Dreer's garden book 1918 (1918) Dreer's garden book 1918 dreersgardenbook1918henr Year: 1918 SWEET WILLIAM (Dianthus Barbatus) (London Tufts) A well-known, attractive, free-flowering hardy perennial, producing a splendid effect in beds and borders with their rich and varied flowers. It is much better to raise new, vigorous, young plants from seed every season than to divide the old Plants- 4286 Single Velvety Maroon 5 4288 â White 5 4283 â Crimson ., 5 4285 â Scarlet 5 4290 Single Mixed. All colors. Per £ oz., 20 cts.'.'.'.'. 5 4282 Newport Pink. A distinct new color which originated in one
Dreer's garden book 1918 (1918) Dreer's garden book 1918 dreersgardenbook1918henr Year: 1918 SWEET WILLIAM (Dianthus Barbatus) (London Tufts) A well-known, attractive, free-flowering hardy perennial, producing a splendid effect in beds and borders with their rich and varied flowers. It is much better to raise new, vigorous, young plants from seed every season than to divide the old Plants- 4286 Single Velvety Maroon 5 4288 â White 5 4283 â Crimson ., 5 4285 â Scarlet 5 4290 Single Mixed. All colors. Per £ oz., 20 cts.'.'.'.'. 5 4282 Newport Pink. A distinct new color which originated in one of the far-famed gardens at Newport, R. I. In color it is what florists call watermelon pink or sal- mony-rose. Strikingly brilliant and beau- tiful; the flowers are boine in massive heads on stems 18 inches high. For mid-season mass bedding it has no equal. It is also very effective for cutting. 2 pkts., 25 15 4281 Scarlet Beauty. deep scarlet variety. A very effective rich, 2 pkts., 25 cts 15 Double and Single Sweet William SWEET ROCKET (Hesperis) TEK PKT. 4278 Old-fashioned garden plant; al«o known as Dame's Rocket and Dame's Violet ; grows from 2 to 3 feet high, and bears spikes of showy white, lilac and purple fragrant flowers. Excellent for nitural- izing among shrubbery or for planting in a per- manent border ; mixed colors. (See cut.) Oz., 40 cts 5 4291 Holborn Glory. This strain is a large- flowered selection of the auricula-eyed sec- tion, the most beautiful and admired of all Sweet Williams. The individual flowers and trusses are of extraordinary size, while the range of color, all showing a clear, White eye, is truly superb. JiSz., 25 cts 4297 Double All colors. J oz., 30 cts. 10 4296 Giant Double. A decided improvement. The plants are of robust, bushy habit, pro- ducing numerous stems, surmounted by im< mense umbels of full, double flowers, many of the individual flowers measuring over one inch in diameter. The colors are extremely
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