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Title: Washburn & Co.'s amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden : containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds : also a list of French hybrid gladiolus,
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Washburn & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ped Japanese Maize. One of the most valuable acquisitions. Among ornamental-foliaged plants of rapid growth and immediate effect, the new Striped Japanese Maize holds the most conspicuous place. It is a native of Japan.It appears to be a variety of Maize, but differs in many respects from our commonIndian Corn. It grows from five to six feet high.and has alternate foliage : the foliageis about four feet long, and two to three inches wide. The variegation does not showitself until the fourth or fifth leal: it then begins to show its true character ofgreat white stripes, and in a short time the long wavy and gracefully recurvedleaves become evenly and perfecdy striped or ribboned with alternate colors of dearwhite and the brightest green, occasionally showing faint tinges of rose-color at theedges. In general appearance, it approaches the beautiful Arundo Donax Variegata.For groups on the lawn, or for a back row in the flower-border, nothing can be moreimposing, effective, and grand. «S
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THE AMATEUR CULTIVATORS GUIDE TO THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. In again presenting our Catalogue of Vegetable Seeds, we embrace the opportunity to addthat our stock, as heretofore, has been selected with a view to secure only the freshest and mostreliable seeds. Most of the staple seeds are raised expressly for us by experienced growers ; andsuch as are imported are purchased from the most reliable seedsmen in Europe, with whom wehave long dealt, and from whom we have received only such as we could with perfect confidence recom-mend. It is our invariable rule to test all our seeds ourselves, and never to send out any thing but what we are certain will vegetate freely, and prove true to name. Nothing causes greater disap-pointment than poor seeds ; for not only is the season lost if they fail to grow, but an inferior cropwill not pay for the trouble of planting. American-grown seeds always have our preference; butsome kinds it is impossible to obtain in sufficient quantity to fill our orders, a

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