. Dreer's garden calendar for 1887. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. PLANT DEPARTMENT. 77 Clematis 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 ruins, or as specimens on the lawn or in borders, or for massing in large beds on the lawn, they have scarcely an
. Dreer's garden calendar for 1887. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. PLANT DEPARTMENT. 77 Clematis 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 ruins, 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 they embrace nearly every shade of color. The following is a most 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- s irae. C:>mtess Lovelace. Bluish lilac, rosette-shaped, forming a double flower. Duchess of Edinburgh. Very fine, pure double white, scented. Duchess of Teck. Pure white, with delicate mauve bar d°wu the centre. Duke of Norfolk. Deep1 mauve color with broad pale bar, dark colored anthers. Fairy Queen. Large flowers, pale tlesh 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. Hybrida Perfecta. White, tinted purplish lilac. Jackmani. Large rich violet purple; very fine. Iiawsoniana. Rosy purple, with darker veins; dis- t net and very large. Lanuginosa Candida. Tinted grayish white. Liorl Netille. Rich dark plum, well formed, edgings of s'pals finely crimped. Magmfica. Reddish purple, with red bars. Ma I. Eiiza Suhenck. Blue; very free flowering. Mrs. Janes Bateman. Pale lavender. Mrs. tie j. Jack man. Satiny white, with creamy bar; one of the very best early white. Otto Froebel. Grayish white ; very large. Prince of Wales. Deep purple. - Purpurea Eieguns. Deep purple violet
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