Floral beauties (1899) (20364833199)

Title: Floral beauties
Identifier: CAT31283722 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Great Western Plant Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Springfield Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Springfield, Ohio : Great Western Plant 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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8 THE GREAT WESTERN PLANT COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. -CENTRAL PARK" COLLECTION OF t: SINGLE GERANIUMS. THIS LIST EMBRACES THE VERY BEST BBDDERS, AND ALL ARE EQUALLY FINE FOR POT CULTURE.
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.Souvenir de Mirande. The greatest novelty in new Gera- niums that has appeared for a number of years is undoubtedly Souvenir de Mirande. It is entirely distinct from any other va- riety grown, and is quite different from the usual marked varie- ties that have from time to time made their apnearance. It has round florets, upper petals cream-white, with a distinct rosy-pink border, lower petals salmon-rose, streaked pure lilac, A most novel color. It is extremely free-flowering, and produces fine trusses of magnificent blooms. Mr. John -Thorpe says it has made a leap of a decade in its advent. Blanche Moulas. A grand bedding variety of much merit. The flowers are large, salmon, beautifully bordered with white. A Geranium of rare beauty. Lansdowtie. A soft, deep scarlet, florets large and round and formed into large trusses, borne with the greatest of freedom. An ideal bedder, producing a mass of soft, brilliant color, well above the foliage, which is a light, bright green. Marguerite de Layres. A grand single white, plants a mass of while bloom, trusses of the grandest size, florets extra large and of the purest white. The plant is robust* Grand for pots or bedding. It is by far the best single white. Madame Alfred Mame. A magnificent bedding variety. The trusses are of extraordinary size, the florets by actual meas- urement being two and one-half inches long by two inches wide, of almost Pansy form. The color is a soft sub-scarlet, lower pet- als shading to salmon in the center, which is deeply veined crimson. This variety has been universallv admired by all who have seen it in flower, A variety that will probably never be equaled. Mrs. E. G. Hill. A most distinct and pleasing shade of sal. mon, with light shading at the center, The shading at the cen- ter is variable, however. Trusses are very large, and composed of an immense number of florets. M. Noury. A most pleasing lavender-rose color, very chaste ana beautiful, with distinct marking of white at center of flower. Dwarf, and so free in bloom as to literally cover the plant. Monsieur PoiUSignon. The color is bright aurora-rose shaded salmon, with a white eye. Large trusses of splendid shaped flowers. Protee. Flowers very large and freely produced in immense trusses. Color silvery-lilac, white shading, changing to silvery- pink. A splendid sort. Beauty of Richmond. Intense orange-scarlet, very dazzling* with large white eye, flower perfectly circular and of immense size. Foliage lightiy zoned. A seedling from Beauty of Kent. Extremely fine. General Grant. One of the best bedding Geraniums in cul- tivation. Grows freely and blooms with the greatest profusion. Brilliant scarlet dowers. One of the very best for massing. Bill Nye. Color peach, shading to pale salmon, flower of fine size and form. A splendid grower, of nice, compact habit. Gettysburg. Bright crimson-maroon, of beautiful shade, flower very large and of fine form. An extra beautiful dark va- riety. John Good. Truss of enormous size and quite globular in form, stem long and rigid. A grand improvement on Lady Roseberry, color being a clear salmon, lightly edged with white,