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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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irst season, growing freely in shaded situations; 2 feet _ 10 ANEMONE (Windflawer). A very pleasing hardy perennial, bulbous-rooted plant; easily grown from seed,producing large flowers, early in the spring, in a sunny situation, when few plants can comp>ete withthem in beauty and brilliancy of their vanous-colored flowers ; fine for bouquets ; i foot. Coronaria Mixed. Flowers of various shades of scarlet, purple, blue, white and striped 10 Fulgens. Flowers laree, of a beautiful dazzling vermiliop color 20 ANTIRRHINUM NANUM (Tom Thumb Dwarf Snap. Dragon). One of our most showy and useful bor-der plants. The more recently improved varieties of this valuable genus are large, finely-shaped flowersof the most brilliant colors, with beautifully-marked throats ; they succeed in any good garden soil andare very effective in beds. Hardy perennials, blooming the first year if the seed is sown early; i foot.For separate colors,see assortments of Antirrhinums, page 44. DREEKS GARDEN CAJi^NDAR
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J. Antirrhinum Nanum, Tom Thumb Variety. 2. Abronia Umbellata. 3. Adonis ^Estivalis, or Flos Adonis, 4. Aspkrula Azurea Setosa. 5. Ageratum Imperial Dwarf. 6. Agrostemma CcELi Rosea Variety. 7. Ageratum Mexicanum. &. Alonsoa Myrtifolia, Myrtle-leaved Variety DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 47 ANTIRRHINUM NANUM—Cm/r««^</. Per packet. Brilliant. Bright scarlet, with while throat ~ ^ 3 Henry IV. White, crimson and scarlet ^ 5 Fire Fly. Orange and scarlet, with while throat _ 5 Choice Dwarf Mixed. Finest dwarf Tom Thumb varieties and colors. Per oz., $1.00 _... 5 Picturatum. A new and distinct dwarf variety, with diversely shaded, striped and blotched flowers; mixed of beautiful colors ; height, 2 feet »o AQUILEGIA \Columbine). This favorite plant produces beautiful grotesque, curious formed and various-colored flowers, blooming freely early in the spring; hardy perennials.Chrysantha (Golden-Spurred). A strong grower, forming bushy plants 3 feet high, producing all summer an abundance

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