Dreer's garden calendar : 1874 . dreersgardencale1874henr Year: 1874 156 dreer's garden calendar. Bit immo&t. One of the most delightfully fragrant and beautiful of the summer-flowering bulbs, throwing up tall spikes of double white flowers two to three feet high, which remain in bloom a long period. It is now an indispensable article in mak- ing up a bouquet or basket of flowers at .>aJ' 1 anytime during the year, as by skilful ^-^ ^ management a succession of flowers can V V\^L „,, be obtained. For early flowers they can ^^'\ l h be started in February or March, in the V\ i^ greenhouse o
Dreer's garden calendar : 1874 . dreersgardencale1874henr Year: 1874 156 dreer's garden calendar. Bit immo&t. One of the most delightfully fragrant and beautiful of the summer-flowering bulbs, throwing up tall spikes of double white flowers two to three feet high, which remain in bloom a long period. It is now an indispensable article in mak- ing up a bouquet or basket of flowers at .>aJ' 1 anytime during the year, as by skilful ^-^ ^ management a succession of flowers can V V\^L „,, be obtained. For early flowers they can ^^'\ l h be started in February or March, in the V\ i^ greenhouse or hotbed ; and for a succes- ^X sion they can be planted at intervals as ^N|'y^^\M late as July. For flowering in the open ^X^1, borders, they can be planted about the ^ first of May; they will then bloom in ^^Ljrh JSj September. The bulbs we offer this sea- \f [ ((i/- son are very fine, and certain to flower. \l/^rti!f First size, each 8 10 Per dozen 1 00 Per hundred 6 00 Second size, each 8 Per dozen SO Per hundred 5 00 First size, started in pots for early flowering, per dozen 2 50 SINGLE TUBEROSE Is also valuable as a bouquet flower, as it flowers earlier than the double, and on this account more suitable for northern latitudes. 10 cents. $ per dozen. TUBEEOSE :^E^Y DWAKF 'PEAEL.' The individual flowers are much larger than the common variety ; desirable for pot culture. 30 cents. per dozen. ' Vaeiegated-Leaved. Leaves striped with light yellow, very showy when planted in masses. 30 cents. $ per dozen. AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS-Afi-ican Blue Lily. A noble plant, belonging to the bulbous rooted section, with ever- green foliage. A large plant, under good treatment, will frequently send up a flower-stalk three feet high, crowned with twenty or thirt}' lieads of flowers, which will come into blossom in succession. It blooms during the summer, and forms a fine ornament to an architectural ter- race, or a lawn. Price of plants from 50 cents to , according to
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