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Title: Dreer's garden book : seventy-fourth annual edition 1912
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Nursery stock Catalogs Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Fruit Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Henry A. Dreer
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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t has been introduced into the East-ern States, where, as a rule, it grows as freely as any native plant. Dormant tubers, $1.00 each.Osiris. A beautiful, globular flower of a pure, deep rose, very rich and pleasing; early and free-flowering. Dormant tubers, $2.50 each; pot plants, $3.50 each. Pekinensis rubrum. This is the best dark-colored variety in cultivation; the flowers are brilliant rosv-caimine, 10 to 12 inches across, outer petals well reflexed,having the graceful form of JV. SpecioS/m; foliage largeand handsome; vigorous and free-flowering. Dormant tubers,$3.00 each; pot plants, $4.00 each. Pekinensis rubrum plenum. Identical with the preceding,but with immense giant double ppeony-flowered blooms. Dor-mant tubers, $5.00 each; pot plants,f6.00 each. Roseum. Flowers of a uniform deep rose-pink. Dormanttubers, $2.00 each; pot plants, $3.00 each. Roseum plenum. A magnificent variety, with large, full,doul)le bright rose flowers. Dormant tubers, $2.50 each;pot plants, $3.50 each.
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Nelumbiums. Shiroman. This superb variety is unquestionably the grand-est ever introduced; the enormous flowers are snow-white,exceedingly double, and borne on stout stalks well above thefoliage; it is a vigorous grower and very free-flowering, andequally as hardv as the well-known N. Speciosum. Dormanttubers, $3.00 each; pot plants, $4.00 each. Speciosum (Er/ypfian Lotus). The well-known species.Its superb flowers and magnificent foliage produce a splendidsub-tropical efiect, The flowers, which are about a footacross when fully opened, are of a deep rose color, creamy-white at base of petals; exquisitely fragrant. Dormant tubers,$1.50 each; pot plants, $2.50 each. We are large Kcowen of Aquarium Planti. See lut on page 274. ■ I

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