. Dreer's garden calendar : 1881. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. Drear's Garden Calc?idar. 95 DENDROBIUM NOBILE. A. beautiful orchid of easy culture, producing green, yellow and pink flowers, peaty soil, and during growing season plenty of heat and moisture. $1. It requires ECHEVERIA METALLICA. A fine and stately plant, with very large shell-like leaves of a beautiful metallic, lilac hue, with tall flower-stems covered with bell-shaped, yellow, and scarlet flowers, strong. 30 cts. Stapelia Variegata. A curious erect-growing plant, resembling
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1881. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. Drear's Garden Calc?idar. 95 DENDROBIUM NOBILE. A. beautiful orchid of easy culture, producing green, yellow and pink flowers, peaty soil, and during growing season plenty of heat and moisture. $1. It requires ECHEVERIA METALLICA. A fine and stately plant, with very large shell-like leaves of a beautiful metallic, lilac hue, with tall flower-stems covered with bell-shaped, yellow, and scarlet flowers, strong. 30 cts. Stapelia Variegata. A curious erect-growing plant, resembling a cactus or succulent. The square stems and branches with their prominent four angles are dull green, covered with grayish spots; flowers are full an inch in diameter; star-shaped and of a peculiar reddish purple. 50 cts. EPIPHYLLUM TRUNCATUM—Lobster-leaved Cactus. A very useful winter-flowering plant, flowers in different shades of purplish crimson to scar- let. Our stock is grafted on the Pereskia stock, and will succeed where those on their own roots fail; the plants are large and bushy, two and three years old. 75 cts. to $1. Cruentas. Brilliant crimson. I Spectabilis. Magenta scarlet. Salmonium. Salmon. i Truxcatum. Salmon red. Salmoxioi Coccix'eum. Salmon scarlet. ' Violacea. Violet. ERYTHRINA CRISTA-GALLI—Coral Plant. A magnificent plant, producing its scarlet and crimson pea-shaped flowers on spikes 18 inches long. Plant them in the garden in May, and they will flower profusely three or four times in the course of the summer. They may be taken up in the fall, and kept in perfect preservation during the winter in a dry cellar, the roots covered with half-dry earth. 25 to 50 cts., accord- ing to size. ERIANTHUS RAVENN/E. A perfectly hardy Ornamental Grass, from 9 to 12 feet high, throwing up from thirty to fifty flower spikes. It resembles the Pampas Grass, but blooms much more abundantly, and with the advantage of being hardy, making it a desirable plant for the dec
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