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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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. Alba. Pure white Each 5 Mixed. Of the above two colors. Per oz., 30 cts .^ 5 IPOMCEA (Morning Glory Variety). Tender annuals of rapid growth, with beautiful and most-varied-col-ored flowers, lobated foliage, and very ornamental; for covering old walls, trellises, arbors, or stumps oftrees, they are invaluable, also for house culture ; 15 feet. Coccinea. Small scarlet flowers in profusion ; also known as the Star Ipotncea 5 Limbata. Violet, margined with white, large and handsome 5 Striata Nova. A beautiful three-colored striped variety = 5 Grandiflora Superba. Large blue flowers, with abroad white border 5 Choice Mixed Varieties. Of all colors. Per oz., 50 cts 5 Huberi. The new Japanese Hybrids ; some have silvery-white, marbled foliage, and all with large trumpet-shaped flowers beautifully margined, of various colors ; mixedof all varieties and colors. Per oz., 80 cts. 10Bona Nox (Evening Glory). Violet, large fragrant flowers, expanding in the evening 10 DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 69
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1. LoASA Lateritia. 2. Ipomcea Hubf.ki Vakiety, ok Japanese Hybkids. 3. Maurandia Variety.4.. Passiflora Incarnata 5. TrICOSASTHES COLIJBRINA, OK Serpext Gourd.6 CoBvE.A Scandens. 7. Cypress Vise Variety. 8. Small Ornamental Gourds. 9. TKOP.t>LUM Majls Vakil i \ okTall Nastuktil-m. 0. Ivy-Leaved Cypress Vine. 1. Thunbergta Variety,<^K Black- eyed Sr-^AN. 70 DJiJSERS GARDEN CALENDAR. Per packet.LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS, MIXED (Everlasting Pea). Showy, free-flowering plants, for covering old stumps, fences, etc. Flowers purple and white ; hardy perennials ; height, 5 feet. Per oz., 80 cts..^ 5LOASA LATERITIA. A half-hardy perennial, flowering the first season ; rapid-growing, free-flowering, with curious and beautiful orange-red flowers. Handle with gloves, as it stings like the nettle ; 6 feet... laLOPHOSPERMUM SCANDENS, Highly ornamental and effective for the garden or conservatory, with showy, fox-glove-like, rosy purple flowers; requires a light, rich soil; half-hardy annual; 10 fe

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