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(16201701708).jpg A Great <br> Bargain <br> FOUR CHOICE PALMS <br> MY SELECTION <br> ONLY 50 CENTS <br> Notice � It may be well to; <br> state here that young Palms- <br> do not resemble the illustra-; <br> rion given as they do not show ; <br> their character leaves until tht j <br> second year so that when you ; <br> get youf Palm plants and see <br> long narrow leaves instead o <br> the character leaves as shov <br> in the illustration do not think ; <br> that the wrong kind has been ; <br> sent you <br> Palms <br> ARECA L UTESCENS <br> Price 25 cents each; fine large <br> plants 1 00 to 2 00 each <br> WASHINGTONIA FILIFERA <br> Price 10 cents each; three for 25 <br> cents; strong plants 50 cents each <br> COCOS WEDDELIANA <br> Price 60 cents each <br> SEAFORTHIA ELEGANS <br> Price 25 cents each; fine plants <br> 1 00 to 2 00 each <br> KENTIA FOSTERIANA <br> Price 50 cents each ; strong plants <br> 1 00 to 2 0O each <br> I Flowering <br> Price 10 cents each ; or the set <br> of ten choice sorts for 75 cents <br> Any three for 25 cents ; any six <br> for 50 cents <br> K PTQHI3S I- Easy to flower exquisite in col- <br> ;» O 3; oring and sure to please all who <br> WWWMWMWWWMWMWW try them <br> PRESIDENT CARNOT The leaves are smooth long pointed and prettily <br> blotched Tne booy or the leaf is dark-green studded with bright silver spots <br> Covered with handsome rosy-white flowers A splendid house Begonia <br> ALBA PERFECTA GRANDIFLORA A Begonia that has never been ap- <br> preciated as it snould be as it is really elegant and I doubt if there is a white- <br> flowered variety that equals it <br> ARGENTEA GUTTATA Purple-bronze leaves oblong in shape silvery <br> markings and in every way a most beautiful Begonia White flowers in large <br> bunches It is splendid for house culture <br> ALBA PICTA This beautiful Begonia is shrubby in habit and compact in <br> form having long slender lance-shaped leaves on short stems thickly studded <br> with silvery-white the spots graduating in size from the center towards the <br> margin <br> RUBRA If you can only have one Begonia let it be a Rubra It is so fast <br> growing that it will in a year or two reach the top of your window sending up <br> heavy stiff canes an inch in diameter and rising beside them will grow strong <br> slender branches gracefully drooping undeT heavy waxen leaves and pendant <br> panicles of coral- colored flowers as large as a hand <br> BERTHA DE CHATEAUROCHER This is the freest-flowering Begonia <br> I have It blooms the year rounds makes a handsome window plant with its <br> beautiful foliage and bright currant-red flowers <br> FUCHSOIDES COCCINEA Elegantfree-blooming variety It resembles <br> Hybfida Multitiora in growth The flowers are a bright scarlet <br> THURSTONH The underside of leaves is a rich purplish-red the vein- <br> ings very prominent while the face or upper side is a bronzy-green shaded <br> with crimson and olive with a peculiar glossy metallic luster over all Flow- <br> ers rosy-white in large clusters well above the foliage <br> WASHINGTONII Strong robust grower with large deep green foliage <br> flo vers in immense panicles of pure white tinted with pink <br> ZEBRINA An erect-growing variety with a beautiful profusion of pend- <br> ant leaves Besides its graceful form the leaf is distinguished by its glistening <br> silvery shading following the leaf the body being a very dark velveiy-grcen <br> underside plum color vein green <br> truberous rooteb <br> Begonias �� �� « �� �� �� �� �� �� �� �� <br> They are splendid bed- <br> ders delighting in a light <br> soil of woods earth very <br> old cow manure and <br> sharp sand Seethatthe <br> bed is in partial shade <br> and you will be delighted <br> with the results Do not allow them to become dry ana during hot weather <br> thev will take two waterings a day When through flowering they can be <br> dried off shaken free of earth wrapped in cotton until February or March <br> when they may be started again <br> SINGLE White Yellow Crimson Rose Scarlet <br> five for 50 cents; twelve for 1 00 <br> DOUBLE In the same colors <br> cents <br> Price 15 cents each; <br> Price 20 cents each; three for 50 <br> FICUS ELASTICA INDIA RUBBER TREE <br> t <br> Very large smooth leathery leaves evergreen foliage Generally es- <br> teemed one of the finest house plants grown the plant attaining a large size <br> and tree shape Each new leaf is enclosed in a leng coral-red envelope look- <br> ing like a great red flower bud A verv fine plant for the lawn or bay window <br> Price fine strong plants 50 cents each; large plants 1 00 each <br> LATANIA BORBONICA The well known <br> Fan Palm This is one of the most exquisitely <br> graceful among Palms Its wide-spreading <br> gracefully