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Title: Trees, plants, seeds
Identifier: CAT31291708 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Baker Bros. Nursery; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock, Texas, Fort Worth, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Shrubs, Catalogs; Trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Flowers, Seeds, Catalogs; Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs
Publisher: Fort Worth, Tex. : Baker 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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COUEUS. We have greatly improved our list of varieties of this popular bedding plant. We can usually furnish these by the thousand for carpet bedding, but if many are wanted, it would be well to correspond with us in February or March. If we receive orders at least one month before needed, we can make specially low prices. Price, 5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz., $3 per 100. Admiration. Magenta and rose, overlaid choco- late ; fringed edges, tipped gold. Dante. Velvet-crimson, fringed edges, which are gold-lined. Electric Light. Snowy white, fringed green bor- der. Does not show its beauty till bedded out. Climax. Red, chocolate and green, colors over- lapping each other. Combination. Yellow, red, green and gold. Fine. Mascot. Simply grand. Maple leaf, center of richest scarlet, surrounded by a deep chocolate, green ; and gold lace, embroidered edge. Monarch. Perfection in the Coleus family. Pale chocolate, with an edge that resembles the finest" Ken- sington stitch," worked with gold thread. Rainbow. Red leaf, with yellow center, bordered and fringed with gold. Minnie Good. Another Coleus that does not re- veal its beauty till planted in the sun. It is a big im- provement on the old variety "Progress," showing rose, lavender, cream, green and brown in exquisite contrasts. Velvet Mantel. Deep rose and chocolate, pale olive ; border nicely blended. Golden Bedder. A deep golden-yellow. A fine bedder. Verschaffeltii. A rich velvety crimson. The best bedder. Black Butterfly. Very dark. John Goode. A good fringed yellow. Cereus grand if! or us. (Night-Blooming Cereus.) □ Flowers straw-color, 9 to 11 inches across; remark- able for beauty and sweetness; they begin to open about 7 p. m., and continue until after midnight. The most popular and the grandest species of Cactus in cultivation anywhere. 15 cts. Cestrum Parqui. (Night-Blooming Jasmine.) A plant of strong, shrubby growth, with small, green- ish white blossoms, having a delightful odor, which is- dispensed freely during the night only ; of easy culti- vation. Makes a beautiful little shrub for pot culture, and well tested by many years of culture ; is not so- popular as to have become "common." 15 to 25 cts. FUCHSIAS. Price, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. Black Prince. Large expanded bell-shaped co- rolla ; tube and sepals crimson ; entirely distinct, and very free-flowering. Avalanche. Beautiful golden foliage and dark,, double violet-purple corolla. Crepuscule. A superb double ; color of tube and sepals dark red ; corolla violet, striped with rose. Be Mirible. Bright red reflexed sepals; quite large corolla of rose and violet. Mad. van der Strass. Fine, large and elegant form; sepals long and reflexed ; pure red, corolla large, double white ; the finest market double white Fuchsia. Oriflamme. Tube and sepals clear crimson; large single red corolla; beautiful amaranth. Sapaley Freres. Erect grower ; very large flower t corolla very double, of rosy violet; long, recurving sepals of bright coral-red. Trophee. Double. Buds quite round and beauti- tiful deep red color. Open flower, dark purple, and very beautiful; one of the very finest. Wave of Life. Foliage bright yellow, corolla bright violet; sepals scarlet. Ficus Elastica. The well-known Rubber Plant; 12 to 15 inches. Beautifully leaved. 75 cts.
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