. Dreer's wholesale price list for 1905 : flower seeds decorative hardy garden greenhouse and other plants bulbs vegetable seeds, tools, fertilizers, insecticides, sundries, etc . CANNA. MRS. KATE GRAY New Gannas of Special Merit. The following are introductions of 1903 and 1904 and have had a careful trial with us. We found them of exceptional merit and most desirable additions to any high-grade collection. Dr. Robert Funcke. Very large bright vermilion overlaid with carmine, in large, heavy dense spikes ; a very bright showy variety of erect habit, with green foliage ; i,l/z feet. 35 cents e
. Dreer's wholesale price list for 1905 : flower seeds decorative hardy garden greenhouse and other plants bulbs vegetable seeds, tools, fertilizers, insecticides, sundries, etc . CANNA. MRS. KATE GRAY New Gannas of Special Merit. The following are introductions of 1903 and 1904 and have had a careful trial with us. We found them of exceptional merit and most desirable additions to any high-grade collection. Dr. Robert Funcke. Very large bright vermilion overlaid with carmine, in large, heavy dense spikes ; a very bright showy variety of erect habit, with green foliage ; i,l/z feet. 35 cents each ; $ per doz. Frau flarie Nagel. An extremely large flower of a faint sulphur color bleaching to a pure white, flowers measuring frequently 5 inches across, in large dense spikes ; very con- spicuous when planted among high-colored sorts ; 4 feet. 50 cents each ; $5-00 per doz. Grand Chancellor Bulow. Beautiful deep scarlet overlaid with dark maroon ; very large spike densely covered with flowers of large size and good substance, thrown well above the handsome green foliage ; 4^ feet. 35 cents each ; $ her doz. Hofgartner Hoppe. A light bronze-leaved variety of excep- tional merit with immense spikes of large flowers, orange- scarlet at base merging gradually to the extremity of the petals into a beautiful deep carmine, with numerous faint darker spots; 4j4 feet. 35 cents each ; $ per doz. James H. Veitch. Very large flowers with perfectly formed well-rounded petals of a rich bright carmine-scarlet and bronzy foliage ; 5 feet. 35 cents each. King Humbert. In this grand new Italian Canna we have a combination of the highest type of flower with the finest bronze foliage. Its flowers, which, under ordinary cultiva- tion, will measure 6 inches in diameter and which are pro- duced in heavy trusses of gigantic size, are of a brilliant orange-scarlet with bright red markings ; while the foliage is broad and massive and of a rich coppery-bronze with brownish green markin
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