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Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1884
Year: 1884 (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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yellow eye, encircled with snow% white, and broadly margined with rich crimson violet 10 Mixed Varieties. All the colors of the dwarf varieties mix- d. Per oz., sv cents _ 5 Cantabricus. Flowers rosy purple, a beautiful trailing plant for hanging-baskets, or for bedding; hardy perennial _.. 10 Mauritanicus. A beautifiil trailmg plant for hanging-baskets and vases, producing numerous lavender-colored blue flowers ; also fine for winter blooming in the house ; half-hardy evergreen perennial 10 eUPHEA PLATYCENTRA (Cigar or Fire-Cracker Plants. Free-flowering beautifiil ornamental plants,either for garden or pot culture ; half-hardy perennial; flowers small tubed-shaped, scarlet encircled with black and white; i foot 10 DAISY, MIXED (Bellis Perenms). A favorite plant for bed^ or pot-culture, in bloom firom April to June ; seed saved from the finest double varieties, mixed colors ; naif-hardy perennial; 4 inches „ 20 Double V/hite. Extra double pure white Dai^y zc DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR
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X. DoL-BLE Scarlet Grenadin Carnation. 2 White Perennial Candytuft. 3 Celosia Japonica, or Japanese Cockscomi 4 White Rocket Candytuft. 5. Dwarf Hybrid Candytuft Variety. 6. Dwarf Cockscomb Variety. 7 Celosia Plumosa, or Feathered Cockscomb, 8 and 9. Carnation Remontant, or Perpetuai, Varieties.10. Gold and Crimson Variegated Cockscomb. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 53 Per packet,DAHLIA. Ohc of our best autumnal flowering plants, blooms until killed by frost; tuberous-rooted half-hardy perennials; blooming the first year from seed, if sown early and repotted once or twice;protect tr.e roo-^ from frost during the winter in a drj cellar in sand; height, 5 feet. Large-Flowering Varieties. Saved from the finest double flowers. Mixed colors .;o 20 Small-Floweiing Varieties Bouquet or- Liliputian). Saved from choice double flowers ; mixed colors ; t-.c flow-rs are mini-.ture and n.t the plant. 20 Lai ^e-Flowering, Single Varieties Mixed. Our aesthetic people are ever busy seeking after attractive

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