Dreer's mid-summer list 1918 . dy growth; about10 inches- high, with good heads of clear Forget-Me-Notblue flowers. ^ oz., 40 cts 10 3234 Alpestris Stricta Urandiflora. Symmetrical; up-right, pillar-shaped plants, about ten inches high, cov-ered from base to summit with lovely light-blue flowers.^ oz., 50 cts 10 3235 Alpestris Victoria. A favorite sort, with fine headsof large, clear azure-blue flowers; plants bushy andcompact; n^akes a fine edging or bed. J oz., 50 cts. 10 3239 Alpestris Mixed. A mixture of blue, rose and white-flowered varieties. J^ oz., 25 cts 5 3236 Dissitiflora. Of dwarf
Dreer's mid-summer list 1918 . dy growth; about10 inches- high, with good heads of clear Forget-Me-Notblue flowers. ^ oz., 40 cts 10 3234 Alpestris Stricta Urandiflora. Symmetrical; up-right, pillar-shaped plants, about ten inches high, cov-ered from base to summit with lovely light-blue flowers.^ oz., 50 cts 10 3235 Alpestris Victoria. A favorite sort, with fine headsof large, clear azure-blue flowers; plants bushy andcompact; n^akes a fine edging or bed. J oz., 50 cts. 10 3239 Alpestris Mixed. A mixture of blue, rose and white-flowered varieties. J^ oz., 25 cts 5 3236 Dissitiflora. Of dwarf compact habit, with sprays oflarge, exquisite blue flowers, especially adapted forplanting among spring-flowering bulbs 15 3238 Palustris Semperflorens. An everblooming va-riety, beginning in May and continuing till , clear blue flowers in pretty sprays. ^oz.,.50cts. 15 GEXOTHERA (Evening Primrose) 3435 Missouriensis. Elegant subjects for growing in anexposed, sunny position. Large golden-yellow foot 10. tember 10 Myosotis (Forget-Me-Not) For complete list and Cultural Notes see our Garden Book for 1918 18 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA—FLOWER SEEDS Dreers Perfect Pansies PANSIES are too well known to require any description, asthey are favorites with all. For best results you must startwith a good strain. The finest Pansies are, as a rule, shyseeders, which accounts for the difference in the price of the variousmixtures offered. Miss Ida D. Bennett, the well-known horticultural author andenthusiastic admirer of Pausies, writes the following notes on theirculture expressly for this book: A soil containing a proportion of leaf mould, well enrichedwith well-decayed cow manure, will be the most satisfactory for thegrowing of this flower, and it should be well dug and made fineand level. Sow the seeds in drills,covering them not more than four timestheir diameter and firming the soil well above them. The seedsgerminate in from eight to twelve days, and should
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