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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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er ; fancy margin ; raised by an amateur, who has devoted many years to the Pansy; very highly recom-mended 50 1987 Cornuta Mauve Queen. One of the most attractive bedding and border plants in cultivation, continuing in one mass of bloom throughout the early spring,summer, and autumn monthsl no plant can be more welcome or valuable forbedding purposes 25 1988 Luiea. A perfect gem; invaluable for dwarf beds or edgings ; bright yellow : compact habit; dark-green, glossy foliage; blooms profusely throughout theseason 5° 1989 The Czar. A new and very large and beautiful variety of the violet ; with single flowers of the deepest blue, and possessing unusual vigor and hardiness ;the leaves are large, and the flowers are bome on very long footstalks (five to sixinches in length), and are nearly twice as large and :nuch sweeter than the oldRussian violet. It is so hardy that it commences blooming in September, andcontinues flowering until May, even during the frost and under the snow . . .50
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ASPARAGUS. Conovers Ccnossu. Sec page 141. TOMATO HOOP TRAIN I NT, NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES. FOR 1869. VEGETABLE SEEDS. Asparagus. Per pkt. Conovers Colossal. A European variety, introduced several years since, which, by acareful selection of seeds from the most vigorous shoots, has been wonderfullyimproved both in size and quality, in point of which it surpasses all othervarieties in cultivation. Specimens were exibited the past season by Mr. Cono-ver, which were grown alongside the best Oyster Bay varieties, and receivedthe same care and treatment, which attained four times the size of that popularvariety. Though but two years from the seed, many of the plants producedtwenty to thirty sprouts, averaging from two to four inches in circumference, andwere ready for cutting one year in advance of the ordinary varieties. Packetscontaining h ounce each. See cut 50 Beans. Carters Champion Runner. A gigantic variety of Scarlet Runners, having pods nearlydouble the size of the old variety :

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