Title: Dreer's garden book 1925
Identifier: dreersgardenbook1925henr (find matches)
Year: 1925 (1920s)
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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double, DRIiERS SELlicr Gl.o.XlNlAS Ismene Calathina (Peruvian Daffodil) A grand summer flowering bulb, producing with great freedom large Amaryllis-like, pure white, fragrant blossoms. Keep the bulbs in a dry, warm place, and plant out in June. Bulbs can be taken up in October, and, after a few weeks' rest, potted and flowered in the house in the winter, or kept over for planting out another season. 25c. each; $2.50 per dozen.
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Ismene (Peruvian Daffodil) Jasminum Primulinum The old-time favorite Jasminum Nudiflorum is especially ad- mired on account of its early flowering, its flowers, in a sheltered pKJsition or against a warm wall, appearing as early as the middle of March. In this variety, an introduction from China, we have almost a counterpart, excepting that its flowers are fully double the size. These appear simultaneously with the leaves. The plant is not hardy north of Washington, but makes an excellent subject to train on a trellis as a pot plant; grown in this way its bright yellow flowers are much admired as a window plant. 25 cts. each. Lagerstroemia Indica (Crape Myrtle) This is one of the prettiest Shrubs and while hardy south of the Potomac requires protection in this latitude. Grown in large pots or tubs, specimens 6 to 8 feet high can be produced with little difficulty, and which for two or three months in summer will be covered with delicate soft pink flowers. We supply strong plants from 6 inch pots, $1.00 each. Maranta Beautiful variegated foliage plants, suitable for the warm con- servatory. Alberti. Deep green foliage, with light green mosaic-like mark- ings. Rosea Lineata. Rich deep green leaves beautifully variegated with many narrow lines of a soft salmon-rose. Vandenheckei. Rich dark green leaves beautifully variegated with silvery white. Price. Any of the above 75 cts. each. IVluSa EnSete (Abyssinian Banana) The grandest of all Bananas; the leaves are magnificent, long, broad and massive, of beautiful green, the midrib turning to crimson as they develop. The plant grows luxuriantly from 8 to 12 feet high. During the hot summer, when planted out, it grows rapidly and attains gigantic proportions, producing a tropical effect on the lawn or flower garden. Good plants in 6-inch pots. SI.50 each. Oleander (Nerium) Everybody knows the old fashioned summer flowering Oleander of which we now offer a splendid lot of plants of the variegated leaved form, that is, the leaves, instead of being plain dark green, they are irregularly edged and variegated with creamy white; its flowers are of a light pink. We offer strong specimens in 10-inch tubs, bushy plants, 3 ft. high, at S7.S0 each. Dreer's Select Dahlias are offered on pages 139 to 154

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