Dreer's wholesale price list for 1904 : decorative hardy garden greenhouse and other plants bulbs tools, fertilizers, insecticides, sundries, etc . NEW GOLDEN PANDANUS We should add to the above that the bronzy-orange coloring in the centre of the plant is strongest during the dull winter months,when a highly-colored foliage plant is especially appreciated, diminishing in depth and richness during the hot summer months. Beautiful specimen plants, 3 ft. high, in 8-in. pots, §7 50 each 1 00 ^Yz 10 1000 2 00 4>^ 12 15 00 3 50 5 to 6 15 tubs,25co Good strong young plants, in 3-inch pots $0 75 e
Dreer's wholesale price list for 1904 : decorative hardy garden greenhouse and other plants bulbs tools, fertilizers, insecticides, sundries, etc . NEW GOLDEN PANDANUS We should add to the above that the bronzy-orange coloring in the centre of the plant is strongest during the dull winter months,when a highly-colored foliage plant is especially appreciated, diminishing in depth and richness during the hot summer months. Beautiful specimen plants, 3 ft. high, in 8-in. pots, §7 50 each 1 00 ^Yz 10 1000 2 00 4>^ 12 15 00 3 50 5 to 6 15 tubs,25co Good strong young plants, in 3-inch pots $0 75 each plants, 15 inches high, in 4-inch pots . I 00 Specimens, 20Beautiful specimens, 2 anis, 11, mcnes mgn, in 4-incn poto 24 inches high, in 6-inch pots .•npnc ^ t/. feet high, in 7-inch pots. THE CRIMSON FOUNTAIN GRASS Pandanus* Per doz. Per 100 Utilis. 2i^-inch pots So 75 g6 co 3 I 00 8 00 4 2 00 15 00 i 00 each. Crimson Fonntain Grass. (Pennisetum Macrophyllum Atrosanguineum.) This new plant, an introduction from New Guinea, is withoutquestion a most valuable addition, not only to our list of beautifulornamental grasses, but to bedding plants. Its habit of growthis strong and vigorous, yet most elegant and graceful ; the foliage,which is gracefully recurved, is 1J4 inches wide, of a pleasing,darkmetallic, coppery bronze, which, when at its best, duringmid-summer and fall, far surpasses in richness the finest of the bronze-leaved Cannas—a veritable crimson fountain. When grown as aspecimen in the border or on the lawn, and allowed to growwithout cutting back, it attains a height of about 4 feet, the endsof the shoots being terminated by tawny crimson plumes 10 to 12inches long. By an occasional cutting back the plants can bekept, if desired, at a heightof 2 to
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