Dreer's wholesale price list for Dreer's wholesale price list for 1903 : flower seeds, bulbs plants tools, fertilizers, insecticides, sundries, etc . dreerswholesalep1903henr_2 Year: 1903 CALADIUM, MRS. OLIVER AMES Browallia Speciosa Major. A giant flowered form of the beautiful blue Browallia, flower- ing continuously summer and winter. May be grown either as a pot or border plant. Its beautiful ultramarine blue color, which is rare in all classes of plants, makes it especially valuable and desirable. 75 cents per dozen ; $ per 100. Fancy Caladinms. Fancy leaved in 25 choice-named variet
Dreer's wholesale price list for Dreer's wholesale price list for 1903 : flower seeds, bulbs plants tools, fertilizers, insecticides, sundries, etc . dreerswholesalep1903henr_2 Year: 1903 CALADIUM, MRS. OLIVER AMES Browallia Speciosa Major. A giant flowered form of the beautiful blue Browallia, flower- ing continuously summer and winter. May be grown either as a pot or border plant. Its beautiful ultramarine blue color, which is rare in all classes of plants, makes it especially valuable and desirable. 75 cents per dozen ; $ per 100. Fancy Caladinms. Fancy leaved in 25 choice-named varieties. (See retail cata- logue for description.) $ per dozen ; $ per 100. Choice mixture, $ per dozen ; $ per 100. The Giant-Flowering Caladium 'New Century.' A new species, introduced from Central America. It pro- duces leaves from 3 to 5 feet long, 2 to 2^ feet broad, and is much larger than the ordinary Caladium or Elephant's Ear. The leaves are of a heavy leathery texture, bright glossy green color with metallic lustre, and are held on stout, stiff stems well above the ground. Added to the foliage effect are the creamy white Lily-like flowers from 12 to 15 inches long, which possess an exquisite fragrance and are produced throughout the summer. $ per dozen ; $ per 100. New Fancy-Leaved Caladinms. Entirely distinct improvements upon the variety Albanense sent out a few years since. Countess of Warwick. Leaves 6 to 8 inches long by about 5 inches broad, triangularly spear-shaped in outline, but with curved undulated edges. Central portion exquisitely tinted bright rose pink, with broad, clearly defined veins on a greenish ground. Margin green with greyish edges. 75 cents each. Mrs. Oliver Ames. Leaves 10 to 12 inches long by 5 inches in breadth. While young of a soft cream color, veined and tinged with green, the older leaves are beautifully marked with streak-like and reticulated veins of light green, while the edges are of a deep green. 75 cents each.
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