Dreer's garden book 1904 Dreer's garden book : 1904 dreersgardenbook1904henr Year: 1904 [WADRffiR -PHIIADELPHIAMmGARDEN^-OREENHOUSf PlAhU H i-i Ten NEW CANNAS Of Special Merit. The following are iiUroductions of 1902 and 1903, and have had a careful trial with us. We found tliem of exceptional merit and most desirable additions to any high-grade collection. Orand Duke Ludwig. Rich deep scarlet with carmine mark- ings ; llowers very large, petals frequently measuring 2j inches across ; well rounded trusses of immense size ; bronzy-green foliage; 4^- feet. .50 cts. each; per doz. Harry
Dreer's garden book 1904 Dreer's garden book : 1904 dreersgardenbook1904henr Year: 1904 [WADRffiR -PHIIADELPHIAMmGARDEN^-OREENHOUSf PlAhU H i-i Ten NEW CANNAS Of Special Merit. The following are iiUroductions of 1902 and 1903, and have had a careful trial with us. We found tliem of exceptional merit and most desirable additions to any high-grade collection. Orand Duke Ludwig. Rich deep scarlet with carmine mark- ings ; llowers very large, petals frequently measuring 2j inches across ; well rounded trusses of immense size ; bronzy-green foliage; 4^- feet. .50 cts. each; per doz. Harry LaJng. Perfect, broad, well-rounded flowers of immense size, of a rich, glowing scarlet suffused with orange ; 5 feet. 30 cts. each ; $3 00 per doz. J. B. Deleuil [The Butterfly Canna). Entirely distinct from all others on account of its markings, which are not unlike ihose of the Butterfly Gladiolus, being a pure yellow with a large crimson blotch at the base of the lower petals. 50 cts. each ; $ per doz. King Humbert. In tliis grand new ItaHan Canna we have a combination of the highest type of flower with the finest bronze foliage. Its flowers, which, under ordinary cultivation, will measure inches in diameter and whicli are produced in heavy trusses of gigantic size, are of a brilliant orange- scarlet with bright red markings; while the foliage is broad and massive and of a rich coppery-bronze with brownish-green markings, bold and effective ; 5 feet. 50 cts. each ; $ per doz. rime. Jean BeurrJer. Ground color salmon rose, distinctly daslied, mottled ami variegated with vermilion, not unlike a striped Gladiolu, ; 4 feet. 50 cts. each ; | per doz. Miss Berthine Brunner. Large, open panicles of pure yel- low flowers minutely spotted with orange-scarlet. 30 cts. each ; $ per doz. Papa Nardy. A very large flower of a rich currant-red with a peculiar purplish sheen ; \\ feet. 50 cts. each ; $ per doz. riont Blanc. A grand acquisition, being almost a pure
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