. Dreer's garden calendar : 1880. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 104 Dreer 's Garden Calendar. GLAUCIUM CORNICULATUM. An ornamental plant with long silvery white, velvety leaves, gracefully recurved and deeply cut to the mid-rib. Its silvery color makes a fine contrast with dark-colored foliage plants and largely used in ribbon gardening, locts. j $ per doz. ' NEW AND RARE GLOXINIAS. Beautiful summer-flowering, tuberous-rooted plants for the green-house or conservatory, with large bell-shaped flowers, of the most delicate and brilliant c
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1880. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 104 Dreer 's Garden Calendar. GLAUCIUM CORNICULATUM. An ornamental plant with long silvery white, velvety leaves, gracefully recurved and deeply cut to the mid-rib. Its silvery color makes a fine contrast with dark-colored foliage plants and largely used in ribbon gardening, locts. j $ per doz. ' NEW AND RARE GLOXINIAS. Beautiful summer-flowering, tuberous-rooted plants for the green-house or conservatory, with large bell-shaped flowers, of the most delicate and brilliant colors. There are three sorts' with horizontal, erect, and pendulous flowers. ' We offer 24 varieties of named sorts. 30 cts.; $3 per doz. G. INSIGXIS. A tall shrubby-growing variety, with large glossy green leaves; producing spikes of large gloxinia-like flowers, of deep lilac color, lasting until Christmas. 30 cts. HARDY ORNAMENTAL GRASSES. Elegant ornaments on the lawn, adapted for massing in flower borders, and some are the most graceful hanging-basket or vase plants. Ageostis GLArcA. A rare, dwarf variety, with a glaucous bluish tinge; fine for edgings baskets, or vases. 20 cts.; $2 per doz. ' Arundo Donax Variegata. See special description. Bambusa. See special description. Dactylis Glomerata Elegans. a dwarf ribbon-grass, with broad, silvery stripes. 20 cts. Erianthus Bavenn^. See special description. Eulalia Japokica Var. and Zebrina. See special descriptions. Gynerium ArgenteumâPampas Grass. See special description. Stenotoptrum Glabrum Variegatum. An ornamental grass from New South Wales. Green, handsomely striped yellow; a good vase or basket plant in sunny situations. 20 cts. HANGING-BASKET AND VASE PLANTS. The growing of Plants in baskets, vases, etc., is constantly on the increase. They add greatly to the decoration of a room, garden, or verandah, and impart an air of taste and refinement that the most costly ornaments cannot give. The following plants have been s
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