Identifier: dreersgardencale1884henr (find matches)
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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bbery borders, doing well in anygarden soil, having large-sized, varied, and beautiful colored flowers. Africanus. Large, cream-colored flowers, with a brown centre ; hardy annual; ij^ feet ; Palustris. Large pink flowers, thriving in dr>-or moist soil : hardy perennial ; 3 feet 5 HOLLYHOCK, EXTRA CHOICE DOUBLE, MIXED M/M«?a/?6J5m>. This splendid plant now rankswith the Dahlia for summer decoration, and from its stately growth and the varied colors of its magni-ficent large spikes of flowers, may justly claim a place in every large garden or pleasure ground. Ourseed have been saved from the best named varieties of crimped double centred flowei-s with the outer rowcomposed of rufl^ed petals. Seed sown in June and J ly will flower the following summer. Hardy perennial; height. 6 feet. For separate colors, see assortments of Hollyhocks, page 44 - 10 Double \Vhite. Extra strain of perfect double, pure white flowers for summer cutting for bouquets, etc. 15 50 DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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1. Delphinium Formosum. ; 6. Dianthus Chinensis, or Extra Double China 2. Delphinium Nudicaule. Pink. 3. Digitalis, or Foxglove Variety. 7. Dictamnus, or Fraxinella. 4. Dei.phinhtm Dotble Rocket Larkspur Varieties. 8. Dianthus Heddewigi Diadematus Floke Pleno,i. Datuha Fastuosa Huberiana Variety. I or Double Diadem P^nk. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. hi Per packet.IPOMOPSIS (Standing Cypress). One of our most attractive free-flowering plants, with fine foliage;beautiful for conservatory or garden decorations ; succeeds in a dry, light, rich soil, producing longspikes of dazzling colored flowers ; half-hardy biennials, bloohiing the first season if the seed is sownearly in the house or hoc-bed ; height, 3 feet. Elegans. Beautifal long spikes of scarlet flowers resembling the Cypress Vine $0 5 Fine Mixed Varieties. Of various orange and scarlet-colored flowers 5 IRIS, MIXED VARIETIES (Fieur-de-Lis). Neat, robust, perennial, tuberous-rooted, hardy evergreen,early spring blooming garden plants,

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