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Title: Book for florists
Identifier: bookforflorists1932vaug_0 (find matches)
Year: 1932 (1930s)
Authors: Vaughan's Seed Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seedlings Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Trees 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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VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, BOOK FOR FLORISTS 15
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STOCKS Bismarck (Early Giant Imperial; The Best Cut-Flower Variety Stocks GIANT BISMARCK One of the best Stocks, both for inside and outside planting. The plants grow in pyramidal form, about 20 inches, are strong and robust and are covered with large double flowers. Appleblossom. (Used by many for white). Chamois Flesh Gold Ball Lilac White Dark Blue Fiery Blood-Red Lavender Rose Trade pkt. Oz. Each of the above % oz., 50c $0.35 $3.00 Giant Bismarck. Mixed, all colors 34 oz., 60c .35 2.20 Antique Copper Y% oz., 75c .50 4.00 Golden Rose Vs oz., 75c .50 4.00 Elk's Pride. Royal purple 34oz.,75c .50 4.00 Old Rose 34oz., 75c .50 4.00 GIANT PERFECTION—Cut and Come Again 2V2 ft. Canary Sky Blue (May Queen) La France (Flesh) Rose Sapphire (Dark Blue) White (Improved Snowdrift) Scarlet Empress Augusta Victoria, silvery lilac. Heatham Beauty. Rose shaded terra cotta. Trade pkt. Oz. Each of the above Y% oz., 35c $0.25 $2.20 Giant Perfection. Mixed, all colors 34 °z-. 50c .25 1.80 EXCELSIOR COLUMN These produce one enormous spike with large flowers, 2 to 2J^ ft. high and can be planted close together in the bench which makes them a profitable type. Are in season with Bismarck variety. White Chamois Rose Rose Light Blue Dark Blue Crimson Silvery Lilac (Lilac Lavender) Each of above 1000 seeds, $1 00; J^oz., $1.50; Oz. Moz., $2.50; J^oz., $4.50 .... $8.00 BEAUTY OF NICE-Early, Large-Flowering, Winter 2 to 2^ ft. American Beauty Monte Carlo. Yellow Abundance. Soft carmine-rose Mont Blanc. White Aurora. Golden buff suffused Pink, Flesh with rose Souv. de Monaco. Crimson Belle of Naples. Old rose-salmon Summer Night. Dark blue Cote d'Azure. Light blue Trade pkt. Oz. Each of the above ys oz., 35c $0.25 $2.40 Beauty of Nice, Mixed 34 oz., 50c .25 1.80 Myosotis (Forget-Me Not) Stricta Blue Bouquet. A compact upright grower of the pillar or column type, completely smothered with attractive flowers of blue. Trade pkt., 25c; 34 oz., 50c; oz., $1.80. Pink Bouquet. A companion to the above, only the flow- ers are a charming pink shade, splendid for pots or cut flower purposes. Trade pkt., 35c; 34 °z-. 65c; oz., $2.40. Indigo Blue Bouquet. Trade pkt., 25c; 34 oz., 50c; oz.,$1.80. Oblongata, Blue Bird. A beautiful winter-flowering Forget-Me- Not. An English specialist selection from the Oblongata class. The only Myosotis which has received an award of the British Royal Horticultural Society in many years. 34 oz., $1.20; Trade pkt., 35c: oz., $4.00. Trade pkt. Hybrida Isolde Krotz. Bright blue; good for pots. J^2oz.,$1.80 1.00 Ruth Fisher. Neat and compact habit, and the lovely blue flowers shoot up strongly over the glossy dark green foliage 3-feoz., 80c .50 Marga Sacher. Deep sky-blue. Flowers measure 2-5 to 3-5 inches across J/fg oz., $ 1.3 5 .75 Ornithogalum Ornithogalum is a bulbous plant belonging to the lily family and came originally from South Africa. Plant seeds in a seed bed in rather a cool temperature and transplant when large enough, about 50% will flower the second year, full flowering takes place the third year. It is wonderful cut-flower material, the outstanding feature is their lasting quality after being cut. Thrysoides. Flowers appear in dense racemes of thirty to forty star-like flowers, each one-inch across, clustered in somewhat tri- angular form. Trade pkt.. about 1,000 seeds, $1.00 oz., $5.00. Lacteum (Darling Chincherichee). Pure white flowers with dark eyes, and stems 1 3^ to 2 ft. Trade pkt., about 1,000 seeds, 75c.

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