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Title: Floral treasures : 1899
Identifier: CAT31283731 (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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Champion City Greenhouses, Springfield, Ohio. 51 Ever-Blooming Dwarf Cannas * ^ * * SUPERB" COLLECTION These are the best varieties in cultivation. A'ways in bloom. They are not like the old varieties of Cannas that seldonn flower, but are always covered with their large, handsome trusses of bloom. Be sure and give them a trial. PRICE OF PLANTS TO BLOOM THIS SPRING AND SUMMER, 15 CENTS EACH. THE SET OF EIGHT FOR $1.00. ANY FOUR FOR 50 CENTS. ........ CULTURE.âThe soil can hardly b'i too rich and porous. Equal parts manure, loam and sand, with a little peat, form best mixture. Plants must be kept in a growing temperature of sixty degrees. Liberal supplies of manure water are of great benefit. Always when growing keep well watered. Jr\ /^ARO^ strong grower, leaves lanceolate, 0 L/e \^J\D\JO0 green, strongly shaded with purple, flower stalks numerous, flowers large and round, color a rich ap- ricot, with deeper shadings. Very striking. Conceded by all who have seen it to be the finest yellow spotted Canna. Flowers very large, of the most jjerfect form, with broad, overlapping petals nicely rounded at the ends. Color a brilliant yellow, spotted with bright red. A strong, robust grower, and flowers very freely. This is the grandest of all Cannas for outdoor AWPiAT P7 Without the least hesitation we pro- '-'^â TS.i^LJn.L^Ljg nounce this the best of all dark-leaved Canniis lor Dedding that has yet come under ournotice. Flowers are of good size, and borne in compact heads, ami in such profu- sion that a bed of them is a perfect mass of color unequaled by any other sort. The color is a deep currant-red, of a peculiar and pleasing shade, and different from any other. M An AMR The color is a brilliant ver- 1V1/\.U/\1V1JD ^KVJZ. X * milion-scarlet, bordered with deep golden yellow. The flowers are borne in great clusters, and in such profusion that they crown the plant with a blaze of glow- ing color. individnal flowers are large, and the flower spike very large, each flower standing out separately by itself. The flower is as fine as the finest orchid. The color is a bright sal- mon, with a carmine tint. CT A)UrT)V(^0 Flowers four inches in diameter, with '-'â i*-iyi-i-i-y^>^* almost flat face, forming a spike of glow- ing crimson color, once seen not soon 'o be forgotten. Very free, a plant otten bearing three or four trusses at a time, and may al- most be termed ever-blooming from the beginning to the end of the season. PAUL MAROUARD, T^ll, FLORENCE VAUGHN, ALPHONSE BOUVIER, beddino-. It is a very luxuriant grower iti good ground. It be- gins to Dloom very early, and is one continuous mass of crimson the entire season. The tips of the shoots are surmounted by immense clusters of bright crimson flo'vers of the very largest size, and nothing can excel their brilliancy. CHARLES HENDERSON. t£^Zlll%rZ7S h ibit, growing about three ieet in height, and bearing its im- mense, compact heads of bloom erect and well above the foil- age. The form of the flowers is very fine indeed, well opened and of good subst ince,standing the sun well. Novelties in Cannas. Alsace. yellow, and turns to a creamy- white It is indispensable where coMrast is necessary. TTAT TA '^^^ gigantic ^ I -rS-LjlJ^ flowering Canna. This kind produces the largest flowers which have been obtained as yet in the way of Cannas. Above the perfect foliage emerge numerous elegant gigantic and wonderful spikes of flowers. The outer petals are scarlet, with a^ very broaa, golden-yellow border.' The inside of the blooms is scarlet and dark red. Exceedingly beau- tiful. The new Orchid-flow- PI?ICE, 20 CENTS EACH; THE SIX FOR 7S CENTS. ANY THREE FOR 40 CENTS. The white Canna. It ^: opens light AUSTRIA, ered Canna. The flowers are truly gigantic in size, the three upper petals spreading fully seven inch- es, and the form is really semi- double. Toward the inner part the petals show fine crimson spots. All the rest of the flower is of a most beautiful, rich canary-yellow. The plant is a very strong grower, five to six feet high, with leaves with a texture like rubber. MAIDEN'S BLUSR The only absolutely pure pink Canna in existence Elegant.
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QUEEN CHARLOTTE, J^t ".Te" very large. They are borne in immense heads, well above the foli- age, and are most stnking in color. A bright orange-scarlet, deenlv edged with bright canary-yellow. ' PAPA CANIV A Monsieur Crozy claims this variety as 7 r,. his finest variety to date, and it certain- ly is a grand addition to the already gorgeous array of reds. It is not quite three feet high It bears immense spikes of flowers, the florets being ot the grandest size and finest form. Color pure red. Very graceful m haBit. Foliage light green. Produces a mass of bloom.

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