Dreer's mid-summer list strawberry, Dreer's mid-summer list : strawberry, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. July 1894 August . dreersmidsummerl1894henr Year: 1894 20 DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. Maranta, Valuable Decorative stove plants, remarkable for the richness and beauty of their varied foliage. Makoyana. $*to $ Massangeaua. 50 cts. Zebrina. 50 cts. to $ Musa Ensete. The leaves are magnificent, long, broad and mas- sive : of a beautiful green, -with a broad crimson midrib : the plant grows luxuriantly from 8 to 12 feet high. During the hot summer, -when planted ou
Dreer's mid-summer list strawberry, Dreer's mid-summer list : strawberry, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. July 1894 August . dreersmidsummerl1894henr Year: 1894 20 DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. Maranta, Valuable Decorative stove plants, remarkable for the richness and beauty of their varied foliage. Makoyana. $*to $ Massangeaua. 50 cts. Zebrina. 50 cts. to $ Musa Ensete. The leaves are magnificent, long, broad and mas- sive : of a beautiful green, -with a broad crimson midrib : the plant grows luxuriantly from 8 to 12 feet high. During the hot summer, -when planted out, it grows rapidly, and attains gigantic propor- tions, producing a tropical effect on the lawn, terrace, or flower garden. It can be stored in a light, cellar or cool greenhouse during the winter, with a cover- ing of soil, or planted in a tub. and watered sparingly. Plants 8 in., 50 cts. each. Nepenthes. (Pitcher Plants.) We grow six choice varieties of these interesting plants. They succeed best planted in baskets sus- pended from the roof of the greenhouse or conserva- tory. They should always be thoroughly shaded and furnished with an abundant supply of water. $ to $3 00 each. Otaheite Orange. The best of the Oranges for bouse culture. It is of dwarf bushy habit and bears a profusion of fra- grant flowers aud edible fruit. We offer fine young plants that will flower and fruit freely another season at 50 cts. each. Swainsonia Galegifolia Alba. A most desirable everblooming plant, with pure white flowers, produced in sprays of from 12 to 20 flowers each, the individual blooms resembling a Sweet Pea. As a decorative plant for the widow or conservatory we know of nothing that will give as much satisfaction as the Swainsonia. Its easy culture, growing in almost any light position, its freedom of bloom, rarely ever being out of bloom, and the grace and beauty of the flower and entire plant, will undoubtedly make this one of the most popular plants in cultivation. 25 cts.
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