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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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s of this are not large, butare produced in profusion and are intensely rich and glow-ing, which, combined with the dark, bronzy-green foliage,make it one of the best bedding varieties; 3 feet.Secretaire Chabanne. Distinct and pleasing luminous salmon; 3i feet. _<■ Souvenir de Antoine Crozy. Intense rich crimson-scarlet, with broad golden-yellow border; 3.V feet.Undine. Bright orange-scarlet broadly edged with golden yellow; very free; 3 feet.Venus. One of the softest and most delicately colored varieties.The flowers are of fair size, of a soft rosy-pink, with a prettymottled border of creamy-yellow. Alwayspresents a clean,fresh appearance; 4 feet.Wawa. A very dwarf grower and free-flowering; the trussesare of good size and borne well al)ove the foliage; color apleasing shade of rosy-flesh-pink; 3 feet.Wilhelm Griessinger. Pure yellow dotted with carmine; 4^ feet.Price. Any of the above, 15 cts. ench; $L50 per doz.; $8.00per 100. One each of the 27 Select Standard Sorts for$2.50.
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Italian or Orchid-floweked Canna King HlIMBEKT. ITAI.IAN OR ORCHIO-FLOW-ERED CANXAS. Of the many orchid-flowered Cannas introduced those offeredbelow are the most distinct and desirable. The habit of growthof all is remarkably vigorous, attaining a height of 6 feet,while their flowers frequently measure over 6 inches across.Allemania. Pleasing dark salmon with golden markings. Austria. Pure canary;iyellow; fine large open flowers, withfew reddLsh dots in the centre of the two inside petals. Italia. Bright orange-scarlet, with broad golden-yellow bor-der; the flowers are held well above the massive foliage. King Humbert. In this grand Canna we have a combina-tion of the highest type of flowers with the finest bronzefoliage. Its flowers measure 6 inches in diameter, produced ingigantic trusses, a brilliant orange-scarlet with bright redmarkings; foliage broad and massive,of a rich coppery-bronze;5 feet. (.See cut.) Mrs. Karl Kelsey. An immense orange-scarlet; wondrouslystriped and flake

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