Dreer's garden calendar : 1880 . dreersgardencale1880henr Year: 1880 84 Dreer 's Garden Calendar. AKEBIA QUINATA. A perfectly hardy and beautiful evergreen climbing plant, growing 20 feet high, with tri- foliate leaves and dark brown flowers,- highly fragrant. One of the best hardy climbers. 25 cts.; $ per doz. ALOCASIA. GiBSOXi. Large leaves, marbled green and black; very ornamental. 50 cts. Jenningsi. Glaucous green, blotched black. 25 cts. Maceorkhiza Yaeiegata. $1. Metallica. $1. Odorata, or GiGANTEA. Gigantic upright green leaves, growing 8 to 10 feet high; flowers like a Calla, gree
Dreer's garden calendar : 1880 . dreersgardencale1880henr Year: 1880 84 Dreer 's Garden Calendar. AKEBIA QUINATA. A perfectly hardy and beautiful evergreen climbing plant, growing 20 feet high, with tri- foliate leaves and dark brown flowers,- highly fragrant. One of the best hardy climbers. 25 cts.; $ per doz. ALOCASIA. GiBSOXi. Large leaves, marbled green and black; very ornamental. 50 cts. Jenningsi. Glaucous green, blotched black. 25 cts. Maceorkhiza Yaeiegata. $1. Metallica. $1. Odorata, or GiGANTEA. Gigantic upright green leaves, growing 8 to 10 feet high; flowers like a Calla, green and very fragrant. $1. ALOYSIA CITRIODORA—Lemon Verbena. Always admired and prized for the delicate odor of its graceful and neat foliage, invaluable for bouquets. 20 cts.; $2 per doz. DOUBLE WHITE SWEET ALYSSUM. Dwarf, compact growth, covered throughout the entire summer and autumn with masses of snow-white blossoms; very valuable for cut flowei-s, as it does not drop its blossoms as in the single sort. 15 cts.; $ per doz. Single Sweet Alyssum. $1 per doz. | Variegated Sweet Alyssum. 20 cts.; $2 per doz. ALTERNANTHERAS. Beautiful dwarf plants of compact habit, growing about 6 inches high, and admirably adapted for edgings to flower-beds or ribbon lines, their beautifully variegated foliage of crimson, purple, yellow, pink, and green forming rich masses of color, always attractive and highly ornamental. 15 cts.; $ per doz.; $8 per 100. Amabilis Tricolor. Orange, crimson and dark green, Amcena Spectabilis. Crimson, pink and brown ; the finest and brightest. Versicolor. Foliage ovate, olive, crimson and chocolate ; when used for edgings they are to be frequently sheared like box edging, when the young tips will assume the most brilliant hues. AMORPHOPHALLUS RIVIERL A new Ariod, of easy out-door culture, producing a solitary palm-like leaf on a rose and olive-green speckled stem, 2 to 3 feet high. The tubers, maturing the second year, produce floAvers like the ' Calla
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