Dreer's garden calendar for 1892 : a catalogue of choice vegetable, field and flower seeds new, rare and beautiful plants garden implements and fertilizers . dreersgardencale1892henr Year: 1892 GOURD, ORNAMENTAL. Rapid growing, interesting plants with ornamental foliage, and varieties of singular shaped fruit; tender annuals ; 15 to 20 feet. 5903 Calabash. The Dipper ' 5 5905 Hercules'Club. Club-shaped; 4 feet long 5 5904 Egg-Sliaped. Fruit white like an egg 5 5906 Orange-Shaped, or Mock-Orange 5 5901 Bottle-Shaped 5 5912 Turk's Turban. Red striped 5 5911 Pear-Shaped. Striped; very showy 5 59


Dreer's garden calendar for 1892 : a catalogue of choice vegetable, field and flower seeds new, rare and beautiful plants garden implements and fertilizers . dreersgardencale1892henr Year: 1892 GOURD, ORNAMENTAL. Rapid growing, interesting plants with ornamental foliage, and varieties of singular shaped fruit; tender annuals ; 15 to 20 feet. 5903 Calabash. The Dipper ' 5 5905 Hercules'Club. Club-shaped; 4 feet long 5 5904 Egg-Sliaped. Fruit white like an egg 5 5906 Orange-Shaped, or Mock-Orange 5 5901 Bottle-Shaped 5 5912 Turk's Turban. Red striped 5 5911 Pear-Shaped. Striped; very showy 5 5902 Luffa. Dish Rag, or Bonnet Gourd 10 5907 Serpent. Striped like a serpent, changing to brill- iant carmine when ripe; 5 feet in length 5 5910 Fine Mixed. Per oz., 40 cts 5 GOLDEN FEATHER. (See Pyrethrum.) GREENHOUSE AND STOVE PLANTS. G599 Collection containing 25 choice varieties $ GEUM. Beautiful hardy perennial, bearing profusely large showy flowers all through the summer; an elegant flower for bou- quets. 5854 Geum Atrococeineum. Scarlet 10 EULALIA JAPONICA ZeBKINA. GRASSES, OMAIENTAL. These form a beautiful and attractive addition to the Flower Garden; their graceful forms give a pleasing relief to the brilliancy of their showy companions. When carefully dried, they are useful in making up winter bouquets, etc. PER PKT. 5060 AGROSTIS, Mixed. Exceedingly beautiful, feathery and graceful; of dwarf growth ; hardy annuals; 1 foot 5 5167 ARUNDO DON AX V AKIEG AT A {New Zealand Pampas Grass). A variety similar to the Pampas, with long, graceful, drooping leaves, and silvery plumes, on stems 10 feet high ; fine for speci- mens on laws or for massing in clumps ; hardy peren- nial 15 5245 A VENA STEKILIS {Animated Oats). Pretty, large, drooping spikes, on slender stems; hardy annual; 2£ feet 5 BR1ZA {Rattlesnake, or Quaking Grass). A beau- tiful variety, in great demand for ornamental work and grass bouquets ; hardy annual ; 1 foot. 5311 — Conipacta. Erect, compact, with


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