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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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; i foot 10 CAi^NATION, or PICOTEE (Dianthus Caryophyllus Flore Pleno). Carnation and Picotee Pinks aregeneral favorites for their delicious fragrance and richness of colors. The seed we offer has been im-ported from the best sources in Europe, and will produce many splendid novelties in double aid semi-double flowers; succeeds best in a light, r.ch soil; protect during the winter; half-hardy perennials;I Yi feet. For assortments, see page 44. Finest German. Mixed colors; saved from extra fine double named flowers 50 Remontant, or Tree fDouble Perpetual). Mixed colors ; saved only from the finest and choicest double named flowers 50 Grenadin Flore Pleno. A new dwarf compact variety of great value to florists ana market gardeners ;producing a profusion of large double brilliant scarlet-colored flowers, three weeks earlier than any other variety ; fine for borders or massing; i foot 2^ Fine Double, Mixed The hardiest and best varieties for garden culture t^ 4 oO DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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1. Single Canterbury Bell Varieties. 6. Camellia-flowered Double Balsams. 2. Campanula Carpatica Variety. , 7- Double Solferino Balsams. 3. Browallia Elata Variety. j 8. CalandriniaVariety. 4. Calendula Pongei, or Double White Marigold. 9. Brachycome Iberidifolia, or Swan River Daisyi Calliopsis, or Coreopsis Variety. 10. Calendula Meteor, or Striped Pot Marigold. DREERS GARDEy CALhl^iDAR. 51 Per packet,CEDRONELLA CANA. A hardy perennial plant, with fragrant foliage and long spikes of purplish flowers, remaining in bloom a long time ; height, 2 feet %^ 5, CELOSI A. Free-blooming graceful plants, growing best in rather light soil not too rich, producing spikes ofbeautiful featherj and comb-shaped flowers ; grown in pots they are fine for the green-house or conserv-atory. The Spiked varieties are fine for cutting and drying for winter bouquets, which should be donewhen in full bloom and before they fade. The Cristau varieties are ornamental, curious-looking flowers,of the well-known fav

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