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Title: Dreer's wholesale price list / Henry A. Dreer.
Identifier: dreerswholesalep1912dree (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: Dreer, Henry A. (Firm); Dreer, Henry A. (Firm)
Subjects: Nursery Catalogue
Publisher: The Company
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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DREER'S SUPERB DOUBLE-FRINGED PETUNIAS Passiflora (Passion Flower). Princeps. This is the rare greenhouse variety with bright red flowers; strong plants. 60 cts. each; $6.00 per doz. Constance Elliott. 3-inch pots, $1.00 per doz.; $7.00 per 100. Pennisetum (Fountain Grass). The Pennisetums are now largely used as borders to beds of Cannas, Caladium Esculentum and other tall-growing plants and are becoming more popular each season. Cupreum. A cross between the fine-leaved P. Rueppeliayinm a.nd the red-leaved P. Macrophyllum Atrosanguineum, and combines the good points of both of its parents. It has dark, coppery bronze foliage; the plumes are of a tawny crimson color. It grows 3 to 3"/4 feet high. A distinct and valuable addition to our list of tender grasses. Young plants ready April 15th; $1.2.5 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. Macrophyllum Atrosanguinem (Crimson Fountain Grass). Foli- age of a pleasing, dark, metallic, coppery bronze. Ready April 15th; $1.25 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. Rueppelianum (Purple Fountain Grass). A beautiful variety, growing about 2V2 feet high; graceful green foliage and purplish plumes. 2'/2-inch pots, ready May 1st. 75 cts. per doz.; $5.00 per 100. Pelargoniums (Ready February). Crimson King. An intense rich crimson. Duke of Cornwall. Reddish crimson, bordered light salmon. Linda. Salmon-feathered and blotched maroon. Mme. Thibaut. White-blotched crimson-maroon. Mrs. R. Sandiford. Pure, glistening, snow-white. Sandiford's Best. Pink-bordered pure white and white throat. 3-inch pots, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. New Everblooming Pelargonium " Easter Greeting." This variety is remarkable for its early and free-flowering habit, and while its principal crop of flowers is produced in early spring, it is the first variety introduced which, in a favorable season, con- tinues to bloom throughout the summer and fall months. Its flow- ers are of large size, of a bright amaranth-red, each petal marked with a large black blotch. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. Dreer's Superb Double=Fringed Petunias. For half a century we have been making a specialty of Double Petunias, and our strain is accepted as second to none. We annu- ally plant many thousand seedlings, from which only the finest double-fringed forms are selected for propagating purposes, and by this careful selection the strain shows a decided improvement every year. We offer 15 distinct named varieties. 3-inch pots, 75 cts. per doz.; $6.00 per 100. The set of 15 for $1.00. Seed of Dreer's Fringed Petunias. We annually save at our own Nurseries at Riverton, N. J., seed of our celebrated strain of single and double-fringed Petunias, from the very finest flowers, all inferior plants being discarded before any seed is saved, and offer Superb Double=Fringed, 75 cts. per 500seeds; $1.50 per 1000 seeds. Superb Single=Fringed, 50 cts. per trade pkt. Philodendron or Monstera. Spectabilis. 5-inch pots, 75 cts. each. Pertusum. 5-inch pots, 75 cts. each. Giganteum. 5-inch pots, 75 cts. each. Phyllot£enium. Lindeni Magnificum. An improved form, with larger leaves and more decided in variegation. 75 cts. each. Piper. Metallicum. A stove plant with pretty bronzy metallic green leaves. 40 cts. each.
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PENNISETUM MACROPHYLLUM ATROSANGUINEUM (The Crimson Fountain Grass)

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