Established 1838. 



SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR. 



Incorporated 1892. 



DREBR'S 



GARDEN* BOOK 



F^OR 19 5. 



Store ani 



In presenting our Garden Book for 1905, the largest and most complete ever 

 issued, we first desire to thank our many customers for their liberal patronage and 

 good will in the past, and to assure them that our entire efforts will be directed to 

 meriting a continuance of the same- for the future. Our steadily growing business 

 shows that every year more and more people engage in that purest of all pursuits^ 

 Horticulture — and to cope with the increased business we have the past season 

 greatly enlarged our already extensive facilities for the careful and rapid handling 

 of the orders entrusted to us. 



To those who have never dealt with us, a few words regarding the various depart- 

 ments of our establishment may not be amiss. 



Vegetable Seeds and Roots.— On page-^ 9 to 12 and 21 to 51 will be found a 

 carefully selected list of what is most reliable in this important branch of our busi- 

 ness. 



(irasses and Agricultural Seeds. — These appear on pages 52 to 58 inclusive, 

 and perhaps in no department is more care exercised than in the selection of the 

 Grasses and Clovers which go to make up our various mixlures, and to secure only 

 tlie purest, cleanest and highest germinating stocks of seeds on which the farmer 

 must depend for his crops. 



Flower Seeds. — This department is most extensive, and has long been cele- 

 brated for the high quality of the various strains which we send out. Over one-half 

 of all the florists in the United States depend yearly on us for their supplies in this 

 line. Flower Seed Novelties and Specialties are offered on pages 13 to 20, while 

 the general list appears on pages 59 to 105. Over 150 species and varieties, mostly 

 of the now so popular Old-Fashioned Hardy Perennials, have been added to the 

 list this season. 



Sundry Department. — In this department is handled a full line of Tools, 

 Implements, Garden Requisites, Incubators, Brooders, Poultry Supplies, Insecti- 

 cides, Fungicides, Fertilizers, and everything needed in the garden, greenhouse or 

 fnrm. A condensed list of these appears on pages 213 to 224. We have a special 

 catalogue in which they are more fully described and illustrated, copies of which we 

 will be pleased to send on application. 



Greenhouse and Nursery Department, See pages 4 and 5. 



View in Our Seed Stork. 



Part of Trial Grounds, Grass Tests in the Foreground. 



The full worth of their money to all is the hroad principle in which we always deal, and we refer to our reputation as 



evidence that we live up to the precept. 



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