arching leaves are elegant and ef- <br> fective for apartment decoration It is consid- <br> ered the handsomest and most valuable of all <br> the Palms Price 25 cents each; fine <br> large plants 1 00 to 2 00 each <br> PANSY <br> PLANTS <br> These Pansy Plants <br> are unrivaled Be- <br> sides all the leading <br> kinds of commerce <br> it contains plants of <br> the Giant Bugnot <br> Cassier and Trimar- <br> deau with flowers measuring when well grown <br> three inches in diameter and such beautiful col- <br> ors as gold-bronze silver-edged marbled ma- <br> hogany spotted claret-red and many others <br> My International Pansy Plants will produce <br> for you as they have for others a Pansy bed <br> which shall be the wonder of the neighborhood <br> and the joy of the owner Price 5 centseach; <br> 50 cents per dozen Per hundred 2 50 <br> postage paid <br> FANCY'LEAVED CALADIUMS <br> pHESE plants are especially valuable for deco- <br> y rating conservatories window-boxes and as <br> specimen plants They are magnificent planted <br> in beds out-doors nothing being more showy <br> The brilliant cardinal-red cream pink white <br> and various shades of green that are displayed in <br> the veinings and blotches ot the leaves cannot be <br> obtained in any oiher class of plants For ar- <br> ranging floral baskets or table decorations they <br> are quite as handsome as any flower I have a <br> fine collection of first-class distinct brilliant'v- <br> marked varieties Price well-dried extra <br> large bulbs my selection of sorts 35 cents <br> each; three for 1 00 These are the fin- <br> est bulbs you ever saw of Fancy Caladiun � <br> CALADIUM ESCULENTUM <br> One of the most beautiful and striking orna- <br> raental-foliaged plants in cultivation either for <br> culture in large pots or tubs or for planting out <br> on the lawn Will grow in any garden soil and <br> is of the easiest culture When of full size it <br> stands about five feet high with immense leaves <br> often measuring four feet in length by two and <br> one-half in breadth Smooth of bright green col- <br> or beautifully veined and variegated with dark <br> green The roots should be preserved in dry sani <br> in the cellar during winter out of danger from <br> frost Price good bulbs 15 cents each; <br> large bulbs 25 cents each; extra large <br> bulbs 50 cents each <br> AUSTRALIAN SILK TREE <br> GREVILLEA ROBUSTA A splendid ferny- <br> leaved evergreen plant which should be grown <br> by everybody as it makes a magnificent potplant <br> for all sorts of decorative purposes In conjunc- <br> tion with Palms or Ferns or in any ordinary col- <br> lection of house plants it is at once striking and <br> graceful The dust heat and gas of living rooms <br> has no visible effect on it and it will thrive where <br> a Geranium will Price 10 cents each; three <br> for 2 cents 41846990 130961 64578 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/41846990 1899 10 5962/bhl title 64578 Ella V Baines Firm ; Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection NameFound Areca NameConfirmed Areca EOLID 29328 NameBankID 2665610 NameFound Begonia NameConfirmed Begonia aff palmata GBG 002-089-95 EOLID 11904651 NameFound Caladium esculentum NameConfirmed Caladium esculentum L Vent EOLID 1091931 NameBankID 5875357 NameFound Coccinea NameConfirmed Coccinea Feuillet J M MacDougal supersect NameBankID 9261559 NameFound Cocos weddeliana NameConfirmed Cocos weddelliana H Wendl EOLID 1140095 NameBankID 5830491 NameFound Ficus elastica NameConfirmed Ficus elastica EOLID 594821 NameBankID 2645802 NameFound Grevillea robusta NameConfirmed Grevillea robusta EOLID 582736 NameBankID 2651632 NameFound Kentia fosteriana NameConfirmed Kentia forsteriana F Muell EOLID 1142853 NameFound Latania borbonica NameConfirmed Latania borbonica Lam EOLID 1142206 NameBankID 5841779 NameFound Picta NameConfirmed Picta NameBankID 5100567 NameFound Seaforthia elegans NameConfirmed Seaforthia elegans Hook nom illeg EOLID 1136266 NameFound Washingtonia filifera NameConfirmed Washingtonia filifera EOLID 1127834 NameBankID 2662243 NameFound Zebrina NameConfirmed Zebrina EOLID 2528548 NameBankID 464523 Biodiversity Heritage Library Miss Ella V Baines the Woman Florist Springfield Ohio The best homes in America plant my flowers why not you Garden Stories Bulbs Plants Catalogs Flowers Plants Ornamental Seed industry and trade Seeds Trade catalogs U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 41846990 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/41846990 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants plants ornamental u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16201701708 2015-08-25 03 53 33 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script The best homes in America The best homes in America plant