Title: Dreer's quarterly wholesale price list of seeds, plants &c. : winter edition January 1895 March
Identifier: dreersquarterlyw1895henr_1 (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) 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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28 DREER'S WHOLESALE PRICE LIST. General Collection of Dwarf French Cannas.—Continued. Per-doz. Per 100. Nellie Bowden. Small flowered but very free, good for massing. $ 75 $6 00 Paul Bruant. Intense orange sear- let with peculiar satiny surface; foliage dark green. 4^ feet 1 50 10 00 Perfection. Bright golden yellow flowers, minutely spotted with cinna- mon red ; foliage red. 3* feet 125 10 00 Princess Lusignani. Bright glow- ing orange scarlet, shaded crimson ; foliage green. 3 feet 1 00 8 00 Progression. Bright yellow spotted with crimson 1 00 8 00 Paul Sigrist. A pretty gilt-edged variety ; rich dazzling crimson, broad golden yellow border; this variety shows up well in a wet season, or where it can be liberally supplied with water 1 50 10 00 Professor Gerard. Flowers of a rich crimson scarlet, borne in very large spherical heads thrown well above the foliage, which is broad and massive, of a dark green color with purple edges and stems. 4£ feet. .. . 1 50 10 00 Perdoz. Per 100. Secretary Stewart. Flowers of a bright garnet, borne in large spikes the flowers being well separated on the spike ; foliage green. 4 feet $1 50 §10 00 Stadgartner Sennholz. Flowers of medium size, of the most intense brilliant crimson scarlet ; foliage bronzy purple. 41 feet 1 00 8 00 Sophie Buchner. The strongest growing Canna of the Crozy type in cultivation, with large Musa-like foliage of a deep green color, which in rich soil will attain a height of 8 feet or more; the flowers, light scarlet overlaid with orange and are produced in bold heavy spikes 1 50 12 00 Otto Froebel. On the style of Madame Crozy, but with a much wider edge of golden-yellow ; a re- markably free flowering variety 1 50 12 00 Ventura. Flowers of medium size, of a light red overlaid with carmine ; foliage deep green. 3^ feet 1 00 8 00
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Fancy-Leaved Caladiums. Fancy-Leaved Caladiumshave been a spe- cialty with us for many years. Our stock this season is unusually large and of better quality than usual. The varieties we grow are of the best bright color types. We list below but the principal varieties many other sorts being in stock. Arethusa. Leplay. Augusta Riviere. Lepeschkenel. Anibal. L'Albane. B. S. Williams. Meyerbeer. Bicolor Fulgens. Mme. Fitz Kochlein. Candidum. Mme. Alf. Bleau. Chantinii. Max Kolb. Diana. Mme. Hume. Ducharte. Prince Albert Edward. E. G. Henderson. Princess Alexandra. Euterpe. Reine Victoria. Guanabara. Sanchoniaton. Jupiter. Sieboldii. (tion.) Luddemannii. Triomphe de l'Exposi- Le Perle du Brazil. Wightii. $1.50 per doz.; $12 per 100 ; $100 per 1000. CRQ2Y

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