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Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Nursery stock Catalogs Gardening Catalogs Flowers 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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ous plant,suitable for mixed borders, thrives in any common soil; producing racemes of large white and red flowers, often i foot in length; 2 feet 10 DIGITALIS Foxglove). A handsome and highly ornamental, hardy perennial plant, of stately growth, finefor shrubberies and other half-shady places ; 3 feet. Purpurea. Beautiful purple-spotted-flowers 5 Alba. A pure white flowering variety 5 Mixed. Of all colors and the finest varieties 3 DOLICHOS LABLAB NANA, MIXED. A new dwarf French Hyacinth-flowered Bean, with beautiful clu-t-.r- of r,uriy!e and whire flowers : tender annual; 2 feet. Per oz., 30 cents 5 ERYSIMUM PEROFFSKIANUM. A showy, free-floweting, hardy annual, somewhat resembling the single wall-flower. ver\- effective in beds or borders ; fragrant orange-colored flowers; i^ feet 3 PvUc-hellum. A new dwarf densely-tufted yellow-flowering herbaceous variety. Its hardines.s makes it especially suitable for rock work and grottos ; hardy perennial ; i foot lo 54 DREEKS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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1. Dunnetts Darkest Crimson Candytuft. 2. Centaurea, Cyanus Minor, or Blue Bottle. 3. Double Summer-Flowering Chrysanthemum.f. Centranthus Variety. t Chrysanthemum Indicum Variety. I 6. Double Inodorum Chrysanthemum 7. Convolvulus Minor, or Dwarf VarietiesI 8. Single Flowering Clarkia. 9. Double Daisy, or Bellis Perennis.10. Dahlia. Large-Floweking Double Variety DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 56 Per packettSCHSCHOLTZIA Caii/o*-HUt Poppy). Delight in a light, rich soil; profuse flowering and fine cut foliage,vcr\- attractive plants for beds, edgings, or masses ; hardy annuals ; height, i foot. Crccea Aurantiaca. Rich orange-colored flowers^ $.j 5 Crocea Alba Creamy-white flowers « 5 Crocea Alba Flore Pleno. A new double white; producing 75 per cent, of beautiful double white flowers of long duration i£ Crocea Aurantiaca Flore Pleno. A fine double-flowering California Poppy, producing orange-scarlet flowers in abundance, of long duration ic Carminea Grandiflora Rosea. A most charming new va

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