NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES IN 



Flower Seeds for 1912 



The majority of the Flower Seed Novelties and Specialties offered on this and the following ten pages have been thoroughly 

 tested in our trial grounds. Some few sorts are European Novelties, received from most reliable growers, and the descriptioDS are 

 :hose of the introducers. 



For General Liist of Flower Seeds see pages 69 to 126. 

 DREER'S IMPROVED LARGE-FLOWERING 



Ten-week Stocks or Gilliflowers. 



In many of the finest gardens the Ten-week Stocks occupy important positions, their large range of clear, bright colors and neat 

 habit of growth adapting themselves to plantings in beds, borders or groups of any size, and rarely fail to produce a mass of flowers 

 from mid-summer to frost. A bed or border should be in every garden where cut flowers are in demand, if only for their delightful 

 spicy fragrance, and for this reason they are also popular as pot plants. Seed maybe started indoors in March or April in the 

 manner described on page 55, and the young plants set out in May, or they may be sown directly out of doors as soon as danger from 

 frost is past. It is customary to set the plants about six inches apart in the beds or borders, so that any single-flowering plants, which 

 come into bloom first, may be removed without spoiling the effect of the bed. As there is always a percentage of single-flowering 

 plants, it is of great importance to get only the finest grade of Stocks. We have long been celebrated for our superior strain, which 

 is used by the leading professional florists of the country, and which are grown especially for us by one of Europe's foremost specialists, 

 producing over 90 per cent, of double-flowering plants. The colored plate opposite was painted by our artist, who is also an en- 

 thusiastic lover of flowers, from flowers produced from one of the collections offered below, and he reports that they were the 

 finest Stocks he ever grew. We feel reasonably sure that once grown they will become a firm fixture in every garden. 



PER PKT. 



on plate opposite 10 



4011 Blood=red. 



4013 Light Blue. 



4014 Bright Pink 



PKK PKT. 



No, 4 on plate opposite 10 



No. 5 on plate opposite 10 



No. 3 on plate opposite 10 



4015 Purple. No. 6 



4016 Pure White. No. 2 on plate opposite 10 



4017 Canary Yellow. No. 1 on plate oiiposite 10 



4018 Collection of a packet each of the aV>ove 6 colors 50 cts. 



4020 Finest Mixed, including all of the above and many other colors J oz. , 50 cts.; 5 cts. per pkt. 



ANCHUSA ITAI.ICA, 



DROP^IORB VARIETY. 



1138 One of the finest hardy plants of recent introduction, re- 

 markable for its free and continuous flowering and the 

 beautiful gentian-blue color of its flowers; grows about five 

 feet high, and should be in every hardy border. 15 cts. 

 oer pkt ; 2 pkts., 25 cts. 



DRHBR'S GIANT SNAPDRAGONS. 



'Antirrhinum majus ^andiflorum.) 



^\'hether grown for cutting or for show in the garden, the 

 Snapdragons are one of the most valuable of flowers, which can 

 readily be grown from seed. They remain in constant bloom 

 through a long season, and are now grown quite extensively at 

 all seasons. The giant strain here offered is a great improve- 

 ment over the old tall growing variety, being of stronger habit 

 and producing longer spikes and much larger individual flow- 

 ers. W'e offer the following six distini.t colors also in mixture, 

 containing a great many shades. 



PER PKT. PI-:K pkt. 



1171 Giant Scarlet 10 1174 Giant Garnet 10 



1172 " White .... 10 



1173 " Yellow 10 



1174 Giant Garnet, 



1175 " Pink 10 



1176 " Striped 10 



1180 Giant Mixed. All colors. } oz., 25 cts 10 



1179 Collection of a packet each of the 6 colors 50 



(58) 



Dkkbk's Snapdragons. 



DREER'S HAI.F-DWARF 



SNAPDRAGONS, 



This type, while not having the magnificent long spikes of 

 the Giant sorts offered above, has spikes and flowers of good 

 size, and, owing to their dwarfer and more compact habit of 

 growth, are better adapted for bedding; 18 inches. 



1102 Daphne. Soft rose-pink; exquisite 10 



11G3 Defiance. Rich fiery-scarlet 10 



1104 Golden Queen. Beautiful pure yellow 10 



1 IGo Prince Chamois. Golden chamois 10 



1166 Striking. Rich, dark cardinal-red 10 



1167 The Bride. Purest white 10 



11 69 Collection of a pkt. each of above 6 sorts 50 



1170 Finest nixed. All colors, i oz., 20 cts 5 



VEITCH'S I.ONG-SPURRED HYBRID 



AQUII.EGIAS, OR COLUMBINES. 



1206 This beautiful strain of Columbines comprises new and pleasing 

 shades and combination.s, effective and striking in the individual flow- 

 ers, ranging through all the shades of lavender, blue, mauve, white, 

 yellow, orange, scarlet and bright rose-pink. The plants are per- 

 fectly hardy, vigorous and stately in growth, produce abundantly 

 large and elegantly shaped flowers with long spurs, borne well above 

 the pale glaucous green foliage. 25 cts. per pkt.; 5 pkts., $1.00. 



