Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1899
Identifier: dreersgardencale1899henr (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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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GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS. "3 CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Soft, clear yellow, incurved, full in the in diameter and nearly as deep ; form While our list of Chrysanthemums is comparatively limited, it is composed exclusively of varieties standing at the head of their type and color. TWENTY-FIVE OF THE FINEST EXHIBITION VARIETIES. Charles Davis. A golden sport from Viviand Morel ; light yellow suffused with rich apricot ; grand flowers of great size. Colonel William B. Smith. An immense, double high- built flower, petals very broad and large, forming a solid mass of the richest bright golden bronze. Eugene Dailledouze. There is nothing brighter and clearer in yellows than this grand variety. The flowers are large, full and double, and a free, easy grower. Fisher's Torch. Bright fiery red ; the richest shade in com- merce ; large and double, with high-built centre. (See cut.) Frank Hardy. A superb pure white variety with immense full deep globular flowers, beautiful I v incurred in graceful folds. George W. Childs. The best deep self-col- ored crimson variety in existence ; flowers mas- sive and of immense size, with broad stiff petals, rich dark vel- vety crimson, without a shade of brown or chestnut. Golden Wedding. Of a rich golden-yellow color, intense and daz- zling. Flowers 10 to 12 in. in diameter, 4 to 6 in. in depth ; petals broad and long, double to the centre without an eye. Helen Bloodgood. A most beautiful clear pink, of very large spherical shape. H. L. Sunderbruch. bright golden-yellow, of fine incurved form and large size. lora. Tubular, clear pink, a fine artistic flower, very large. John Shrimpton. Bright velvety crimson- scarlet, of good size. Maud Dean. Extra large petals, broad and incurving, perfectly double and of great substance ; pink, al- most rose.
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Fisher's, Torch. Major Bonnaffon. centre ; 6 to 7 inches and finish perfect. Mayflower. Magnificent large incurved white, lower petals reflex ; grand in every way. Miss Minnie Wanam'aker. Creamy-white, of very large size, and so much incurved as to resemble a white ball. flinerva. Large and massive, incurved, vivid golden-yellow. Modesto. Intense yellow, of an incurved slightly whorled form, with very high full centre. firs. A. J. Drexel. Large flowering, early variety; color crimson-lake ; form rounded into a half-globe. Mrs. Jerome Jones. A beautiful, waxy- white, with broad in- curving petals ; one of the finest. Hutual Friend. A reflexed pure white, from 7 to 11 inches in diameter and great depth of flower. Pennsylvania. A fine companion to Philadel- phia from which it is a sport, possessing all the good points of that fav- orite, color rich bright yellow. Philadelphia. A mag- nificent variety of grace- ful globular form, color white, illuminated with lemon-yellow, giving it a peculiarly pleasing appearance not seen in in any other variety. As a fine finished flower it stands at the head of the list. Pluto. A fine, bold, globular, well-built flower, of a clear bright red, the centre being incurved with the re- verse of petals bright golden yellow. The Queen. One of the grandest white ex- hibition varieties. Viviand Horel. Extra large flowers; petals long and loosely ar- ranged ; a beautiful light shade of pink. Price 15 cts. each ; §1.50 per dozen ; the set of 25 varieties for S2.50. EARLY FLOWERING CHRY5ANTHEMU/VIS. The varieties offered in this collection are all such that will perfect their flowers in the open ground, even in the Northern States. The selection has been made with a view of offering only the very cream of the early flowering sorts, and all of them will give satisfactory results, even with the most ordinary cultivation. Ambrose Thomas. Bright red with golden reflex, a large flower, dwarf grower. Baronne Briailles. Large creamy white, very free and early. Clinton Chalfant. Fine lar^e yellow of good form. Edith Syratt. A distinct early rosy amaranth. J. E. Lager. Very clear bright yellow, full and massive. La Vierge. One of the dwarfestand best pure white. Longfellow. Blush white of medium size, fine form. riarion Henderson. Fhie yellow of fine form. Marquise de Mortemarte. Very fine pink of large size. Merry Monarch. Very large pure white. firs. Hawkins. A fine golden yellow of good form. Hiss Kate Brown. A very early flowering pure white. Mrs. F. Bergman. One of the earliest whites, very fine. Mrs. E. G. Hill. A beautiful pearly pink, large and full to the centre. Mrs. Henry Robinson. One of the very finest white varie- ties, a perfect ball of snow when fully developed. Mrs. J. G. Whilden. One of the finest very early yellows. Snow Queen. A nicely finished snow-white sort of rounded form and full centre. Vice-Pres. Hardy. Golden yellow, bordered crimson rose. Vicomtesse D'Avene. Violet rose, shaded white, centre old gold, free. White Grunerwald. Silvery white reflex, pale rose. William Holmes. A fine crimson. Yellow Queen. Early clear yellow. Price 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz.; $8.00 per 100 ; set of 22 varieties $2.00.

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