. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 83 PETUNIA. For out-door decoration or house culture few plants equal the Petunia in effectiveness. They commence flow- ering early and continue a sheet of bloom throughout the whole season until killed by frost; easily cultivated, only requiring a rich soil and a sunny position. We have long been celebrated for our magnificent strains of both the single and double varieties,
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1899. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 83 PETUNIA. For out-door decoration or house culture few plants equal the Petunia in effectiveness. They commence flow- ering early and continue a sheet of bloom throughout the whole season until killed by frost; easily cultivated, only requiring a rich soil and a sunny position. We have long been celebrated for our magnificent strains of both the single and double varieties, which we endeavor to improve each year by careful selection anc hybridization. The past season we tested samples received from the leading Petunia specialists of the world, and we can safely say without fear of contradiction that our own strain is the best that can be procured from any source. DOUBLE VARIETIES. Note.—It is 7oell known that the double Petunia grown from seed produces but a small percentage of double flowers ; the balance in single flowers of the same rich shade. The weaker seedlings should be carefuhy saved, as these invariably produce the finest double flowers. PER PKT. (J280 Dreer's Superb Double Fringed. Saved from our own unrivaled collection ; will produce a large percentage of double flowers of the largest fringed varieties in bright colors and tints. (See cut) 50 6284 Dreer's Double Large Flowering. Beau- tiful varieties in mixture 25 6309 Imported Collection of Double Fringed, 6 varieties 75 SINGEE VARIETIES. PER PKT. 6290 Dreer's Single Large Flowering Fringed. Our own saving from finest flowers, of very large size and beautiful shape, deep throated, and of varied and brilliant colors, and beautifully fringed. (See cut) 25 6285 Giants of California. Flow- ers very large, in great variety of colors and markings, with broad, deep yellow throats, veined . 25 ttsSNtotb. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have bee
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