. Dreer's garden calendar : 1881. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 104 Dreer's Garden Calendar. GLAUCIUM CORNICULATUM. An ornamental plant with long silvery white, velvety leaves, gracefully recurved and deeply cut to the mid-rib. Its silvery color makes a fine contrast with dark-colored foliage plants, and largely used in ribbon gardening. 15 cts.; $ per doz. GLOXINIA CRASSIFOLIA. Beautiful summer-flowering, tuberous-rooted plants for the green-house or conservatory, with large bell-shaped Mowers, of the most delicate and brilliant colors
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1881. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 104 Dreer's Garden Calendar. GLAUCIUM CORNICULATUM. An ornamental plant with long silvery white, velvety leaves, gracefully recurved and deeply cut to the mid-rib. Its silvery color makes a fine contrast with dark-colored foliage plants, and largely used in ribbon gardening. 15 cts.; $ per doz. GLOXINIA CRASSIFOLIA. Beautiful summer-flowering, tuberous-rooted plants for the green-house or conservatory, with large bell-shaped Mowers, of the most delicate and brilliant colors. There are three sorts, with horizontal, erect, and pendulous flowers. Mixed colors. Strong tubers. 30 cts.; $3 per doz. G. INSIGNIS. A tall shrubby-growing variety, with large glossy green leaves; producing spikes of large gloxinia-like flowers, of deep lilac color, lasting until Christmas. 30 cts. HARDY ORNAMENTAL GRASSES. Elegant ornaments on the lawn, adapted for massing in flower borders, and some are the most graceful hanging-basket or vase plants. Ageostis Glauca. A rare, dwarf variety, with a glaucous bluish tinge; fine for edgings, baskets, or vases. 20 cts.; $2 per doz. Arundo Donax Variegata. See special description. Bambusa. See special description. Dactylis Glomerata Elegans. A dwarf ribbon-grass, with broad, silvery stripes. 20 cts. Erianthus Ravennje. See special description. Eulalia JAPONICA Var. and Zlbrina. See special descriptions. Gynerium Argenteum—Pampas Grass. See special description. Stenotoptrum Glabrum Variegatum. An ornamental grass from New South Wales. Green, handsomely striped yellow; a good vase or basket plant in sunny situations. 20 cts. HANGING-BASKET AND VASE PLANTS. The growing of Plants in baskets, vases, etc., is constantly on the increase. They add greatly to the decoration of a room, garden, or verandah, and impart an air of taste and refinement that the most costly ornaments cannot give. The following plants have been selected as the
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