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Title: Dreer's garden calendar 1872
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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 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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,. 10 ** VIOLACEA. Violet 10 ISABEL. Lisht yellow ^ ^.^ 10 ** CHOICE MIXED. Finest varieties 10 * G(J()D MIXED. Old varieties 5 PERENNIAL VARIETIES. Mixed 10 PINKS. (Dumthus) EXTRA DOUBLE CHINA. Picturesque colors, fine, hardy biennial 10 Fine Garden. Double and fine perennial 10 ** PICOTEE. Finest selected English perennial...- 25 PHEASANTS EYE. (Dumthui? riumarius) Perennial , 6 PLUMARIUS NANUS. A new dwarf, double white variety,producing all double flowering plants from seed, very com-pact, not above six inches in height. Perennial 20 PANSY, ( Viola Tricolor) An indispensable and charminghardy perennial. The best blooms are from seed sown inthe Autumn, and slightly protected in frames during theWinter. These flower early in the Spring. The plantsfrom Spring sowing should be planted out in a shady bor-der, and will produce fine blooms in the Fall. They re-Quire a fresh soil, well enriched with decomposed manure For seeds of Ornamental Grasses, see page 62. dreers garden calendar. 53
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PANSY, DREERS PREMIUM VARIETIES. Saved from first class flowers, with special directions how to cultivate.. 60 ** best English Imported 25 ** new lis:ht blue 25 <* ROl DES NOIRS, new black 25 ** PURPLE. White-edged 25 ** good imported variety 10 FENSTEMON. Choice mixed varieties, 10 54 dreers garden calendar. PETUNIA. For out-door decoration, there is scarcely aplant equal to this. It commeuces to bloom early and continues a mass of bloom the whole season. Of late years,the striped and blotched varieties have been much im-proved. ** SPLENDID HYBRID VARIETIES. Mixed, verv choice 10 * BUCHANANS NEW BLOTCHED. Beautifully spotted 10 « DOUBLE HVDRIDIZED (very uncertain from seed) 50 * COUNTESS OF ELLESMEKE, dark rose, white throat 10 * KERMESINA GRANDIFLORA, with white throat, 25 PURPLE AND WHITE, mixed, or separate, each 5 PORTULACA. Phints of easy culture, luxuriating in an ex-posed sunny situation; liowers large and of many richshades of color, and produced throughout the summer in

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