. Dreer's 1909 garden book. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 134 T^EMI^ADRKR 4>HltADELPHlA 4^^^^^GARD^M^ORfEMHOUSE PLAMTS DUI Superb New Cactus Dahlias for 1909. Alexander Scalarandis. A very full flower of fine form, color currant-red with bright cardinal shadings, fre quentlv interspersed with white petals. Plants ready April 15th. blitz. An early and free-flowering rich and brilliant gera- nium-lake of exceptional!) line form, with narrow, in- curved petals, the flow


. Dreer's 1909 garden book. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 134 T^EMI^ADRKR 4>HltADELPHlA 4^^^^^GARD^M^ORfEMHOUSE PLAMTS DUI Superb New Cactus Dahlias for 1909. Alexander Scalarandis. A very full flower of fine form, color currant-red with bright cardinal shadings, fre quentlv interspersed with white petals. Plants ready April 15th. blitz. An early and free-flowering rich and brilliant gera- nium-lake of exceptional!) line form, with narrow, in- curved petals, the flowers held well above the foliage on stiff, wiry stems. Cockatoo. Lemon-yellow shaded with rose, the centre petals pure white, making a very unusual combination. Like most fancy varieties this varies, sometimes coming all yellow, in others the rose color predominating, but pretty either way. Gold Fasan. Ground color chrome-yellow passing i^ rosy-red, flowers of medium size, of perfect shape, on good stiff stems. Gtldrun. A particularly handsome Dahlia; the outer petals are of a delicate crimson-pink, gradually passing to a white centre suffused with cream and rose; flowers large, of good form, very free and distinct. Plants ready April 15th. Hagen. Remarkably free-flowering, perfect flowers of medium >ize, of a rich purplish browr. with deep aniline- red markings, giving it a striped appearance. H. Shoesmith. One of the brightest varieties in our col- lection, a brilliant carmine-red of good form, with lung. narrow petals. Plants ready April loth. Herziloide. Delicate rosy-chamois suffused with yellow. Flc at held well the base, a soft and pleasing color. above the foliage. Helene. A fine dwarf very free bedding variety, flowers on stiff stems well above the foliage, centre creamy white, passing to a pleasing mauve-rose on the outer petals. lvanhoe. Of perfect dwarf habit, very free, flowers large and of good form, with long, narrow petals and of a deep but bright straw-color.


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