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If You Want the World's Best 



Roses, Dahlias, Perennials, Aquatics, Etc. 



Roses for the Garden. Two-year-old field- 

 grown plants, which were dug in the fall and 

 during the winter months, were potted up into 

 S and 6-inch pots, and stored in cold houses 

 and cold frames with just sufficient artificial 

 heat to keep severe frost out. These plants are 

 now in prime condition for out-door planting 

 and will give quite different results from that 

 secured from cellared dormant stock, which 

 invariably loses much of its vitality, either 

 by drying out, or if kept sufficiently damp, by 

 starting a premature growth, either condition 

 weakening the plants. You will find the 

 Dreer pot-grown stock, planted after danger 

 of severe frost is over, will give you the im- 

 mediate results you are looking for. Our col- 

 lection is most complete, particularly in the 

 newer varieties, many of which are not listed 

 in any other American catalogue. 



Aquatic Plants, Water Lilies, Nelumbiums, 

 Victorias, etc. We are headquarters for these, 

 devoting about ten acres of artificial ponds 

 and an extensive area of glass to their propa- 

 gation and cultivation. Our catalogue offers 

 every desirable variety, and gives explicit cul- 

 tural directions. The services of our expert 

 are at your disposal if you want any informa- 

 tion regarding the construction of tanks, the 

 planning or planting of same. 



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Hardy Perennial Plants. We were the pion- 

 eers in handling this class of plants, where 

 practical, in pot-grown stock. Many planters 

 not familiar with this class of stock have the 

 idea that nothing but a field-grown clump will 

 give satisfactory returns the first season. We 

 have quickly convinced everyone who has 

 tried them, that a Dreer Pot-Grown plant 

 will give quicker and better returns than the 

 best so-called field-grown clump. A trial will 

 convince you of their superiority. 



Dahlias, New, Rare and Standard Sorts. We 



devote nearly fifty acres to these and in our 

 Special Dahlia Catalogue (the most complete 

 Dahlia Catalogue ever published) we describe 

 nearly SCO varieties, including all the desir- 

 able American and European introductions 

 which have proven meritorious in our own 

 trial grounds. A copy of this Special Dahlia 

 Catalogue mailed on request. 



New French Hydrangeas. Of these wonderful 

 introductions we list a collection of twenty- 

 two varieties, everyone of which we consider 

 a gem. 



See our Diamond Jubilee Garden Book for 

 descriptions of the above, as well as for all 

 other seasonalile Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, etc. 



HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 



