. Dreer's garden calendar : 1886. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. PLANT DEPARTMENT. 85 Glemati^. Within the past few years great attention has been given to the cultivation of these valuable plants, and a large number of elegant varieties have been obtained, bearing' magnificent showy flowers of large size and superb coloring. For garden and conservatory decoration, either as climbers on walls, trellises or verandas, old trees or rnins, or as specimens on the lawn or in borders, or for massing in lar
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1886. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. PLANT DEPARTMENT. 85 Glemati^. Within the past few years great attention has been given to the cultivation of these valuable plants, and a large number of elegant varieties have been obtained, bearing' magnificent showy flowers of large size and superb coloring. For garden and conservatory decoration, either as climbers on walls, trellises or verandas, old trees or rnins, or as specimens on the lawn or in borders, or for massing in large beds on the lawn, they have scarcely an equal, certainly no superior, as lliey embrace nearly every shade of color. The following is a must desirable collection in every respect: Alba Magna. Pure white, with purplish brown an- thers; one of the finest white varieties in cultivation. Albert Victor. Deep lavender. Anderson Henrye. Creamy white, large and hand- STine. Cjmtess Lovelace. Bluish lilac, rosette-shaped, forming a double flower. Duchess of Eliuburgh. Very fine, pure double white, sceiiteil. Duchess of Teck. Pure white, with delicate mauvo bar down the centre. Duke of \orf\)lk. Deep mauve color with broad pale bar, dark colored anthers. Fairy CJiieen. I,arge (lowers, ))ale flesh with a pink bar in centre of sepals, shaded purple at base. Gloire de St. Julien. White, flushed with mauve while young; large and showy. Hvbrida Perfecta. White, tinted piir|)Iish lilac. Jackmani. Large rich violet purple; very fine. Lawsoniana. Kosy purple, with darker veins; dis- tinct and very large. Lanuginosa Candida. Tinted grayish white. Liord Neville. Uicli dark plum, well formed, edgings of sepals finely crini;)ed. Magnifica. Reddish i)urple, with red bars. Mai. Eliza Schenck. Blue; very free flowering. Mrs. Ja:nes Bate man. Pale lavender. Mrs. Geo. Jackman. Satiny white, with creamy bar; one of the very best early white. Otto Froebel. Grayish white; very large. Prince of Wales. Deep
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