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Title: Alneer Brothers seed and plant catalogue for 1898
Identifier: CAT31291661 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Alneer Brothers; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock, Illinois, Rockford, Catalogs; Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs; Flowers, Seeds, Catalogs
Publisher: Rockford, Ill. : Alneer Brothers
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Tckford's Fancy Sweet;Peas Mixed. Sweet Peas. Beautiful, fragrant, free flowering, climbing plants, Plant seed two inches deep eariy in spring; support by stakes. Alneer's New Prize. Very fine; (See front cover). Pkt 5c, oz 10c, 34 lb 20c. Miss Blanche Ferry. An American hybrid. Pink and white and very early; large flower and constant bloomer. Pkt 5c, oz 10c. Eckford's Fancy New Hybrids. A strain of mixed Sweet Peas com- prising many beautiful new varieties of bright colors, making a goreeous effect. Pkt 4c, oz 8c, 1/4, lb 20. Vz lb 30c, lb 50c. Fine Mixed Colors. Pkt 3c, oz 6c, % lb 15c, Valb 25c, lb 40c. New Double Sweet Peas. Choice mixed, pkt 5c. Cupid Sweet Peas. This is one of the most distinct varieties ever introduced. The plants form a compact, moss-like bunch, about nine inches high and about eighteen inches across, producing an abundance of clear white flowers of good form and substance. Is well suited for growing in pots or as a border plant. Pkt 5c, oz 30c. Salvia^ (Flowering Sage.) Fine plants with spikes of scarlet and blue flowers; good for pot culture or outdoor bloom in summer; fine in groups. Sow seed in house. Splendens. Brilliant scarlet. Pkt 5c. Stocks. (German Ten Weeks.) The Ten Weeks Stocks or Gillifloweris one of the most popular of our. gar. den favorites; is good for massing, bedding or pot culture. Sow seed in house, transplant to pots; in June set out in open ground. Dwarf. Double Large Flowering. Mixed, pkt 5c. Scabiosa. (Mourning Bride.) Hand- some, showy plants for mixed bor- ders, producing flowers in profusion and in a very fine variety of colors. fine for bouquets. Mixed, pkt 4c. SaipiglossiSi Has beauti- ful funnel-shaped flowers; very fine for autumn bloom. Fine mixed, pkt 4c. Sclilzautliiis. Tall annuals, with beautiful flowers in great variety of colors. Pkt 2c. Passiflora, or Passion Flower. A most interesting climber, bear- ing singularly beautiful flowers. Sow seed in house and set out after dane:er of frost. Mixed, pkt 5c. Ph.lox Drammoudii. For a beautiful and constant display they stand almost unrivalled; their richness of color renders them invaluable in every garden. Sow seed in open ground in May. Star of Quidlinburg. Flowers of regular star-like form. Plant of com- pact habit, very prolific. Mixed colors. Per pkt 5c. Brilliant Scarlet, pkt 5c. Flora Alba, pure white, pkt 5c. Choice Mixed, all colors, pkt 5c. Portulaca. A most brilliant and profuse bloomer; beautiful and deli- cate, rich colors of every shade. A charming genus. The double Por- tulaca is one of the finest annuals in cultivation; flowers double as roses. Plant on sandy, light soil, in a warm, sunny place. Sow seeds in house and plant out in May. Doble Rose Flowered, mixed colors, pkt 5c. Single, mixed, pkt 3c. Rbodaiitlie. (Maculata.) Everlasting and valuable for winter bou- quets. Sow seed in open ground. Pkt 3c. Riclniis. (Castor Oil Bean.) A tall growing plant of tropical origin, the foliage being most valuable; good for screens, etc.; height from three to seven feet. Sow seed out doors when all danger of frost is over. Fine mixed, pkt 3c. Smilax. (Myrsiphyllum Asparagoidies.) A beautiful winter climbing plant; unsurpassed for wreaths and trimmings in floral decorations, sow in shallow boxes in the house in light soil at any season of the year. Smilax seed pkt 5c. Our Flower Seeds Are Fresh and Very Choice. Give them a trial.

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