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Title: 1893 Maule's seed catalogue
Identifier: 1893maulesseedca1893wmhe (find matches)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wm. Henry Maule (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Livestock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Maule
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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V • S ASTER-NEW DWARF WHITE QUEEN. A pleasing companion to the New Dwarf Crimson King, being a distinct and decidedly handsome pure white Aster, resembling in height, form and habit of growth the Victoria race, but is a more profuse bloomer and florets more perfect. Its habit is very dwarf and bushy, only growing 8 to 10 inches high, each plant bearing from twenty to thirty beautifully formed and exceedingly large and perfect double flowers, almost completely hiding the foliage. For massing, bedding, bordering, and more particularly for pot culture, the New Dwarf White Queen Aster is most admirably adapted. I know of nothing that would form a greater contrast, or could be more attractive than a bed of New Dwarf White Queen and New Dwarf Crimson King Asters. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. ASTER—NEW DWARF CRIMSON KINO. A magnificent" and exceedingly dwarf, compact-growing Aster, of great value for lines or margins of beds or borders. The individual flowers measure from 2V£ to 3 inches across, of a most faultless Pseony form, the petals being beautifully incurved. The flowers are produced in immense clusters of most perfect form, as many as forty being counted on a single plant. The color is distinctly rich and gorgeous, flowers when first opened being a pure scarlet, but when fully expanded changed to a handsome satiny deep scarlet, presenting with the two colors a most charming appearance, the illustration on one of the colored plates in my 1892 catalogue being very accurate as to color and shape of flower. As a pot plant it is unexcelled, and can- not fail to be greatly admired, for it is indeed the handsomest of all bright-colored Asters. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packet, 25 cents. CUT AND COME AGAIN STOCKS—PRINCESS ALICE. This new and distinct pure White Stocks grows about 2 feet high, and if sown early will produce an abundance of bloom from Spring until late in the Fall. The advantage of this Stocks over all other varieties is its tendency to throw out endless numbers of side branches, each bearing a cluster of beautifully shaped, perfectly double, and delightfully fragrant pure white flowers. The plant seems to delight in having the blooms cut, for no sooner are they robbed of their side branches than they begin to produce as many more from which their name is derived (Cut and Come Again). In addition to the side shoots they produce a large top cluster of handsome florets, remaining perfect for a very long period. Most every lover of flowers knows how valuable the Stocks are for cut flowers, and the advantage the Cut and Come Again has in this respect cannot fail to be appreciated. Packet, 15 cents ; 2 packets 25 cents. ZEBRA ZINNIAS This strain presents a new departure in Zinnias, bearing large, perfectly double flowers as evenly imbricated as a Camellia. The flowers are variously striped and mottled, presenting all colors and shades known in the Zinnia, such as crimson, pink, orange, yellow, violet, rose, white, etc. An interesting characteristic of the New Zebra Zinnia is a tendency shown by some of the plants, to throw out a branch on which the flowers are self-colored, while all the other blooms are variegated or striped, making a striking and unique contrast. Packet, 10 cents; 3 Dackets, 25 cents.

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