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Title: Horsford's Nurseries
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: F.H. Horsford (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Lilies Catalogs Shrubs Catalogs Fruit Catalogs Horticulture Vermont
Publisher: Charlotte, Vt. : F.H. Horsford
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Fine canary-yellow. 20 cts. each,$2 per doz. May. Almost pure white, markings of brightrose-crimson. 10 cts. each, §1 per doz. Charmer. Large, broad-petaled flowers of softmauve-pink, blending off lighter in the throat,which is penciled carmine-lake with a largeblotch on the lower petal. 15 cts. each, $1.50 perdoz. Gladioli Mixtures White and Light Varieties. Mixed. Superb. 7 cts. each, 80 cts. per doz.Scarlet and Red. Extra-fine scarlet and red shades. 8 cts. each, 65 cts. per doz.Yellow and Orange. Best yellow shades. 9 cts. each, 95 cts. per doz.Striped and Variegated. 7 cts. each, 55 cts. per doz. Scarlet and Variegated. Extra-fine selection.7 cts. each, 55 cts. per doz. Pink and White Mixture. A fine selection,especially for cut-flowers. Some of the best pinksand whites used. 9 cts. each, 95 cts. per doz. Fine Mixed, All Shades. Some of the showykinds, with many of the most delicate colors. 10cts. each, 80 cts. per doz.; S4 per 100. FREDK H. HORSFORD, CHARLOTTE, VERMONT Roses 35
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Dorothy Perkins Roses (see page ROSES Roses like a good, rich, deep loam. There is little danger of getting the soil too rich. Shallow,sandy or gravelly soils are not suited to them. When it is necessary to plant in such soils as these,artificial compost should be made by taking out a foot and a half of this natural soil, and filling in withrich, heavy loam. In cold climates, Roses may be grown by banking up a foot or 18 inches just beforewinter. In spring this should be removed and the plants cut back as far as they are killed. Even the tendergreenhouse Roses may be grown outside in this way. Rosa Wichuraiana. Cemetery or MemorialRose. A Japanese trailing species. Foliagefirm and glossy green; a good bloomer. Asplendid Rose for growing where it will receiveno care. Flowers single, white, and borne inprofusion. 45 cts. each, S4.50 per doz.Mixed Hybrids. These mixed Memorial Rosesare very fine. Some are double and some single.45 cts. each. Group I—Species ROSA Carolina. The well-know

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