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PANDANUS (Screw Pine). 

 Utllis. This is one of the most useful of our ornamental foliage 

 plants ; excellent for the centre of vases and baskets, or grown as 

 a specimen. ■ 



EACH. 



3-inch pot, 8 inches high $ 25 



4 " " 12 " " 60 



5 " " 15 " " 75 



6 " " 18 " " 1 00 



Veitchl. This is one of the most attractive of decorative plants. 

 The leaves are light green, beautifully marked with broad stripes 

 of pure white and gracefully curved. each. 



4-inch pots, 12 inches high $ 75 



5 " " 15 " " 1 00 



6 " " 18 " " 1 50 



Specimen plants, $5.00 to $10.00 each. 



PASSIKL,OR.A (Pas8lon Flower Vine). 



Pfordti. This we consider the best of all the tender varieties for 

 outdoor planting. Its beautiful flowers are borne freely, even on 

 quite small plants. They are of a rich shade of blue, suffused with 

 rose. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



Decaisneana Variegata. A pretty variegated variety, having 

 large foliage, which i, mottled with bright golden-yellow spots and 

 light colored, almost white flowers. 15 cts each ; §1.50 per doz. 



Pandanus Veitchi. 



PHORMIUM TENAX 



VARIEGATA. 



The variegata form of the New Zealand Flax. A useful 

 decorative plant in sub-tropical bedding, with long sword-like 

 foliage, green striped creamy white. 75 cts. each. 



PENNISEXUM. 



Ruppelianum. [Purple Fountain Grass). A beautiful 

 annual ornamental grass, growing about 22" feet high, pro- 

 ducing long, graceful cylindrical-purplisli plumes. An ex- 

 cellent ornamental plant for all bedding purposes, and the 

 most appropriate we know of to use as an edging to a bed 

 of Cannas or as a border to a bed of hardy ornamental grasses. 

 Young plants ready in May, 10 cts. each ; $1.00 per doz.; 

 $6.00 per 100. 



PENTAS. 



Lanceolata. A half-shrubby greenhouse plant, not unlike a 

 Bouvardia, but flowering more profusely. It may be planted 

 in the open border during the summer, but it is valuable 

 chiefly as a winter-flowering pot plant, being in flower all the 

 time. The pure white flowers are produced in flat fieads of 

 15 to 30 flowers each, and last in perfection a long time. 

 25 CIS. each ; $2.50 per doz. 



Carnea. Similar to the above in general habit, but with deli- 

 cate flesh-colored flowers. 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. ~ 



DREER'S SUPERB DOUBEE 



FRINGED PETUNIAS. 



For many years we have made a specialty of Double Petu- 

 nias, growing about five thousand ■ seedlings annually, from 

 which we select the choicest for propagation. We have dis- 

 carded the plain-edged sorts, as the fringed and laced varie- 

 ties listed below are very much better. 



Aspasia. White, blotched and mottled purplish magenta. 

 Aurelius. Mottled purplLsh crimson and white. 

 Aurora. White, mottled and blotched carmine. 

 Darius. Deep magenta, mottled and edged white. 

 Excelsior. White, with deep purjile mottled centre. 

 riajestic. Rich deep purple, shaded crimson ; one of the 



finest self-colored varieties. 

 Ovid. White, faintly suffused rosy carmine. 

 Prosperity, White, tipped rosy carmine; beautifully 



fringed. 

 Paragon. White, mottled and blotched bright magenta. 

 Snowball. Pure white. 



Strilcing. Rich purple, mottled and edged white. 

 Vesuvius. Dark purple, mottled white. 



Price, 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. Set of 12 varieties for $1.50. 

 Single Large Flowering Petunias. Mixed seedlings 



(ready April 1st), 10 els. each; $100 per doz.; $6.00 per 100. 

 /o; Seeds of the Double and Single Fringed Petunias see pnge 93. 



PEPERO^IA. 



Maculosa. A pretiy dwarf-growing 

 ornamental foliage plant, exceed- 

 ingly useful as a pot plant for the 

 window or for planting in baskets 

 or vases; it has thick, fleshy foli- 

 age of a bright green color, veined i 

 silvery white. 15 cts. each. J 



Metallica. A new and pretty addi- 

 tion to this class of plants, foliage 

 of a metallic bronzy color. 15 cts. 

 each. 



PEUMBAGO. 



Capensis. Color light blue; very 

 free-flowering. 



— Alba. Color creamy-white. 



Coccinea Superba. Producing 

 long racemes of flowers and of a 

 bright sntiny-carmine color. They 

 remain in bloom a long time, and 

 are very showy and brilliant. 



15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. Set of 

 3 varieties, 40 cts. 



The reddest of all red Roses is the Gruss an Teplitz. See colored illustration on front cover and offer of plants on page 151. 



