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Title: Annual descriptive catalog of bulbs and other flowering roots, with directions for their culture and management
Identifier: annualdescriptiv1884jame (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: James M. Thorburn & Company; J. M. Thorburn & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Trees Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Commercial catalogs New York (State) New York
Publisher: New York : James M. Thorburn & 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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26 J. M, Thorbukn & Co.'s Catalogue of Bulbs. RANUNCULUS. The main soil for these should be a loam or clay with a good dressing of rotten manure and leaf mold, and if heavy a little sand. To have them in perfection the soil should be well drained, cool, deep, rich, and moist. Plant late in the Autumn, claws downward, from four to six in- ^■^^^0 ches apart, and three inches deep, covering with fine pul- ^ ij^^ssT^ L_ verized soil. The Tcrbax sorts are more hardy, and although the same treatment is desirable, they may be dealt with in a rougher fashion. ^. .CTVi^ WtJ--^ PERSIAN SOR TS, each. ^ doz. BeW^L^onnii, rioJet spotted $0.05 ;0.40 --t/f^/^/^^^^ ^'^'^^'^^^ Dickens, violet rose 05 .40 t^J^^^^^^'^L^^ Commodure Xapier, yellow and brown border 05 .40 y_^0. Oeil brillant, blight orange, dark centre .05 .40 Queen of Yellows, &n^7i^ ye^^^c 05 .40 Snowball, white 06 .60 Tliackerav, scarlet 05 .40 DOUBLE RANUNCULUS. Double Mixed Pepsian,.. 100, $1.25 .05 .40 " French...f 100, 1.50 .05 .40 TURBAN SORTS. Homano, scai'let 05 .40 Grandiflora, purple variegated '. 05 .40 Hercules, white 06 .60 Seraphique, citron yelloic 05 .40 Sultan Osmar, purple 05 .40 Yiridiflora, scarlet with green centre 05 .40 Mixed Turban 100, $2.00 .05 .40
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SCILLAS. No garden can be complete without these beautiful flowers. They are quite hardy, with the exception of Peruviana, and may be suffered to remam in the ground several years without taking up. Campanulata, blue " alba, lohite " carnea, rose color SiBERiCA, fine blue early cernua coerulea rosea Nutans coerulea 1 " alba.. . " carnea. " rubra.. patula coerulea.. *' rubra ciliaris Peruviana alba ) (Star of i (Xo'ldingj ( Squills) J coerulea s Bethlehem each. ^ doz. ^ 100. $.05 $0.50 $3.00^:^, .10 1.00 5.00 ^ .06 .60 4.00 Ui, .05 .50 3.00 ^ .05 .50 3.00 ^ .10 1.00 6.00 .05 .50 3.00 .10 1.00 6.00 .10 1.00 6.00 .05 .50 3.00 .06 .60 4.00 .10 1.00 5.00 .40 4.00 .30 3.00 .30 3.00

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