of the past few years, bedded out in the open field, they have proven, if anything, far superior to any sorts yet introduced. Space will not admit of lengthy descriptions. Be sure to try them. The finest and best you have ever seen. Admiration.—Magenta and rose, overlaid chocolate, fringed edges,tipped gold. Contrast—Pale yellow, with black border. Dante.—Velvet-crimson, fringed edges, which are gold lined. Electric Light.—Snowy-white, fringed green border. Does not show its beauty till bedded out. Climax. —Bed, chocolate and green; colors overlap each other. Combination.—Yellow, red, green, and gold. Fine. Mascot.—Simply grand. Maple leaf, center of richest scarlet, sur- rounded by a deepchocolate, green and gold lace,worked edge. Monarch.—Perfection in the Coleus family. Pale chocolate, with an edge that resembles the finest "Kensington stitch'- worked with gold thread. Kainbow.—Red leaf, with yellow center, bordered and fringed with gold. Minnie Good.—Another Coleus that does not reveal its beauty till planted in the tun. It is a big improvement on the old variety, "Progress," showing rose, lavender, cream, green and brown in exquisite contrasts. Sunset.—Pale olive, crimson and chocolate, nicely blended. Velvet Mantle.—Deep rose and chocolate, pale olive, border nicely blended. Price, for these new ones, 40 cents per dozen; $3.00 per hundred. COLEUS, OLDER SORTS. 85 cents per doz.; $2.00 per hundred.

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