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Vaughan's seed store

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Identifier: vaughansseedstor1910vaug (find matches)
Title: Vaughan's seed store
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Vaughan's Seed Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Horticulture Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Chicago. Ill. : Vaughan's Seed Store
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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hefirst season from seed, if sown in February or March, in a temperature of 60degrees. To secure the best of results they should be planted in a partiallyshaded place. They are covered the whole summer with bright flowers. 755. New Frilled. This is the finest strain of these beautiful tuberous-rootedBegonias. Our seed has been saved from selected, best frilled flowers, carefullyhybridized and will produce magnificent flowers in all shades of red, rose, pink,salmon, orange, flesh, white, crimson and scarlet Pkt.. 25c. 758. Single Tuberous Begonias, from prize-winning varieties, in finest mixturePkt, (500 seeds), 20c. 760. Double Tuberous Begonias. Flowers of elegant form and substance. Allcolors mixed. Pkt. 25c. 765. Rex Begonias. Ornamental foliage varieties. Pkt, (250 seeds), 30c. 741. Begonia Salmon Queen. See Novelties. Bldens. 775. Miniature Black Dahlia. H.A. 2 ft (Also called Black Cosmos.)Produces an abundance of crimson-maroon flowers of velvety texture. -1 in.across. Pkt. 5c.
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Double Balsams are usefulfor Table decorations, in art-istic arrangement with ferns.™.2king pleasing Center-Pieces. Most color schemesare possible. Type of Vaughans Invincible Balsam. Bocconia. 780. Japonica. H.P. 4 ft. Effective for single specimens or groups(Plume on lawns. Foliage glaucous green, bears freely spikes 2 to 3 ft. longPoppy.) of cream-colored flowers. Pkt, 5c.BrachyCOme. H.H.A. 12 in. Free flowering, dwarf-growing annuals, covered(Swan River during the greater part of the summer with a profusion ofDaisv.) pretty flowers: suitable for edging, small beds or pot culture. 784. White. 785. Blue. 786. Pink. 787. Mixed. Each, pkt, 5c; A oz.. 10c.Briza Maxima. 792. H.A. 12 in. Valuable for winter bouquets and wreaths.(Ornamental The seed clusters are heart shaped and gracefully poised onGrass.) such slender stems that they are almost constantly in motion. The plant is known to many as Quaking Grass. Pkt, 6c.The New Giant Browallia. 705. G.P. 1ft. This new sort is without a d

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