. Dreer's autumn catalogue 1930. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. Sweet Rocket Sweet William (Dianthus Barbatus) A well-known, attractive, free-flowering hardy perennial, producing a splendid effect in beds and borders with their rich and varied flowers. It is much better to raise new, vigorous, young plants from seed every season than to divide the old plants. 4282 Newport Pink. A distinct new per color which originated in one of the ^^^' far-famed gardens at Newport, R. I.
. Dreer's autumn catalogue 1930. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. Sweet Rocket Sweet William (Dianthus Barbatus) A well-known, attractive, free-flowering hardy perennial, producing a splendid effect in beds and borders with their rich and varied flowers. It is much better to raise new, vigorous, young plants from seed every season than to divide the old plants. 4282 Newport Pink. A distinct new per color which originated in one of the ^^^' far-famed gardens at Newport, R. I. In color it is what florists call water- melon-pink or salmony-rose. Strik- ingly brilliant and beautiful; the flowers are borne in massive heads on stems 18 inches high. For mid- season mass bedding it has no equal. It is also very eft'ective for cutting. I oz., 50 cts SO IS 4281 Scarlet Beauty. A verj^ effective, rich, deep scarlet variety, a rare color in hardy plants. I oz., 50 cts 4291 Holborn Glory. This strain is a large- flowered selection of the auricula-eyed section, the most beautiful and admired of all Sweet Williams. The individual flowers and trusses are of extraordinary size, while the range of color, aU showing a clear, white eye, is truly superb. Mked colors. J oz., 30 cts 4286 Single Velvety Dark Maroon, i oz., 30 cts 4288 Single Pure White. J oz., 30 cts 4290 Single Mixed. AU colors. ? oz., 25 cts.; oz., 75 cts 4297 Double Mixed. AU colors. J oz., 30 cts 4296 Giant Double Mixed. A decided improve- ment. The plants are of robust, bushy habit, producing numerous stems, surmounted by immense umbels of full, double flowers, many of the individual flowers measuring over one inch in diameter. The colors are extremely varied, f oz., 50 cts 2342 Latifolius Atrococcineus, Fl. PI. (,Ever- Uooming Hybrid Sweet William). A brilliant crimson-scarlet variety that is very effective in any position, and one of the best perermials in the list, i oz., 50 cts. 15 Double and Si
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