. Dreer's mid-summer list : strawberry, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. July 1895 August. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. 14 DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. BOUGAINVILLEA GLABRA SANDERIANA. A new variety of Bougainvillea and a plant that we feel certain will become very popular as a pot plant. We give the introducer's description : ''It affords us great pleasure to offer this new and by far the most useful flowering plant known. We have grown this new Bougainvillea in a green- house, where it has continued f
. Dreer's mid-summer list : strawberry, celery and other seasonable plants, seeds etc. July 1895 August. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs. 14 DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. BOUGAINVILLEA GLABRA SANDERIANA. A new variety of Bougainvillea and a plant that we feel certain will become very popular as a pot plant. We give the introducer's description : ''It affords us great pleasure to offer this new and by far the most useful flowering plant known. We have grown this new Bougainvillea in a green- house, where it has continued flowering for seven months, small and large plants alike being covered with blossoms. Even plants in thumb-pots were laden with bloom. The house in which our plants have been cultivated has been a sheet of flowers from May until December, and at the time of writing (December 30) the plants are carrying thousands of their brilliant blossoms. Many excellent judges state that this will be a favorite market plant, as it produces as freely as a Fuchsia its dazzling rosy crimson flowers, lasting so long in perfec- tion, and produced in smallest pots, under all conditions, in amazing profusion. We can with all confidence recommend this grand plant as a great ; Young plants, 50 cents each. Begonia Rex. We have a most beautiful collection of this justly popular pot W plant in twelve very handsome varieties. 25 cts. each ; $ per Bougainvillea Sa>-deriaka. Begonia Thnrstonii. A distinct and pretty shrubby variety with thick heavy foliage, which is of a rich metallic green above and bright red underneath ; the flowers are of a fine pink, rising well above the foliage. As a bedding plant for a partially shaded position this variety is unequalled. 15 cents each ; $ per dozen. Begonia Conntess Louise Erdody. The leaf, which has a metallic lustre, appears dark silvery in the centre, shading into coppery rose toward the margin, which is broadly and evenly edged
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