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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. Attractive early spring, free-flowering plants, useful for bedding: hardy perennial ; 6 inches. Of all the finest colors, mixed 10 PYRETHRUM, Roseum Flore Pleno. A new showy variety of this hardy herbaceous perennial plant; seed saved from exira double flowers, beautiful colors, mixed; ij^ feet high 20 SALPIGLOSSIS. Neat and beautiful ornamental autumn-blooming plants, with curiously pencilled andmarbled funnel-shaped flowers ; suitable for the green-house or flower-border; of easy culture, requiringa light, rich soil: half-hardy annual; ij^ feet. Large-Flowered Varieties. Very splendid; of all colors mixed „ 10 Fine Mixed Varieties. All colors of the small flowering mixed 5 SANVITALIA PROCUMBENS FLORE PLENO. This double-flowering bright golden-yellow variety15 much larger than the single, and a valuable dwarf-bedding plant; fine for rockeries, etc. : flowersdunng the summer and autumn months, thriving best in a light, rich soil; hardy annual ; 6 inches \n. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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\ Sensitive Plant, ok Mimosa Pudica. 8. Large Flowering Dwarf Ten Week Stocks. 3. Salpiglossis Large-Flowering Variety. 4. Sanvitalia Procumbens Flore Pleno. 5. Tagetes Signata Pumila. 6. Sweet William Double-Flowering Variety. 7. Sweet William Single-Flowering Variety. 8. Torenia Fournieri. 9. ScABiosA Variety, or Mourning Bride. 10. SiLENE PeNDULA Fl. Pl., OR DobBLE CaTCHFLY. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 65 Per packet.SAPONARIA (Bouncing Bet). Beautiful compact-growing plants, with masses of miniature cross-shapedflowers, blooming throughout the summer and late in the autumn. Choice Mixed Annual Varieties. All colors of the hardy annuals; height, 6 inches „ jo 5 ©cymoides. A hardy perennial variety, one of the finest plants for covering rock-work, etc. ; rosy pink flowers ; 3 inches - - - -• 5 SCABIOSA ^Mourning Bride, or Sweet Scabius). One of our handsomest summer border plants, producingin great profusion very double flowers in a variety of shades and colors; a splendid flower fo

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