Dreer's garden calendar : 1899 . dreersgardencale1899henr Year: 1899 Ckrastium Tomentosum. CLEOME. (Giant Spider Plant.) 5581 Pungens. Singular- looking rose-colored flow- ers ; the stamens look like spiders' legs, and present a very attractive appear- ance ; annual ; 3 feet. This plant has been used extensively in many of the public parks the past season, planted among shrubbery, and was much admired 5 CEIANTHIJS. (Australian Glory Pea.) A beautiful tender perennial shrub, bearing clusters of droop- g, brilliant rich-scarlet, pea- shaped flowers, 3 inches in length, each flower picturesquely
Dreer's garden calendar : 1899 . dreersgardencale1899henr Year: 1899 Ckrastium Tomentosum. CLEOME. (Giant Spider Plant.) 5581 Pungens. Singular- looking rose-colored flow- ers ; the stamens look like spiders' legs, and present a very attractive appear- ance ; annual ; 3 feet. This plant has been used extensively in many of the public parks the past season, planted among shrubbery, and was much admired 5 CEIANTHIJS. (Australian Glory Pea.) A beautiful tender perennial shrub, bearing clusters of droop- g, brilliant rich-scarlet, pea- shaped flowers, 3 inches in length, each flower picturesquely marked with a large black blotch in the centre. Plant out, when the weather has become warm, in a rather dry, sheltered, sunny posi- tion ; 4 feet. 5584 Dampieri 10 Single Annual Chrysanthemums. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. (Annual Varieties.) Showy and effective garden favorite, extensively grown for cut flowers. The hardy annuals are Summer-flowering border plants ; good for pot culture and quite distinct from the Autumn flowering varieties. (See cut.) 5491 Double Fringed Mixed. Yellow, white, etc 5 5500 Single Mixed. (Painted Daisies.) Oz. 30 cts 5 5489 Imported Collection of 8 Summer-flowering varieties 30 PERENNIAL VARIETIES. 5488 Frutescens Grandiflorum. (' Marguerite' or' Paris Daisy.') 10 5480 Inodorum Plenissimum. Double snow-white, very free- flowering and fine for cutting. Flowers the first year from seed . . 10 5490 Japanese Hybrids. The seed here offered has been saved from a magnificent collection. Seed sown in Spring will produce flower- ing plants by Fall. The raising of these from seed is most interest- ing, and although some will be single, yet all art- beautiful ... 25 5482 Maximum Triumph. A new Moonpenny Daisy, surpassing all previous sorts in the size of its flowers, which average 4 inches across, and in its free-flowering qualities ; the blossoms are of the purest white, with yellow centres, and are borne on long, strong stems, lasting a long time when cut, making it
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