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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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perennials. Chalcedonica Coccinea. Fine scarlet flowers : 2 feet . 5 ChalcedoTica Alba. Showy white flowers ; 2 feet 5 Hybrida Haageana, Mixed. Beautiful brilliant orange-scarlet, light and dark crimson, and white-flaked flowers ; free-flowering; i foot - 10 Choice Mixed. Of all colors and varieties. Per oz.,$i.oo S MARIGOLD (TagetCs). A well-known free-flowering plant, of easy culture, with rich and beautiful varieddouble-colored flowers. The African are best for large beds; while the French are adapted for smallbeds or as a foreground for taller plants ; half-hardy annuals. Large African. Tall double, orange, brcwn and yellow, mixed ; 2 feet. Per oz., 60 cents 5 Dwarf French. Fine rich colors, mixed ; very double ; i foot. Per oz., 80 cents S MARTYNIA, MIXED. They delight in a light, rich soil and warm situation, producing large fragrant yel-low, white and purple flowers; the young horned seed-pods are used for pickling ; half-hardy annuals ;height, 2 feet 5 DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR,
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1. Ipomopsis Elegans, or Standing Cypress. 2. Extra Double Hollyhock. 3. Helianthus Globosus Fistulosus. 4. Lobelia Cardinalis. 5. ESCHSCHOLTZIA, OR SiNGLE CALIFORNIA PoPPY. i 6. Gaillardia Variety. I 7. Lobelia Erinus Speciosa, Crystal Palace I 8. Lychnis Hybktda Haageana Variety. I 9. Linum Ghandiflorum Coccineum. I 10. Eschscholtzia oh Double California Popty. DREEKS GARDEN CALENDAR. 69 Per packet.MARVEL OF PERU (Mirabilis Jalapd). The well-known Four Oclock, handsome, free-floweringgarden favorite ; they bloom the first season from seed, and are treated like annuals ; the flowers areproduced in clusters on the summit of the stems, opening in the afternoon and withering the next morn-ing ; the roots can be prtsei ved during the winter like Dahlias ; half-hardy perennials. Mixed Colors. Ee<iutiful shades of colors and variegated flowers ; height, 2 feet. Peroz.,40Cts :fp 5 Variegated-Leaved Variety. Leaves light green, marbled; very ornamental; a variety of the above; mixed of al

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