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Title: Dreer's garden calendar for 1888
Identifier: dreersgardencale1888henr (find matches)
Year: 1888 (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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("Queen Mnrgaret.) PER PKT One of the most popular and effective of our garden favorites, producing in profusion flowers in which richness and variety of colors are combined with the most perfect and beautiful form ; they delight in a rich soil, and in hot, dry weather should be mulched with rotted manure, and well watered, which will increase their beauty and the duration of their bloom ; hardy annuals. 5171 A. Dwarf Pyramidal Bouquet. The plants, when well grown, form a complete bouquet of flow- ers, splendid colors, mixed ; 1 foot 10 5173 — Cocardeau, or Crown. Showy flowers, very double, with white centres, bordered with bright rich colors; 18 inches 10 5172— Comet. A new and beautiful class, forming fine, regular pyramids 12 to 15 inches high, and covered with large double flowers. In shape thev resemble a large flowered Japanese Chrysanthe- mum, the petals being long and twisted, or curled and wavy. The color is a lovely delicate pink bor- dered with white 50 5175— Chrysanthemum Flowered. Pure white...15 5177 — Giant Emperor, Mixed. Flowers of great size, very double, fine form, brilliant colors, and robust growth ; 2 feet 15 5181 — Goliath. Splendid large flowering variety of robust habit, blooms profuselv and is of perfect form; 2 feet ". 20 5183— Imbricated Pompon. Perfectly shaped and beautifullv imbricated ; mixed 10 ASTER — Continued. — Dwart Papony Perfection. Brilliant Dark Scarlet. This novel new race of dwarf Asters is specially adapted to garden or pot cul- ture. The color is very bright and ad- mired by all. Hardy annual; 1 foot...20 — Dwarf Pa>ony Perfection. Crim- son and White. This variety is the same as the above, except in color; the flowers are finely mottled 20 5190— Psony Flowered Perfection, Mixed. One of the most perfect; very double, large, and finely-shaped, the petals beautifully incurved, of various bright rich colors; 18 inches..10 5194 — Pteony FI'd Perfection,Pink..15 5197 — PseonyFI'd Perfection.Blue..15 5193 — Pseony FloAvered Perfection, Pure White 15 5231 — Parony Flowered Perfection, Purple Violet 15 5185— Mont Blanc (Goliath). One of the largest flowering ; producing pure white flowers 5 inches in diameter; ex- tra double ; 2 feet 20 — Needle Perfection. Petals long, quilled and sharply pointed ; mixed 15 — Rose Flowered. Pyramidal, robust habit, regularly imbricated ; variously colored, large, very double brilliant flowers ; 2 feet 10 5196 — Schiller. A very fine late Dwarf Bouquet variety, profuse bloomer; mixed colors; 1 fort 15 5205 — Victoria, Mixed. Very large, of perfectly double form, imbricated and globular, of pyramidal habit, various colored flowers; 20 inches 15 — Victoria. Pure White 15 —- German White Quilled. Double pure white flowers, fine for funeral designs and bouquets; 2 ft. 5 — German Quilled, Mixed. Perfectly double quilled flowers of beautiful mixed colors ; 2 feet 5 — Choice German, Mixed. Per oz. $2.00 10 — Fine Mixed, China. All colors. Peroz. $1.00. 5 — Perennial, Mixed. Hardy herbaceous plants, thriving in any good garden soil. Saved from a splendid collection of single varieties ; if sown early in the spring, they will flower the first season 10 Imported Collections of Asters. A. Finest Quilled, 18 varieties $1.00 — " " 10 " 60 — TrufTaut's Pseony Perfection, 12 var's... 1.00 — Victoria, 12 varieties 1.00 — Boltze's Dwarf Bouquet, 12 varieties.... 1.00 — Giant Emperor, 12 varieties 1.00 — Large Rose Flowered, 10 varieties 75 — Cocardeau, or Crown, 6 varieties 50 — Goliath, 6 varieties 50 5203 5198 5200 5210 5220 .5230 5179 5189 5199 5209 5219 5229 5239 5249 5259

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