. Dreer's garden calendar for 1888. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. PANSIES. As we have given this plant special selection and culti- vation, the stock offered can be relied on as embracing the best from foreign and domestic collections. It combines with flowers of the largest size and finest form the most exquisite gradations of color. Pot-grown, 15 cts. each ; $ per doz. Out of frames, 10 cts. each ; 75 cts. per doz.; $ per TIGRIDrA. (Shell Flower.) Curious and beautiful shell-like flowers about 4 inches in diameter, flowering
. Dreer's garden calendar for 1888. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. PANSIES. As we have given this plant special selection and culti- vation, the stock offered can be relied on as embracing the best from foreign and domestic collections. It combines with flowers of the largest size and finest form the most exquisite gradations of color. Pot-grown, 15 cts. each ; $ per doz. Out of frames, 10 cts. each ; 75 cts. per doz.; $ per TIGRIDrA. (Shell Flower.) Curious and beautiful shell-like flowers about 4 inches in diameter, flowering from July to October. The bulbs can be planted about the middle of May, and taken up in October and kept over winter in dry sand. G'onchiflora. Orange, with crimson spots. Pavonia. Red, with crimson spots. Pavonia graudiflora alba. Large ivory-white flow- ers, spotted with maroon and rosy lake in centre. 10 cts. each ; 75 cts. per dozen ; set of 3 25 cts. TORENIA. Asiatica. An exquisite plant, bearing a profusion of porcelain blue flowers, tipped with rich violet pur- ple ; it succeeds out of doors in the summer season. Bailloni. Trailing habit, producing bright golden yel- low flowers with a deep brownish red throat. It thrives in the open border, greenhouse or window. Fournieri. This variety produces large sky-blue flow- ers, with dark blue spots and a bright yellow centre. Exposed to the full sun, it forms a compact bushy plant about 1 foot high, which commences to flower in June and continues incessantly until frost. 15 cts. each ; $ per dozen. TUBEROSES. Double Italian. One of the most delightfully fragrant and beautiful of the summer flowering bulbs, throwing- up tall spikes of double white flowers 3 feet high, which remain in bloom a long period. By skilful management a succession of flowers may be obtained all the year round. For early flowers they can be started in February or March, in the greenhouse or hot-bed ; and for a succession they can be planted at interv
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