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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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ously and flowering freely allsummer and fall, either for the flower border, massing, and ribboning ; doing best in a rather poor soiland in the green-house during the entire winter; hardy annuals; i foot. For assortments of Nastur-tiums, see page 44. Tom Thumb Scarlet. Tom Thumb Yellow Each 5 Tom Thumb Pearl. Creamy white Tom Thumb Spotted. With beautifij spotted flowen, „.Each 5 Tom Thumb Coerulea Rosea. Rose-tinted maroon 10 Tom Thumb Crystal Palace Gem. Attractive sulphur-colored flowers, with a dark-red spot near the base of each oetal 5 King of Tom Thumbs Buish-gree^foliage ; showy, intense scarlet flowers ; King Theodore Selected from King of Tom Thumbs ; bluish-green foliage ; flowers almost black 10 Golden King of Tom Thumbs. Deep golden-yellow flowers, thrown well above the dark foliage xo Ruby King Tom Thumb. Pink, shaded with carmine, contrasting beautifully with its dark foliage 10 Tom Thumb Varieties. Mixed of all colors. Per oz., 50 cts _^ c nO DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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Pentstemon Vakiktv.Dwarf French Marigold.MiMULUS Single Variety.Double Hybrid Petunia Variety.Mignonette Variety. 6. Mesembryanthemum Crystai.linum, or Ice Plant 7. Single Hybrid Petunia Variety. 8. Nemophila Variety. 9. Pansy Variety, or Viola Tricolor Maxima10. Dreers Premium Pansy, or Heartsease. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 61 Per packetNEMOPHILA Grcrve Loz<e\. Of neat, compact, uniform habit of growth, comprising varied and beautifulcolors ; blooming freely all summer if planted in a rather cool, shaded place, and in not too rich a soil ;hardy annuals ; height i foot. Insignis. Bright blue flowers with a white centre $o 5 Maculata. White flowers, blotched with purplish violet 5 Fine Mixed. Ail the varieties and colors mixed. Per oz., 50 cts 5 NIGELLA LozC in a Mist, or Dezil in the Busk). A compact, free-flowering plant, with finely cut foliage,curious-looking flowers and seed-pods ; of easy culture, growing in ar y garden soil; hardy annual; i foot. Damascena Coerulea Plena. Prett

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