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HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA, PA.— HARDY PLANTS 



BED OF PHLOX W. C. EGAN IN THE OARDl N UK MR. EGAN 



HARDY PHLOXES— One of Our Leading Specialties 



We are the largest srrowers of Perennial Phlox in the world, (frowinir annually over a half million field-trrown plants. 

 The collection offered below embraces every known color in this eoreeous race of Summer flowering plants, and we are prepared to 

 furnish many of the rarer as well as the older standard varieties in large quantities at a low uniform price. 



Note. —Special Price on Phlox for Orders Received before March 15th 



The Phloxes here offered are all one year old field-grown plants. It is customary for us to pot these into 

 three-inch pots after the middle of March for the .Spring trade. To save this extra handling we will allow a 

 special discount of twenty per cent. (20% ) on all orders received before March 1.5th for immediate delivery, 

 after which date our regular low prices will prevail. 



Novelties and Recent Introductions 



Curopa. A white variety with very decided crimson-carmine eye; 

 the individual flowers as well as the trusses are very large, en- 

 tirely distinct. 



Frau Anton Buchner. The finest white variety yet introduced, 

 having the largest truss and individual flower; of dwarf habit. 



Qeflon. A new color in Phloxes, a tender peach-blossom pink with 

 bright rose eye. $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Rbelnlander. A beautiful salmon-pink with flowers and trusses 

 of immense size, the color of the flower is intensified by a very 

 decided eye of a deep claret-red. $1.60 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



RIverton Jewel. One of our own introductions which it gives us 

 great pleasure to recommend, a lively shade of mauve-rose illu- 

 minated by a carmine-red eye. a splendid improvement on the 

 popular variety Asia. 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Thor. A most beautiful and lively shade of deep salmon-pink 

 suffused and overlaid with a scarlet glow and a light almost 

 white halo around its aniline-red eye. This variety will un- 

 doubtedly hold the same place among deep salmon colors that 

 Elizabeth Campbell holds among the light salmon-pinks. $2.00 

 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



W. C, Bgan. One of the finest Phloxes yet introduced, and while 

 the individual flowers according to the color-chart are of a 

 delicate lilac color illuminated by a large bright solferino eye, 

 the color effect as a whole is a delicate pleasing shade of soft 

 pink. In habit of growth it is strong and vigorous, producing 

 immense panicles of flowers nine inches long by seven inches in 

 diameter, while the individual flowers are the largest known to 

 us, frequently measuring I'/J-inches in diameter. $1.50 per doz.; 

 $10.00 per 100. 



Widar. A splendid improvement on Edraond Rostand; in color a 

 light reddish-violet, with very large white centre, which intensi- 

 fies the color. 



Tragedle. Deep brilliant carmine with blood-red eye. $1.60 per 

 doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Wanadls. Entirely distinct, a mottling of white and light violet, 

 reminding one of the native Phlox Divaricata Canadensis. The 

 color is intensified by a bright reddish-purple eye, a strong 

 grower producing trusses of immense size. $1.60 per dez.: $10.00 

 per 100. 



Price. Any of the above varieties, except where noted, $1.00 per doz.; $6.00 per 100; $60.00 per 1000. 



