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Title: Vaughan's seed store
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Vaughan's Seed Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Horticulture Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Chicago. Ill. : Vaughan's Seed Store
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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r it has achance. In fact, the blossoms must be cutor it will blossom itself to death. The blos-soms can be cut by the armfuls. About one-third will come double, balance extremely largesingle fringed flowers. Pkt 25c. DIANTHUS 1418. Heddewlgi! Count Kercliove, RedDiadem Iink. Splendid variety of the JapanPinks with deep blood red flowers,, strikinglymarked and veined with velvety black in themost charming fashion. Useful for cuttingpurposes. About 70 per cent, of the seedlingswill reproduce themselvs true. Pkt 10c. 1445. Plumariiis Perfection. (New FeatherPink.) A superb new race of these beauti-ful hardy perennials, the old-fashioned Cloveor Feather Fink. The flowers are very largeand double, pure white with crimson centerand the same color margin around each petal.Pkt (20 seeds) 25c. ESCHOLTZIA 1563. Burbanks New Crimson and Gold. Ad especially fine addition to this well knownfamily of California poppies. Flowers freely-Pkt 10c. 11 ^fgANSJlower Seed Noveltie.s ■ ^peciciltie.s 1910
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FORGET-ME-NOT, RUTH FISCHER. THE CHINESE BOTTLE GOURD 1696. Many of the visitors to California seedfarms are very much interested in the gourdswhich the Chinese laborers use for carryingtheir tea to the field. Nearly every man carrieshis own bottle of tea tied to his back with astrip of bamboo, and he seems to think asmuch of his own gourd as if it were a silverpitcher. Some of them are ingeniously coveredwith wicker work, and all of them are pro-vided with a wooden cork and a bowl madefrom the top of the gourd, attached with astout cord to the neck of the bottle. Pkt 10c. FORGET-ME-NOT Ruth Fischer It is of particularly neat and compact habit,and the lovely flowers shoot up strongly overthe glossy dark green foliage. Displayed inlarge corymbs, they measure about half aninch across, and are therefore larger than thoseof any Myosotis hitherto known. The colorIs a pure Forget-me-not blue. Ruth Fischercan be easily forced, and not only sells wellas a pot plant, but is also excellent for

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