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Purple Basil seeds Cat No. 1375A This is another of those Basils that you will just have to grow in at least two spots in your garden: in your kitchen garden (or veg. patch as it seems to have been reduced to nowadays) or on your bor...
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Purple Basil, Red Rubin seeds Cat No. 1376R You have a major problem with this doubly attractive variety: whether to grow it in your herb/vegetable garden or in your floral borders. With its smooth dark purple foliage eventually making an ornam...
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Basil, Spicy Globe seeds Cat No. 1376M This is an attractive, bushy, very small-leaved variety that forms a tight, compact mound, a foot or more across, that keeps its shape all season without pinching. Boasting a strong aroma, it is good ...
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Basil seeds Cat No. 1375D You’ll have problems deciding what to do with this plant! With yonks more essential lemon-flavoured oils than your average Basil, the catering department will be looking towards this plant for flavour...
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Camphor Basil, Karpoor Basil seeds Cat No. 1377C From rocky ground in upland Kenya as high as 7,300 ft. comes this ornamental and interesting Basil. A large, shrubby perennial commonly grown as an annual, it has attractive grey-green foliage with a ...
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Cinnamon Basil, Spice Basil seeds Cat No. 1376E This is a most attractive, stocky, vigorous plant with leaves with purple veins and spikes of dark rose-coloured flowers. It has a warm, spicy, cinnamon-like aroma and flavour with just a hint of clov...
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Genovese Basil, Perfume Basil seeds Cat No. 1376N Widely grown in Italy, where it is very popular in their cooking, especially in tomato salads and pesto sauces and, don’t forget the after dinner mints, it combines nicely with garlic. An attractive p...
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Greek Basil, Bush Basil seeds Cat No. 1376A This is a very fine variety from Italy of a species, not of Greek origin as one might intelligently guess at from its English name, but one apparently originating in Chile! This strain forms a perfect...
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Holy Basil, Purple Basil seeds Cat No. 1376P Ornamental and useful is this reddish-purple (the hotter the summer, the deeper the purple) tinted plant that exudes a delicious, sweet, clove-like aroma. Highly regarded in India both for its medicin...
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Lemon Basil, Indonesian Kemangie seeds Cat No. 1376F This is a particularly attractive Basil both in appearance and fragrance. It is a spreading, grey-green plant with rather small, thin, pointed leaves with a distinct and delightful lemon-like aroma an...
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Lettuce-leaved Basil seeds Cat No. 1376G With that name, it will be no surprise to learn that this ornamental, vigorous and prolific variety has the largest leaves of any Basil; crimped and undulating, they are up to five inches in length an...
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Lime Basil, Hoary Basil seeds Cat No. 1377B The leaves and flowers have a lime flavour and the former are used when young steamed to serve with rice. Also used as a flavouring in curries, salads, soups, meats and many other dishes. 1-2 ft.
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Liquorice Basil, Persian Basil seeds Cat No. 1376H Widely used in south east Asian cooking is this vigorous plant with spikes of light purple flowers backed by deep purple bracts. It has a very strong liquorice or anise-like aroma and flavour that mak...
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Mexican Basil seeds Cat No. 1376J This is a tall, vigorous, bushy variety with thick, glossy, dark green leaves with a strong, spicy, cinnamon-like scent and flavour. Dried, the fragrance keeps for months and makes a good tea. Ideal f...
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New Guinea Basil seeds Cat No. 1376Q With its attractive purple flowers and purple-veined, dark green, aromatic foliage, this very rare plant is another Basil both ornamental and useful. 2 ft.
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Sweet Basil seeds Cat No. 1376 An annual plant with delicious, mouth-watering aroma, leaves used, dried or fresh, in soups and stews, but particularly effective used with tomatoes, cooked or raw. 2 ft.
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Thai Basil seeds Cat No. 1376L Commonly found freshly-cut in Thai bazaars are the aromatic leaves of this plant with a spicy flavour and aroma that are a cross between those of Cinnamon and Liquorice Basils. 3 ft.
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Tree Basil, East India Basil, Clove Basil seeds Cat No. 1376T Also known as East India or Clove Basil, this is a quite distinct species in being a much-branched, shrubby perennial, woody at the base. An agreeably, sweetly perfumed plant with fuzzy, lime-green le...
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Cat No. 182 Semi-climbing shrub with fragrant, brick-red flowers in 6-10 flowered racemes. Suitable for cool house but well worth trying outside as if it is cut down by frost, will often sprout again. Easily grow...
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Mountain Ebony, Orchid Tree seeds Cat No. 182B “Even before I was near enough to identify them, the rich heady perfume which filled the air told me they were Bauhinias. The sight left me breathless …..” The author who wrote this was of the opinion...
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