. Dreer's mid-summer list 1925 . Croton Aspidistra Lurida. One of the easiest decorative plants to grow. A most useful house plant, thriving in a hallway or a comparatively dark place in the room where nothing else will succeed. 6-inch pots, $ to $ each. Fibrous-Rooted Begonias This class is among the freest flowering ornamental-leaved pot plants for conservatory decoration; excellent subjects for the window garden. Argentea Guttata. Foliage of rich green, spotted with silver. Corallina Lucerna. Gigantic trusses of bronzy-red flowers in bloom continuously from April to November. Haagea
. Dreer's mid-summer list 1925 . Croton Aspidistra Lurida. One of the easiest decorative plants to grow. A most useful house plant, thriving in a hallway or a comparatively dark place in the room where nothing else will succeed. 6-inch pots, $ to $ each. Fibrous-Rooted Begonias This class is among the freest flowering ornamental-leaved pot plants for conservatory decoration; excellent subjects for the window garden. Argentea Guttata. Foliage of rich green, spotted with silver. Corallina Lucerna. Gigantic trusses of bronzy-red flowers in bloom continuously from April to November. Haageana. Large trusses of creamy-white flowers, suffused with pink, the foliage bold and attractive, of a bronzy-green above and reddish on the under side. Price. 35 cts. each. One each of the 3 sorts for $ Bougainvillea Crimson Lake. Introduced through the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. The flowers are like all other Bougainvilleas, perhaps a trifle larger, but in coloring none compare with it in richness and brilliancy. On first opening a brilliant crimson-lake, retaining this color for three or four weeks, after which they gradually pass to a crimson-carmine. In Southern California and Florida, the Bougainvilleas make gorgeous climbers for outdoor planting, while in the north they are useful subjects as pot plants for the conservatory or green- house. Strong 3-inch pots, 50 cts. each. Clerodendron Balfouri. A beautiful greenhouse climber, and admirably suited for house culture, flowering most profusely with bright scarlet flowers, enveloped in a creamy-white calyx. Strong plants, 25 cts. each. Extra large plants. 50 cts. each. Crotons Nothing can excel the beauty and richness of coloring that is found in this class of plants. They are beautiful as pot plants for the conservatory, making handsome specimens for decorative and exhibition purposes. In the latitude of Philadelphia and south- ward they are wonderfully effective for summer bedding, pre-
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