Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 (1914) Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 . dreersmidsummerc1914henr Year: 1914 ANANAS (Variegated Pineapple) ANANAS SATIVUS VARIEQATUS (.Variegated Pineapple) This is one of the most beautiful variegated foliage plants in cultivation, not only for the greenhouse or conservatory, but also as a plant for room decoration; the leaves are from 2 to 3 feet long, with a central band of bright green broadly margined with rich creamy-yellow, tinged with red towards the closely serrated edges. 4-inch pots, $ each; 5-inch pots, $ each. ANTHURIUMS (Flamingo Flowe
Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 (1914) Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 . dreersmidsummerc1914henr Year: 1914 ANANAS (Variegated Pineapple) ANANAS SATIVUS VARIEQATUS (.Variegated Pineapple) This is one of the most beautiful variegated foliage plants in cultivation, not only for the greenhouse or conservatory, but also as a plant for room decoration; the leaves are from 2 to 3 feet long, with a central band of bright green broadly margined with rich creamy-yellow, tinged with red towards the closely serrated edges. 4-inch pots, $ each; 5-inch pots, $ each. ANTHURIUMS (Flamingo Flower) Pretty greenhouse plants that have many good qualities, not only as decorative plants, but as cut flowers. Their peculiar-shaped flowers of rich colorings frequently last on the plant from two to three months. Andreanum Hybrids. A fine collection of seedlings, from which we can select the following colors, all in large size flowers—red, rose and white. $ and $ each. Scherzerianum. Brilliant scarlet flowers. 50 cts and $ each. — Album. White. $ each. — Majus. Very large crimson-scarlet $ each. Magnificum. Grown for its beautiful foliage, which is rich olive-green with silvery veins. $ each. Regale. Large foliage, which when flrst opening is tinted with rose, changing to a dark metallic-green. $ each. ARALIA Handsome decorative foliage plants for the warm conservatory and for exhibition purposes. Chabrierii. Long, narrow, deep-green foliage, with crimson-bronze midrib. $ each. Elegantissima. Finely divided metallic green foliage. $ each. Monstrosa. Large, bright green, deeply serrated foliage; the serrations frecjuently being of fantastic form, broadly margined with creamy-white, the surface blotched with grey. 50 cts. each. Veitchil. A handsome species, with narrow leaflets, having undulated edges of a dark green above and red underneath; a fine table plant. $ each. — Qracillima. Similar to the above, but with very narrow foliag
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