Title: Dreer's wholesale price list / Henry A. Dreer.
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Authors: Dreer, Henry A. (Firm); Dreer, Henry A. (Firm)
Subjects: Nursery Catalogue
Publisher: The Company
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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32 HENRY A. DREER. PHILADELPHIA, PA., WHOLESALE PRICE LIST
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dreer's superb gloxinias GERANIUMS Best Newer Single Geraniums. Charles Guerin. Large flowers in immense trusses of a salmon carmine with white eye. Dlamant. Flowers white, bordered with mauve, distinct and pretty. Frederic Plessis. Flower and truss large, hav-^ing a carmine border, shading to a large white centre. Kleios. A brilliant crimson, shading to violet at centre, with white eye. Pierre Valdagne. Large flowers of a bright clear carmine-lake. Sacha Quitry. Brilliant scarlet-orange flowers. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; set of 6 for 75 cts. Best Newer Double Geraniums. Agathos. Immense trusses of deep carmine-colored flowers. Baronne de Lonqueil. Large semi-double flowers of a Tyrian- rose color, white eye Clement Marot. Gooseberry-red with large white eye. Marquise d' Abadie. Large rose-pink flowers with white eye. Mme. Paola Radaelll. Large creamy white, quite distinct. President Lulzet. One of the prettiest, a light, rich crimson-red with the base of the petals orange. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; set of 6 varieties for 75 cts. Dreer's Superb Gloxinias. Our strain of these is the finest procurable; the bulbs are well matured and of large size. We offer either separate colors, as blue, red, white, red with white edge, blue with white edge, or in choice mixture, at 60 cts. per doz.; $3.50 per 100; $30.00 per 1000. New Emperor Gloxinia. Gloxinia Hybrida Imperialis. A new hybrid strain which has been produced by crossing Sin- ningia Regina Hybrida with the choicest strains of Gloxinias, re- sulting in a plant which not only embraces all of the rich and varied colors of the Gloxinia, but in which the foliage also is distinct and very ornamental, the leaves being of a reddish brown or bronzy color with strongly projecting white veins, while the flowers are all held very erect, thus showing to full advantage. Strong bulbs in choice mixed varieties. 85 cts. per doz.; $6.00 per 100. Ismene Calathina. (Peruvian Daffodil) A beautiful summer flowering bulb, producing freely large Amaryllis-like pure white fragrant blossoms. A useful cut flower. Strong flowering bulbs, 85 cts. per doz.; $6.00 per 100. Pandanus Pacificus. A rare and beautiful species with broad massive dark green foli- age. 4-inch pots, 35 cts. each; 5-inch pots, 75 cts. each. Pandanus Veitchi. A grand lot of well-colored, perfect plants. 6- inch pots, fine specimens $1,00 each 7- " " 1.50 " 8- " " 2.00 " Pandanus Utilis. 2- inch pots, $1.00 per doz.; $7.00 per 100 3- " 1.50 " 10.00 4- " 3.50 " 25.00 Pelargoniums. Crimson King.An intense rich crimson. Duke of Cornwall. Reddish crimson, bordered light salmon. Linda. Salmon-feathered and blotched maroon. Mme. Thibaut. White-blotched crimson-maroon. Mrs. R. Sandlford. Pure, glistening snow-white. Sandlford's Best. Pink-bordered pure white and white throat. 3-inch pots, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. New Everblooming Pelargonium, *' Easter Greeting." This variety is remarkable for its early and free-flowering habit, and while its principal crop of flowers is produced in early spring, it is the first variety introduced which, in a favorable season, con- tinues to bloom throughout the summer and fall months. Its flow- ers are of large size, of a bright amaranth-red, each petal marked with a large black blotch. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. Pennisetum (Fountain Grass). The Pennisetums are now largely used as borders to beds of Cannas. Caladium Esculentum and other tall-growing plants and are becoming more popular each season. Cupreum. A cross between the fine-leaved P. Rueppelianum and the red-leaved P. Macrophyllum Atrosanguineum, and combines I the good points of both of its parents. It has dark, coppery bronze foliage; the plumes are of a tawny crimson color. It grows 3 to 3'/2 feet high. A distinct and valuable addition to our list of I tender grasses. Young plants ready April 15th; $1.25 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. ! Macrophyllum Atrosangulneum (Crimson Fountain Grass). Foli- age of a pleasing, dark, metallic, coppery bronze. Ready April j 15th; $1.00 per doz.; $7.00 per 100. Rueppelianum (Purple Fountain Grass). A beautiful variety, ; growing about 2% feet high; graceful green foliage and purplish j plumes. 2'/z-inch pots, ready May 1st. 75 cts. per doz.; $5.00 ! per 100. I Japonicum. (New Hardy Fountain Grass). We offer this i splendid addition with other hardy plants see page 44.

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