Dreer's garden calendar : 1886 . dreersgardencale1886henr Year: 1886 JIedia. Rocket Candytuft. 5410 — Media, Double, 3Iixed. All the double Me- dia varieties ; 2V feet 5 6363— Media Calycanthema. This is the finest variety of Campanula, producing plants with white and blue flowers resembling cup and .s;iiicer; 6365 — Speculum Flore Pleno. A double l)lue va- riety of Venus' Looking-Glass, fine for cutting and bouquets ; 6 inches 10 CANDYTUFT. (Iberis.) A beautiful and useful plant of the easiest culture, for growing in beds or ^es; the wliite varieties are exten- sively
Dreer's garden calendar : 1886 . dreersgardencale1886henr Year: 1886 JIedia. Rocket Candytuft. 5410 — Media, Double, 3Iixed. All the double Me- dia varieties ; 2V feet 5 6363— Media Calycanthema. This is the finest variety of Campanula, producing plants with white and blue flowers resembling cup and .s;iiicer; 6365 — Speculum Flore Pleno. A double l)lue va- riety of Venus' Looking-Glass, fine for cutting and bouquets ; 6 inches 10 CANDYTUFT. (Iberis.) A beautiful and useful plant of the easiest culture, for growing in beds or ^es; the wliite varieties are exten- sively grown by florists for bouquets; by frequent sowings they can be had during the winter and summer. 53S1 1. Fragrant [Pectinata). Pure white, sweet- scented; 1 foot. Per oz., 50 cts 5 5382 — H hite Rocket [Amara). Large trusses of pure white flowers; much prized by florists ; 1 foot. Per oz., 5u cts 5 5383 — White Tom 'l\iVim\i (CoronariaNana). This variety grows 6 inclies higli and forms a round bush about 1(3 inches in diameter, covered with large white flower heads of great substance 10 5384— Umbellata Lilacina. Of a i)urplish or deep lilac color ; 1 foot 5 5385— Umbellata Purpurea. Dunnett's darkest crimson; very beautiful; 1 foot 5 5386— Umbellata Carminea. This new variety is of dwarf, compact habit, and bears a mass of extra fine carmine bloom ; 6 inches 10 5390 — Fine Mixed. All the above tall-growing vari- eties ; 1 foot. Per oz., 50 Cts 5 5387— Umbellata Nana, Mixed Dwarf. These elegant new dwarf hybrids are very floriferous, and remarkable for tlieir numerous and brilliant colored flowers, shading from pure white into dark pur- ple ; 6 inclies 10 5388— Sempervirens. A profuse white blooming hardy perennial, adapted for rockeries, baskets, etc., coming in flower early in the spring, and con- tinuing a mass- of beauty for a long time; 1 foot 10 , , CEDRONELLA. A hardy perennial (ilant, with fragrant foliage and long spikes of purplish flowers, rema
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