Dreer's mid-summer list 1918 . Soft pink 20 3820 Mixed. All colors 15 VARIOUS PRIMROSES 3824 Kewensis. This variety is most attractive, withpleasing bright yellow flowers borne on long stems. It is delightfully fragrant and stands well as a house plant 2-5 3826 Malacoides (Improved Baby Primrose). A finehouse plant, flowers delicate lilac 25 3827 — Alba. A new white-flowering form 25 HARDY PRIMROSES These are among the best of the early spring-blooming a slight protection they will stand the winter, but will dobetter if protected by a cold Auricula. A well-known favorite
Dreer's mid-summer list 1918 . Soft pink 20 3820 Mixed. All colors 15 VARIOUS PRIMROSES 3824 Kewensis. This variety is most attractive, withpleasing bright yellow flowers borne on long stems. It is delightfully fragrant and stands well as a house plant 2-5 3826 Malacoides (Improved Baby Primrose). A finehouse plant, flowers delicate lilac 25 3827 — Alba. A new white-flowering form 25 HARDY PRIMROSES These are among the best of the early spring-blooming a slight protection they will stand the winter, but will dobetter if protected by a cold Auricula. A well-known favorite of great beauty; seed saved from splendid choice mixed varieties; 6 inches. 2-5 3825 Japonica (Japanese Primrose). Bright and showyflowers; borne in whorls on stems 6 to 9 inches long;mixed colors 15 3830 Vulgaris (English Primrose). Canary-yellow, fragrant. ^ oz., 50 cts 10 (See also Cowslip and Polyanthus.) For comt)lete list and Cultural Notes see our Garden Book for ipiS HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA—FLOWER SEEDS 21. Pyrethrum Hybridum Pueraria Thunbergiana (Japanese Kudzu Vine) PER PKT 3835 To this must be awarded first place as the fastest grow-ing hardy climbing plant. It will grow 8 to 10 feetthe first year from seed, and after it has become estab-lished there seems to be no limit to its growth, 50 feetin a single season being not unusual. Its foliage is large andcovers well; it bears small racemes of rosy-purple, pea-shapedblossoms toward the close of August. A splendid subject for cov-ering permanently verandas, dead trees, etc. \ oz., 25 cts 10 PYRETHRUM Too much cannot be said in favor of this grand hardy perennial, whichwill thrive in any good garden soil where there is good drainage and fullexposure to the sun. The main season of blooming is in June, but if theold flower stems are removed they will give a fair sprinkling of flowers inthe autumn. Splendid for cutting. 3846 Hybridum. Hardy perennial, bearing large Daisy or Cosmos-like flowers, ranging in color f
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