. Dreer's garden calendar : 1903. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Caladium, Mrs. Oliver T Caladiums— Continued. the interspaces reticu- lated with tiny pink veins on a greenish ground, margin green with greyish edge. $ each. Mrs. Oliver Ames. While young the leaves are of a soft cream color veined and tinged with green ; the older leaves are beautifully marked with streak- like and. reticulated veins of pale green( while the edges are of a deep green. $ eac
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1903. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Caladium, Mrs. Oliver T Caladiums— Continued. the interspaces reticu- lated with tiny pink veins on a greenish ground, margin green with greyish edge. $ each. Mrs. Oliver Ames. While young the leaves are of a soft cream color veined and tinged with green ; the older leaves are beautifully marked with streak- like and. reticulated veins of pale green( while the edges are of a deep green. $ each. Canna, Wm. Giuesinger. L'Ami Schwartz. Dark crimson in color, which is vivified by lighter veins and ornamented by greenish patches near the green-zoned undu- lated edges. $1 50 each. One each of the 3 varieties, $ New Dwarf French Carinas for i9o3. We realize fully the difficulty of surpassing the collection of Cannas which we offer on pages 121 and 122, but the six sorts offered below are quite distinct and worthy to be added to any collection. Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig. Rich, deep scarlet, with carmine mark- ings; very large flowers, individual petals measuring 2\ inches across; large heavy truss, bronzy-purple foliage ; 4£ feet. Harry Laing. An exceptionally large flower on a truss of immense size; color rich crimson-scarlet; foliage green ; 5 feet. James H. Veitch. Almost a counterpart of Harry Laing, except in foliage, which is bronzy-purple. Souvenir de J. H. Krelage. The introducer of this, to whose skill we are indebted for many of the best Cannas grown to-day, considers it his best introduction in the bronze-foliaged class. It is a fiery orange-scarlet, with satin sheen, a color that can be seen a great distance; petals well rounded ; flowers of good size in large trusses; large foliage of a metallic bronze color; 4 feet. Semaphore. A peculiar shade of light orange, contrasting vveW with the dark bronzy-green foliage ; 5 feet. Wm. Qriesinger. Bright butter-ye
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