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Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1897
Identifier: dreersgardencale1897henr (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit 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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NOVELTIES IN PLANTS.
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NEW CRIMSON SPIRAEA ANTHONY WATERER. A valuable and remarkable new shrub. This is one of those exceptional novelties that occur only at rare intervals, adding richness and beauty to our garden-flora. It outshines ah Spirseas in brilliancy of color, being of a bright crimson, of dwarfer and denser growth, and a profuse and continuous bloomer, being in bloom during the entire summer and fall. It makes an admirable pot plant as well, and will no doubt become a standard plant for Easter decorations. 50 cts. each. NEW DOUBLE RUDBECKIA "GOLDEN GLOW." A glorious new plant, and one that will 'find a place in every garden here and abroad, of fine habit, vigorous growth, with early, continuous and immense blooming qualities ; it will be found excellent also for cut flower purposes, inasmuch as the stems are long, and often carry a dozen flowers furnished with beautiful foliage. A large vase filled with these flowers is a beautiful sight. Gardening says of it: A large double flowering, Golden-Yellow Kudbeckia will be a leading plant novelty next year. We are glad of it, for it is a good thing, and more elegant and beautiful than the double-flowered sunflower (Helianthus Multiflorus, fl. pi.). We got a little plant of it last winter, and in the spring planted it out in the garden hi good soil. It is now 6 feet high, much branched, the branches inclining upwards and in bloom. We hail it with delight as being one of the most distinct and beautiful large growing, hardy perennials that have been introduced for years. 25 cts. each ; §2.50 per doz. VITIS COIGNETI/E (Crimson Glory Vine). Considerable interest in this plant has been aroused in England since it has become known that it is the same vine which has been in the collection of Mr. A. Waterer, at Knap Hill, many years, and which, has delighted everyone who has seen it hi its brilliant autumn colors. The Knap Hill plant is an enormous specimen, and climbers over a building and an old tree-trunk, and the brilliant red of its thousands of large leathery leaves in September or October is worth going a long way to see. In it we get both beauty of form and habit, and superb leaf coloring. A tine addition in the way of a vine. 50 cts. each. NEW SINGLE=FLOWERING VIOLETS. The varieties offered below are great improvements over the old sorts, which were practically of little use except at such seasons when double flowering sorts were not to be had, while in these new sorts, the flowers are of such immense size, that they are fully as desirable as the finest doubles, and for freedom of bloom, they excel anything heretofore offered. Admiral Avellan. A French variety with entirely distinct bright reddish flowers, different from anything yet introduced; the flowers, which are produced very freely are of large size and fragrant. California.' One of the finest single varieties in cultivation. The flowers are very large, borne on long stout stems, which makes it especially valuable as a cut-flower; intensely fragrant and of a clear violet purple color. Luxonne. This variety is of French origin, and is without doubt the finest single violet grown. It is of the same size as the California, but appears nearly double its size, as the petals all open out flat, and has the advantage of flowering continuously from early in September until April. It is of a beautiful rich, but soft violet purple color, with strong stout stems from 9 to 12 inches long, and very fragrant. Princess of Wales. Another grand variety, not quite as large as Luxonne and a shade lighter in color ; intensely fragrant. 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. One plant each of the above four new varieties for 50 cts. XANTHOCERAS SORBIFOLIA. A rare and beautiful hardy shrub from central China. It is not a new plant, but is very little known and is worthy of a place in every collection. It flowers in April or May, the flowers expanding at the same time with the leaves when the plants are literally covered with its long white racemes. The flowers are pure white, copper colored at base of petals. It is very floriferous, young plants flowering very freely. 35 cts. each; three for SI.00. AQUATIC NOVELTIES. These now offered for the first time in the United States, have been under cultivation in our Aquatic Garden, at Kiverton, during the past season, where thev proved to be decided acquisitions. They are perfectly hardy. Nymphaja Blanda. The purest white Water Lily in cultivation. Grown alongside a dozen other white varieties, this was conceded to be the best. The plant is vigorous and free-flowering. Price, $3.00 each. Nymphasa Laydekeri, Lilacea. Flowers rose-lilac, shaded bright car- mine, stamens golden-yellow. Tea rose fragrance. $5.00 each. Nymphaea Laydekeri, Purpurata. Flowers with very symmetrical petals of a red wine color, crimson in the centre ; stamens bright red. ?6.00 each. Nymphaea Robinsoni. Flowers vermillion red on a deep yellow, orange stamens; leaves spotted with chestnut color. This is the most distinct »and striking novelty yet introduced. $30.00 each. Rudbeckia, "Gold

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