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Title: Dreer's wholesale price list / Henry A. Dreer.
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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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28 HENRY A. DREER. PHILADELPHIA, PA., WHOLESALE PRICE LIST
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DECORATIVE DAHLIA, PERLE DE LYON Decorative Dahlias of Recent Intro duction and Special Merit Varieties marked * are best for cutting. Admiral Dewey. A rich purple ... Black Beauty. Deep velvety-maroon; almost black. Bronze Beauty. Bright copery-orange Beloit. Very large flowers of a rich purplish-garnet, *Catherine Duer. Iridescent-red; a favorite for cut- ting ... *Clifford W. Bruton. A fine, bright yellow . • *Caronna. A miniature pure white, remarkably free-flowering; splendid for cutting. Plants ready April 15th Dragon d'Or. A soft yellow with petals cleft on the tips. Plants ready April 15th .... *Dellce. Its beautiful soft, yet lively color, a glow- ing rose-pink, together with its perfect shape, stout, stiff stems, and the fact that when cut it re- tains its freshness longer than any variety we know of, makes this one of the most valuable for cutting. Plants ready April 15th Delacroix. A spendid primrose-yellow with the tips of the petals cleft. Plants ready April 15th . . . Eureka. A very free mauve-pink .... Evadne. Centre soft-primrose, shading to white . F. L. Bassett. Carmine-purple *Fire Rain. A free flowering cardinal red .... Gold of Ophir. Rich old-gold Grafin von Schimmelman. Salmon-rose, shading to a yellow centre. Plants ready April 15th . . *Henry Patrick. Beautiful pure white . . . *Jack Rose. Brilliant crimson-red; perfect for cut ting ... .... Juno. A rich velvety reddish-brown, with brilliant carmine markings ... *Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. Valuable on account of its early flowering; of medium size, good form, pure white Le Grand Manitou. The first variegated Dahlia of the decorative type; ground color white, prettily spotted, striped, blotched and suffused with deep reddish-violet .... . . . *Lyndhurst. Brilliant cardinal-red, a fine cut flower Lucie. Pale ecru with old-gold rose shadings. Plants ready April 15th Monte Rose. A delicate rosy-mauve, tinted carmine *Mrs. Roosevelt. Of immense size and remarkably free-flowering, of a delicate silvery rose *Mnie. Van den Daele. A charming soft rose shad- ing to white in the centre Mrs. Linder. Free-flowering white, suffused pink . Mrs. T. F. De Witt. A good primrose-yellow . . . . Marianna. Rich orange-buff . . . . *Mme. A. Lumier. A very distinct semi-double variety; ground color white, suffused towards the ends of the petals with red, the tips being pointed with bright violet-red. Plants ready April 15th . . Per Per doz. 100. $1 00 $8 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 2 00 15 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 '2 00 2 00 2 00 15 00 5 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 5 00 1 00 8 00 1 50 10 00 1 00 8 00 2 00 15 00 2 00 15 00 1 00 8 00 3 50 3 50 1 75 12 00 2 00 15 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 1 00 8 00 1 50 10 00 Mont Blanc. Very large flowering, creamy-white. Plants ready April 15th Orange King. Rich, glowing orange-scarlet . . *Perle (Perle de la tete d'Ori. A beautiful glisten- ing white Papa Charmet. Rich deep morocco red, with bright garnet shadings, undoubtedly the finest dark Dahlia yet offered in this class. Plants ready April 15th *Perle de Lyon. Not only the most valuable white decorative Dahlia but the best white of any class for cut flower purposes. Its flowers are of good size of pleasing form, with the petals cleft or fringed; in color of the purest white and the flow- ers are held erect on long, stiff wirey stems. Pierre Dupont. A free-flowering creamy-white. Plants ready April 15th Riese von Stuttgart. Probably the largest Dahlia of this type, a seedling of Souvenir de Gustave Doazon, which it exceeds in size; in color a bright blood-red, shading deeper to the centre. Plants ready April 15th Senor Leon Perez. Delicate mauve-pink, shading to white at the centre. Plants ready April 15th . . . ^Souvenir de Gustave Doazon. Of mammoth pro- portions, can be grown to measure full nine inches. Remarkably profuse-flowering and pure red in color *Sylvia. Soft pleasing mauve-pink, gradually chang- ing to white in the centre *Seven Oaks Scarlet. A miniature variety rarely over 2'/2 inches in diameter. The perfect shaped flowers are borne on stiff stems and are of a vivid orange-scarlet ... Souvenir de Maurice Rivoire. A broad petaled variety forming a graceful loose flower; ground color deep amber suffused and marked with rasp- berry-red at the tips. Plants ready April 15th Tricolor. Ground color buttercup-yellow with a blotch of scarlet on each petal, and as the flower matures the end of each petal becomes suffused with rosy-white, forming a pretty tricolored com- bination. Plants ready April 15th . . Triomphe de Schmit^. Tips of petals cai mine-red. flamed towards the centre with golden-yellow and suffused with crimson. Plants ready April 15th Thais. Ground color white, suffused with mauve- rose. The petals are broad and informally ar- ranged. Plants ready April 15th Ulysse. A very fine rich velvety-maroon. Plants ready April 15th . . *Willlam Agnew. Rich carmine red Wilhelm Miller. Rich aniline-red, suffused with purple . . ... ... Zulu. Deep maroon with black shadings Per doz. 13 50 1 00 1 00 2 50 2 00 3 50 3 50 3 50 Per 100. $8 00 8 00 15 00 1 50 10 00 1 00 8 00 2 50 3 50 3 50 3 50 7 50 5 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 8 00 8 00 8 00

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