my flowers, why not you? (16201701708).jpg A Great <br> Bargain <br> FOUR CHOICE PALMS <br> MY SELECTION <br> ONLY 50 CENTS <br> Notice � It may be well to; <br> state here that young Palms- <br> do not resemble the illustra-; <br> rion given as they do not show ; <br> their character leaves until tht j <br> second year so that when you ; <br> get youf Palm plants and see <br> long narrow leaves instead o <br> the character leaves as shov <br> in the illustration do not think ; <br> that the wrong kind has been ; <br> sent you <br> Palms <br> ARECA L UTESCENS <br> Price 25 cents each; fine large <br> plants 1 00 to 2 00 each <br> WASHINGTONIA FILIFERA <br> Price 10 cents each; three for 25 <br> cents; strong plants 50 cents each <br> COCOS WEDDELIANA <br> Price 60 cents each <br> SEAFORTHIA ELEGANS <br> Price 25 cents each; fine plants <br> 1 00 to 2 00 each <br> KENTIA FOSTERIANA <br> Price 50 cents each ; strong plants <br> 1 00 to 2 0O each <br> I Flowering <br> Price 10 cents each ; or the set <br> of ten choice sorts for 75 cents <br> Any three for 25 cents ; any six <br> for 50 cents <br> K PTQHI3S I- Easy to flower exquisite in col- <br> ;» O 3; oring and sure to please all who <br> WWWMWMWWWMWMWW try them <br> PRESIDENT CARNOT The leaves are smooth long pointed and prettily <br> blotched Tne booy or the leaf is dark-green studded with bright silver spots <br> Covered with handsome rosy-white flowers A splendid house Begonia <br> ALBA PERFECTA GRANDIFLORA A Begonia that has never been ap- <br> preciated as it snould be as it is really elegant and I doubt if there is a white- <br> flowered variety that equals it <br> ARGENTEA GUTTATA Purple-bronze leaves oblong in shape silvery <br> markings and in every way a most beautiful Begonia White flowers in large <br> bunches It is splendid for house culture <br> ALBA PICTA This beautiful Begonia is shrubby in habit and compact in <br> form having long slender lance-shaped leaves on short stems thickly studded <br> with silvery-white the spots graduating in size from the center towards the <br> margin <br> RUBRA If you can only have one Begonia let it be a Rubra It is so fast <br> growing that it will in a year or two reach the top of your window sending up <br> heavy stiff canes an inch in diameter and rising beside them will grow strong <br> slender branches gracefully drooping undeT heavy waxen leaves and pendant <br> panicles of coral- colored flowers as large as a hand <br> BERTHA DE CHATEAUROCHER This is the freest-flowering Begonia <br> I have It blooms the year rounds makes a handsome window plant with its <br> beautiful foliage and bright currant-red flowers <br> FUCHSOIDES COCCINEA Elegantfree-blooming variety It resembles <br> Hybfida Multitiora in growth The flowers are a bright scarlet <br> THURSTONH The underside of leaves is a rich purplish-red the vein- <br> ings very prominent while the face or upper side is a bronzy-green shaded <br> with crimson and olive with a peculiar glossy metallic luster over all Flow- <br> ers rosy-white in large clusters well above the foliage <br> WASHINGTONII Strong robust grower with large deep green foliage <br> flo vers in immense panicles of pure white tinted with pink <br> ZEBRINA An erect-growing variety with a beautiful profusion of pend- <br> ant leaves Besides its graceful form the leaf is distinguished by its glistening <br> silvery shading following the leaf the body being a very dark velveiy-grcen <br> underside plum color vein green <br> truberous rooteb <br> Begonias �� �� « �� �� �� �� �� �� �� �� <br> They are splendid bed- <br> ders delighting in a light <br> soil of woods earth very <br> old cow manure and <br> sharp sand Seethatthe <br> bed is in partial shade <br> and you will be delighted <br> with the results Do not allow them to become dry ana during hot weather <br> thev will take two waterings a day When through flowering they can be <br> dried off shaken free of earth wrapped in cotton until February or March <br> when they may be started again <br> SINGLE White Yellow Crimson Rose Scarlet <br> five for 50 cents; twelve for 1 00 <br> DOUBLE In the same colors <br> cents <br> Price 15 cents each; <br> Price 20 cents each; three for 50 <br> FICUS ELASTICA INDIA RUBBER TREE <br> t <br> Very large smooth leathery leaves evergreen foliage Generally es- <br> teemed one of the finest house plants grown the plant attaining a large size <br> and tree shape Each new leaf is enclosed in a leng coral-red envelope look- <br> ing like a great red flower bud A verv fine plant for the lawn or bay window <br> Price fine strong plants 50 cents each; large plants 1 00 each <br> LATANIA BORBONICA The well known <br> Fan Palm This is one of the most exquisitely <br> graceful among Palms Its wide-spreading <br> gracefully arching leaves are elegant and