. Dreer's garden calendar : 1896. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. BEST PLANTS FOR GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 79 ,; â View of House of Azaleas, 252x25 Feet.âFrom a photograph. CHINESE AZALEAS. These beautiful plants are deservedly becoming more popular every season for window and conservatory decorations. The ease with which they can be grown, their diversity in color, and freedom of flowering, will always keep them in public favor. The plants we offer are all beautiful traine
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1896. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. BEST PLANTS FOR GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 79 ,; â View of House of Azaleas, 252x25 Feet.âFrom a photograph. CHINESE AZALEAS. These beautiful plants are deservedly becoming more popular every season for window and conservatory decorations. The ease with which they can be grown, their diversity in color, and freedom of flowering, will always keep them in public favor. The plants we offer are all beautiful trained specimens, and even when not in flower are fine decorative plants. Our col- lection comprises the cream of the best Continental establishments; all the sizes offered will flower freely in proper season. First size, 36 to 45 inches Second " 36 " Third " 30 Good bushy young plants, An extra fine lot of specimen plants, BEGONIA. (Flowering Varieties.) We know of no plants better adapted to amateur cultivation than these ; as pot plants for summer or winter cultivation they have few equals. Alba Picta. A pretty species from Brazil, distinct in char- acter. It is shrubby in habit and of compact growth. The leaves are glossy green, freely spotted with bright silvery white. Will make a really useful and pretty plant for decora- tive purposes. 15 cts. each. Argentea G-Uttata. A cross between Begonia Olbia and Alba Picta; with foliage of large size, of a rich green spotted with silver; a beautiful variety. 15 cts. each. Metallica. A fine erect-growing variety, with dark, rough leaves; the surface is a lustrous bronze green; veins de- pressed and dark red. 15 cts. each. Rubra. Dark green leaves, flowers scarlet rose, glossy and wax-like. 15 cts. Saundersoni. Scarlet flowers, dwarf habit; in bloom con- tinually. 15 cts. Semperflorens Gig-antea. The flowers of this sort are brilliant carmine red, borne in large panicles, flowers are unusually large and brilliant, and sta
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