Dreer's garden book 1905 Dreer's garden book : 1905 dreersgardenbook1905henr Year: 1905 AMERICAN Yk^ONDER, or PONDEROSA EEMON. This truly wonderful variety was introduced some four years ago, and has proven itself one of the most valuable of the Citrus family. It is of strong, vigorous growth, producing freely flowers as large as a tuberose and as fragrant as the orange blossom, followed by gigantic fruit, many weighing from 1^ to 2 pounds each, which are usefid for many domestic purposes. Good young plants, 15 cts. each. Strong two-year- old plants of fruiting size, 50 els. each. EINUM TRI
Dreer's garden book 1905 Dreer's garden book : 1905 dreersgardenbook1905henr Year: 1905 AMERICAN Yk^ONDER, or PONDEROSA EEMON. This truly wonderful variety was introduced some four years ago, and has proven itself one of the most valuable of the Citrus family. It is of strong, vigorous growth, producing freely flowers as large as a tuberose and as fragrant as the orange blossom, followed by gigantic fruit, many weighing from 1^ to 2 pounds each, which are usefid for many domestic purposes. Good young plants, 15 cts. each. Strong two-year- old plants of fruiting size, 50 els. each. EINUM TRIGYNUM. Indispensable as an early winter-flowering plnnt. Its bril- liant orange flowers are produced so profusely as to completely cover the plant, making it look like a golden ball; of easy cultivation and a most desirable house_ plant. 10 cts. each; 5> per doz. MANETTIA. Bicolor, The popular Manettia Vine, and a desirable climber, cither for the garden or house; long tubular flowers, bright scarlet, yellow at the tips. (See cut.) Cordifolia. Crimson flowers; one of the most graceful vinef in our collection. • 10 cts. each; $100 per doz. MIEA BIFEORA* (Mexican ' Star of Bethlehem.') One of the loveliest and most desirable bulbs. The flowers are nearly 2J inches in diameter, of a jiure waxy-white color, and usually borne in pairs; the petals are of great substance and will keep for day when cut. 5 cts. eacli; 50 cts. per doz. METROSIDEROS. Floribunda {Bottle Brush). A green- house shrub, producing long, cylindrical spikes of bright red flowers. Very eff'ective. $100 and $1 50 each. MAGNOEIA FUSCATA (The Banana Shrub.) An old favorite greenhouse shrub which grows under conditions similar to that for Azaleas and Camellias. It produces in the early spring Irownish-yellow flowers edged with light carmine, which exhale a deli- cious banana fragrance. Good young plants, ,35 cts. each; large busliy speci- mens, 18 inches high, which should give a mass of bloom, $ each . M
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