ef- <br> fective for apartment decoration It is consid- <br> ered the handsomest and most valuable of all <br> the Palms Price 25 cents each; fine <br> large plants 1 00 to 2 00 each <br> PANSY <br> PLANTS <br> These Pansy Plants <br> are unrivaled Be- <br> sides all the leading <br> kinds of commerce <br> it contains plants of <br> the Giant Bugnot <br> Cassier and Trimar- <br> deau with flowers measuring when well grown <br> three inches in diameter and such beautiful col- <br> ors as gold-bronze silver-edged marbled ma- <br> hogany spotted claret-red and many others <br> My International Pansy Plants will produce <br> for you as they have for others a Pansy bed <br> which shall be the wonder of the neighborhood <br> and the joy of the owner Price 5 centseach; <br> 50 cents per dozen Per hundred 2 50 <br> postage paid <br> FANCY'LEAVED CALADIUMS <br> pHESE plants are especially valuable for deco- <br> y rating conservatories window-boxes and as <br> specimen plants They are magnificent planted <br> in beds out-doors nothing being more showy <br> The brilliant cardinal-red cream pink white <br> and various shades of green that are displayed in <br> the veinings and blotches ot the leaves cannot be <br> obtained in any oiher class of plants For ar- <br> ranging floral baskets or table decorations they <br> are quite as handsome as any flower I have a <br> fine collection of first-class distinct brilliant'v- <br> marked varieties Price well-dried extra <br> large bulbs my selection of sorts 35 cents <br> each; three for 1 00 These are the fin- <br> est bulbs you ever saw of Fancy Caladiun � <br> CALADIUM ESCULENTUM <br> One of the most beautiful and striking orna- <br> raental-foliaged plants in cultivation either for <br> culture in large pots or tubs or for planting out <br> on the lawn Will grow in any garden soil and <br> is of the easiest culture When of full size it <br> stands about five feet high with immense leaves <br> often measuring four feet in length by two and <br> one-half in breadth Smooth of bright green col- <br> or beautifully veined and variegated with dark <br> green The roots should be preserved in dry sani <br> in the cellar during winter out of danger from <br> frost Price good bulbs 15 cents each; <br> large bulbs 25 cents each; extra large <br> bulbs 50 cents each <br> AUSTRALIAN SILK TREE <br> GREVILLEA ROBUSTA A splendid ferny- <br> leaved evergreen plant which should be grown <br> by everybody as it makes a magnificent potplant <br> for all sorts of decorative purposes In conjunc- <br> tion with Palms or Ferns or in any ordinary col- <br> lection of house plants it is at once striking and <br> graceful The dust heat and gas of living rooms <br> has no visible effect on it and it will thrive where <br> a Geranium will Price 10 cents each; three <br> for 2 cents 41846990 130961 64578 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/41846990 1899 10 5962/bhl title 64578 Ella V Baines Firm ; Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection NameFound Areca NameConfirmed Areca EOLID 29328 NameBankID 2665610 NameFound Begonia NameConfirmed Begonia aff palmata GBG 002-089-95 EOLID 11904651 NameFound Caladium esculentum NameConfirmed Caladium esculentum L Vent EOLID 1091931 NameBankID 5875357 NameFound Coccinea NameConfirmed Coccinea Feuillet J M MacDougal supersect NameBankID 9261559 NameFound Cocos weddeliana NameConfirmed Cocos weddelliana H Wendl EOLID 1140095 NameBankID 5830491 NameFound Ficus elastica NameConfirmed Ficus elastica EOLID 594821 NameBankID 2645802 NameFound Grevillea robusta NameConfirmed Grevillea robusta EOLID 582736 NameBankID 2651632 NameFound Kentia fosteriana NameConfirmed Kentia forsteriana F Muell EOLID 1142853 NameFound Latania borbonica NameConfirmed Latania borbonica Lam EOLID 1142206 NameBankID 5841779 NameFound Picta NameConfirmed Picta NameBankID 5100567 NameFound Seaforthia elegans NameConfirmed Seaforthia elegans Hook nom illeg EOLID 1136266 NameFound Washingtonia filifera NameConfirmed Washingtonia filifera EOLID 1127834 NameBankID 2662243 NameFound Zebrina NameConfirmed Zebrina EOLID 2528548 NameBankID 464523 Biodiversity Heritage Library Miss Ella V Baines the Woman Florist Springfield Ohio The best homes in America plant my flowers why not you Garden Stories Bulbs Plants Catalogs Flowers Plants Ornamental Seed industry and trade Seeds Trade catalogs U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 41846990 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/41846990 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants plants ornamental u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16201701708 2015-08-25 03 53 33 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script The best homes in America | ||||
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