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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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r, with edgings of white, pink, and othercolors; about one foot high, and of the easiest culture 05 499 Fine Double, Mixed. Same as above ; selected from finest double flowers .10 500 Alba. Double-white ; very fine 10 501 Marginata. White and rose-striped 10 502 ■ Albus Pictus. White-marbled, with rose; beautifully fringed. Hardy annual to 503 Heddewigs. A most beautiful new variety. The whole plant is scarcely one foot high, and very bushy ; whilst always thirty or forty flowers are at oncein blossom. The flowers are very large, from two to three inches in diameter, cfa most beautiful shape, and of a variety and brilliancy of jolors quite unsurpassedin pinks, from white mottled with rose, and purplish-red with dark centre, to vel-vety carmine-crimson, dark blood-red, and mottled ani ihaded with maroon andvelvety-black. Hardy annual .... 10 504 Heddewigs, New Double. A new variety 01 this splendid new Pink, having beautiful double flowers, instead of the single. Hardy annual . . .25
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TO THE FLOWER GARDEN. 41 NO. PRICE 505 Dianihas Chinensis Laciniatus. A beautiful variety. The colors are pure white, flesh, rose, various shades of red, carmine, violet, purple, and rich maroon, some beingselfs, others striped and spotted; all very delicately cut or fringed. Hardy ann. $0.10 506 Laciniatus, fl. pi. A double variety of the preceding; very fine . . .25 507 Imperialis, fl. pi. Mixed; a fine double variety; annuals; from China . . .10 508 —— Alba. White, hardy perennial; from Britain 10 509 Rubra. Pink; very fine; hardy perennial 10 510 Hispanicus. Finest mixed; from Spain. Hardy annual 05 511 Hybridus Corymbosus. A beautiful new hybrid; large double flower . . .10 512 Moschatus (double garden-pink). Finest double-mixed; hardy perennial . . .10 513 Plumarius (Pheasant-eye Pink). White or pink, with dark eye. The flowers are deeply fringed or feathered; very fragrant. Hardy perennial 05 514 —— Veiichis (Veitchs Hybrid). Beautiful cluster of flowers; pure white, wi

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