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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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howy large golden-yellow flowers, above its gray and downy thistle-likefoliage, which are exceedingly brilliant in the sunshine. Sow where it is to remain, as it does not bear transplanting well; hardy annual; 2 feet 5 BIDENS ATROSANGUINEA rZ>rt/«//rt Zimapani). Rich dark crimson, with yellow anthers; beautiful foliage; a free-flowering tender annual. The roots can be preserved like Dahlias ; i »oot 10 BRACHYCOME IBERIDIFOLIA, MIXED (Swan River Daisy). Free-flowering, dwarf-growingplants, covered during the greater part of the summer with a profusion f pretty Cineraria-like flowers ;suitable for edgings and small beds, or pot culture; half-hardy annual. Mixed light blue and white flowers ; 6 inches 5 BROWALLIA. One of our favorite profuse-blooming bedding plants, covered with rich, beautiful wingedflowers during the summer and autumn months, growing freely in any rich soil; blooms finely in thawinter if sowa in August; half-hardy anoual; :S iitche&. 48 DRAERS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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1. AqUILEGIA, or CoLbMBINE VARIETIES 2. Aquilegia Ccerulea, or Rocky Mountain Ck)LUMBINE. i. Anagallis Grandiflora, or Pimpernelle. 4 Anfmone Fulgens, or Scarlet Windflower, 5. Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet Aster. 6. P^ONY-FLOWERED PERFECTION AsTER. 7. Rose-flowered Aster. DREERS GARDEX CALENDAR. 49 ^KO^hlAA^—Contimied. Per packet. Elata Grandiflora Ccerulea. Large sky-blue flowers with a white centre %^ 5 Elata Alba. Pure white flowers 5 Mixed All the Elata varieties 5 Abbreviata ^Pulchelht). Flower^ of a deep rose color, very fine and atiraciive 20 CACALIA, MIXED ( Tassel FLnuer or Flora s Paint Brush). A neat, half-hardy annual 01 ca.-y cui .;r ,with las el-shaped flowers; blooms from July tO September in clusters; fine for borders. Mixed goKen yellow and scarlet flowers; height, \\i feet. Per oz., gi.oo s CALANDRINIA, MIXED. Beautiful creeping, free-flowering plants, with .-ncculent stems and fleshy leaves, adapted for rock work or hot situations, requiring light, rich soil; mixeJ col

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