. Dreer's garden calendar : 1900. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 168 IHEhRTADRKR ^>HIIAD[LPHIAJ?AmHARDr PEREHhlAL PliAMB (Flame Flower, or Torch Lily). Splendid summer and fall-flowering plants, with stately flower scapes and magnificent dense terminal spikes of high colored flowers, familiarly known on account of their shape and glowing colors as the " Red-hot Poker" plant. Pfitzerii. A grand improvement on Tritoma Uvaria Grandijiora. The flower sp
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1900. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 168 IHEhRTADRKR ^>HIIAD[LPHIAJ?AmHARDr PEREHhlAL PliAMB (Flame Flower, or Torch Lily). Splendid summer and fall-flowering plants, with stately flower scapes and magnificent dense terminal spikes of high colored flowers, familiarly known on account of their shape and glowing colors as the " Red-hot Poker" plant. Pfitzerii. A grand improvement on Tritoma Uvaria Grandijiora. The flower spikes, which are produced with considerable more freedom than in the old variety, are of gigantic size, frequently 4J feet high, with heads of bloom over 12 inches long, of a rich orange-scarlet, shading to salmon-rose on the edge; a fiist-class acquisition. (See cut.) 25 cts. each ; §2 50 per doz. Uvaria Grandiflora. Orange-red flowers. 15 cts. each; $ per doz. VERONICA (Speedwell,. Most desirable hardy plants, the tall-growing sorts being admirably adapted to the border, while the dwarf varieties are excellent rock plants. liOng'ifolia Sllbsessilis. A pretty species with blue flowers, produced in spikes a foot long, continuing in bloom the entire summer and fall ; one of the most desirable. (See cut.) 25 cts. each ; $ per doz. Incana. Bright silvery foliage with spikes of ame thyst-blue flowers. 25 cts. each; $ per doz Spicata. An elegant border plant, growmg about 3 feet high, producing long spikes of bright blue flowers, the spikes length- ening with age ; last for weeks. 15 Cts. each; $ per doz. — Alba. A white-flowered form of the above. 15 cts. each ; § per doz. Rlipestris. A fine rock plant, growing 3 or 4 inches high, thickly matted deep green foliage, completely hidden in spring under a cloud of bright blue flowers. 15 cts. each ; f per doz. "VINCA (Periwinkle). Minor. An excellent dwarf evergreen trailing plant, that is used extensive
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