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Passiflora Pfordti 



Double Pink Oleanders (Nerium) 



We have a lot of splendidly trained tree-shaped plants of this 

 old favorite, which will produce a mass of flowers during the 

 summer; the plants are growing in wooden tree tubs about 15 

 inches in diameter; they have strong, straight trunks 3 feet high 

 and nicely shaped round crowns 30 inches in diameter; an ex- 

 ceptionally fine lot of flowering decorative plants. §15.00 each. 

 Young plants, 4-inch pots, 75 cts. each. 



Variegated Leaved. Foliage attractively edged with creamy- 

 white, single pink flowers; 4-inch pots, 75 cts. each. 



Olea Fragrans (sweet ouve) 



An old favorite greenhouse Shrub succeeding admirably as a 

 house plant, producing small creamy-white flowers of the most 

 exquisite fragrance, continues to bloom almost the entire winter. 

 4-inch pots, §1.00 each. 



Ophiopogon d->iy Tuft) 



Jaburan Variegatus. A pretty variegated foliage plant, useful 

 either as a pot plant for the window or for planting out in 

 summer; its narrow dark green foliage is prettily striped with 

 gold, and during July and August, spikes of blue flowers add to 

 its beauty. 75 cts. each. 



PandanUS (Screw Pine) 



Veitchi. One of the finest decorative plants for the house, 

 graceful foliage, broadly striped with cream-white on a green 

 ground. 4-inch pots, $1.00; 6-inch pots, §1.50; 7-inch tubs, 

 $3.50; 8-inch tubs, $7.50; 10-inch tubs, $10.00 each. 

 PaSSiflora (Passion Flower) 



Pfordti. The best variety for outdoors as a summer climber; 

 flowers light blue, suffused with rose and borne quite freely. 

 50 cts. each. 



Princeps. This is one of the best greenhouse climbers, a rare 

 and showy variety with bright red flowers. $1.00 each. 



Dreer's Superb Single-fringed 

 Petunias 



Our own strain of the finest large-flowering single-fringed sorts 

 of this useful bedding plant, and invaluable for porch and window 

 boxes, flowering continuously from early in the summer till frost. 

 Ready May 1st. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



Plumbago 



Capensis. Flowers at all seasons. A fine plant for pot culture 

 or the border; producing spikes of pretty, light blue flowers. 



Capensis Alba. A white flowered form of above. 



Coccinea Superba. Long spikes of showy satiny carmine 

 flowers; a fine pot plant for the window garden. 



Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



PennisetUITl (Fountain Crass) 



Tender ornamental Grasses, valuable either as individual speci- 

 mens in the garden or for massing, while as border plants for beds 

 of Cannas or Caladiums nothing equals them. 

 Macrophyllum Atrosanguineum {Crimson Fountain Grass) . 

 Foliage gracefully recurved of a pleasing dark metallic, coppery- 

 bronze and tawny crimson plumes, attains a height of about 

 4 feet. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100. 

 Cupreum. Similar in the dark coppery-bronze color of its foliage 

 to the variety above, but with much narrower leaves; grows 

 about 3 to 3J feet high. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; §25.00 

 per 100. 

 Rueppelianum (Purple Fountain Grass). Grows about 3 feet 

 high, producing long, graceful green foliage and purplish plumes. 

 Ready in May. 20 cts. each; §2.00 per doz.; §12.00 per 100. 



Pentstemon Gloxinioides 



As bedding plants these rank in importance with Petunias, 

 Phloxes, etc. They grow about two feet high, bearing 10 to 12 

 inch long spikes of Gloxinia-like flowers throughout the summer, 

 We offer a fine strain of large-flowered varieties in choicest mixture. 

 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Salvia Splendens "America" 



(Scarlet Sage) 



This is the finest of all the Scarlet Sages, being the earliest, freest 

 and most continuous bloomer. It is also the most uniform in 

 habit of growth. One of the most effective bedding plants in 

 cultivation. Ready May 1st. 



20 cts. each; §2.00 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Sanseveria 



Zeylanica Laurenti. This variety, in addition to the variega- 

 tion shown in the ordinary sort, has a band of creamy yellow 

 varying from i to ^ inch on each edge of the leaves, which adds 

 greatly to its decorative effect. 4-inch pots, $1.25 each; 5-inch 

 pots, §2.00 each. 



Stephanotis 



Floribunda. One of the most charming hothouse climbers, 

 growing rapidly, with long, glossy, deep green foliage, and pro- 

 ducing clusters of pure white, deliciously fragrant flowers. 

 §1.00 each. 



Stigmaphyllon Ciliatum 



(Brazilian Golden, or Orchid Vine) 



One of the prettiest tender 

 climbers in cultivation, with 

 large yellow, orchid-like flowers, 

 produced very freely during the 

 summer months. It is especially 

 adapted for training over the 

 pillars or on the wall of a con- 

 servatory, but will do equally 

 well in the open air. 50 cts. 

 each. 



Thunbergia 



Harrisi. A splendid 

 winter-flowering green- 

 house climber, with showy 

 light-blue flowers with 

 creamy-white throat. 35 

 cts. each; §3.50 per doz. 



Zinnias 



(Youth and Old Age) 

 Dreer's Giant Double. An 



extra large flowering strain of 

 this popular summer-flower- 

 ing annual, growing about 3 

 feet high, with colossal 

 flowers in a great variety of 

 colors. Mixed colors, ready 

 May 10th. 15 cts. each; 

 $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 

 100. 



Sansevieria, Zeylanica Laurexti 



Dreer's Choice Gladiolus are offered on pages 122 to 124 



