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Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1879
Identifier: dreersgardencale1879henr (find matches)
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers 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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Dreer's Garden Calendar 101 FRENCH HYBRID GLADIOLUS. Thev are the most stately and effective of our summer flowering bulbs, being of a robust erect growth, with green sword-shaped leaves and magnificent flower-scapes, rising from two to four feet in height. The colors comprise the most brilliant of orange, scarlet, and vermilion tints upon yellow and orange grounds, including a graduated scale of intermediate shades, from white and rosy blush and salmon rose tints, to a salmon red and nankeen ; from blush-white with purple crimson throat, and marginal streak of pink, to light rosy salmon grounds, with flakea of deep carmine. A succession of bloom may be had from July to September, by planting at intervals from April to June, preserving the strongest bulbs for the latest planting. Their culture is very simple : they will grow in any ordinary garden mould, but succeed best in good earth, manured with well-rotted horse-dung. The btilbs are taken up in the tkll and placed in a dry cellar, protected from frost. Gladiolus in Assortments—Invariably our Selection. "We have made these selections with refer- ence to contrast of colors, time of flowering, and quality of bloom, and will serve as a guide to those unacquainted with the sorts. The seedlings offered abound in the finest va- rieties, which compare favorably with the higher-priced named sorts. The mixtures contain many good sorts. h'o. Price. 1. 12 varieties named. $1 50 2. 12 " " 2 50 3. 12 " " 5 00 4. 12 mixed varieties 75 5. 100 " " 5 00 6. 12 mixed white and light colors 1 50 7. 100 " " " " 8 00 8. 12 choice seedlings 1 00 9. 12 extra " 1 50 On purchaser's selection a discount of ten per cent, from catalogue prices will be made when one dozen varieties are selected. Twenty per cent, on one himdred varieties. Price. Achilla. Currant-red, white lines Adonis. Eosy salmon, carmine margin. Alcyon. White, flamed carmine rose... Apollon, Bosy lilac, with a large stain of light rose; fine Aegus. Long spike; glittering fire-red centre, and lower divisions pure white. Akistote. Rose, crimson stripes AE.SINOE. Fine satin rose, flamed with bright crimson Berenice. Pink, flaked with cherry; maroon stripes '.. Bernard de Jussiec. Violet, shaded cherry and purple 15 Bertha Rabouedin. Pure white, car- mine stain 20 Bijou. Cherry, flamed scarlet 15 Brenchiliensis. Rich scarlet 10 Calypso. Rose, blotched with carmine. 15 Canary. Clear yellow, shaded with
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29 10 25 20 50 .$1 25 20 Canova. Long spike of very large white, carmine spotted flowers 75 Celine. White and rose ground, car- mine stripes T 20 Ceres. Pure white, stained with pur- plish rose 35 Charles Dickens. Light rose, blazed and striped with carminate rose 20 Cherubini. Large flower, perfect shape, with ground largely blazed with car- minate violet 40 CiTEiNus. Light yellow, lower petals dark vellow 35 Clemence. White, with crimson flakes. COMTE DE MORNY. Dark cherry, white blotches COUBANTI FULGENS. Dark crimson CcviER. Amaranth, blazed with purple. Daphne. Light cherry, dark stripes De Candolle. Cherry, blazed with red. De Lamarck. Light cherry color, blazed with red; white stains Delecatissima. White, slightly tinged, with carmine lilac 75 Diana. White, flaked with red 30 DiDON. White, suffused with lilac 1 W Don Juan. Orange and fire-red 10 Dr. Lindley. Light rose, blazed with cherry 50 Due DE Malakoff. Orange red, blazed with lighter stripes 20 Edith. Rose carnation, dark stripes 15 Eldorado. Pure yellow, red stripes 20 Elvire. Pure white, flamed carmine; very delicate 1 50 Eeato. Pale rose, carmine stains 25

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