Beckert's garden field and flower seeds (1895) (20171818138)

Title: Beckert's garden field & flower seeds
Identifier: beckertsgardenfi1895wmcb (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wm. C. Beckert (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs
Publisher: Allegheny, Pa. : Wm. C. Beckert
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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We include in this department all the best ornamental foliage plants largely used in outdoor bedding. More tender sorts, useful chiefly for house and conservatory decoration, will be found under Seeds of Greenhouse Plants. ACANTHUS LATIFOUUS. A tall, herbaceous plant of beautiful and stately habit, grown, like the Ricinus, for its rich, tropical leafage. It is handsome and effective, whether grown as a center for foliage beds or as a specimen plant for lawns and borders. lo cents per pkt. AMARANTHUS. Tall-growing plants, with showy leaves, variegated with many shades of red, yellow and green, and long racemes of curious flowers. In rich soils the plants grow taller than in poor ones, but their variegation is not so bright. Amaraiithus caudatus(Love-Lies-Bleeding). Three feet tall; blood-red. sc.perpkt. A. cruentus. The well known Prince's Feather. 5 cents per pkt. A. Henderi. Of beautiful habit; brown, dark red and bronze. 5 cents per pkt. A. iiobilis pyramidalis. 5 cents per pkt. A. tricolor (Joseph's Coat). Leaves a beautiful mosaic of colors. 5 cents per pkt. OANNA. See Annuals which Bloom the First Season. CENTAUREA. (Dusty Miller.) The silver-leaved varieties of Centaurea are indispensable for rib- bon beds and borders, their soft, neutral tints of greyish green being very effectual in toning down and harmonizing contrasts in more brilliant leaves which otherwise might seem crude and harsh. Centaurea argentea vera (Candidissima). Leaves broader and whiter than in anv other silver-leaved sort. 10 cents per pkt. C. Clementei. Leaves finely cut and silvery. 10 cents per pkt. C. gymnocarpa. Of very graceful growth ; a fine variety. 10 cts. per pkt. Coleus COLEUS. For brilliant color effects we have nothing finer than the Coleus, so long used, well adapted, and universally admired for such pur- poses. The leaves are of many shapes and bright colors, and nearly all varieties have a rich, velvety appearance. Seed sown in March ©r April will produce fine plants for bedding. Our mixture is a fine one, and will give plants of many of the best named sorts. 25c: per pkt. CINERARIA MARITIMA CANDIDISSIMA. .\nother fine silver-leaved plant, used like the above, in ribbon bedding, vases, etc. The leaves are silvery white ; flowers yellow. 5 cents per pkt. ECHEVERIA SECUNDA GLAUCA. Pretty succulent plants, with thick, rounded leaves, forming small, perfect light-green rosettes. They are much used in carpet bedding. 25 cents per pkt. EUPHORBIA. (Painted Leaf: Snow-on-the-Mountain.) Eiil)horbia heterophylla. Glossy green leaves, forming large bracts on the ends of the branches, changing in midsummer to brilliant scarlet. 10 cents per pkt. E. variegata (Snow-on-lhe-Mountain). A hardy annual of robust growth, with fine green leaves striped with white. 5 cents per pkt. GLAUCIUM LUTEUM. A handsome hardy perennial, with silvery white foliage and yellow flowers. It is very useful for ribbon beds and massing. 5 cents per pkt. PERILLA NANKINENSIS. A beautiful plant, with leaves of rich, dark purple, finely cut or fringed. Contrasts finely with silver-leaved foliage plants. A half-hardy annual. 5 cents per pkt. PYRETHRUM AUREUM. (golden feather.) Golden yellow foliage, finely cut, producing rich, soft eflfects in bedding; hardy annual. 5 cents per pkt. RICINUS. (Castor-Oil Bean.) Ornamental plants of stately growth, with brilliant fruits and â large, handsome leaves. Ricinus Borboniensls arboreus. Grows fully fifteen feet high ; leaves enormous. 5 cents per pkt. R. Cambodgeiisis. Red-black stems and leaf-stalks, and very dark leaves : very distinct. 5 cents per pkt. R. Gibsoni (Duchess of Edinburgh). Dark purple leaves and stems. 5 cents per pkt. R. Zanzibarensis. An entirely new and distinct class from East Africa. The plants attain great dimensions, presenting a splendid aspect with their gigantic leaves, which surpass in size and beauty all varieties known heretofore. Seeds also very distinct, very large and of exquisite tints. Zanzibarensis. Light green leaves, whitish ribs. â maculatus. Coppery bronze, leaves changmg to a dark green ; reddish ribs. â cineraseens. Brownish purple, leaves changing into dark green ; light ribs. â niger. Foliage bronze, passing into dark green ; reddish ribs. The foliage of above 4 varieties attains a dimension of 2 to 2!4 feet across. The plants are very effective for large groups of single specimens. Mixed seed, 15 cents per pkt. WIGANDIA CARACASANA. The immense leaves of this plant, 6 feet long and more than a foot wide, are very very eflfective in subtropical bedding. It is a half-hardy perennial. 10 cents per pkt. * 61 *
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