Currie's farm and garden annual - spring 1930 (1930) (20823302811)

Title: Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1930

Identifier: curriesfarmgarde19curr (find matches)

Year: 1930 (1930s)

Authors: Currie Brothers Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection

Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs

Publisher: Milwaukee, Wis. : Currie Bros. 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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Currie's Giant Pansies. CURRIE'S INTERNATIONAL PANSY MIXTURE A grand combination of Giant Flowering Pansies, comprising the picked strains of the most noted pansy specialists in this country and Europe. The blooms are of the largest size, distinct and varied in their markings, of fine substance, containing all the richest and choicest colors to be found in Pansies, embracing the newest and most delicate rose shades, glowing reds, clear yellows, bronzes and blues, blotched, shaded and mottled varieties. 1,000 seeds, 90c; pkt., 25c. CURRIE'S SUPERFINE SCOTCH PANSIES Saved for us by one of the largest and most noted Pansy growers in Scotland, from I'li/.•winning varieties; this is one of the finest strains of Tansy in cultivation. It is un- excelled by any in size of flower (many of the single blooms measuring over 3 inches across) and for richness of color and beautiful markings it has no equal. 1,000 seeds, 70c; pkt., 20c. Page Forty-two CURRIE'S GIANT PANSIES Pkt. Giant Bugnot's Finest Mixed—Flowers beautifully blotched $0.10 Giant Cassier's Finest Mixed—yery large, rich colored flowers, beautiful- ly biotched 10 Giant Odier—Each petal has a distinct blotch, with a margin another color. .10 Giant Orchid-Flowered—A splendid mixture, mostly light, delicate shades. The upper petals are arranged in small folds, giving them an orchid- like appearance 10 Giant Parisian Stained—A grand mix- ture of beautiful colors, with distinct blotches and splendid substance ... .10 Giant Ruffled—Masterpiece Mammoth flowers of many bright colors, most- ly dark. The petals are heavily ruf- fled 15 GIANT PANSY MIXTURE FOR FLORISTS AND AMATEURS— We have carefully blended a mixture of all the Giant Trimardeau sorts in proper proportions of colors, and have added to it the magnificent strains of Bugnots, Giant Parisian Stained, Masterpiece, Orchid-Flow- ered, and the rich colors of Madame Ferret. The best possible combina- tion of the Giant sorts. 1,000 seeds 50c 15 GIANT TRIMARDEAU PANSIES The flowers are extra large and showy, generally marked with three distinct blotches. Giant Black—Very dark, almost black. Giant Lord Beaconsfield—Violet, shaded white at top. Giant Golden Queen (Goliath)—Very large, golden yellow with 3 large black blotches on frilled petals. Giant Pure White—Pure white. Giant White—With purple eye. Giant Yellow—Yellow with dark eye. Giant Pure Yellow. Anv of the above Giants, pkt., 10c; 4 pkts., 30c. Giant Trimardeau—Finest Mixed, pkt., 10c; Vs oz., 50c. ORDINARY BEDDING PANSIES Good mixed, all shades. lA oz.. 35c; Pkt., 5c. TUFTED PANSIES, OR VIOLAS While the flowers of the Tufted Pansies are not so large as the regular type, they bloom so freely that they are superior to pansies where effect is wanted, the colors being particularly clear and distinct; they also bloom for a longer time. Seed sown in April produces flowering plants by June, and from then on until frost they are a sheet of bloom. Finest Mixed ' Colors. Pkt., 10c. See other Violas, page 51. Pansy—"In Pansy seeds there was a great difference in favor of the Seme- san-treated seeds, which germinated stronger and much heavier than the un- treated."— F. R. Matsinger of New Jersey.

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