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Title: Dreer's quarterly wholesale price list of seeds, plants &c. : winter edition January 1896 March
Identifier: dreersquarterlyw1896henr_1 (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) 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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DREER'S WHOLESALE PRICE LIST.
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Aster, P^eony Flowered Perfection. ASTERS—Continued. Aster, Paeoay Flowered Perfection. One of the most desirable for florists; very double, large, and finely shaped, the petals beautfully incurved, li ft. (See cut). Trade pkt. Per oz. Vick's Branching White. White 40 Pink 40 Crimson 40 Purple .. 40 Light Blue 40 Mixed 30 82 00 2 00 2 00 2 00 2 00 1 50 Aster, Improved Victoria. A magnificent strain. Flowers large, beautifully imbricated and perject in form. Excellent as a pot plant or for cutting, i i ft. Trade pkt. Per oz. White 50 $2 50 Pink 50 2 50 Scarlet 50 Indigo Blue 50 Mixed 40 Aster, Crown, mixed 30 Rose Flowered, mixed 40 Snowball, or "White Princess 50 " Washington, mixed G-oliath, large white Giant Emperor, mixed Betteridge's Quilled, mixed German, choice mixed 15 fine mixed (China) 15 Imported Collections, viz : Quilled German, Paeony Perfection, Victoria, 50 50 00 50 00 00 50 50 00 50 50 40 Each- in 12 varieties 34 20 50 50 50 15 Dwarf Bouquet, Giant Emperor, Large Rose Flowered, Crown, Comet, Dwarf •Chrysanthemum flow- ered, " 6 " 34 Full descriptions of Asters will be found on pages 42 and 43 of our Retail Catalogue. 12 6 12 6 6 6 6 6 6 ASTERS—American Grown. The folloiving two varieties are of American origin, and the seed we offer has been saved from extra choice strains. As a florist flower they fill a long felt want, being the latest Aster to flower and come in at a time when other flowers are scarce. Aster, Vick's Branching White, floicers pure white, of good size, borne on long stems with broad, long petals, (see cut). Trade pkt. 40 cts.; oz. 82.00. Aster, Semple's Branching, plants of branching Mbit, producing on long stems flowers of perfect form, from 4 to 6 inches in diameter. Mixed colors. Trade pkt. 40 cts.", oz. $2.00. Trade pkt. Per oz. Balloon Vine 10 Balsam, White Perfection. Flowers pure white. The first buds shoidd not be allowed to open, but should be picked off, the result will be thai the flowers coming out thereafter will be extra double 25 1 00 Balsam, Double scarlet 20 75 Pink 20 75 " " Solferino 20 75 Choice, mixed 15 50 Begonia, Tuberous-Rooted, single, finest mixed 75 double 1 00 Vernon. As a bedding or pot plant this has few equals, it succeeds everywhere, flowers bright red, bronze foliage. Per TV oz. 75 cts.. 50 Rex hybrids, line foliage plants. 1 00 Brachycome Iberidifiora (Swan River Daisy) mixed 15 Browallia elata Ccerulea, blue 15 " Nana, dwarf blue for pots... 15 " Mixed colors 15 50 50 50 50 Trade pkt. Calceolaria Hybrida Graudiflora, Tall Mixed. Large flowering, beautiful, rich, self-colored flowers; \ pkt. 60 cts ". $1 00 " Hybrida Tigrina, Mixed. Large floicering, tigered and spotted flowers; i pkt. 60 cts. . . 1 00 " Hybrida Pumila Compaeta. Of dwarf com- pact grorcth, producing immense trusses of brilliant, sr/f-colorrd and spotted flowers : i pkt. 60 cts '. ... 1 00 We allow a discount of 33J '; to Florists on all packets and Collections of Flower Seeds offered in our Retail Catalogue.

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