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DREER'S RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS. 



POPPIES. 



Very showy, free blooming and easily cultivated plants, with large 

 brilliant colored flowers, growing freeh' in any garden soil, and producing 

 a fine effect in large clumps or mixed beds. Sow early in the spring where 

 they are to remain, as they will not bear transplanting; 1 to 2k feet. 



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SINGLE ANNUAL POPPIES. 



PER PKT. 



I*Oppy Danebrog'. A very desirable and showy novelty, 

 producing large single flowers of a brilliant scarlet, with a large sil- 

 very-white spot on each petal, thus forming a white cress 5 



Shirley Poppies. These charming Poppies are generally sin- 

 gle or semi-double. The range of color, extending from pure 

 white through the most delicate shades of pale pink, rose and car- 

 mine to deepest crimson, is so varied that scarcely two are alike, 

 while many are delicately edged and striped. The blooms, if cut 



when youn?, will stand for several days without drooping 10 



Poppy XJlllbrosum. A new variety, producing flowers of 

 the richest vermilion, with a deep shining black spot on each petal. 5 

 — Eng-llsli Scar- 



Shirley Poppy. 



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let. The common 

 field poppy of Great 

 Britain, dazzling scar- 

 let flowers 5 



Peacock. With a 

 conspicuous glossy 

 black zone near the 

 centrev Very large 

 vivid scarlet and cher- 

 ry crimson flowers ... 10 

 Fire Drag-on. 

 Very showy and free 

 flowering, producing 

 flowers of brilliant 

 deep scarlet, with 

 black spots margined 



white. 2to2ift 10 



— The Bride. A 

 beautiful new variety 

 with very large, pure 

 white, perfectly form- 

 ed flowers. If cut 

 when barely ex- 

 panded and put in 

 water they will last a 



long time 10 



Single Mixed. 



Annual sorts 5 



Imported Col- 

 lection of 12 sepa- 

 rate varieties 50 



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Iceland Poppy. 



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Double Poppy Carnation-Flowered. 



DOUBLE ANNUAL 



POPPIES. PERPKT. 



637S Poppy Aiuericau Flag. 



Beautilul new vaiiety; flowers very 

 large and double, snow white, bor- 

 dered with scarlet. 10 



— Fairy Blush. Very double 

 flowers of a pure white color, ele- 

 gantly fringed and tipped with rose. 10 



— White Swan. A splendid 

 new variety with immense double 

 flowers, beautifully fringed and of 

 purest white \% 



— "Mikado" {The New 

 Striped Japanese Poppy). This 

 beautiful Poppy is very distinct in 

 character and color from other 

 forms. The flowers are brilliant 

 scarlet and white, with elegantly- 

 curved petals, like a Japanese Chry- 

 santhemum, the fringed edges being 

 of a beautiful crimson scarlet 19 



— Snowdl'ift. Flowers pure 

 snow-white, very double, of large 

 size and perfectly round 5 



— Carnation Flowered. 

 Splendid double fringed flowers, 

 mixed colors. Per oz 25 cts 5 



Paeony Flowered. Large 

 showy, double globular flowers ; 

 v/ell adapted for shrubbery, etc., 

 mixed colors. Per oz. 20 cts 5 



HARDY PERENNIAL 

 POPPIES. 



Poppy Bracteatiim. Very 



large orange scarlet flowers, averag- 

 ing five inches in diameter. Perennial variety 10 



— CroceuiU. A lovely perennial Poppy bearing a profusion of 

 rich yellow blooms 10 



— ?fudicaille i^The Iceland Poppy). This is one of the most 

 useful, effective and beautiful class of plants in cultivation. They 

 are perfectly hardy and produce an endless profusion of flowers 

 which are most useful for cutting. They are of a very graceful, neat 

 habit, with bright green, fern- 

 like foliage, formed in tufts, 

 from which issue slender stalks 

 about 12 inches in height, sur- 

 mounted by yellow, white or 

 orange-scarlet flowers 10 



— Orientale {The Large 

 Oriental Poppy). A charm- 

 ingly showy summer-flowering 

 plant, producing numerous 

 leafy stems about 2J feet high, 

 which are covered with deep 

 crimson flowers, having a con- 

 spicuous black blotch on each 

 petal. This is one of the most 

 showy and useful of this in- 

 teresting and popular family ..10 Poppy Bracteatum. 



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