. Dreer's garden calendar : 1900. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Rhododendrons. RHUS CONTINUS. (Purple Fringe, or Smoke Tree.) A low shrubby tree, covered in midsummer with large clusters of fe:ithery flowers, giving the appearance of a cloud of smoke or mist. 25 cts. each. SPIR-i^AS (Meadow Sweet). Anthony Waterer. A valuable and distinct variety. It outshines all other Spirce is in brilliancy of color, being of a bright crimson; it is of dwarf, dense growth, never exce
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1900. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Rhododendrons. RHUS CONTINUS. (Purple Fringe, or Smoke Tree.) A low shrubby tree, covered in midsummer with large clusters of fe:ithery flowers, giving the appearance of a cloud of smoke or mist. 25 cts. each. SPIR-i^AS (Meadow Sweet). Anthony Waterer. A valuable and distinct variety. It outshines all other Spirce is in brilliancy of color, being of a bright crimson; it is of dwarf, dense growth, never exceeding 24 inches in height, and a profuse and persistent bloomer, being in bloom the entire summer and fall. (See cut.) Billardii. Strong-growing, pink-flowered. Callosa Low, dwarf growth; white. Pruilifolia {Bridd Wreath). Flowers double, white and aliundant. ReeveSli PI. Fl. Double white flowers in clus- ters; very fine. TIllinbei"g"ii. One of the most charming of all low-growing shrubs, with fine, delicate foliage and a profusion of small white flowers in spring. Van Houttei. The grandest of all the white Spiraeas; it is a beautiful ornament for the lawn at any season, but when in flower it is a complete fountain of white bloom, the foliage hardly showing. Clusters of 20 to 30 flat white florets make up the raceme, and are set close along the drooping stems. Any of the above Spiraeas 25 cts. each ; § per dozen. SYRINGA, OR Charles X. A strong, rapid-growing variety, with large, shin- ing leaves. Trusses rather loose ; large, reddish purple. 50 cts. Common [S\'rin-:^a vuli^aris). The common purple species. Common White {S. vulgaris alba). Flowers pure white, fragrant, beautiful. Mine. Casimir Perier. The finest double white Lilac yet introduced. The individual flowers, which resemble miniature Tuberoses, as well the truss, are of immense size, deliciously scented; fine for cutting. (See cut.) 50 cts. Mine. Lemoine. Another fine double white
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