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Title: Dreer's garden book 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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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rosy-red of exceptional large size. 4211 Queen Alexandra Spencer. One of the finest yet intro-duced. In color a rich bright scarlet; flowers of largest size. 4236 Thomas Stevenson. Brilliant orange-scarlet, the moststriking color of all. 4212 White Spencer. A pure wavy white of enormous sizeand splendid substance; long, strong stems. Price. Any of the above, 10 cts. per pkt.; 25 cts. per oz.; 75 cts. per \ llj.4239 Collection of a packet each of the entire 23 varieties offered above $1.50 For Collections ofNeic and Best Orchid-flowered Sweet Peas, see pages 58 and 59. OSCEERS SEI.ECT STANDARD SIJVEET PEAS. The following are the very choicest standard sorts—varieties that stand at the head of their respective color and tl at have theendorsement of the leading American and European specialists—and it would be impossible to select a similar list out of the vastnumber of standard sorts that would comliine in the same degree all the qualities which go to make up fir.-t-class varieties.
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Spray of Orchid-flowered Sweet Peas. 4063 Aurora. Orange-rose, striped on a white ground. 4070 Black Knight. Very deep maroon, shaded black. 4073 Blanche Ferry. The popular pink and white. 4090 Dainty. White, daintily edged with pink. 4091 Dorothy Eckford. Magnificent pure white. 4094 Duke of Westminster. Clear purple, tinted violet. 4111 Flora Norton. The clearest bright blue. 4126 Helen Pierce. White, veined and mottled bright blue. 4133 Hon. Mrs. E. Kenyon. The finest primrose-yellow. 4138 Janet Scott. A grand deep rich pink. 4152 King Edward VII. The finest crimson-scarlet. 4159 Lady Grisel Hamilton. A grand pale lavender. 4165 Lovely. Soft shell-pink; a lovely shade. 4167 Lord Nelson. The richest deep navy-blue. 4173 Miss Willmott. Brilliant orange-pink; very large. 4179 Mrs. Walter Wright. .\n exquisite shade of mauve. 4201 Prima Donna. A magnificent pure pink. 4203 Prince of Wales. The finest bright rose. 4212 Queen Alexandra. Almost a pure scarlet. 4234 St. George. Brilliant o

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