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Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1880
Identifier: dreersgardencale1880henr (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
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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Drccr 's Gardoi Calendar. 101 FRENCH HYBRID GLADIOLUS. They are the most statelv and efieetive of our summer flowering bulbs, being of a robust erect erowth, with crreeu 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 flakes 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 verv simjjle : thev will jrrow in any ordinary jrarden mould, but succeed best in good earth, manured with well-rotted horse-dung. The bulbs'are taken up in the fall and placed in a dry cellar, protected from frost. Gladiolus in Assortments—Invariably our Selection. We have mjyie 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 ofiered abound in the finest va- rieties, which compare favorably with the biigher-priced uame'o. Price. 1. 12 varieties named $1 50 9. 12 " •* 2 50 .3. 12 " " 5 00 4. 12 mixed varieties 75 o. K.HJ " " 5 00 6. 12 mixed white and light colors 1 50 7. 100 " " " " 8 00 8. 12 choice seedlings 1 00 9. 12 extra " 150 On purchaser's selection a discount of ten per cent, from catalogue jjrices will be made when one dozen varieties are selected. Twenty per cent, on one hundred varieties. Price. Achilla. Currant-red, white lines 30 Adonis. Eosy salmon, carmine margin. 15 Alcyon. White, flamed carmine rose... 75 Apollon. Eosy lilac, with a large stain of light rose; fine Akgus. Long spike; glittering fire-red centre, and lower divisions r>ure white. Aristote. Eose, crimson stripes AR-SIvoe. Fine satin rose, flamed with bright crimson Berenice. Pink, flaked with cherry; maroon stripes Bernard de Jussiec. Violet, shaded cherry and purple 15 Bertha Eabourdls^. Pure white, car- mine stain BiJor. Cherry, flamed scarlet BRENCHiLiENr-iS. Eich scarlet Calypso. Eose, blotched with carmine. Canary. Clear yellow, shaded with rose Canova. Long spike of very large white, carmine spotted flowers Celine. White and rose ground, car- mine stripes Ceres. Pure white, stained with pur- plish rose Charles Dickens. Light rose, blazed and striped with carminate rose Cherueini. Large flower, perfect shape, with ground largely blazed with car- minate violet CiTRiNCS. Light yellow, lower petals dark vellow 50 20 40 35
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Feench Hybrid GLAOioLrs. CLEMX^fCE. White, with crimson flakes. Comte de Morny. Dark cherry, white blotches CouRANTi FULGENS. Dark crimson CrviER. 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 Diana. White, flaked with red DiDON. White, sufi'used with lilac Don Juan. Orange and fire-red Dr. Lindley. Light rose, blazed with cherry Due de Malakoff. Orange red, blazed with lighter stripes Edith. Eose carnation, dark stripes Eldorado. Pure yellow, red stripes Elvire. Pure white, flamed carmine; very delicate Eeato. Pale rose, carmine stains Price. 20 20 10 25 20 50 si 25 75 30 1 00 10 50 20 15 20 1 50 25

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